Location palais Brongniart, Paris
"Genetics and the Brain: Does Genetics determine our Health and Behavior? Is everything already decided at birth?
Morning 10:30am - 1:15pm
Contributions of Genetics
- Opening: Jean-Claude Picard(AFIRNe)
- Are we witnessing a genetic revolution in medicine?
Arnold Munnich(Académie des Sciences, Hôpital Necker) - Large-scale genome studies: a milestone in the genetic revolution
Ariel Darvasi(Hebrew University of Jerusalem - UHJ) - Epigenetics: Environmental changes in the role of genes
Moshe Yaniv(Academy of Sciences, Institut Pasteur) - Using Genetic Tools for Brain Research
Idan Segev and Adi Mizrahi(UHJ) - Round Table: What predictive value does an individual genetic profile have?
Moderated by Marie-Odile Monchicourt(Science columnist - France Info)
and Dominique Leglu(Editorial Director - Sciences et Avenir)
Afternoon 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Genetics and Pathologies
- Epigenetics: Synapse modification
Jean-Pierre Changeux(Académie des Sciences, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur) - Genetics and Parkinson's disease
Alexis Brice(Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital) - Genetics of social relationships: from autism to altruism
Richard Ebstein(UHJ) - Controlling Posttraumatic Stress through genetic manipulation
Hermona Soreq(UHJ) - Round Table on Ethics and Genetic Testing
Moderated by Marie-Odile Monchicourt(Science Columnist - France Info) and Dominique Leglu(Editor-in-Chief - Sciences et Avenir) - Closing
Yoram Cohen (UHJ) and Jean-Claude Picard (AFIRNe)
