International joint meeting of the Centres of Excellence

International joint meeting of the Centres of Excellence in Tartu, November 24-25, 2011

Thursday, November 24^th

Biomedicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19 http://biomedicum.ut.ee/?lang=eng

15.00-18.15 Joint seminar in the Biomedicum, lecture room 1006

Chairmen: Eero Vasar and Mart Saarma

15.00-15.30 Prof. Sulev Kõks, "Wfs1 as a gene carrying risk for type 2 diabetes and neuropsychiatric disorders”

15.30-16.00 Prof. Kai Kaila, “Anion-regulatory proteins and GABAergic transmission in neuronal development, plasticity and disease”

16.00-16.30 Prof. Allen Kaasik, "The principles of mitochondrial dynamics in neurons"

16.30-16.45 Coffee-break

16.45-17.15 Dr. Claudio Rivera, “Mechanism of dendritic spine development”

17.15-17.45 Dr. Urmas Arumäe, “Neuroprotective mechanism of novel neurotrophic factor MANF”

17.45-18.15 Prof. Eero Vasar, “Lsamp (limbic system associated membrane protein) as a potential target for neuropsychiatric disorders”

Friday, November 25^th

Estonian Biocentre, Estonian Genome Center of University of Tartu

10.00-13.15 Joint seminar in the lecture hall “Keemiaring” of Jakobi 2, room 266

Chairmen: Richard Villems and Kai Kaila

10.00-10.30 Prof. Richard Villems, “The peopling of the world. Spatial and temporal resolution of past migrations”

10.30-11.00 Prof. Heikki Rauvala, "Roles of the extracellular matrix in plasticity of the central nervous system"

11.00-11.30 Krista Fischer, “Health trends in Estonia -- based on 10 years of recruitment history at the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu"

11.30-11.45 Coffee-break

11.45-12.15 Prof. Matti S. Airaksinen, “Molecular and genetic regulation of KCC2”

12.15-12.45 Prof. Maido Remm, "Genomics of marine snail Conus consors and other topics of bioinformatics workgroup"

12.45-13.15 Prof. Mart Saarma, “Novel neurotrophic factors - structure, biology and therapeutic potential”

The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Molecular and Integrative Neuroscience Research (Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki)

http://www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/neurocoe/news.htm

The Centre of Excellence in Genomics (Estonian Biocentre, University of Tartu)

http://genomics.ebc.ee/index.php?p=groups

Centre of Excellence for translational medicine (Biomedicum, University of Tartu)

http://biomedicum.ut.ee/cetm/index.php?lang_id=4