Meet Europe's top neurobiologists in Leuve...( equire expensive animal facilities. Tha...)

Invitation to journalists We are pleased to invite you to this special event, featuring the top players in the field of neurobiology in Europe. Participation is free of charge for journalists. If you wish to attend the conference, or a part of it, please register with Mimi Deprez: mimi.deprez@med.kuleuven.be, tel. +32 476 72 68 59.

If you are interested in having an interview with one of the speakers, please state this explicitly, so that a time and location can be assigned and communicated. An interview is only possible on the day that the speaker gives his/her speech.

Program

You can find the entire program on http://www.neurofly.be

Invited speakers

• Prof. Yves-Alain Barde, University of Basel, Biozentrum Neurotrophins and their roles in mammals, 02/09/06, 18.00 18.30
• Prof. Juan Modolell, Biological Molecular Center, Madrid Jos Campos Ortega Memorial Lecture, The achaete-scute complex: a 25 year love-affair with proneural genes, 02/09/06, 19.30 20.30
• Dr. Andrea Brand, Cambridge University Regeneration and repair of the nervous system, 03/09/06, 9.00 - 10.00
• Prof. Silvia Arber, Biozentrum, University of Basel & FMI, Basel Genetic specification of sensory-motor connectivity in the developing spinal cord, 03/09/06, 12.00 12.30
• Prof. Carlos Dotti, VIB K.U.Leuven Axon-dendrite growth axis is specified at the mitotic stage, through the polarized membrane and cytoskeletal organization mastered by the centrosome, 03/09/06, 19.30 -20.00
• Prof. Michael Bate, Cambridge University The emergence and specification of function in the developing nervous system, 0409/06, 9.00 10.00
• Prof. Peter Mombae
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