International Graduate School of Neuroscience

Receptors and ion channels: The molecular basis of synaptic signaling and modulation

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - Wednesday, April 2, 2014

• Anne Stephenson
• UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK
• NMDA Receptors and the MAGUK Family of Scaffolding Proteins

• Bernd Fakler
• Institute of Physiology, University Freiburg, Germany
• The proteome of native AMPA-receptors and its significance for excitatory neurotransmission

• Claus Pietrzik
• Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
• The role of lipoprotein receptors on NMDA receptor activity

• Philippe Lory
• Institute of Functional Genomics (IGF), Montpellier, France
• Molecular mechanisms underlying calcium channelopathies

• Chris De Zeeuw
• Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
• Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Creating patterns for cerebellar motor coordination

• Jürgen Sandkühler
• Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Synaptic effects of opioids

• Helmut Kettenmann
• Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany
• Properties of microglial cells

• Vidar Grundersen
• Department of Anatomy, University of Oslo, Norway
• Presynaptic localisation of NMDA receptors at hippocampal synapses

• Frank Kirchhoff
• Institute of Physiology, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
• The role of glial glutamate receptors in vivo

• Stephan Sigrist
• Institute for Biology/Genetics, F U Berlin, Germany
• Shedding light on the assembly and function of synaptic protein architectures

• A. B. (Guus) Smit
• Medical Center, V U Amsterdam
• Proteomics analysis of synaptic signaling in health and disease

• Dirk Trauner
• Department of Chemistry, University of Munich, Germany
• Photopharmacology and the Restoration of Vision