The Neurobiology of Mental Health – a SYNAPSY Conference
Geneva, CH
Attendance type(s): In Person
Event Dates: 07—9 Apr 2016
We strongly encourage you to attend and participate in the 1st SYNAPSY Conference, which will be held on April 7-9th at the Campus Biotech in Geneva. Entitled The Neurobiology of Mental Health, our 2.5 day high-profile NCCR Conference aims at bringing together basic and translational research leaders, with the aim of fostering a conversation on how research on neurobiology and psychiatry can synergize to improve our understanding and treatment of psychiatric diseases.
The scientific program of this Conference is structured around the concept of research domains, highlighting the neurobiology of major cognitive functions and how their dysfunction impacts disease. Each of the five half-day sessions will focus on one major cognitive function through four main talks, as well as a keynote lecture by a psychiatrist. One or two short talks selected from abstracts submitted by participants will complete each session. The topics covered will include Attention & Arousal, Learning & Memory, Perception & Monitoring, Reward & Aversion, as well as Social Processes & Communication. Each session will thus aim to link basic neurosciences to themes that are pertinent to psychiatry where numerous prominent speakers (both clinicians and researcherssee below as well as flyer attached) will discuss the latest developments in the field.
This conference will also include a keynote lecture by Thomas Insel, former head of NIMH, and currently at Verily Life Sciences, as well as two poster sessions. A Grand-Public evening session, led by a talk by Thomas Insel entitled “Transforming Our Approach to Mental Illness”, will be held at Uni Dufour (University of Geneva) on Thursday evening.
Hereby you will find the link to the conference website where you will find additional information that will be updated regularly in the coming months. Registration, which is now open, will also be via this site: http://www.nccr-synapsy.ch/conference. Please note that registration for SYNAPSY PhD students will be compliments of the NCCR (free of charge). All participants are strongly encouraged to submit poster abstracts!
We are looking forward to seeing you all on this occasion.
SYNAPSY Management
On behalf of organizing committee
List of Speakers
Keynote lecturer: Thomas Insel, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland, USA
Session “Attention & Arousal”
Christian Büchel, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Bo Li, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, NY, USA
Gero Miesenboeck, Oxford University, UK
Trevor Robbins, Cambridge University, UK
Andreas Tolias, Baylor College, TX, USA
Session “Learning & Memory”
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany
Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust, Oxford Univ., UK
Paul Frankland, Hospital for Sick Children,Toronto Canada
Gaving Rumbaugh, Scripps Institute, CA, USA
Steve Siegelbaum, Columbia University, NY, USA
Session “Perception & Monitoring”
Ray Dolan, University College London, London, UK
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, ZI Mannheim, Germany
Michael ODonovan, Cardiff University, UK
Matthew Rushworth, Oxford University, UK
Mike Shadlen, Columbia University, NY, USA
Session “Reward & Aversion”
Susanne Ahmari, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Barry Everitt, Cambridge University, UK
Rob Malenka, Stanford University, CA, USA
Kerry Ressler, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Dan Salzman, Columbia University, NY, USA
Session “Social Processes & Communication”
Declan Murphy, Kings College, London, UK
Robert Froemke, New York University, NY, USA
Dan Geschwind, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hailan Hu, ION Shanghai, China
James McPartland, Yale Univ., CT, USA
Contact Details
Email: synapsy@epfl.ch