Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Alfred Fessard Day. Symposium organized by the Society for Neuroscience

Development of the nervous system

This international symposium will present various aspects of nervous system development.

Program

9h30-10h00 Welcome
10:00-10:45 Paola Bovolenta (Madrid)
Dual role of frizzled proteins in eye morphogenesis, implications for adult brain homeostasis
10:45-11:30 Alain Chédotal (Paris)
Development and function of cerebral commissures
11:30-12:15 Sonia Garel (Paris)
The connection of thalamo-cortical projections
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch (free)
1:15pm-2:15pm General Meeting
14h15-14h45 Software presentation
14h45-15h30 Pico Caroni (Basel)
Assembly and function of the main neural microcircuits in the hippocampus
3:30 pm-4:15 pm Shen-Ju Chou (Taiwan)
Developmental patterns of the mammalian cerebral cortex
4:15pm-4:45pm Break
16h45-17h00 Neuroscience Society Prize
17h00-18h00 Lecture Alfred Fessard
Alain Prochiantz (Paris)
Homeoprotein signaling during neural development and in adults