From Neural Circuitry to Neurotechnology
Neural circuits are central to our understanding of how the brain works. Promoting basic research into the form and function of neural circuits and the translation of this research into neurotechnologies for both studying the brain and for treating different diseases and injuries is the theme of our 2015 Bridging Biomedical Worlds conference. This conference, entitled From Neural Circuitry to Neurotechnology, will be held in Tokyo, Japan, May 11-12, 2015, and is jointly organized by Fondation IPSEN, AAAS/Science and AAAS/Science Translational Medicine, and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute. The meeting will cover a broad range of topics including memory formation, decision making, sensory systems, circuits that determine complex behavior, and new technologies that exploit neural circuitry, as well as the translation of this knowledge into clinical applications.
Speaker list:
David J. ANDERSON (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
Yang DAN (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Stanislas DEHAENE (Unité INSERM-CEA de Neuro-Imagerie Cognitive, Centre NeuroSpin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Kevin EGGAN (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Hailan HU (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)
Sheena JOSSELYN (Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto Ontario, Canada)
Dimitri M. KULLMANN (University College London, London, UK)
Andreas LÜTHI (Friedrich Mieschler Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland)
Helen S. MAYBERG (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
Yasushi MIYASHITA (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
Atsushi MIYAWAKI (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan)
Peter MOMBAERTS (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Ole PAULSEN (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
José-Alain SAHEL (Institut de la Vision, Centre Hospitalier Nat. d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France)
Andrew B. SCHWARTZ (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA)
Thomas SÜDHOF (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA)
Susumu TONEGAWA (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)
Doris TSAO (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
