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2019

Ronald Melki, Institut Francois Jacob (MIRCen), CEA and Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, CNRS, Fontenay-Aux-Roses, France: "Prion-like propagation of alpha-synuclein assemblies in distinct synucleinopathies, similarities with Tau in tauopathies", May 21^st 2019

Addi Nii, Yale School of Medicine, Psychiatry, Yale University, USA: "Dopaminergic and cholinergic regulation of motivated behavior: Insight into the neurobiological bases of substance abuse and mood disorders", April 16^th 2019

Markus Fendt, Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Magdeburg, Germany: "Time dependent valence reversal in Event learning: Behavioral and neural characterization", April 12^st 2019

Christopher Pryce, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland: "Mouse models for stress effects on reward and aversion and their treatment", April 5^th 2019

2018

Wolfgang Enard, Anthropology and Human Genomics, Department of Biology, LMU Munich, Germany: "A molecular perspective on speech and language evolution"; Tuesday, December 11^th 2018 

Peter Kloppenburg, Institute for Zoology, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, Germany: "Sustained metabolic modulation of energy homeostasis regulation hypothalamic POMC neurons", Friday, December 07^th 2018

Tim Fieblinger, Neuroscience, Univeristy of Lund, Sweden: "Striatal SPNs in Parkinson's Disease and L-DOPA induced dyskinesia: Dendrites make the difference", Friday November 11^th 2018

Elly Nedivi, Dep. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge USA: "Visualizing synapse assembly/dissembly in vivo"; Tuesday, October 16^th 2018

Anthony Grace, Brain Institute, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, USA: "Peripubertal Stress and Hippocampal Damage as Risk Factors in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia: Implications for Treatment & Prevention", Tuesday, October 9^th 2018

Raul Andero Gali, Neuroscience Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain: "Sex differences in fear and anxiety"; Friday, June 29^th 2018

Bart P.F. Rutten, Psychiatry and Neuropsychology & School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, NL: "The insinde out of the outside within: gene-Environment interplay and environmental epigenetics in mental disorders", Wednesday, June 27^th 2018

Chad Grabner, Synaptic Nanophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany: "Factors shaping release from mammalian photoreceptors"; Friday June 8^th 2018

Jochen Roeper, Neurophysiology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany: "Calcium channels in burst control of dopamine neurons"; Tuesday June 5^th 2018

Sharam Akbarian, Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation of the Human Brain, Mount Sinai Conte Center on Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression, New York, USA: "Chromosomal connetomes and 3D Genome Regulation in developing and adult human and mouse brain"; Tuesday April 24^th 2018

Andrew Harkin, Trinity College Dublin, School of Pharmacy, Ireland: "Neuroinflammation in psychiatric disorders"; Friday April  20^th 2018

Markus Heilig, Neuropsychiatry Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden: "The Amygdala andAlcohol Addiction: From Stress to Choice"; Friday March  23^rd 2018

Ann Van Eeckhaut, Vakgroep Pharmaceutical Sciences (FARM), Laboratory Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Drug Analysis and Drug Information (FASC), C4N, VUB Brussels, Belgium: "Analytical challenges for quantifiying low Levels of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in small volume biological samples"; Friday January 26^nd 2018

Sandra Siegert, Neuroimmunology IST Austria, Klosterneuburg: "Microglia-Neuron interaction during retinal development and degeneration"; Friday February 2^nd 2018

2017 

Cheng-Chang Lien, Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan: "Deconstructing psychophysiology of chronic pain"; Thursday December 21^st 2017

Markus Missler, Anatomy and Molecular Neurobiology, University of Münster, Germany: "Dynamic Regulation of synaptic calcium channels by neurexins, cell adhesion molecules associated with autism and schizophrenia"; Tuesday November 28^th 2017

Stephanie Schorge, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, GB: "Brain Hacking with Viruses: developing gene therapy for epilepsy", Friday, November 24^th 2017

Wolfgang Enard, Anthropology and Human Genomics, Department of Biology, LMU Munich, Germany: "Comparative Analysis of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Methods"; Tuesday, November 11^th 2017

Stefan Reber, Molekulare Psychosomatic, University of Ulm, Germany: "Mechanisms underlying individual differences in stress vulnerability and possible strategies to increase stress resistance: lessons from an animal model of PTSD"; Friday, November 3^rd 2017

Andrzej Friedman, Neurology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland: "Iron in typical and atypical parkinsonism"; Tuesday, October 24^th 2017

Andreas Lieb, Department of Physiology, UCL London, GB: "Closed-loop Gene Therapy for refractory Epilepsy"; Friday, October 20^th 2017

Joshua Singer, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, USA: "From synapse to circuit: analysis of retinal networks for night vision"; Friday, May 19^th 2017

Stefan Hofmann, Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Lab, Boston University, USA: "Pharmacological Enhancement of Exposure Therapy"; Tuesday, May 16^th 2017

Tuk Soong Wah, Department of Physiology, NUS, Singapore: "Splicing and editing to expand tissue-selective function of L-type calcium channels"; Friday, May 12^th 2017

David Henshall, RCSI Physiology & Medical Physics Dep. Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland: "MicoRNA targeting for the Treatment of epilepsy: the journey to preclinical development"; Tuesday, May 9^th 2017

Stephanie Schorge ^canceled, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, GB: "Brain Hacking with Viruses: developing gene therapy for epilepsy", Friday, May 5^th 2017

Sandrine Parrot ^canceled, Neuroscience Research Center, University of Lyon, France: “Current tools to monitor Neurotransmitter release in animal brain”, Thursday, May 4^th 2017

Margot Ernst, Center for Brain Research, MU Vienna, Austria: "Structure of allosteric modualtory sites in GABA-A receptor subtypes"; Friday, April 28^th 2017

Martin Walter^canceled, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Tübingen, Germany:"Correlates of treatment-induced neuroplasticity in depression - Insights from multi modal MRI studies in humans"; Friday, April 7^th 2017

Patrik Rorsman, Endocrinology & Metabilism, Oxford Center for Diabetes, University of Oxford, UK: "Diabetes - a ménage à trois of pancreatic hormone secretion defects?"; Tuesday, April 7^th 2017

Stefan Remy, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany: "Subcortical control of hippocampo-entorhinal function"; Tuesday, April 4^th 2017

Christina Zeitz, Institut de la Vision Laboratoire de Physiophatologie cellulaire et Moléculaire de La Tétine-INSERM Université Peirre et Marie Curie, Paris, France: "Congenital stationary night blindness- from gene defect identification, functional analysis to therapeutic approaches"; Friday, February 3^rd 2017

Ole Kiehn, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut, Stockholm, Sweden: "Deciphering the functional organization of neuronal circuits Controlling locomotion"; Tuesday, January 31^th 2017

Huibert Mansvelder, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, NL: "Cholinergic control of prefrontal cortex circuitries underlying attention behaviour"; Tuesday, January 24^th 2017

2016 

Harald Sitte, Physiology and Pharmacology, MU Vienna, Austria "Neurotransmitter Transporters: recent insight into their structure, Regulation and pharmcology"; Friday, December 16^th 2016

Dirk Trauner, Department for Chemisty and Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, CMBI Seminar:"The joy of synthesizing Racemic Natural Products"; Monday, December 5^th 2016

5^th Annual Meeting, Grillhof, Vill, Austria: Friday, November 29^th-30^th 2016

SFB Brain Day: Interdisciplinary Student Workshop: "New Methods to investigate Neuropsychiatric Diseases"; Friday, November 18^th 2016

• Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, University Hospital for Psychosomatic Medicine, MU Innsbruck, Austria: "The depressed Patient: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges"
• Lukas Pezawas, Clinical Neuroimaging lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapie, MU Vienna: "What does brain Imaging tell us about neuropsychiatric diseases?
• Silvia de Rubeis, Dept. Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA: "From high throughput genetic data to identifiying canditate genes for neuropsychiatric disorders"
• Carsten Wotjak, Neuronal Plasticity Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatrie, Munich, Germany: "Methodological approaches to understand normal and abnormal brain function"
• Eva Bänninger-Huber, Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck: "Affective Regulation processes in depressed patients: the role of facial behavior"

Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK: "Voltage gated calcium channels in psychiatric illness"; Tuesday, November 15^th 2016

Ludger Tebarz van Elst, Department of Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany: "Visual and retinal contrast gain as a marker of systemic dopaminergic activity"; Tuesday, October 18^th 2016

Minisymposium:

• Vladana Vukojevic, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, SNI Seminar: "Dynamic lateral organization of Opioid receptors at the nanoscale level", Tuesday October 11^th 2016
• John Wood, The Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, The Cruciform Building, University College London, United Kingdom: "New Insights into Pain Mechanism"; Tuesday, October 11^th 2016

Andrew Marks, Physiology and cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, NY, USA: "Structure, function and therapeutic targeting of the ryanodine receptor calcium release channel”; Thursday, June 30^th 2016

Philippe Lory, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France: "Regulation of t-type calcium channels: Phosphorylation and beyond"; Friday, June 24^th 2016

Alexander McDonald, Physiology and Neuroscience, Columbia, SC, USA: "Cholinergic Muscarinic Modulation of the Amygdala: Receptors, Synapses and Circuits"; Tuesday June 21^st 2016

Christian Wahl-Schott, Department of Pharmacy, Center for Drug Research, LMU Munich, Germany: "Lysosomal cation Channels: from genes to drug targets"; Friday, June 17^th 2016

Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam: "Outer Retinal Synaptic Interactions - Unexpected Mechanisms and Unexpected Consequences”; Friday, June 10^th 2016

Rudi Vennekens, Laboratory of Ion Channel Reserach, KU Leuven, Netherlands: "Modulation of TRPM5 channel activity reveals its potential as a target for anti-diabetic medication”; Friday, June 3^rd 2016

Mark Schnitzer, James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Stanford University, USA: "A minimally invasive in-vivo imaging technique to visualise the activity of cells in deep brain areas”;  Friday, May 20^th 2016

Dora. D. Reglödi, Department of Anatomy, University of Pécs, Hungary: "Role of neuropeptide PACAP in neuronal functions and neuroprotection: Implications in Parkinson's disease"; Thursday, May 19^th 2016

Frank Edenhofer, Institute of Anatomy and cell Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany: "Between cancer and Regeneration: Hopes and risks of stem cell biology in the post-iPS era"; Monday, May 2^nd 2016

Ute Scholl, Nephrology, UKD, Düsseldorf, Germany: "Ion channel mutations in primary aldosteronism"; Friday, March 11^th, 2016

2015

Gal Bitan, UCLA Department of Neurology, Los Angeles, USA: "Novel small molecules that block protein aggregation are promising drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases"; Tuesday, January 26^th2015

Andreas Lüthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Baskle, Switzerland: "Neuronal circuits for defensive behaviour”; Tuesday, January12^th2016

Alon Chen, MPI for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany: "The role of microRNAs in regulating the central stress response and stress-related psychiatric disorders"; Tuesday, December 15^th2015

Gerhard Rammes, Anästhesiologie, TU München, Germany: "Effects of the gaseous anasethetic xenon: neuronal circuits, long-term potentiation and b-amyloid"; Friday, December 4^th 2015

George Baillie, , Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK: "Disruption of cyclic AMP signalling complexes to promote cardio-protection"; Monday, November 23^th 2015

James Surmeier, Dep. of Physiology Feinberg School of Medicine, NW University Chicago, USA: “Calcium, Mitochondrial Stress and Parkinson’s Disease”; Tuesday, November 17^th 2015

4^thAnnual Meeting, Bildungshaus Kloster Neustift, Brixen, Italy: November 9^th-10^th, 2015

Ruth Musgrove, DZNE, Bonn, Germany: “Models and mechanisms of protein aggregation and spreading in Parkinson’s disease”, Friday; November 6^th 2015

Antonios Dougalis, Moleculare Neurophysiology, University of Ulm, Germany: "Brainstem Dopamine neurons: "Activity transitions across sleep-wake cycles"; Friday, October 16^th 2015

Norbert Weiss,  Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: "Trafficking of T-type calcium channels in health and disease"; Monday, October 9^th 2015

Irit Akirav Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa: "Cannabinoids prevent the effects of an emotional trauma on extinction and plasticity"; Wednesday, August 19^th 2015

Tobias M.Böckers, Anatomy and cellbiology, Ulm University, Germany: "Synaptic proteins linked to autism spectrum disorders, ASDs"; Tuesday, June 16^th 2015

Raffael Kalisch, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, "Feeling sage with dopamine - new ways to improve fear extinction"; Friday, May 29^th 2015

Assunta Senatore, Institut für Neuropathologie Universitätsspital Zürich, Schweiz ,"Neurotoxicity in
prion diseases: mechanisms and strategies for therapy"; Tuesday, May 26^th 2015

Anjali, Rajadhyaksha, Weill Cornell Medical College Neuroscience in Pediatrics, „L-type calcium channels
in anxiety disorders and drug-taking behaviors“; Tuesday, May 12^th 2015

Gilberto Fisone, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden, „Motor and non-motor dysfunctions in Parkinson's disease: Modeling and mechanism“; Tuesday, May 5^th 2015

Jürgen Brosius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, "RNA gene deletions
in mice: behavioural changes and models for neurodevelopmental disease"; Tuesday, April 28^th 2015

Markus Wöhr, Philipps University Marburg, Germany, „Animal models for autism spectrum disorders"; Wednesday, April 22^th 2015

Silvia de Rubeis, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Department of Psychiatry, New
York, "Unraveling the genetics of autism spectrum disorder"; Tueday, Aril 21^th 2015

Valentina Di Biase, Insitute of Biophysics, Medical University Graz, "Surface traffic of phopshorylated CaV1.2 calcium channels in cultured hippocampal neurons"; Friday, March 20^th 2015

Lubica Lacinova, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia:"Low-voltage-activated calcium channels: why do they open so easily"; Friday, Janary 30^th2015

Johannes Gräff, Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne, Swizzerland: "Histone acetylation: Memory aids on the chromatin"; Tueday January 20^th 2015

2014

Cyril Herry, INSERM, Universite de Bordeaux, France: "Neuronal circuits of associative learning"; Friday, December 5^th 2014

Steffen Hage, Werner-Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen University, Germany:"Neurobiology of vocal behavior in mammals""; Friday, November 28^th 2014

Tobias M.Böckers, Anatomy and cellbiology, Ulm University, Germany: "Synaptic proteins linked to autism spectrum disorders, ASDs"; Tueday, November 25^th 2014 - cancelled

Angela Cenci Nilsson, Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology Laboratory. Lund University, Sweden: "Levodopa-induced dyskinesias - animal models and cell signaling"; Tuesday November 28^th, 2014

Neurogenese-Workshop for young neuroscientists, June 23^th-26^th, 2014 - Institut für Molekulare Regnerative Medizin, Paracelsus Universität Salzburg, Austria

Erik Renström, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö Islet Patophysiology, Lund University, Sweden: "Acute and long-term actions of Cav calcium channels in pancreatic islet cells and the risk of diabetes"; Friday, June 6^th, 2014

Kerry Ressler, Yerkes Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, USA: "Translational approaches to understanding Fear:  From Pavlov to PTSD"; Tuesday, April 29^th, 2014

Neuroscience Day 2014, CCB, Innsbruck, Austria: Thursday April 24th, 2014

• Bernhard Bettler, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Swizzerland: "Molecular insights into GABA-B receptor functions"
• Adriano Aguzzi, Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital of Zurich, Swizzerland: "Biology of Prion Diseases"

