PROGRAM

Thursday, October 19, 2017

9:00 - 15:00 Satellite course: Introduction to laboratory animal science
  1. 9:00 - 9:30 Magda GONCIAROV - Prevederi legislative privind domeniul protectiei animalelor utilizate in scopuri stiintifice
  2. 9:30 - 10:00 Cristin COMAN - Evaluarea etica si autorizarea proiectelor de experimentare animala
  3. 10:00 - 10:30 Bogdan MARINESCU - Biologia șoarecelui și șobolanului de laborator
  4. 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
  5. 11:00 - 11:30 Cristin COMAN - Impactul unor factori de microclimat asupra rezultatelor experimentale pe sobolanii de laborator
  6. 11:30 - 12:00 Mihai STANCU – Un model de epilepsie indusa in vivo la soarece
  7. 12:00 - 13:00 Evaluare participanti
  8. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00 Satellite technical demonstration: Two-photon excitation microscopy

16:00 - 17:00 Registration and Poster Mounting

17:00 - 17:30 Welcome - Presidential address
17:30 - 19:30 Session 1: Chairs Leon ZĂGREAN and Mihai MOLDOVAN
  1. Leon ZĂGREAN, Bucharest, Romania - Consciousness, from theory to applied Neurosciences
  2. Ioan OPRIȘ, Miami, USA - Neuromodulation of the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region by Deep Brain Stimulation
  3. Mihai MOLDOVAN, Copenhagen, Denmark - Probing awareness by Default EEG Reactivity
  4. Irina POPA, Bucharest, Romania - Mapping the function and connectivity of the cingulate gyrus using stereo-encephalography (SEEG)
  5. Miralena TOMESCU, Geneva, Switzerland - Electrical neuroimaging during sensory processing and rest in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a population at high genetic risk for schizophrenia
19:30 - 21:00 Opening cocktail

Friday, October 20, 2017

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome coffee
9:00 - 10:45 Session 2: Chairs Aurel POPA WAGNER and Dirk HERMANN
  1. Aurel POPA WAGNER, Craiova, Romania and Essen, Germany - Efficacy of drugs tested in lower organisms to promote healthy and extended aging in rodents
  2. Dirk HERMANN, Essen, Germany - Exosomes as therapetuic agents in ischemic stroke
  3. Mathias HOEHN, Cologne, Germany - Functional connectivity network alterations in the brain: the role of stem cell grafts and neurogenesis
  4. Mark SLEVIN, Manchester, United Kingdom - Lipogems as targeting and drug delivery agents for ischaemic stroke
10:45 - 11:45 Technical presentation: RWD Life Science
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30 Session 3: Chairs Adrian BĂLȘEANU and Nikolaus PLESNILA
  1. Nikolaus PLESNILA, Munich, Germany - Function of cerebral microvessels after brain hemorrhage
  2. Frank KIRCHHOFF, Homburg, Germany - The impact of astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglia on brain functions
  3. Bogdan CĂTĂLIN, Craiova, Romania - Microglia morphology is highly sensitive to fixation methods
  4. Dan PIRICI, Craiova, Romania – Optimization of whole mouse head processing for paraffin embedding with minimal volumetric changes for morphology studies
13:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45 Poster competition
14:45 - 16:45 Session 4: Chairs Tibor SZILÁGYI and Diego LOPEZ-PIGOZZI
  1. Diego LOPEZ-PIGOZZI, Madrid, Spain - Microcircuit mechanisms underlying epileptic rhythmopaty
  2. Alexandru CĂLIN, Oxford, United Kingdom - Cell specific chemicogenetic control of drug-resistant epilepsy
  3. Mihai STANCU, Bucharest, Romania - Chemogenetic modulation of epileptic seizures in mice.
  4. Tímea ÉLTES, Budapest, Hungary - Target cell type-dependent differences in Ca2+ channel function underlie distinct release probabilities at hippocampal glutamatergic terminals
  5. Tibor SZILÁGYI, Targu-Mures, Romania - Effect of experimental temporal lobe epilepsy on GABA-releasing cell types in the rat hippocampus
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00 Session 5: Chairs Ana-Maria ZĂGREAN and Andrei ILIE
  1. Andrei ILIE, Oxford, United Kingdom - GABAergic signalling and chloride regulation in the brain - can we move from bench to bedside?
  2. Ana-Maria ZĂGREAN, Bucharest, Romania - Hippocampal vulnerability to perinatal asphyxia in rat
  3. Bogdan PAVEL, Bucharest, Romania - ECoG features of xenon-isoflurane anaesthesia in rats
  4. Alexandru Catalin PASLARU, Bucharest, Romania - Rapid screening of antiepileptic drugs in a genetic absence epilepsy model by burst-suppression EEG reactivity
  5. Cosmin ȘERBAN,Bucharest, Romania - Towards a neurophysiological reactivity monitor (NERMO) to assess coma severity


19:00 - 19:45 General assembly of SNN members

20:00 - Dinner

Saturday, October 21, 2017

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome coffee
9:00 - 11:00 Session 6: Chairs Bogdan PAVEL and Maria Roxana ȘTEFĂNESCU
  1. Liana KOBYLINSKA, Bucharest, Romania - Neuropeptide changes in neurodevelopmental disorders
  2. Laura Elena GEORGESCU, Bucharest, Romania - Dystonia as a Motor Network Disorder: What is the Role of the Cerebellum?
  3. Maria Roxana ȘTEFĂNESCU, Wurzburg, Germany - Functional and structural changes of cerebellum in hereditary ataxia, SCA3, SCA6, FRDA: A 7T MRI study
  4. Suzana Elena VOICULESCU, Bucharest, Romania - Melatonin roles in brain development
  5. Bogdan AMUZESCU, Bucharest, Romania - Neural differentiation of amniotic fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells in culture
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Session 7: Chairs Alexandru BABEȘ and Bogdan CĂTĂLIN
  1. Alexandru BABEȘ, Bucharest, Romania - 7-dehydrocholesterol enhances light sensitivity of thermoTRP channels TRPA1 and TRPV1
  2. Tudor SELESCU, Bucharest, Romania - Specific cation channels as putative markers of non-neuronal cells in the peripheral nervous system
  3. Alexandru DEFTU, Bucharest, Romania - Altering microglia functionality by interfering with cytoskeleton proteins
  4. Roxana Olimpia GHEORGHE, Bucharest, Romania - SiRNA interference therapy for neuropathic pain
12:00 - 13:30 Poster awards and Closing remarks