Functional cross-modal processing: using the auditory cortex to see

Amir Amedi
Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

"What did visual deprivation and visual substitution studies teach us about brain organization and reorganization"

Bo N. Schenkman
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden / Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

"Human echolocation: The acoustic detection of objects by blind people"

Jamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

"Seeing sounds and hearing vision: Evidence from synaesthesia"

DAAD Alumni Spring School on Mechanisms of Cognition, Learning and Memory

Julietta U. Frey
Leibniz Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg

"Spaced associativity – a concept of learning and memory formation"

Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Department of Neurophysiologie, Ruhr-University Bochum

"Exploring the relationship between  hippcampal synaptic plasticity and learning."

Sen Cheng
Mercator Research Group, Ruhr-University Bochum

"Origin and transformation of spatial representations"

Laura Colgin
Center for Learning and Memory, UT Austin, Texas, USA

"Gamma oscillations in the hippocampal network"

Kate Jeffery
Institute for Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL London, UK

"Building a cognitive map"

Jeffrey Taube
Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA

"Learning and memory in the head direction cell circuitry"

How does visual perceptual learning interact with plastic changes and excitability in human visual cortex?

Oliver Höffken, Melanie Lenz
Neurologische Universitätsklinik Bergmannsheil

Project A1: "How does visual perceptual learning interact with plastic changes and excitability in human visual cortex?"

Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Chemoperception in the Mammalian Trigeminal System

Matthias Lübbert, mSc
Cellphysiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University Bochum

Project A3: "Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Chemoperception in the Mammalian Trigeminal System"

Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Sensory Processing in an Experimentally Modified Cortical Network of Rat Barrel Cortex

Annika Mix, Dr. Steffen Klein
Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum

"Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Sensory Processing in an Experimentally Modified Cortical Network of Rat Barrel Cortex"

Animal models in psychiatry

Anna Katharina Braun
Institute of Biology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

"The experience-dependent maturation of prefronto-limbic circuits and the origin of developmental psychopathology"

Urs Meyer
Laboratory of Behavioural Neurobiology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

"Modeling schizophrenia-relevant brain disease by immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disruption in mice"

Astrid Friebe
Dept. of Psychiatry, LWL-University Hospital , Ruhr-University Bochum

"Animal models of depression"

Rainer Wolf
Dept. of Psychiatry, LWL-University Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum

"Prepulse inhibition (PPI) in animal models of schizophrenia"

Degenerative Brain Disease: Alzheimer, Ataxias and Epilepsy

Stefan Herlitze
Department of Zoology and Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University Bochum

"P/Q-type channels: function, modulation and disease"

Gary Landreth
Alzheimer’s Research Lab, Department of Neurosciences, CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

"Nuclear receptors as therapeutic targets in Alzheimer‘s disease"

Karl Herrup
Department of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Nelson Biological Labs, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA

"The death of neurons in neurodegenerative disease as seen through the lens of cell cycle regulation"

Nicotine and the Brain - from Molecules to Cognition

Sakire Pogun
Center for Brain Research (EUBAM), Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

"Individual differences in nicotine/tobacco addiction"

Georg Winterer
Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Germany

"Nicotinic Systems Genetics and Cognition"

Caryn Lerman
Department of Psychiatry and Annenberg Public Policy Center, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"Neuroimaging, Nicotine Addiction and Treatment"

Structure and function of cation channels of the CNS

Laurent Groc
Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR CNRS 5297 – University of Bordeaux, France

"Receptor dynamics and functions: learning from single molecule approach"

Annette C. Dolphin
Department of Neuroscience, University College London, UK

"Voltage-gated calcium channel alpha2delta subunits: properties, involvement in disease and target site for drugs"

Thomas Friedrich
Institute of Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

"Structure-function relationships of the Kv7.3 voltage sensor probed by MTSES accessibility and cross-linking with Cd2+ ions"

Emerging roles of Electrical Synapses

Maarten Kamermans
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam

"Exciting inhibition in the outer retina"

Georg Zoidl
Canada Research Chair for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, York University Toronto, Canada

"Mechanisms of plasticity at Electrical Synapses"

Memory, Emotion, and Invariant Visual Object Recognition Mechanisms in the Brain

Prof. Edmund T. Rolls
Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience