Conference Program

September 26th – AM

Session 1


9:15         Welcome breakfast, badge pick-up

9:45     –     Event IntroductionS. Bouret

10:00       Chemogenetic imaging: monitoring and manipulating  neural
                  
circuits in monkeys – T. Minamimoto

10:30       Manipulation of primate neural networks by
                   means of modified viral vectors
– K. Inoue

11:00   –     Disscussions

12:00   –     Lunch & Poster

September 26th – PM

Session 2


13:30         Challenges to Apply Gene Transfer Technologies to 
                    Neuropsychiatric Diseases
S. Palfi

14:30    –     Break 

15:00    –     Chemogenetic agents for causal manipulation of primate    
                    behavior
B. Richmond

15:30    –     Delivering viral vectors and monitoring expression in non-
                    human primate brain
– M. Eldridge

16:00    –     Disscussions

17:00         Wine, Cheese & Posters

September 27th – AM

Session 3


9:30        Breakfast

10:00   –    CAV-2, a neurobiologist’s best friend B. Beucher

10:30      First steps and strategy to study macaque prefrontal cortical interactions with DREADDs – E. Procyk

11:00   –    Disscussion

12:00   –    Lunch & Poster

September 27th – PM

Session 4


13:30       Chemogenetic over-activation of area 25 in primate subgenual anterior cingulate cortex reveals a causal role in anhedonia and anxiety L. Alexander

14:30    –    Break

15:00    –    Optogenetic interrogation of selective spatial attention:
linking behavior to single cell and brain-wide networks
changes in monkeys
W. Vanduffel

15:30    –    Optogenetic analysis of repetition suppression in
macaque inferotemporal cortex
– R. Vogels

16:00    –    Disscussions

17:00        Closing remarks

Poster Session

After a fruitful set of lectures let’s have casual moments where everyone can discuss with the speakers, chat about where the field is going, and present their ongoing work on posters…

Posters will be presented during the lunch breaks and the cocktail. Poster presenters have to register for this session (the frames are portrait oriented – 170cm tall and 90cm wide).

Our speakers

Barry Richmond

Barry Richmond

NIH, Bethesda, USA

Mark Eldridge

Mark Eldridge

NIH, Bethesda, USA

Stephane Palfi

Stephane Palfi

INSERM, Creteil, France

Takafumi Minamimoto

Takafumi Minamimoto

NIRS, Chiba, Japon

Ken-ichi Inoue

Ken-ichi Inoue

KUPRI, Inuyama, Japan

Laith Alexander

Laith Alexander

Cambridge University, UK

Wim Vanduffel

Wim Vanduffel

KUL, Leuven, Belgium

Rufin Vogels

Rufin Vogels

KUL, Leuven, Belgium

Bertrand Beucher

Bertrand Beucher

CNRS, Montpelier, France

Emmanuel Procyk

Emmanuel Procyk

INSERM, Lyon, Fance