Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
7–9 December 2011
Opening Keynote Lecturer
The Berlin Brain Days 2011 start with an opening lecture by Christian Lüscher on the evening of 7 December.
Christian Lüscher (homepage)
Professor, University of Geneva; Cellular Mechanisms of Dependence and Addiction
Lecture > Addiction, the dark side of learning
8 and 9 December are dedicated to six keynote lectures and accompanying talks by Ph.D. students. Throughout, Ph.D. students will have the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions.
The Keynote Lecturers
Adrienne Fairhall (homepage)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle
Lecture > Deconstructing adaptive coding
Keynote speaker > Computational Neuroscience
Contact for this session > vanessa.casagrande (at) bccn-berlin.de
Kalanit Grill-Spector (homepage)
Associate Professor, Vision & Perception Neuroscience Lab, Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University
Lecture > Re-thinking the functional organization of human high-level visual cortex
Keynote speaker > Mind & Brain
Contact for this session > annette.winkelmann (at) hu-berlin.de
Hermona Soreq (homepage)
Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lecture > Micro-RNAs in the interface between inflammation and neurodegeneration
Keynote speaker > Medical Neurosciences
Contact for this session > lutz.steiner (at) charite.de
Frank Bradke (homepage)
Head of Axonal Growth and Regeneration, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Lecture > Cytoskeletal mechanisms of axonal growth and regeneration
Keynote speaker > Molecular Neuroscience
Contact for this session > jana.droese (at) mdc-berlin.de
Hans J. Markowitsch (homepage)
Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld
Lecture > Memory and Brain: Neuropsychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry
Keynote speaker > Learning and Memory
Contact for this session > barbara.neuhoff (at) charite.de
Luiz Pessoa (homepage)
Laboratory of Cognition and Emotion, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
Lecture > On the relationship between emotion and cognition
Keynote speaker > Languages of Emotions
Contact for this session > m.edler (at) fu-berlin.de
Organizers
The Berlin Brain Days 2011 are jointly organized by six Berlin-based neuroscience Ph.D. training programs. For details, see Organizers.
The program committee is chaired by Professor Helmut Kettenmann.
Contact
Lutz Steiner – International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences
Phone: +49 30 2093–4582
E-mail: lutz.steiner (at) charite.de