Joint Meeting 

of the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN)
and the European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN),
to be held in Berlin, Germany from August 8 - 14, 1999

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

A list of plenary lectures, symposia and young investigator colloquia is given below the time-table.

Preliminary Meeting Schedule
(for a time-table, further details and organizers see below this table)

Preliminary time-table

Sunday, August 8
                                    19:00 - 21:30  Welcome reception

Monday, August 9
                                    09:00 - 10:00  Plenary Lecture (Sakmann)
                                    10:00 - 10:30  ISN Young Scientist Lectureship I (Lambolez)
                                    10:30 - 11:00:  Coffee Break
                                    11:00 - 13:00  Symposia (S1 - S3)
                                    13:00 - 14:30  Posters, lunch
                                    14:30 - 18:30  Posters
                                    15:30 - 17:30  Young Investigator Colloquia (C1 - C3)
                                    18:00 - 20:00  Evening workshop on ISN Summer School (W1)

Tuesday, August 10
                                    09:00 - 10:00  Plenary Lecture (Kennedy)
                                    10:00 - 10:30  ISN Young Scientist Lectureship II (Schulz)
                                    10.30 - 11.00  Coffee Break
                                    11:00 - 13:00  Symposia (S4 - S6)
                                    13:00 - 14:30  Posters, lunch
                                    14:30 - 18:30  Posters
                                    15:30 - 17:30  Young Investigator Colloquia (C4 - C6)
                                    18:00 - 20:00  Evening workshops (W2)
                                    18:30 - 19:30  ISN Business Meeting

Wednesday, August 11
                                    09:00 - 10:00  Plenary Lecture (Tsien) Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins-Lecture
                                    10:00 - 10:30  ISN Young Scientist Lectureship III (Gruetter)
                                    10:30 - 11:00:  Coffee Break
                                    11:00 - 13:00  Symposia (S7-S9)
                                    after 13:00     Free afternoon, excursions, sightseeing

Thursday, August 12
                                    09:00 - 10:00  Plenary Lecture (Nakanishi)
                                    10:00 - 10:30  ESN Lectureship I (Dringen)
                                    10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break
                                    11:00 - 13:00  Symposia (S10 - S12) S12 Schering-Symposium
                                    13:00 - 14:30  Posters, lunch
                                    14:30 - 18:30  Posters
                                    15:30 - 17:30 Young Investigator Colloquia (C7 - C9)
                                    18:00 - 20:00  Evening workshop (W3-W4)
                                    18:30 - 19:30:  ESN Business Meeting

Friday, August 13
                                    09:00 - 10:00  Plenary Lecture (Greenberg)
                                    10:00 - 10:30  ESN Lectureship II (Jakubik)
                                    10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break
                                    11:00 - 13:00  Symposia (S13 - S16)
                                    13:00 - 14:30  Posters, lunch
                                    14:30 - 18:30  Posters
                                    15:30 - 17:30  Young Investigator Colloquia (C10 - C12)
                                    19:30           Farewell Banquet
 
 

Plenary Lectures

"Signal transduction pathways that regulate differentiation and survival in the developing nervous system"
(Micheal Greenberg, Harvard, MA, USA)

"Signal transduction at glutamatergic synapses in the mammalian brain"
(Mary Kennedy, Pasadena, CA, USA)

"Glutamate receptors in brain function"
(Shigetada Nakanishi, Kyoto, Japan)

"Grey matter(s)"
(Bert Sakmann, Heidelberg, Germany)

"Casting photons on protein interactions, gene expression and synaptic plasticity"
(Roger Tsien, La Jolla, CA, USA) Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins-Lecture
 

Young Scientist Lectures (Awards)

International Society of Neurochemistry (ISN)

"Study of glutamatergic transmission and neuronal diversity by single cell RT-PCR"
(Bertrand Lambolez, Paris, France)

"Molecular pathways of neuronal cell death: Decisions to live or to die"
(Jörg Schulz, Tübingen, Germany)

"Non-invasive measurements of cerebral carbohydrate metabolism by in-vivo NMR"
(Rolf Gruetter, Minneapolis, MN, USA)