Tobias Moser, Neuroscience InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany: "Hair cells vary the number and gatin properties of calcium channel among their synapses to decompose auditory information"; Monday, April 7th, 2014

3rd Annual Meeting, MZA lecture hall, Innsbruck, Austria: Friday, March 21^st, 2014

Utz Fischer, Department of Biochemistry, Biocenter Würzburg University, Germany: "RNA metabolism and neuronal diseases"; Tuesday, March 18^th, 2014

Kai Schönig, Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Molocular Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany: "Engineering the rat genome using site specific nucleases"; Friday, January 31^st, 2014

Kullmann Dimitri, Institute of Neuroscience, UCL, London GB: "Presenaptic calcium channels at glutamatergic synapsis"; Friday, March 14th, 2014

Helmut Kettenmann, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Neurosciences, Berlin, Germany: "Properties of microglial cells"; Tuesday, January 28^th, 2014

Patrik Rorsman, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, UK: "Glucagon secretion, ATP-regulated potassium channels and diabetes"; Friday, January 24^th, 2014

Stephanie Polta, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany: "“Fear and Sleep. Relationship status: it’s complicated. Amygdala likes this."; Friday, January 17^th, 2014

Marcelo Wood, Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, USA: “Nucleosom remodeling: A missing link in our understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying memory formation and intellectual disability disorders"; Tuesday, January 14^th, 2014

Anita Lüthi, Département des neurosciences fondamentales, Université de Lausanne, CH: "Sleep spindles - where they come from, what they do"; Tuesday, January 7^th, 2014

2013

9^th Meeting of Doctoral Students, CCB, Innsbruck, Austria: Friday, November 22^th, 2013

Matthias Kreuzer, Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich, Germany: "Evaluation of anesthetic-induced effects on electrophysiological activity in cortical and subcortical neuronalnetworks"; Friday, November 22^th, 2013

Lars Olson, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut, Stockholm Sweden: "On the formation of lasting memories. Role of the Nogo signaling system"; Tuesday, October 29^th, 2013

Geoffrey Pitt, Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA: "Ion channelopathies via dysregulated auxiliary subunit interactions"; Monday, October 28^th, 2013

5^th Life Science Meeting, CCB, Innsbruck, Austria: September 25^th-27^th, 2013

• Susan S. Taylor, University of California San Diego, USA: "PKA: Dynamic Assembly of Macromolecular Signaling Complexes"; Thursday September 26th, 2013
• Workshop Women in Science: Pursuing a career in academic sciences, Thursday, September 26th, 2013

Eckhard Friauf, Department of Animal Physiologie, Faculty of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany: "Role of voltage-gated calcium channels in neuronal development and synaptic refinement"; Friday, June 28^th, 2013

Jutta Engel, Biophysics, Saarland University Faculty of Medicine, Homburg, Germany: "The Ca2+ channel subunits a2d-2 and a2d-3 are essential for the peripheral auditory system and normal hearing in mice"; Friday, June 21^th, 2013

Hilmar Bading, Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences, University of Heidelberg, Germany: "Nuclear Calcium: signal integrator in synapse-to-nucleus communication and regulator of neuroadaptations"; Tuesday, June 11^th, 2013

Minisymposium:

• Luca Crepaldi, MRC Laboratory for Molecular cell Biology, London, UK: "On the relocation of activity-dependent neuronal genes to transcription factories"
• Bruce Hope, Neurobiology of Relapse Section, Baltimore, USA: "The chosen ones: neuronal essembles in addiction"; Tuesday, May 28^th, 2013 

SFB-symposium @ the 15^th International Neuroscience Winter Conference, Sölden, Austria:

