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Programming and Reprogramming the Brain

Come and discuss the latest advances within the field of brain development, reprogramming and modeling.
Mon, 03/04/2017 to Tue, 04/04/2017
City: 
Munich
Country: 
Germany

Contact

Scientific organizer: 
Abcam Events
Contact address: 
200 Cambridge Science Park Cambridge UK
Phone: 
+44 1223 696000
Description: 

Topics​​​​​

  • Modeling human brain development from pluripotent stem cells 
  • Programming and maintenance of cell identity in the CNS
  • Development-inspired reprogramming of the brain
  • Decoding CNS complexity with single-cell resolution

Confirmed speakers

  • ​​​​​​Paola Arlotta (Harvard University, US)
  • Benedikt Berninger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
  • Silvia Cappello (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany) 
  • Gordon Fishell (NYU Langone Medical Center, US)​
  • ​Francois Guillemot (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)
  • Oliver Hobert (Columbia University, US)
  • Sophie Jarriault (IGBMC, France)
  • Guillermina López-Bendito (Instituto de Neurociencias, Spain)​
  • Ana Martin-Villalba (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
  • Steven McCarroll (Harvard Medical School, US)
  • Malin Parmar (Lund University, Sweden)​
  • Kathrin Plath (University of California - Los Angeles, US)
  • Barbara Treutlein (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  • Pierre Vanderhaeghen (Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Belgium)

Organizers

  • ​​​​​​Paola Arlotta (Harvard University, US)
  • Benedikt Berninger (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)

Call for abstracts

  • ​​​​​​Talk and poster presentation places are available and abstracts invited.