3-4 November 2006, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
08:00-09:00 |
Registration
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08:50-09:00 |
Welcome addresses
Frank Gannon, Executive Director, EMBO Halldór Stefánsson, Science and Society Programme, EMBL
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Session I
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Genes and Behaviour
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Chair: |
Erik Parens, Hastings Centre, New York, USA
Audio
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09:30-10:00 |
Barry J. Dickson,IMP, Vienna, Austria
Genetic analysis of innate behaviours in Drosophila
Audio
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10:00-10:30 |
Ulrike Heberlein, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Drugs, flies and videotape: What can fruit flies teach us about drug addiction?
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00-11:30 |
Turhan Canli, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Genomic Psychology – An outlook for the next 100 years
Audio
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11:30-12:00 |
Pierre L. Roubertoux, CNRS – Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
From DNA to the Mind: the meaning of the link
Audio
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch Break
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Session II
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From genes to brain/mind
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Chair: |
Hannah Monyer, Department of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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13:30-14:00 |
Wolf Singer, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
The role of coherence in higher cognitive processes
Audio
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14:00-14:30 |
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Making of the brain: genetic and epigenetic regulations - from molecular biology to consciousness
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14:30-15:00 |
Isabelle Mansuy, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich/ETHZ, Switzerland
Molecular constraints on learning and memory
Audio
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15:00-15:30 |
Rava A. da Silveira, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Sophisticated Visual Adaptation in the Retina
Audio
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15:30-16:00 |
Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany
From Neuroethics to Consciousness Ethics: The Wider Context
Audio
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break
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16:30-18:00 |
Panel discussion
Audio
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Chair:
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Nikos K. Logothetis, Max-Planck-Institute for Biologicial Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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Klaus-Peter Lesch, University of Würzburg, Germany
Cornelius Gross, EMBL Monterotondo, Italy
Petra Störig, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
Steven Rose, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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18:00-18:20 |
EMBO Award for communication in the Life Science
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19:00-21:00 |
Conference Banquet
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Session III
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The mind/body shop: behavioral drugs and new neurotechnologies
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Chair: |
Rainer Spanagel, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg
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09:00-09:30 |
Thomas Dierks, University Hospital for Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland
Neuroimaging techniques: possibilities and limitations with regard to normal and pathological brain function
Audio
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09:30-10:00 |
Lars Sundstrom, Capsant Neurotechnologies, Southampton, UK
Drug discovery: Thinking inside the box
Audio
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10:00-10:30 |
Michael Kosfeld, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Games in the Brain
Audio
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00-11:30 |
Ilina Singh, BIOS – London School of Economics, UK
Doing Bad and Feeling Good: Stimulant Drugs in Childhood
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11:30-12:00 |
Paul Root Wolpe, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Bioethics, Biotechnology, and the Brain
Audio
Presentation (1 MB)
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch Break
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Session IV
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From 'genethics' to 'neuroethics'?
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Chair: |
Alex Quintanilha, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal
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13:30-14:00 |
Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Neuroethics beyond genethics
Audio
Presentation (3 MB)
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14:00-14:30 |
Judy Illes, Stanford University, School of Medicine, USA
From Genetics to Neuroethics: Is Imaging "Visualising" Human Thought? AudioPresentation (14 MB)
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14:30-15:00 |
Erik Parens, The Hastings Centre, New York, USA
Three Concerns about the Balkanization of Bioethics
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15:00-15:30 |
Raymond G. De Vries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Firing the Neuroethical Imagination Audio
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15:30-16:00 |
Jackie Leach Scully, University of Newcastle, UK
The Ship Who Sang: the neuro-machine interface as prosthetic, extension, and fantasy
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Presentation (2 MB)
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break
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16:30-18:30 |
Panel discussion
Audio
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Chair: |
Nikolas Rose, BIOS – London School of Economics, UK
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Alison Abbott, Nature, Germany
Jörg Naumann, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Turhan Canli, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Alex Quintanilha, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal
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18:30-18:45 |
Closing remarks
Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL
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