Welcome addressess
(Jolanta Skangiel-Kramska - President of PNS,
PNS guests)

Opening Lecture
Sponsored by: Kawa.ska

Oswald Steward (Reeve-Irvine Research Center,
University of California at Irvine, CA, USA)
Targeting of mRNA to postsynaptic sites
on neuronal dendrites
Introduced by: Malgorzata Skup

Carl Petersen (Mind Brain Institute, Lausanne,
Switzerland) Synaptic mechanisms of tactile
sensory properties

Wioletta Waleszczyk (Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
Reorganization of the visual cortex
following monocular circumscribed retinal
lesions: Update on Hebbian learning rules

Mathew Diamond (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
What is stored in the hippocampus during
a tactile categorization task?

Malgorzata Kossut (Nencki Institute
of Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa,
Poland)
The learning brain - modulation of
activation pattern

Piotr Bogorodzki (Institute of Electronics,
Warszawa, Poland)
Inside BOLD - why neuronal activity
modulates MR signal?

Greg Kroliczak (University Oregon, Department
of Psychology, Human Neuroimaging and
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory,
Eugene, OR, USA)
Neural bases of praxis and target-directed
actions

Stefan Heim (Department of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University,
Jülich, Germany)
The neural correlates of language processing
and its disorders over the life span

Artur Marchewka (Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
Neural correlates of false recognition

Erwin Neher (Max-Plank-Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
Non-negative matrix factorization: A novel
method to determine reference spectra of
fluorescent dyes in a cellular environment

Diethelm Richter (Department of Neuro and
Sensory Physiology, University of Göttingen,
Göttingen, Germany)
Quantitative measurements of cAMP
concentration with a new Epac Based
FRET-Sensor

Evgeni Ponimaskin (Department of Cellular
Neurophysiology, Medical School Hanover,
Hanover, Germany)
Stimulation-dependent changes in
oligomeric conformation of serotonin
5-HT1A receptors

Leszek Kaczmarek, Jakub Wlodarczyk
(Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS,
Warszawa, Poland)
Lux-FRET method for quantitative analysis
of FRET signal

Grzegorz Wilczynski (Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
High-resolution light-microscopic studies
on synaptic extracellular proteolysis

Denise Manahan-Vaughan (Ruhr University,
Bochum, Germany)
Regional and functional specificity of
hippocampal synaptic plasticity in spatial
memory for mation

Krzysztof Tokarski (Institute of Pharmacology
PAS, Kraków, Poland)
Sensory learning enhances GABAergic
synaptic transmission in the barrel cortex
of the mouse

Jerzy Mozrzymas (Wroclaw Medical University,
Wroclaw, Poland)
Impact of sensory learning on GABAergic
tonic inhibition in mouse barrel cortex

Alison Barth (Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Synaptic metaplasticity in somatosensory
cortex

Wolfgang J. Streit (University of Florida
College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA)
Microglial senescence and degeneration
in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative
disease

Anna Czlonkowska (Institute of Psychiatry and
Neurology, Warszawa, Poland) Manipulating
inflammation and gliosis in neurologic
diseases - a clinical perspective

Manuel B. Graeber (KFMC, Riyadh, KSA and
BMRI, Sydney, Australia)
Glia and inflammation in the Parkinsonian
substantia nigra

Barbara Przewlocka (Institute of Pharmacology
PAS, Kraków, Poland)
Modulation of inflammation and
neuropathic pain

Eadaoin Griffin (National University of Ireland,
Maynooth, Ireland)
Psychological stress compromises the
innate immune system: Implications for
diseases susceptibility

Danuta Lewandowska (University of Gdansk,
Gdansk, Poland)
Stress, emotion, and natural killer cell
antitumor activity

Lisa Goehler (University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia, VA, USA)
Role of stress on immunity and cancer
development

Craig Stockmeier (University of Mississippi
Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA)
Cell pathology and plasticity in the
hippocampus in major depressive disorder

Christian Wozny (MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK)
Looking at the top of the cortex: neural
connectivity in the superficial layers of the
neocortex
Introduced by: Elzbieta Pyza
location: Plenary Room

Grzegorz R. Juszczak (Institute of Genetics and
Animal Breeding PAS, Jastrzebiec, Poland)
It is said "almost makes a difference":
Are different strains of rodents the same
or almost the same?

