Symposium I: Neurovision
Sponsored by the German Neuroscience Society
Organiser and Chair: Klaus-Peter Hoffmann (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany) (Room A1)

1. Thomas Euler (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany)
   Dendritic processing in the direction-selective circuitry of the retina.
2. Andrzej Wróbel (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   Two streams of attention related beta activity in the visual system of the cat.
3. Alexander Thiele (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
   Mechanisms and neuropharmacology of visual attention in the primate.
4. Frank Bremmer (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)
   Multisensory space and motion encoding.

Symposium II: Microglia in brain pathology
Organiser and Chair: Bo¿ena Kamiñska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) and Helmut Kettenmann (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany) (Room B)

1. Bo¿ena Kamiñska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   Good, bad and ugly - unraveling signalling pathways and role of microglia in brain pathology.
2. Marcel Leist (University of Konstanz, Germany)
   Anti-inflammatory treatent of microglia and astrocytes.
3. Anna Cz³onkowska (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw)
   Anti-inflammatory drugs in neurologic diseases.
4. Krzysztof Selmaj (Medical University of Lodz)
   Death receptor-induced oligodendrocyte loss during neuroinflammation.

Symposium III: Circadian rhythms and sleep
Organiser and Chair: El¿bieta Pyza (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) (Room C)

1. Kazue Semba (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)
   Direct and indirect links between circadian and sleep-wake systems.
2. Amita Sehgal (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
   Cellular and molecular analysis of sleep in Drosophila.
3. Teiichi Tanimura (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
   Pharmacology and neurogenetics of sleep in Drosophila.
4. Jerzy Z. Nowak and Jolanta B. Zawilska (Medical University, Lodz)
   The art of working together but independently: a lesson from the avian retina and pineal gland.

Symposium IV: Development and plasticity of neuronal circuits in the sensory pathways
Organiser and Chair: Kalina Burnat (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) (Room A1)

1. Leo M. Chalupa (University of California, Davis, USA)
   Development and plasticity of retina and retinal projections.
2. Kalina Burnat (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   Experience dependent developmental plasticity of the visual system.
3. Lutgarde Arckens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
   Molecular mechanisms of organizational plasticity in the sensory neocortex of mammals.
4. El¿bieta Pyza (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
   Circadian clock and plasticity in the visual system of insects.

Symposium V: Novel data processing algorhithms in clinical neurophysiology
Organiser and Chair: Wojciech Jernajczyk (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw) and Bruce J. West (U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, USA) (Room C)

1. Bruce J. West (U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, USA)
   Variability; the new paradigm for medicine.
2. Paolo Grigolini (University of North Texas, Denton, USA)
   Renewal and Non-Renewal Events in the Brain.
3. Miros³aw £±tka (Technical University of Wroclaw)
   Cerebral hemodynamics in stroke patients: is it possible to predict stroke?
4. Jakub Jernajczyk (Technical University of Wroclaw)
   Influence of focal epilepsy on stage 2 NREM sleep EEG dynamics.

Symposium VI: Molecular mechanisms of dendrite and synapse formation
Organiser and Chair: Jacek Jaworski (International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw) (Room B)

1. Maria Passafaro (CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy)
   Extracellular domain of AMPA receptor GluR2 subunit interacts with N-cadherin to regulate spines .
2. Casper C. Hoogenraad (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Holland)
   Activity-dependent regulation of liprin-alpha1 degradation by calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II.
3. Grzegorz Wilczyñski (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   Synaptic metalloproteinases in plasticity and epileptogenesis.
4. Jacek Jaworski (International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw)
   Role of mTOR regulated proteins in dendritic branching.

Symposium VII: The role of endosomes in physiology and neuropathology
Organiser and Chair: Jacek Ku¼nicki and Marta Mi±czyñska (International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw) (A1)

1. Marta Mi±czyñska (International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw)
   The dual role of endosomes in trafficking and signaling.
2. Kai Simons (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
   Lipid rafts in amyloid-precursor protein processing.
3. Rafa³ Butowt (University of Nevada, Reno, USA and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun)
   Sorting of trophic factors in neurons: role of multivesicular bodies.
4. Sandrine Humbert (Institut Curie CNRS, Paris, France)
   Huntington's disease: huntingtin and the control of intracellular dynamics.
5. W. Bilecki (Institute of Pharmacology PAS, Krakow)
   Morphine regulates the level of kinesin light chain 1, a molecule involved in neuronal
   trafficking.

