The 34th Annual Meeting ofthe Japan Neuroscience Society - Neuroscience of the Mind -

Plenary Lectures / Special Lectures / Award Lectures

PL1 September 14 (Wed.) 16:30-17:30 Room A (Main Hall): Uta Frith Professor, University College London & Aarhus University
Developmental disorders - a window on the mind
Chair: Yasushi Miyashita (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
PL2 September 15 (Thu.) 14:00-15:00 Room A (Main Hall): Stanislas Dehaene Professor, College de France/Inserm/CEA
The organization of the reading system:universal architecture and individual variability
Chair: Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
PL3 September 16 (Fri.) 17:30-18:30 Room A (Main Hall): John Rubenstein Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Patterning of telencephalic structures
Chair: Fujio Murakami (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University)
PL4 September 17 (Sat.) 17:00-18:00 Room A (Main Hall): Karel Svoboda Group Leader, HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus
The neural circuits underlying somatosensation
Chair: Hajime Mushiake (Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)

SL1 September 14 (Wed.) 15:00-16:00 Room A (Main Hall): Shinya Yamanaka Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors
Chair: Noriko Osumi (Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
SL2 September 15 (Thu.) 17:00-18:00 Room A (Main Hall): Naoyuki Osaka Adjunctive professor, Kyoto University
Self and others within a social brain
Chair: Etsuro Mori (Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
SL3 September 16 (Fri.) 16:00-17:00 Room A (Main Hall): Susumu Tonegawa Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Neural Circuit Genetics of Episodic Memory
Chair: Hideyuki Okano (School of Medicine, Keio University)
SL4 September 17 (Sat.) 14:00-15:00 Room A (Main Hall): Takeshi Iwatsubo Professor, Department of Neuropathology Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
Alzheimer's disease: from molecular pathology to disease-modifying therapies
Chair: Yasuto Itoyama (National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)

AL2-1 September 15 (Thu.) 15:20-16:00Room A (Main Hall): Haruhiko Bito Department of Neurochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Activity-dependent mechanisms underlying neuronal gene expression and neurite growth
Chair: Yumiko Yoshimura (Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience)

AL2-2 September 15 (Thu.) 16:10～16:50Room A (Main Hall): Masanobu Kano Dept. Neurophysiol., Grad. Sch. Med., Univ. Tokyo
Endocannabinoid-mediated modulation of synaptic transmission and its impact on integrative brain functions
Chair: Kaoru Inokuchi (Graduate School of Medicine & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama)