National Institute for Basic Biology
Organizers | Tetsuo Yamamori (NIBB) Yukiko Gotoh (Tokyo University, Tokyo) Takuya Shimazaki (Keio University, Tokyo) Ikue Mori (Nagoya University, Nagoya) |
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Venue | Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan |
Date | Mar. 10-13, 2012 |
Link | Official Website (http://www.nibb.ac.jp/conf59/) |
Poster | |
From March 10th to the 13th 2012 the 59th NIBB Conference, in partnership with the New Science Frontier Research’s First International Symposium on “Neural Diversity and Neocortical Organization” was held at the Okazaki Conference Center, with 137 members (31 speakers) gathered together from all around the world.
This conference was held with a special focus on the cerebral neocortex, with the objective of shedding light on the current state of research and to spur on more activity in the research field. This was the first international symposium on Neocortical Organization to be held over a period of 4 days in Japan, with top researchers from around the world gathering to discuss the newest research in the field.
The poster session, focusing primarily on younger researchers, was also quite fruitful, with 48 researchers making presentations. Their discussions extended on into the evening dinner parties, some of which went on to become the basis of actual research collaborations.
Though much of the current advances in this field of research pertain to the processes by which diverse controls in neural stem cells give rise to the different types of cells in each layer of the neocortex, as research moves forward, we expect that elucidation of these control mechanisms will contribute to our understanding of thalamo – cortical projections and cortico– cortical connections in the brain, and the formation of different areas within the neocortex.
Tetsuo Yamamori (Division of Brain Biology)
March 10 (Sat) at Okazaki Conference Center | |
10:00-10:20 | Opening remark |
10:20-17:55 |
Session 1 Neural precursors and their early fate determination |
March 11 (Sun) | |
09:30-11:40 |
Session 2 Neural precursors and their late fate determination |
13:10-16:50 |
Session 3
Neural precursors and determination of the specificity of neural projections |
16:50-18:10 |
Session 4
Neural Connections |
March 12 (Mon) | |
09:30-14:45 |
Session 4 Continued
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15:00-18:00 | Poster session |
18:30-20:30 | Banquet |
March 13 (Tue) | |
09:30-15:10 |
Session 5 Brain formation |
15:10-15:30 | Concluding remarks |