Symposium VIII: Cytokines and brain– implications for pathology and treatment of central nervous system disease
Organiser and Chair: Anna Cz³onkowska and Iwona Kurkowska-Jastrzêbska (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw) (Room B2)

1. Gra¿yna Gromadzka (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw)
   Cytokines, genes, and gender: interrelationships in predicting stroke course and prognosis.
2. Naoto Kawakami (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany)
   Reactivation in the CNS is crucial for the pathogenic potential of encephalitogenic T cells.
3. Marta Kubera (Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow)
   Role of cytokines in pathogenesis of depression.
4. Iwona Kurkowska-Jastrzêbska (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw)
   Therapeutic approaches in neurodegenerative diseases: a role of cytokines.
5. Jacek Losy (University School of Medicine, Poznan and Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Polish Academy of Sciences)
   Cytokines in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.

Symposium IX: Behavioral genetics
Organiser and Chair: Artur ¦wiergiel (Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec) (Room C)

1. Marek Konarzewski (University of Bialystok)
   Spontaneous locomotor activity of mice divergently selected for basal and summit metabolic rates.
2. Andreas Reif (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
   The psychobiology of nitric oxide. Animal and human studies – do they translate?.
3. Patricia Roblero (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
   Neurobiological substrates of MDMA addiction: Studies in genetically modified mice.
4. Marek Wieczorek (Laboratory of Neurophysiology, University of Lodz, Lodz)
   Cytokines-Induced Activation of the HPA Axis in Mice - Neurophysiological and Genetic Studies.

Symposium X: Metalloproteinases-dependent
extracellular signalling in native and injured CNS
Organiser and Chair: Teresa Zalewska (Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) (Room A1)

1. Santiago Rivera (Universite de la Mediterranee, Faculte de Medecine de Marseille, France)
   TIMP-1, a candidate plasticity protein running for election.
2. Yvan Gasche (Geneva University Medical Center, Switzerland)
   Multiple levels of matrix metalloproteinase involvement in ischemic brain injury.
3. Leszek Kaczmarek (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   MMP-9 in synaptic plasticity.
4. Teresa Zalewska (Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   Ischemia modulates signal transduction from extracellular matrix.

Symposium XI: Mechanisms of drug dependence
Organiser and Chair: Edmund Przegaliñski (Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow) (Room B1)

1. Rainer Spanagel (Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany)
   The role of glutamatergic signaling in drug abuse.
2. Kathryn A. Cunningham (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA)
   Serotonergic mechanisms in extinction and reinstatement of conditioned drug reward.
3. Charles Marsden (University of Nottingham Medical School, UK)
   Does long-term cannabis use disrupt brain function - what can we learn from animal studies?
4. Ma³gorzata Filip (Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow)
   GABA(B) receptor ligands as a pharmacotherapy for cocaine addiction-preclinical studies.
5. Jan Rodriguez-Parkitna (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany) Drug-induced gene transcription and the development of addiction.
   

Symposium XII: Neuroimmunology of remyelination
Organiser and Chair: Krzysztof Selmaj (Medical University of Lodz) (Room B2)

1. Ralf Gold (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
   The role of BDGF in tissue repair in multiple sclerosis.
2. Wolfgang Bruck (University of Gottingen, Germany)
   Immunopathology of MS lesion repair.
3. Mariola Matysiak (Medical University, Lodz)
   Mesenchemal stem cells in tissue repair in MS.
4. Maciej Juryñczyk (Medical University, Lodz)
   Inhibition of Notch/Jagged pathway enhances tissue repair in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Symposium XIII: Spinal cord plasticity: from adaptation to repair
Organiser and Chair: Julita Czarkowska-Bauch and Ma³gorzata Skup (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) (Room A)

1. James W. Fawcett (Cambridge University, UK)
   The role of the extracellular matrix in the control of axon regeneration and plasticity.
2. Julita Czarkowska-Bauch (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
   What locomotor training brings to intact and injured spinal cord.
3. Thomas Misgeld (Technical University Munich, Inst. of Neurosciences, Muenchen, Germany)
   In vivo imaging of spinal cord injury.
4. Barbara Przew³ocka (Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow)
   Spinal peptidergic mechanisms of neuropathy after nerve injury.
5. Daniel Zarzycki (Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Krakow)
   Spinal cord injury, background, epidemiology and treatment .