Dora Zelena (University and Group of
Neuropsychopharmacology HAS, and
Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary)
Stress and adaptation in Brattleboro rats
lacking arginine-vasopressin

Aet Alttoa (Department of Psychology,
University of Tartu, Estonia)
Measurement of persistently expressed
behavioural traits in outbred rats:
Underlying gene expression patterns

Marcin Jurga (Institute Novus Sanguis, Parc
Technologique, St Priest, Lyon, France)
Artificial neural tissue from cord blood for
tissue replacement therapy at the central
nervous system

Kyung-Sun Kang (Adult Stem Cell Research
Center, Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea)
Multi-functional therapeutic potentials of
human umbilical cord blood-derived stem
cells in neurodegenerative diseases

Klaus Reymann (Leibnitz Institute for
Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany)
Stem cell transplantation in rodent stroke
models

Anthony Turner (University of Leeds,
Leeds, UK)
Proteolytic cascades in the brain and
their cholinergic regulation: Role in
neurodegeneration

Reinhardt Schliebs (University of Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany)
Cholinotoxicity of ß-amyloid

Natalia Nalivaeva (University of Leeds, Leeds,UK)
Amyloid precursor protein and
cholinesterase in brain function and
neurodegeneration

Andrzej Szutowicz (Department of Clinical
Biochemistry, Medical University of Gdansk,
Gdansk, Poland)
Phenotype and energy-dependent
cholinotoxicity

Shun-ichi Nakamura (Kobe University,
Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan)
Sphingosine-1-phosphate in physiology
and pathology in the brain

Michal Toborek (University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY, USA)
Role of caveolin-1 protein in signaling
mechanism and in endothelial cell function
and dysfunction

Agata Adamczyk (Mossakowski Medical
Research Centre PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
Alpha synuclein and its neurotoxic
fragment NAC in neurodegeneration

Martin Sadowski (New York University School
of Medicine, New York, NY, USA)
Therapeutic approaches targeting Aß
cascade in Alzheimer's disease

Mathias Hoehn (Max-Planck Institute for
Neurological Research, Köln, Germany)
Exploring the chances of stem cell based
regeneration after stroke by MRI

Dorota Nowicka (Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
How phothotrombotic stroke affects
extracellular matrix?

Katarzyna Jednoróg (Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
fMRI study of recovery from unilateral
neglect

Otto Witte (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena,
Germany)
Brain plasticity following stroke: Possible
targets for therapeutic intervention

Barbara Wroblewska (Georgetown University,
Washington DC, USA)
Role of group II metabotropic glutamate
receptors in schizophrenia models

Wojciech Danysz (Merz Pharmaceuticals,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Selected aspects of Group I mGlu receptor
negative and positive modulators

Krystyna Ossowska (Institute of Pharmacology
PAS, Kraków, Poland)
Involvement of mGlu receptors in
ethiopathology of Parkinson's disease

Andrzej Pilc (Institute of Pharmacology PAS,
Kraków, Poland)
Metabotropic glutamate receptor ligands
as possible targets for treatment of anxiety
and depression

Peter Gass (Central Institute of Mental Health,
Mannheim, Germany)
Mice with altered glucocorticoid receptor
expression as a model for depression

Ewa Obuchowicz (Department
of Pharmacology, Medical University of Silesia,
Katowice, Poland)
Effects of antidepressant drugs on
cytokines in experimental study

Francesco Roselli (Max-Planck Institute of
Psychiatry, München, Germany)
Neuroplasticity in depression

Marta Kubera (Institute of Pharmacology PAS,
Kraków, Poland)
Immunoendocrine changes in animal
model of depression

Philip Gardiner (University of Mannitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada)
Physiological adaptations in the rhythmic
firing properties of alpha-motoneurons to
changes in physical activity and aging

Claudio Orizio (University of Brescia,
Brescia, Italy)
Motor units activity in EMG, MMG and
force ripple: Three pictures for one subject

Piotr Krutki (University School of Physical
Education, Poznan, Poland)
Contractions of motor units evoked
by stimulation with pulses at variable
interpulse intervals

Jan Celichowski (University School of Physical
Education, Poznan, Poland)
Variability and plasticity of motor unit
contractile properties

Fabricio De Vico Fallani (University of Rome La
Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
The use of high resolution EEG methods
for brain computer interface applications

Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology PAS, Warszawa, Poland)
Beyond the PSTH: Point process modeling
of spike trains

Stilian Kalitzyn (Medical Physics Department,
Epilepsy Institute of The Netherlands - SEIN,
Heemstede, The Netherlands)
Perturbing the epileptic brain, evoked
responses and beyond

Maciej Kaminski (Faculty of Physics,
Warsaw University, Warszawa, Poland)
Evaluation of dynamical information
transfer in brain