3-4 November 2006, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Friday, 3 November
08:00-09:00

Registration

08:50-09:00

Welcome addresses
Frank Gannon, Executive Director, EMBO
Halldór Stefánsson, Science and Society Programme, EMBL

Session I

Genes and Behaviour

Chair:

Erik Parens, Hastings Centre, New York, USA
Audio

09:30-10:00

Barry J. Dickson,IMP, Vienna, Austria
Genetic analysis of innate behaviours in Drosophila
Audio

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?
Audio

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Turhan Canli, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Genomic Psychology – An outlook for the next 100 years
Audio

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

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

Session II

From genes to brain/mind


Chair:

Hannah Monyer, Department of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

13:30-14:00

Wolf Singer, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
The role of coherence in higher cognitive processes
Audio

14:00-14:30

Jean-Pierre Changeux, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Making of the brain: genetic and epigenetic regulations -
from molecular biology to consciousness
Audio

14:30-15:00

Isabelle Mansuy, Brain Research Institute, University of Zürich/ETHZ, Switzerland
Molecular constraints on learning and memory
Audio

15:00-15:30

Rava A. da Silveira, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Sophisticated Visual Adaptation in the Retina
Audio

15:30-16:00

Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany
From Neuroethics to Consciousness Ethics: The Wider
Context
Audio

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-18:00

Panel discussion
Audio

Chair:

Nikos K. Logothetis, Max-Planck-Institute for Biologicial Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

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

18:00-18:20

EMBO Award for communication in the Life Science

19:00-21:00

Conference Banquet

Saturday, 4 November
Session III

The mind/body shop: behavioral drugs and new neurotechnologies

Chair:

Rainer Spanagel, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg

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

09:30-10:00

Lars Sundstrom, Capsant Neurotechnologies, Southampton, UK
Drug discovery: Thinking inside the box
Audio

10:00-10:30

Michael Kosfeld, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Games in the Brain
Audio

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Ilina Singh, BIOS – London School of Economics, UK
Doing Bad and Feeling Good: Stimulant Drugs in Childhood
Audio

11:30-12:00

Paul Root Wolpe, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Bioethics, Biotechnology, and the Brain
Audio Presentation (1 MB)

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

Session IV

From 'genethics' to 'neuroethics'?

Chair:

Alex Quintanilha, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal

13:30-14:00

Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Neuroethics beyond genethics
Audio Presentation (3 MB)

14:00-14:30

Judy Illes, Stanford University, School of Medicine, USA
From Genetics to Neuroethics: Is Imaging "Visualising" Human Thought?
AudioPresentation (14 MB)

14:30-15:00

Erik Parens, The Hastings Centre, New York, USA
Three Concerns about the Balkanization of Bioethics

15:00-15:30

Raymond G. De Vries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Firing the Neuroethical Imagination
Audio

15:30-16:00

Jackie Leach Scully, University of Newcastle, UK
The Ship Who Sang: the neuro-machine interface as prosthetic, extension, and fantasy
Audio Presentation (2 MB)

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

16:30-18:30

Panel discussion
Audio

Chair:

Nikolas Rose, BIOS – London School of Economics, UK

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

18:30-18:45

Closing remarks
Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL
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