Monitoring Molecules in Neurosciences

Programme : 

• Analytical measurements in non-mammalian systems.
• Bringing light to the dynamics of intracellular signals in neurons.
• Central and peripheral control of feeding.
• Developments and alternatives in microdialysis.
• From the inside out – dopamine neuron function and dysfunction.
• Functional and anatomical investigations of valence coding.
• High temporal with high spatial resolution analysis: from synapse to vesicle.
• Investigate astrocyte functions by monitoring dynamic change in glioactive molecules.
• Microdialysis to assess brain damage.
• Monitoring brain molecules by PET imaging.
• New insights into brain purinergic signaling.
• New technologies for monitoring neuromodulators in vivo.
• Novel Frontiers in Neurochemical Analysis: Complementary tools providing fundamentally novel perspectives on the brain function.
• Optical techniques to probe function deeper in the brain.
• Real-time measurement of neurotransmitters and intracellular signaling in vivo with newly developed genetically-encoded sensors.
• Seeing the light: fluorescence-based in vivo sensors of neuromodulator release.