Date: Feb. 24-25, 2009
会议日期: 2009年2月24-25日

Venue: Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor of Main Building, Tsinghua University 
会议地点: 清华大学主楼二楼报告厅 （点击看地图）

麦戈文脑科学前沿学术报告会将于2009年2月24-25日（周二、周三）在清华大学召开。
来自美国MIT麦戈文脑研究所，美国国立健康研究院(NIH)，以及清华大学、中国科学
院、北京大学、北京师范大学等国内研究单位的近20位神经科学家，将介绍他们在神经
科学前沿领域的最新研究进展，内容涉及分子与细胞神经科学、系统与计算神经科学、
认知与神经疾病等。除大会报告外，与会者将有机会与这些学者面对面交流，分享探索
脑与神经系统的发现与心得。


本次学术报告会由MIT麦戈文脑研究所和清华大学共同发起，得到了国际数据集团
（IDG）全球高级副总裁、亚洲区总裁熊晓鸽先生的大力支持。

http://bme.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/mcgovern_sym/index.php

 
McGovern Institute Symposium – February 24, 2008          

09:00 - 09:30 am Opening addresses

09:30 - 10:05 am Bai Lu (National Institute of Health/Tsinghua University)
                         “Role of BDNF in cognitive function and dysfunction”

10:05 - 10:40 am Yingxi Lin (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT):
                         "Activity-Dependent Regulation of Inhibitory Synapses"

10:40 – 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 11:35 am Lifang Wang (Peking University Mental Health Hospital)
                         “Whole Genome Association Studies of Autism”

11:35 - 12:10 pm Zhiqi Xiong (ION):
                         “The role of Rett syndrome gene stk9 in dendrite development and synapse formation”

12:10 - 01:55 pm Lunch

01:55 - 02:30  pm Yi Rao (Peking University School of Life Sciences)
                           “Molecular Biology of Social Behavior”

02:30 – 03:05 pm Guosong Liu (Tsinghua University)
                           “Rejuvenation of brain”

03:05 - 03:25 pm    Break

03:25 – 04:00 pm   Ed Boyden (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT):
                     "Optical Control of Normal and Pathological Neural Circuit Computations"

04:00 – 04:35 pm Jing Cheng   (Tsinghua University) 
                           Title (TBA)

04:35 – 05:10 pm Ki Ann Goosens (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT):  
                          "The stressed brain: new treatments for pathological fear and anxiety"

McGovern Institute Symposium – February 25, 2008          

09:00 – 09:35 am Haishan Yao (ION)
                        "Processing of Complex Spectral Signals in the Early Visual System"

09:35 – 10:10 am Wu Li (State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University)
                          "Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning"

10:10 – 10:30 am Break

10:30 – 11:05 am Robert Desimone (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT)
                        "Neural Synchrony and Attention"

11:05 – 11:40 am Zhaoping Li (University College London/ Tsinghua University)
                          "A bottom-up saliency map in the primary visual cortex - theory and experimental tests"

11:40 – 12:15 pm Lin Chen (State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science and Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences)
                          "Interaction between topological perception and fear-emotion, and its neural correlation in amygdala and anterior temporal lobe"

12:15 – 02:00 pm Lunch
 
02:00 – 02:35 pm Ke Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science and Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
                        "The global-first topological definition of perceptual objects, and the neural correlation of object representation in anterior temporal lobe"

02:35 – 03:10 pm Jia Liu (National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University)
                        "The brain network for face perception: its structure, behavioral significance, and development"

03:10 – 03:30 pm Break

03:30 – 04:05 pm Minmin Luo (NIBS) 
                          "CO2 sensing by the nose"

04:05 – 04:40 pm Michale Fee (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT)
                        "The role of basal-ganglia-forebrain circuitry in vocal exploration and learning in the songbird"

04:40 – 05:30 pm Closing Reception