European Society of Neurochemistry (ESN)

"Metabolic interaction between neurons and astrocytes in the defense against oxidative stress"
(Ralf Dringen, Tübingen, Germany)

"Aspects of the regulation and molecular assembly of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors"
(Jan Jakubik, Prague, Czech Republic / Bethesda, USA)
 

Symposia

S1 Regulation of cell lineage - J.A. Kessler (USA) and P.F. Bartlett (Australia)
S2 Diseases associated with ion channels - T. Jentsch (Germany) and B. Temple (USA)
S3 Proteins associated with synaptic vesicles/transmitter release mechanisms - G. Augustine (USA) and T. Martin (USA)
S4 Molecular mechanisms of neurite extention and growth cone formation - K. Mikoshiba (Japan) and D. Jay (USA)
S5 Molecular and cellular aspects of Alzheimer's disease - M. Goedert (UK)
S6 GABA-A receptor subunit knockout mice: Insights into function and relevance to human diseases - R.W. Olsen (USA) and H. Möhler (Switzerland)
S7 Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development and plasticity - E. Gundelfinger (Germany) and P. Worley (USA)
S8 Modulation of ion channels - P. Reinhart (USA) and A. Dolphin (UK)
S9 New therapeutic approached to CNS repair - H.W. Müller (Germany) and M.E. Schwab (Switzerland)
S10 Neuronal polarity and synapse formation - A.M. Craig (France) and A. Triller (France)
S11 Microglia in brain disease - G. Raivich (Germany) and H.A. Kretzschmar (Germany)
S12 Signaling mechanisms in neuronal survival - B.A. Hemmings (Switzerland) and A.Tolkovsky (UK)
S13 Triggers of neuronal cell death - M.P. Mattson (USA) and P.Nicotera (Germany)
S14 Signaling by phosphorylation targeted to the cell nucleus - K. Buchner (Germany) and H. Otto (Germany)
S15 Neurochemistry of olfaction - H. Breer (Germany) and S.Firestein (USA)
S16 Regulation of myelin gene expression in myelin forming cells and non-myelinating cells - A. Campagnoni (USA) and B.Zalc (France)

Young Investigator Colloquia and their chairpersons
In this series of colloquia young investigators (below 40 years of age) will be given the opportunity to present their work

C1 Neuronal activity and plasticity - Leszek Kacmarek (Poland)
C2 Neuro-glial interactions of the Node of Ranvier - Kazuhiro Ikenaka (Japan)
C3 Neurotransmitter transporters - Niels Christian Danbolt (Norway)
C4 Neurotransmitter receptors - Ferdinand Hucho (Germany)
C5 Genes and development - Alain Prochiantz (France)
C6 Neuronal cell death - Denis Monard (Switzerland)
C7 Roles of neurotrophic factors beyond cell survival - Chris Henderson (France)
C8 Functions of integrins and Ig-superfamily members during nervous system development and in the adult - Cesare Monteccuco (Italy)
C9 Signal transduction - Peter Dunkley (Australia)
C10 Modulation of neuronal activity by astrocytes - Jean de Vellis (USA)
C11 Anchoring of receptors and transporters to the cytoskeleton - Irwin Levitan (USA)
C12 Significance of sugar chains in cell-cell interaction - Pam Fredman (Sweden)

Evening Workshops

W1 (Monday):  Highlights from the ISN Summer School - Regino Perez-Polo (USA)
W2 (Tuesday):  Purinergic neurotransmission - M.Teresa Miras-Portugal (Spain)
W3 (Tuesday):  Zinc in astroglial and Müller cells: Multiple physiological functions - Zsuzsanna Huszti (Hungary)
W4 (Thursday): Structure and function of the neural cell adhesion molecules L1 and N-CAM - Elisabeth Bock (Denmark)

Poster Sessions

For proposals and inquries please contact the Program Committee:
c/o Prof. Denis Monard, Friedrich-Miescher-Institut, Maulbeerstr.66, PO Box 2543, CH-4002 Switzerland, e-mail denis.monard@fmi.ch

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