Course speakers will present their results embedded in the current concepts of mechanoreception, sensory processing along the whisker-to-barrel pathway as well as dissecting the microscopic and mesoscopic cortical circuits that finally lead to conscious perception of tactile stimuli.
Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
Location: Lecture Room 01/02, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG), Robert-Koch-Straße 40
Organizers: Prof. Jochen Staiger, Dr. Manuela Schmidt
Contact person: Ana Jukneviciute
Speakers and themes (preliminary schedule):
08:50 – 09:00 | Preliminary remarks | 09:00 – 10:00 | Jochen Staiger (Georg August University Göttingen) “Mapping of excitatory cortical columnar connections” |
10:00 – 11:00 | Dirk Feldmeyer (RWTH Aachen University) “Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connectivity in a cortical column and beyond” |
11:00 – 11:10 | Coffee break | 11:10 – 12:10 | Bernardo Rudy (NYU Langone Medical Center) “GABAergic interneurons and sensory processing in barrel cortex” |
12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch break |
13:10 – 14:10 | Marcel Oberländer (MPI for Biological Cybernetics) “The Barrel Cortex Connectome and its Functional Implications for Whisker-Evoked Excitation” |
14:10 – 15:10 | Manuela Schmidt (MPI for Experimental Medicine) “Molecular decoding of different somatosensory modalities in vertebrates” |
15:00 – 15:10 | Coffee break |
15:10 – 16:10 | Ilan Lampl (Weizmann Institute of Science) “Adaptation and coding of stimulus intensity in early stages of tactile processing” |