Neuroscience Finland 2014 was held on December 9, 2014 at the University of Helsinki, Biomedicum, Lecture Room 1 (Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki).
Registration was free for BRSF/SATS members and students (undergraduate and doctoral students); the registration fee for other participants was 30 € (including lunch and coffee).
Programme
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
| Time | Programme |
|---|---|
| 09:20 | Opening of the symposium — Dan Lindholm (BRSF Chairman) |
| 09:30 | Fredrik Elinder (Linköping University): Ion channels and drug screening in epilepsy, cardiac arrhythmia, and pain |
| 10:15 | Pico Caroni (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research): Circuit mechanisms of memory consolidation and retrieval |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:30 | BRSF Distinguished Neuroscientist 2013: Kai Kaila (University of Helsinki): Brain development and disease: focusing on ion-regulatory molecules |
| 12:15 | Novartis Neuroscience Prize for the Best Neuroscience Thesis 2013: Aino Vesikansa (University of Helsinki): Developing glutamatergic connectivity in the hippocampus: the role of tonically active kainate receptors |
| 12:30 | Posters and lunch |
| 13:30 | Antti Pertovaara (University of Helsinki): TRPA1 ion channel as a therapeutic target in peripheral neuropathy |
| 14:00 | Petri Hyytiä (University of Helsinki): Neuronal circuitry of addiction |
| 14:30 | Mari Tervaniemi (University of Helsinki): Music and neuroplasticity |
| 15:00 | Coffee (and posters) |
| 15:30 | Iiris Hovatta (University of Helsinki): Neurogenomics of anxiety |
| 16:00 | Riitta Salmelin (Aalto University): What you measure is what you get — Imaging views to language processing |
| 16:30 | Marja-Leena Linne (Tampere University of Technology): Modeling neurons and synaptic mechanisms to explain local microcircuit dynamics |
| 17:00 | Posters and refreshments |