ISTC-RIKEN BSI workshop (44th Japan Workshop)
18-19 March 2008
:“Bridging non-linear dynamics with cellular and molecular neuroscience”

Dr Keiji Tanaka(Japan)
Dr Tomoki Fukai (Japan)
Dr Alexey Semyanov (Japan)
Dr Konstantin Anokhin (Russia)
Dr Pavel Balaban (Russia)
Dr Victor Kazantsev (Russia)

“Neuropsychiatric disorders”
“Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience”
“Neurodynamics”

• Please join the symposium which is more interesting for you or stay for the whole meeting.
• Registration is still open and free of charge
• In you have any questions please send e-mail to workshop@brain.riken.jp

1F seminar room at RIKEN BSI central,
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama,
351-0198, Japan

ISTC (International Science and Technology Center)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (MEXT)
RIKEN Brain Science Institute

9:45-10:00
Welcome address by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology) - to be confirmed
10:00-10:15
Presentation about ISTC (International Science and Technology Center) activities, Mr. Yu Takagi (Senior Technology Coordination Manager)
10:15-10:30
Welcome word Dr Shun-ichi Amari (Director of RIKEN Brain Science Institute)

10:30-11:00
Takaomi C. Saido “Alzheimer's disease as proteolytic disorders”
11:00-11:30
Evgeny Rogaev “Molecular genetics of Alzheimer disease”
11:30-12:00
Elena Shevtsova “The dual role of mitochondria in neurodegenerative diseases”
13:00-13:30
Elena Savvateeva-Popova “Signaling cascades in cognitive and motor dysfunctions in Drosophila disease models”
13:30-14:00
Adrian W. Moore “Transcription Factor Mediated Control of Dendrite Arbor Morphology”
14:00-14:30
Tadafumi Kato “Neurobiology of bipolar disorder”

15:00-15:30
Atsushi Miyawaki “New fluorescent probes and new perspectives in bioscience”
15:30-16:00
Pavel Balaban ”Regulation of synaptic plasticity”
16:00-16:30
Atsuo Fukuda”Cl- homeo-dynamics modulates the dynamics of GABA action and neural network”
16:30-17:00
Alexey Semyanov “Extrasynaptic GABAA receptors in hippocampal interneurons”

10:00-10:30
Fusao Kato” Another role of ATP in the other side: extracellular ATP as synaptic modulator and gliotransmitter”
10:30-11:00
Konstantin Anokhin” Neurobiology of memory reorganization during memory retrieval ”
11:00-11:30
Nikolay Dygalo ” Acute and long lasting effects of the sequence specific gene silencing in the developing rat brain”
11:30-12:00
Revaz Solomonia “Molecular basis of recognition memory in chicks”

13:00-13:30
Cees van Leeuwen “The symbiotic role of network activity and structure: a hypothesis on self-organization in evolving neural circuits”
13:30-14:00
Mikhail Burtsev “Simulation of early learning, imprinting and recognition memory”
14:00-14:30
Victor Kazantsev “Modeling activity patterns and calcium signaling in astrocytes”
15:00-15:30
Andreas Ioannides” Studying neurodynamics across the brain and in different timescales using tomographic analysis of Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals”
15:30-16:00
Hideyuki Cateau “Interplays between Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity and Phase Response Curve Result in Wireless Clustering”
16:00-16:30
Dmitry Smirnov “Diagnostics of coupling between nonlinear oscillatory systems from time series: techniques and applications in neurophysiology”
16:30-16:50
Closing remarks Dr Keiji Tanaka and Dr Konstantin Anokhin (Organizing committee members on Japanese and Russian side)