2011-SFB 665 International Symposium: Developmental Disturbances in the Nervous System 2011

SFB 665 International Symposium: Developmental Disturbances in the Nervous System 2011

The Berlin-based Collaborative Research Center 665, funded by the German Research Foundation, is hosting an international symposium 27th - 29th October, 2011 on developmental disturbances in the nervous system. The
symposium will bring together key researchers from around the world for three days of discussion on this critical area of research. In particular, the symposium will reflect the interdisciplinary structure of the collaborative research center itself, with discussion between basic and clinical researchers generating new perspectives in the area of neuronal development of the nervous system.

Confirmed guest speakers include:

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, UCSF
Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Institute de neurobiologie del méditerranée INMED
Franck Polleux, The Scripps Institute
Patricia Salinas, University College London UCL
Jenny Murdoch, University of London
Bill Snider, University of North Carolina
Alain Chedotal, Institut de la Vision, Paris
Sam Pfaff, The Salk Institute
James Surmeier, Northwestern University
Gord Fishell, New York University
Martyn Goulding, The Salk Institute
Nils Brose, MPI for Experimental Medicine
Joe Gleeson, UCSD
Gilles Fortin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Gordon Shepherd, Northwestern University
Colin Johnson, University of Leeds
Yishi Jin, UCSD
Sam Pleasure, UCSF
Peter Scheiffele, University of Basel