Call for Proposals for Satellite Symposia

Proposals for satellite symposia at Neuroscience2014 are now being invited.
Proposals approved as official satellite symposia will receive the following publicity from the Meeting.

  • Publication in the Meeting Program
  • Publication on the Meeting Web site (including possible links to satellite Web sites)
  • Publication in Neuroscience2014 E-Newsletter (E-mail magazine)

Organizations wishing to hold a satellite symposia are requested to E-mail the following information to the Convention Secretariat (secretariat@neuroscience2014.jp).

Required information

  1. Symposia title (theme)
  2. Venue
  3. Date and time
  4. Size (expected number of attendees)
  5. Chair (please include name of affiliated institution)
  6. Symposia panel members (please include names of affiliated institutions)
  7. Outline of Symposia
  8. Contact details (name, affiliated institution, E-mail address, and telephone number of contact person)
  9. Name of co-host or sponsor if applicable

Notes

  • The organizers must include a member of the Japan Neuroscience Society.
  • Please ensure that symposia do not overlap with the main program for the Meeting (including events such as receptions).
  • The Meeting has the status of co-host, and will not be involved with the running of the symposia.
  • In principle, organizers of satellite symposia are responsible for paying venue fees and management costs themselves.
  • The Executive Committee will take the venue, scale, and other factors given in the application into consideration for the confirmation of official satellite seminars when responding to applications.
    (Please be aware that it may not be possible to meet all the requests of a particular application in some cases.)

Venues

The organizers have reserved some rooms (not the entire premises) of the Pacifico Yokohama on the day before the Meeting for setup preparations. It may be possible to use the Pacifico Yokohama for satellite symposia on this day, depending on time and venue. Symposia organizers who wish to do this should consult the Convention Secretariat (secretariat@neuroscience2014.jp).

Date Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Venue Pacifico Yokohama

Satellite Symposia

A quarter century after the direct and indirect pathways model of the basal ganglia and beyond.

Venue

Conference Room, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan

Date

Monday, September 8th 9:00 - 21:00

Speakers

Henrik Jörntell (Lund University, Sweden)
Tadashi Isa (NIPS, Okazaki)
Wim Vanduffel (Leuven Katholic University, Belgium)
Koichi Nakamura (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
Fuyuki Karube (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
Satomi Chiken (NIPS, Okazaki)
Yoshikazu Isomura (Tamagawa University, Tokyo)
Eiji Hoshi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Medical Science, Tokyo)
Javier Baladron Pezoa (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Henning Schroll (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Olivier Darbin (South Alabama University, USA)
Kenji Morita (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)

Purpose of the symposium

About a quarter-century ago, the direct and indirect pathways model of the basal ganglia was proposed, and has been a standard model explaining the functions and dysfunctions of the basal ganglia. In spite of a lot of criticism on this model, we cannot find an alternative model, and this model is still useful. In this symposium, we would like to review the past quarter century and update the perspective of the basal ganglia research for the coming quarter century.

Contact information

E-mail: BG2014@nips.ac.jp
http://www.nips.ac.jp/BG2014/
Atsushi Nambu, MD, PhD
Division of System Neurophysiology
National Institute for Physiological Sciences
38 Nishigo-naka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, 444-8585, JAPAN
Tel: +81-564-55-7774, FAX: +81-564-52-7913

Support

This symposium is NIPS International Workshop and supported by NIPS, Strategic Japanese-German Cooperative Programme, Comprehensive Brain Science Network and DAAD-JSPS Bilateral Scientist Exchange Program.

Honorary symposium for Professor Eberhard E. Fetz “Frontier of systems neuroscience of motor control”

Venue

Seminar Room at Institute Building 1F, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry（411 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo）

Date

Sunday , September 14th 10:00 - 20:00

Prescribed number of participants

100

Chairman

Kazuhiko Seki (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)

Speakers
Eberhard E Fetz (University of Washington)
Yukio Nishimura (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
Takashi Hanakawa (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
Hiroshi Nishimaru (University of Tsukuba)
Hirokazu Tanaka (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Junichi Ushiyama (Keio University)
Masaya Hirashima (The University of Tokyo)
Shinichi Furuya (Sophia University)
Duk Shin (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Masanori Murayama (Riken BSI)
Tomomichi Oya (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
Tatsuya Umeda (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)

Purpose of the symposium

This symposium invites Prof. Eberhard E. Fetz in University of Washington, a pioneering authority on neural mechanisms of motor control and its plasticity. Dr. Fetz will give a comprehensive overview of latest insights into neural plasticity in an interaction with Brain Computer Interface, (BCI), with an emphasis on motor-oriented findings and discussion, from a different aspect from his invited talk at Neuroscience 2014. Prof. Fetz has had a substantial influence on worldwide neuroscience community by publishing a large number of original works on functional connectivity, synchronization of neural activity and plastic changes of neural connections in the neural circuits for voluntary control of movements for more than 40 years, and is still in the forefront of the field. Impressed by his considerable amount of quality researches, and excited by his opportune visit for attending Neuroscience 2014, young researchers in Japan have planned to hold this symposium, to gain a deep understating of neural mechanisms underlying motor control through presentation of their up-to-date findings and discussion with Prof. Fetz.

Contact information

Tatsuya Umeda (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
E-mail: tumeda@ncnp.go.jp
tel: 042-346-1724
HP: http://www.ncnp.go.jp/nin/guide/r_model/symposium.html

Support

Comprehensive Brain Science Network

The 15th Summer Workshop on Mechanisms of Brain and Mind
"Molecules and Systems ‒ toward a unity of molecular and systems neuroscience"

Venue

Hitotsubashi-Hall, National Institute of Informatics
(Takebashi station or Jinbocho station, 4min walk)
http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/hall/

Date

Sunday, September 14th 13:30 - 17:00

Speakers

Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute)
Martyn Goulding (Salk Institute)
Tadashi Isa (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)

Contact information

Shigeru Kitazawa
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
e-mail: kitazawa@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp
Tel: 06-6879-4431
URL: http://brainmind.umin.jp/

Support

Comprehensive Brain Science Network, and 22 organizations

 

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