Symposium: Development and Plasticity of the Nervous System
November 16 - 17, 2010
Montevideo, Uruguay

Organizers: M. Mónica Brauer, Francesco M. Rossi and Flavio R. Zolessi
E-mail: neurouy2010@gmail.com

ADDITIONAL LECTURES BY INVITED SPEAKERS WILL BE HELD DURING THE COURSE (click here)

14:00   Cristina Arruti (URU) Building bridges from structural to cell and developmental biology: A bird’s eye view.
14:30   Angela Suburo (ARG) Steroid Hormones and Photoreceptor survival.
15:00   Alfredo Cáceres (ARG) GEFs and Rho-GTPase signaling during axon formation.
15:30   Coffee Break
16:00   Conference: Roberto Mayor (UK) Collective chemotaxis requires contact dependent cell polarity.
16:45   Guillermo Oliver (USA) The homeobox gene Six3 plays multiple roles during mammalian brain and visual system development.
17:15   John Wallingford (USA) Planar Cell Polarity signaling and neural tube closure.
17:45   Coffee Break
18:15   Panagiotis Tsonis (USA) Reprogramming, transdifferentiation and lens regeneration in newts.
18:45   Conference: Joachim Wittbrodt (GER) Seeing is believing: from the digital embryo to retinal stem cells (and back).

09:00   Raúl Russo (URU) The central canal of the spinal cord: a potential niche of neurogenic progenitors?
09:30   Guillermo Lanuza (ARG) Neuronal specification in the developing neural tube.
10:00   Kristen Kroll (USA) Epigenetic regulation of neural fate by Geminin.
10:30   Coffee Break
11:00   Omar Trujillo-Cenóz (URU) Spinal injury and repair: novel biological models for old problems.
11:30   Conference: Keith Crutcher (USA) Regeneration and plasticity in the adult nervous system: looking for guidance.
12:15-14:00  Free for lunch
14:00   Federico Dajas (URU) Neuroprotection by quercetin. Preclinical studies.
14:30   Katia Del Río-Tsonis (USA) Mechanisms of retina regeneration.
15:00   Patricia Cassina (URU) Stimulation of mitochondrial respiration as a strategy to prevent astrocyte-mediated motor neuron death in ALS models.
15:30-17:30  Posters + Coffee Break
17:30   Alejandra Kun (URU) The axo-glial link in the development and maintenance of the SNP: a bridge crossed in health and disease.
18:00   José Sotelo-Silveira (URU) The axonal transcriptome: function and regulation.
18:30    Conference: Timothy Cowen (UK) Can neurotrophic theory explain age-related neurodegeneration?

Conferences are open to the public (please send an e-mail to: neurouy2010@gmail.com, with “DPNS2 SYMP” as the email Subject, before Nov 10th if you wish to participate in these sessions).

We also invite you to assist to the following conferences (open to the public) that will be held during the theoretical modules of the course:

18 Nov, 13:30   Angela Suburo (ARG). IIBCE - Salón de Actos

19 Nov, 09:00   Keith Crutcher (USA). Facultad de Ciencias - Salón de Actos

19 Nov,11:00   Eddy De Robertis (USA). Facultad de Ciencias - Salón de Actos

23 Nov, 18:00   Christian Giaume (FR). Dynamic interactions between neurons and astrocytes. IIBCE-Salón de Actos

24 Nov, 09:00   Christian Giaume (FR). Astroglial networks: properties and roles in neuroglial interactions. IIBCE

30 Nov, 18:00   Osvaldo Uchitel (ARG). Desarrollo sinaptico: una vision electrofisiologica.

01 Dec, 09:00   Osvaldo Uchitel (ARG). Canalopatias y migrania.

03 Dec, 12:00   Daniel Choquet (FR). High resolution imaging of glutamate receptor trafficking to better understand synapse function.