Programme

Neurex meeting

Organizers:
Jean-Christophe Cassel & Anne Pereira de Vasconcelos (LNCA, Strasbourg)

The thalamus – the largest diencephalic structure with its about 60 nuclei – has long been considered a structure bidirectionnally relaying information between subcortical and cortical regions. Over the two last decades, some of its nuclei have been recognized as having a major role in various aspects of cognition. Indeed, thalamic lesions are associated with a panel of cognitive dysfunctions including amnesia, aphasia, alterations in executive functions, attention, perseveration… in both neurological patients and animal models. Over the last five years, research in both humans and laboratory animals has provided new support (e.g., 136 research articles and reviews in 2017) pointing to a specific role of some of these thalamic nuclei in the dynamic interactions between limbic structures and cortical areas implicated in cognitive functions (e.g., hippocampus, prefrontal cortex). There will be a particular emphasis on processes underlying functions encompassing, for instance, behavioural flexibility, working memory, memory persistence… Data and arguments presented will come from MRI studies in humans and experimental approaches in animal models, including non human primates.

Detailed programme and registration

The Workshop in Integrative Approaches in Neurodegeneration is organized in the frame of the FlySMALS consortium, funded by the 2013 JPND Transnational call for “European research projects for Cross-Disease Analysis of Pathways related to Neurodegenerative Diseases”, which come to an end this year. The workshop aims to disseminate and integrate the results of the research consortium with state-of-the-art research in the field, promoting the joint presentation and discussion of relevant research topics by a panel of international experts, including members of other consortia funded through the same JPND call.

The program targets a broad audience of basic, experimental, computational and clinical scientists, in the spirit of the JNPD Cross-Disease Analysis call, aiming to:
promote the analysis of diseases across traditional clinical boundaries
combine fundamental, pre-clinical and clinical experimental approaches  with computational approaches
re-define clinical phenotypes and new approaches in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
identify commonalities and differences molecular pathways underlying neurodegenerative diseases.

The workshop will bring together 20 invited speakers and  50 registered participants, providing an ideal environment for dynamic interactions promoting the exchange of expertise across areas, supporting the conceptual development of novel integrative research approaches that will contribute to the future progress in neurodegenerative disease research. Participants will be able to present their work at a poster section and through short talks from selected abstracts.

Join us in the wonderful city of Lisbon for an exciting inter-disciplinary program at the forefront of neurodegenerative disease research.

Further information.
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The 6th conference of the Association for Research in Neuroeducation will be held on June 6-8, 2018, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and organized by the Laboratory for the Psychology of the Child Development and Education (LaPsyDÉ) at the CNRS and the Paris Descartes University. The first day will consist of general public conferences (in French only) around the topic of “Neuroeducation: a new science for school?”, and will aim to share and discuss the latest progress in the field of neuroeducation with students, teachers and other experts in education. The goal of this day will be to strengthen the links between the members of the educational community by facilitating the exchange of ideas and expertise and the dialog between the lab and the school. In addition to conferences given by several researchers in developmental psychology, education sciences and developmental cognitive neuroscience, round table sessions will allow to reflect on the future school.

The scientific symposium will be held over the following two days (Day 2 and 3), and will aim at presenting the findings of researchers who manage to reconcile the constraints of the cognitive neuroscience techniques with the investigation of questions in the field of education at school and at the university. Our keynote speaker will be Bert de Smedt, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).

For the scientific symposium, we welcome oral presentations submissions and poster submissions from researchers and students working in developmental psychology, education sciences and developmental neuroscience.
The online abstract submission is open until February 28th, 2018.
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length. The full abstract will be reviewed by the conference scientific committee and the result of this review will be communicated on March 28th, 2018.

For more information, visit the ARN 2018 conference website.

