EPFL SV- Life Science Symposium, 28th - 30th August 2013
Motor control - from neural circuits and diseases to neuroprosthetics
Every year the School of Life Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) holds a major international symposium on its campus: the EPFL Life Science Symposium (LSS).
This year's edition, the LSS2013, will be organized by the Brain Mind Institute (BMI). It will take place August 28th-30th, 2013 in Auditorium SG1 (SG building) under the title "Motor Control - from neural circuits and diseases to neuroprosthetics".
This two and a half-day event is structured around several aspects of motor control that will each feature several high profile speakers from around the world:
motoneurons and spinal cord circuits
motor cortex
motor planning and action selection
basal ganglia & Parkinson's disease
neuroprosthetics & brain machine interfaces
confirmed speakers
Silvia Arber
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Anders Bjorklund
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Jose Carmena
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mark Churchland
University of Columbia, New York, USA
Rui Costa
Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal
Eberhard Fetz
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Itzhak Fried
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Sten Grillner
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Patrick Haggard
University College London, UK
Ole Isacson
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
Anatol Kreitzer
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Jeff Lichtman
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Silvestro Micera
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Giacomo Rizzolatti
University of Parma, Italy
Gordon Shepherd
Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Peter Strick
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Mark Tuszynski
University of California San Diego, USA
Eilon Vaadia
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
+ 9 short talks selected from abstracts submitted
A special session of LSS2013 will be dedicated to presenting the annual Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award 2013, which this year will honour a young European investigator below the age of 45, active in the field of Brain Research and Neuroprosthetics, as well as the Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award 2013, that will honour young researchers (postdocs or group leaders) under the age of 33 working at a Swiss institution in the wider area of CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY.