| 08.30 | Posters Neuroscience
1 session to be mounted |
| 08.30 | Session
9 PLENARY NVE teaching session: molecular biology of hormone action Chairperson: Hans Romijn (Leiden) Ton Maassen (Leiden) Insulin (30) Wilmar Wiersinga (Amsterdam) Thyroid hormones (30) Albert Brinkman (Rotterdam) Androgens (30) |
| 10.00 | Break |
| 10.30 | Parallel
sessions 10-13 Session 10 Too much bone. What do we know? Where do we go? Moderator: Neveen Hamdy (Leiden) Neveen Hamdy (Leiden) Too much bone (30) Clemens Löwik (Leiden) What do we know? (30) Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden) Where do we go? (30) Session 11 Melatonin Moderator: Dries Kalsbeek (Amsterdam) Mireille Masson-Pèvet (Strasbourg, France) Melatonin and its receptors (30) Jörg Stehle (Frankfurt, Germany) Molecular biology of the neuroendocrine pineal gland (30) Frank Scheer (Amsterdam) Melatonin and hypertension (15) Rixt Riemersma (Amsterdam) Melatonin and dementia (15) Session 12 STRESS AND depression 1 - GENES Moderators: Erno Vreugdenhil (Leiden), Marian Joëls and Witte Hoogendijk (Amsterdam) Nick Barden (Ste-Foy, Canada) Glucocorticoid receptors, their responsive genes and depression (45) Dorine Feldker (Leiden) Screening for differentially expressed genes in an animal model for depression (15) Marjan Kromkamp (Utrecht) Differential gene expression related to psychosis (15) Gerben Meynen (Amsterdam) Vasopressin in the supraoptic nucleus of depressed patients (15) Session 13 Modern techniques in endocrinology and neuroscience Moderators: Fred van Leeuwen and Cyriel Pennartz (Amsterdam) Fritjof Helmchen (Heidelberg, Germany) Multiphoton microscopy and its applications (30) Kees Jalink (Amsterdam) Using FRET to read out intracellular signals (30) Ronald Plasterk (Utrecht) RNA interference (30) |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Session
14 Plenary session on Genetic polymorphism and disease (sponsored by Applied Biosystems/Celera) Chairperson: Erno Vreugdenhil (Leiden) Steve Picton (Warrington, UK) Millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human genome: what do they mean? (30) André Uitterlinden (Rotterdam) Genetics of osteoporosis: population-based screening of candidate genes (30) Satellite session |
| 14.30 | Poster session Neuroscience 1
(including break) |
| 16.00 | 'Marius Tausk' lecture (sponsored by Organon B.V., Oss) Chairperson: Ron de Kloet (Leiden) Florian Holsboer (München, D) From stress physiology to novel therapies of stress-related diseases |
| 16.45 | Break |
| 17.00 | Parallel
sessions 15-18 Session 15 Synapse physiology and neuronal network functioning 1 Moderators: Arjen Brussaard and Wytse Wadman (Amsterdam) Ole Paulsen (Oxford, UK) Network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus (45) Laurens Bosman (Amsterdam) Postsynaptic GABA-A receptor plasticity in relation to the critical period of the visual system (15) Martin Verkuyl (Amsterdam) Presynaptic GABAergic changes as a consequence of ADX (15) Michele Sons (Leiden) Munc18-1 is a positive regulator of neurotransmitter release in the mouse neuromuscular junction (15) Session 16 Development and function of mesencephalic dopaminergic system Moderator: Martin Smidt (Utrecht) Marten Smidt (Utrecht) Role of the homeodomain gene Ptx3 in the development and function of the mesencephalic DA system (30) Mirjam Gerrits (Utrecht) Implication of the mu-opioid system for the mesDA theory of addiction (15) Simone Smits (Utrecht) Dopamine dynamics of the mesDA system (15) Misha de Rover (Amsterdam) Changes of the mesDA system projections lead to changes in synaptic circuitry in striatal areas (15) Session 17 Neurogenomics Moderator: Guus Smit (Amsterdam) Hadriano Lacerda (Amsterdam) Towards gene expression profiling in the human brain diseases (30) Marc Coolen (Nijmegen) Genomics of schizophrenia in animal models (15) Edwin Jacobs (Amsterdam) Genomic responses of active heroin administration (15) Nicole Datson (Leiden) Glucocorticoid-responsive genes in the hippocampus (15) Kawan Li (Amsterdam) Proteomics of the postsynaptic density (15) Session 18 Spinal cord disorders and repair 1 - Asphyxia and oxidative stress Moderators: Wilma van de Berg and Bert Joosten (Maastricht) Hans Vles (Maastricht) Clinical aspects of spinal cord disorders (15) Huseyin Mehmet (London, UK) Oxidative stress, apoptosis, perinatal brain injury (30) Liselijn Wisman (Utrecht) Fibroblasts over-expressing catalase to protect motoneurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from oxidative stress (15) Anneke Koster (Utrecht) Caspases, cytokines and apoptosis-related cell death after perinatal hypoxia-ischemia in newborn piglets (15) Anton de Louw (Maastricht) Apoptosis in the spinal cord during postnatal development: the effect of perinatal asphyxia on program cell death (15) Satellite session Circadian Rhythms 2 (see separate page) |
| 18.00 | Board
meeting of the Section Biological Psychiatry of the Netherlands Society of Psychiatry
and the Interdisciplinary Society for Biological Psychiatry |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| 21.00 | 'Neurofederatie' lecture (sponsored by Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam) Chairperson: Lex Cools (Nijmegen) Ger Holstege (Groningen) Neurobiology of reproduction |