Event:

Guests are cordially invited.

Goal is to identify the successful candidate for the Otto Creutzfeldt Stipend for experimental brain research of the Elisabeth and Helmut Uhl Stiftung.

09.00 - 9.45 Christian Vogl, Inst. for Auditory Neuroscience & InnerEarLab,
University Medical Center Göttingen:
Molecular mechanisms of synaptogenesis and glutamatergic
neurotransmission at inner hair cell ribbon synapses.

9.45 - 10.30 Franz Weber, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA:
A brainstem circuit regulating rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

10.30 - 11.00 coffeebreak

11.00 - 11.45 Carmelo Sgobio, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Bethesda, Maryland:
Novel approach for monitoring presynaptic dopaminergic dynamics in
normal and Parkinson’s disease models

11.45 - 12.30 Marta Giacomello, Dept. of Biology, University of Padova, Italy:
Mitochondria-ER Contacts: the past, the present and the future