Information
Name of Conference
The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society −Neuroscience of the Mind−
Chairperson
Noriko Osumi (Professor, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine)
Date
September 14(Wed.)-17(Sat.), 2011
Venue
Pacifico Yokohama
1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-0012, Japan
Program (tentative)
Ⅰ Plenary Lectures
- September 14(Wed.)
- Developmental disorders - a window on the mind
Uta Frith Professor, University College London & Aarhus University - September 15(Thu.)
- The organization of the reading system:universal architecture and individual variability
Stanislas Dehaene Professor, College de France/Inserm/CEA - September 16(Fri.)
- Patterning of telencephalic structures
John Rubenstein Professor, University of California, San Francisco - September 17(Sat.)
- The neural circuits underlying somatosensation
Karel Svoboda Group Leader, HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus
Ⅱ Special Lectures
- September 14(Wed.)
- Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors
Shinya Yamanaka Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University - September 15(Thu.)
- Self and others within a social brain
Naoyuki Osaka Adjunctive professor, Kyoto University - September 16(Fri.)
- Neural Circuit Genetics of Episodic Memory
Susumu Tonegawa Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute - September 17(Sat.)
- Alzheimer's disease: from molecular pathology to disease-modifying therapies
Takeshi Iwatsubo Professor, Department of Neuropathology Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
Ⅲ Symposia
Symposia by the hosting society Call for symposia: opens September, 2010
Ⅳ Awarded Lectures
Tokizane Award / Tsukahara Award
Ⅴ Oral Presentations / Poster Sessions
Call for abstracts: from February to early April, 2011 (tentative)
Ⅵ Sponsored Seminars
Application for Luncheon Seminar sponsorship: opens September, 2010
Ⅶ Exhibition for Equipments & Publications
Exhibitor booth sales: opens September, 2010