第六届功能基因组学国际学术研讨会

2008 International Symposium on Brain Functional Genomics

Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics

Shanghai, China   Oct. 21, 2008

（中山北路3663号华东师范大学逸夫楼报告厅，10.21.2008）

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Sponsors: ECNU, MCG, BIO-RAD, Plexon Inc. YBPC.

Scientific Program

Chair, Joe Z. Tsien   Professor and Co-Director

                     Brain Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia

                     Founding Director

 Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, ECNU

8:00 a.m.   Registration: Yi Fu Building

8:50 a.m.   Opening Remark (by Joe Z Tsien)                        

9:00 a.m.   Dr. Peter Somogyi 

           [Director of the Medical Research Council''''s Anatomical Neuropharmacology

              Unit and Professor of Neurobiology,University of Oxford, U.K.]

           “Timing and spacing GABA action in the hippocampal neuronal

           network”

9:40 a.m.   Dr. Zhiru Wang

           [Associate Professor, Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, 

               East China Normal University]

           “Long-Range Contextual Modulation Mediated by Traveling Waves in the Visual Cortex”

10:05 a.m.  Dr. Zhiyong Yang

           [Assistant professor, Medical College of Georgia，USA]

          “Imaging Cortical Dynamics in the Awake, Behaving Monkey”

10:30 a.m.     Tea break

10:50 a.m.  Dr. John Disterhoft

           [Magerstadt Memorial Research Professor, Department of Physiology

              Director, NUIN Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University,

            Chicago, USA]

           “Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging”

11:30 a.m.   Dr. Joe Z. Tsien

           [Co-Director, Brain Discovery Institute Medical College of Georgia Augusta,

              Professor, Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China

              Normal University]

           “Neural network mechanism of memory”

12:10 a.m.   Lunch break

2:00 p.m.  Dr. Tianzi Jiang

           [Professor, Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy]

          “Disrupted Small-world Networks in Brain Disorders”

2:40 p.m.  Dr. Li Wu

           [Professor, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University]

           “Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning”

3:05 p.m.     Tea break

3:25 p.m.  Dr. Yong-di Zhou

 [Professor, Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, East China

   Normal University]

           “Prefrontal Cortex in Tactile Working Memory”

3:50 p.m.  Dr. Michael Merzenich

           [The Francis Sooy Professor in the Keck Center for Integrative

              Neurosciences, University of California at San Francisco, USA]

           “Brain Plasticity-Based Training”

4:20 p.m.  Concluding remark by Dr. Joe Z. Tsien

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