The Fourth Neuroscience Workshop in Kyushu Program
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Dec.9th (Fri.)
12:30-18:00(19:00-Getting Together Party)
  12:30-13:00  

Registration

  13:00-13:10   Opening remark
Akinori Nishi (Kurume Univ)
       
Oral Presentation
I. Neuronal signal transduction
Chairperson: Kohji Fukunaga
(Tohoku Univ)
13:10-13:40   Shigeki Moriguchi (Dept of Pharmacology, Graduate Sch of Pharmaceutical Sci, Tohoku Univ)
    "Physiological significance of neural junctophilins in the memory formation"
13:40-14:10 Takashi Kanematsu (Lab of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Faculty of Dental Sci, Kyushu Univ)
    "Phospholipase C-related inactive protein/protein phosphatase signaling complex regulates BDNF-modulated GABAA receptor phosphorylation and membrane trafficking."
   
Invited lecture 1
Chairperson: Akinori Nishi
(Kurume Univ)
14:10-15:10 Per Svenningsson (Dep of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
    "Molecular adaptations in serotonin signaling in response to anti-depressant compounds"
   
II. Glial cells and neuronal signaling.
Chairperson: Hiroshi Nakanishi
(Kyushu Univ)
15:30-16:00 Yoshihiko Yamazaki (Dept of Neurophysiology, Yamagata Univ Sch of Med)
    "Interactions between perineuronal glial cells and neurons in the rat hippocampal CA1 region"
16:00-16:30 Makoto Tsuda (Dept of Molecular and System Pharmacology, Graduate Sch of Pharmaceutical Sci, Kyushu Univ)
    "Spinal microglia and neuropathic pain"
 
Poster Session (presentation 6 min, discussion 4 min)
Chairperson: Kiyohisa Natsume
(Kyushu Institute of Technology)
16:40-18:00 Hirotsune Matsuura, Katsumi Tateno and Shuji Aou (Dept of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology)
"The one-dimensional map model of sleep-wake patterns in autistic children"
Takao Inoue, Balázs Lukáts, Ayumi Sasaki, Kenji Sakai, Masaharu Mizuno, Shuji Aou (Dept of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  "Visual categorization of food and sex in the primate orbitofrontal cortex"
Olga Hangodi, Barbara Urbán, Éva E. Bagi, Éva Fekete, Krisztián Tóth and László Lénárd (Neurophysiology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Physiology, Pécs University, Medical School, Pécs, Hungary)
  "Selective orexin-1 receptor antagonist (SB 334867) antagonizes the effects of orexin-A on food and water intake in the bed nucleus of stria terminalis"
T. FUJIMOTO1, K. KUBO2 and S. AOU1 (1Dept of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology; 2Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Chidoribashi Hospital, Fukuoka)
  "Prenatal and postnatal exposure to bisphenol A accelerates depressive responses to stress conditions in rats."
Poster Session (presentation 6 min, discussion 4 min)
Chairperson: Masaharu Mizuno
(Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Genki Ogata and Kiyohisa Natsume (Dept of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  "Epileptic neuronal synchronization process depends on SK channel and NMDA receptor in hippocampal slices."
 Yoshinori Hayashi1,2, Hitoshi Ishibashi3, Kenji Hashimoto4 and Hiroshi Nakanishi1 (1Lab of Oral Aging Science, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Kyushu Univ; 2Graduate School of Pharamacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu Univ; 3Dept of Bio-signaling Physiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu Univ; 4Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Forensic Mental Health, Chiba Univ)
  "Potentiation of the NMDA receptor-mediated responses through the activation of the glycine site by microglia secreting soluble factor"
1,2Taiju Amano, 1Etsuko Wada, 2Mami Noda, 1Keiji Wada, 1Masayuki Sekiguchi (1Dept of Degenerative Neurological Diseases, National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Tokyo; 2Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu Univ)
  "Enhancement of amygdala LTP in neurotensin receptor type-1 knockout mice; participation of the dopamine system"
Mahomi Kuroiwa and Akinori Nishi (Dept of Pharmacology, Kurume Univ Sch of Med)
  "SKF83959 regulates DARPP-32 phosphorylation by activating PLC-dependent and independent cascades"
19:00- Getting Together Party
 
Dec.10th (Sat.)
9:00-13:00
Invited lecture 2
Chairperson: Kiyohisa Natsume
(Kyushu Institute of Technology)
9:00-10:00 Nicholas E. Hallworth (Dept of Physiology, Feinberg Sch of Med, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, USA)
    "Dynamics of GABAergic inhibition in the subthalamic nucleus of intact and dopamine-depleted animals"
 
III. Neural circuit
Chairpersons: Shuji Aou
(Kyushu Institute of Technology)
and Takaichi Fukuda
(Kyushu Univ)
10:20-10:50 Fumino Fujiyama (Dept of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate Sch of Med, Kyoto Univ)
    "Difference in organization of corticostriatal and thalamostriatal synapses between patch and matrix compartments of rat striatum".
10:50-11:20 Balázs Lukáts (Institute of Physiology and Neurophysiology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs University, Medical School, Pécs, Hungary)
    "Orbitofrontal cortical IL-1β mechanisms in the homeostatic regulation"
11:20-11:50 Takaichi Fukuda (Dept of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Graduate Sch of Med Sci, Kyushu Univ)
    "Gap junctions linking a dense and wide-ranging network in the cerebral cortex."
11:50-12:50 Open Discussion
 
12:50-13:00 Closing Remarks

Prof. Kiyoshi Aoki (Integrated Brain Research)
Prof. Junichi Nabekura (National Institute of Physiology)