En partenariat avec la Société des Neurosciences

Les enjeux des recherches en neurosciences sont de 2 ordres, étroitement liés. Il s’agit d’une part, de relever le défi de dévoiler l’organisation et le fonctionnement de l’organe complexe que représente notre cerveau et plus généralement de notre système nerveux, à toutes les étapes de la vie et dans ses nombreuses fonctions, ouvrant une fenêtre sur la connaissance du soi et de nos comportements. Cette connaissance, en dehors de tout contexte pathologique, permet d’envisager une amélioration de certaines de nos facultés pour favoriser l’épanouissement de la personne (mieux apprendre, communiquer, interagir avec notre environnement, etc.), sans pour autant chercher à dépasser nos limites biologiques comme le prône le transhumanisme. D’autre part, les neuroscientifiques tentent de répondre à des besoins thérapeutiques non satisfaits, avec la nécessité d’apporter de nouvelles options pour combattre les nombreuses atteintes et maladies qui affectent le système nerveux. Les conséquences entravent souvent l’autonomie relationnelle de la personne et altèrent sa qualité de vie. S’y ajoutent les coûts induits par le suivi médical, évalués dans la Communauté Européenne à près de 800 milliards d’Euros, soit plus d’un tiers des dépenses de santé. Devant l’afflux des données issues de la recherche en neurosciences, le développement d’outils permettant d’appréhender et de modifier le fonctionnement du système nerveux, et les implications sociétales de ces avancées, notre responsabilité de neuroscientifique est de soulever les nombreux questionnements éthiques qui se posent. Il convient de faire la part entre utilisation thérapeutique et cosmétique des données, les possibilités effectives et les fantasmes.
L’évocation de ces quelques aspects de la recherche développée dans le champ des neurosciences justifie une approche éthique appropriée. Il convient d’anticiper les conséquences et l’impact sociétal d’évolutions technologiques qui parfois peuvent être considérées intrusives, voire de nature à mettre en cause les libertés individuelles, faute d’un encadrement approprié. L’acceptabilité de ces avancées dont l’intérêt en termes de prévention et de traitements s’avère évident, est conditionné par le souci d’éviter tout risque de dérive ou d’usage inconsidéré. Les États généraux de la bioéthique peuvent favoriser une concertation indispensable entre chercheurs, praticiens, usagers de la santé et société, dans la perspective de développer une approche responsable de l’innovation en neurosciences.

Programme & inscriptions

This short meeting is organized by PhD students for PhD students working in the vast field of Neurobiology.

It will take place in the

Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience

on Friday 25th May 2018

During this unique day, we learn about Neuroscience Research in Europe from the molecular mechanisms to integrated neurobiology with clinical applications – and also get to know each other in a relaxed atmosphere.

Throughout the day, there will be oral presentations and poster sessions. We will select 10 speakers and posters from all your registrations.

This meeting will give you the opportunity to meet post-docs, engineers and researchers from our Institute.

You can already find further information about the institute on our website.

– Registration fee: FREE

– Accommodation: Local students will be happy to welcome you free-of-charge in their homes on Thursday evening and /or more fun on Friday night!! (Other accommodations such as hostels are still available but you will have to pay for it).

Register here before 25th April 2018

For any questions please contact the NeuroDocs team.

The Eighth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making will take place on
May 21-23, 2018 in Paris, France. The objective of this three-day symposium will be
to gather people from different research fields with different approaches
(psychology, economics, ethology, psychiatry, neural, behavioral, computational and
robotics approaches) to decision making.
The symposium will be a single-track, will last for 3 days and will include 6 sessions:
“Learning about the structure of the world to make decisions” (Chair: Chris
Summerfield) ;
“Constructing and deconstructing subjective value” (Chair: Lesley Fellows) ;
“The neuroscience of moral decision-making” (Chair: Miriam Teschl) ;
“Decision-making across cultures and species” (Chair: TBD) ;
“Dealing with uncertainty: exploration and curiosity” (Chair: TBD) ;
“Development and decision-making” (Chair: TBD) ;

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2018 Deadline for Poster Submission
May 01, 2018 Notification of Poster Acceptance
May 08, 2018 Deadline for Registration
May 21-23, 2018 Symposium Venue

CONTACT INFORMATION
Website, registration, poster submission and detailed program

Contact

Téléphone : 01 44 27 28 85

The annual meeting of the French Club of Glial Cells will be held on October 9th, 2018 in Paris at the Brain & Spine Institute. This meeting will highlight the most recent findings in the glial field and promote scientific exchanges and collaborations among the neuroscience community.

Keynote speakers
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Transcriptional and epigenetic states of oligodendrocyte lineage cells in the central nervous system
Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh, UK
Signalling to and from astrocytes in health and disease

Call for Oral/ Poster presentations
We welcome submissions of oral and poster presentations from researchers and students. The basic criteria for selection are the scientific quality, the ability of the speaker to present their work to a broad and multidisciplinary audience. Abstracts should include title, list of authors, affiliations and a summary that should not exceed 500 words in length. The scientific committee of the CCG 2018 will review abstracts and notification of acceptance will be sent by June 30th, 2018.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 1st, 2018.

Abstracts should be sent to Thierry Amédée.