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.