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2017.7.10

Tohoku University Neuro Global Program Summer School

"Neural Basis of Adaptive Behavior"

Date:

July 24(Mon.)-25(Tue.)
July 24 (Mon.) 9:55-12:00, 13:00-17:30
July 25 (Tue.) 9:10-12:00

Venue:

Open seminar room (M153), Main Building 1F, Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Katahira Campus
http://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/en/access/

Guest Speakers:

  • Leah Somerville (Harvard)
  • Lauren Atlas (NIH)
  • Philippe Tobler (Zurich)
  • Takeshi Sakurai (Kyoto Univ)
  • Satoshi Shioiri (RIEC, Tohoku Univ)

From Tohoku Univ Neuro Global Program:

  • Noriko Osumi (Med)
  • Daisuke Yamamoto (Life)
  • Shin Fukudo (Med)
  • Hajime Mushiake (Med)
  • Hiromu Tanimoto (Life)
  • Ko Matsui (Life)
  • Kentaro Abe (Life)
  • Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui (Life)

Program

24th July:
  • 9:55-10:00
    Noriko Osumi
    Opening Remarks
  • 10:00-10:40
    Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
    Role of medial frontal cortex in the regulation of mood and emotion
  • 10:40-11:20
    Kentaro Abe
    Mechanisms underlying experience-dependent development of brain function
  • 11:20-12:00
    Daisuke Yamamoto
    Nature versus nurture in fly courtship: the neural basis
  • 13:00-13:40
    Hajime Mushiake
    State-dependent changes in Cortical Oscillations
  • 13:40-14:20
    Lauren Atlas
    How expectations shape pain and aversive learning
  • 14:40-15:20
    Ko Matsui
    Optogenetics for search of the mechanisms and treatment of disease
  • 15:20-16:00
    Leah Somerville
    Adolescent neurodevelopment and associated changes in goal directed behavior
  • 16:10-16:50
    Takeshi Sakurai
    Introduction to brain wiring and developmental neuropsychiatric disorders
  • 16:50-17:30
    Noriko Osumi
    Neuroepigenetics: how non-genetical factors can shape our brain
25th July:
  • 9:10-9:50
    Satoshi Shioiri
    Visual attention at multiple stages
  • 9:50-10:30
    Shin Fukudo
    How brain-gut interactions affect negative emotion
  • 10:40-11:20
    Nobuhiro Yamagata & Hiromu Tanimoto
    Reward processing in the fly brain
  • 11:20-12:00
    Philippe Tobler
    Neural and pharmacological coding of costs and benefits
  • Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
    Closing Remarks