• Poul Henning Jensen, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark: "Oligodendroglial degeneration in multiple systems atrophy - FAS and NF-kB related signaling"
• Timothy Bredy, Psychiatric Epigenomics, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia: "The epigenome in psychiatric disorders"
• Nicolas Singewald, Institute of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Innsbruck, Austria: "Vulnerability to emotional trauma: novel treatment strategies"
• Jörg Striessnig, Institute of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Innsbruck, Austria: "Modulation of voltage gated L-type calcium channels in disease"; April, 10^th, 2013 

2^nd Annual Meeting , Sölden, Austria: Tuesday, April 9^th, 2013

Neuroscience Day 2013, CCB, Innsbruck, Austria: Friday April 5^th 2013

• Hans Lassmann, Center for Brain Research, MUI Vienna, Austria:"Mechanismus of immune-mediated tissue injury in the central nervous system"
• Benedikt Grothe, Neurobiology, LMU Munich, Germany: "Of bats and man - the evolution and principles of spatial hearing"

Elisabeth Binder, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, USA: "Studying the first genomic response to stress - insights into the pathophysiology of depression and anxietey"; Friday, March 22^th, 2013

Michael K. Ahlijanian, Bristol Myers Squibb, USA: "Recent Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for Research and Future Therapy"; Tuesday, March 5^th, 2013

Zoltan Nusser, Institute of Experimental Medicine Budapest, Hungary: "Quantitative molecular differences in presynaptic active zones"; Tuesday, March 5^th, 2013

Katharina Domschke, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wuerzburg, Germany: "Neuropeptide S - Translational Evidence for a Role in Anxiety?"; Friday, January 18^th, 2013

2012

Christian Seiser, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria: Friday, December 14^th, 2012

Alexandra Koschak, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University Vienna, Austria: "Ca_v1.4 channels at work in the mouse retina"; Friday, December 7^th, 2012

Ryuichi Shigemoto, Division of Cerebral Structure National Institute for Physiological Sciences Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan and IST-Austria: "High resolution quantitative localization of voltage-dependent calcium channels in the brain by immunogold electron microscopy"; Tuesday, November 27^th, 2012

Niels Decher, Phillips-University Marburg, Germany: "A novel blocking mechanism for ion channels: side pockets determine the molecular basis for specificity"; Friday, November 23^th, 2012

Rupert Lanzenberger, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria: "Functional and molecular imaging in anxiety disorders"; Friday, November 9^th, 2012

Rudolf Wiesner, Institute of Vegetative Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany: "Dopamine metabolism drives deletions of mitochondrial DNA, probably leading to dopaminergic neuron death during aging and Parkinsons disease"; Tuesday, October 16^th, 2012

Maurizio Populi, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Milano, Italy: "Epigenetics of transgenic mice with human BDNF Val66Met polymorphism"; Friday, October 5^th, 2012

Minisymposium on "Synaptic Comminication in Hippocampal Microcircuits:

• Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria: "Fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons: the tale of the polar neuron"
• Martin Korte, TU Braunschweig, Germany: "The adaptive brain in action: from functional to structural synaptic plasticity and the role of neurotrophins"; Tuesday, June 3^rd, 2012

John Hardy, UCL Institute of Neurology, Reta Lila Weston Institute London, England: "Genetics in AD/PD research: frontiers of the 21^st century"; Tuesday, June 26^th, 2012

Julia Schiemann, University of Frankfurt, Germany: "A novel exciting function of KATP channels in dopamine midbrain neurons for exploratory behaviour and for Parkinson's disease"; Wednesday, June 6^th, 2012

Symposium from Molecules to Life - CCB Inauguration Symposium:

• Dominique Lecourt, Université Paris VII, France: "The language of cells"
• Gottfried Schatz, University of Basel, Switzerland: "Why we are not the slaves of our genes"
• Kurt Wüthrich, ETH Zürich & Scripps Res. Inst. , Switzerland: "Exploring the protein universe with methods of physical chemistry"
• Frances M. Ashcroft, University of Oxford, England: "ATP-sensitive potassium channels, neonatal diabetes and neurological complications: from molecule to disease"
• Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, USA: "Crick's central dogma from replication, transcription to translations"
• Patricia Salinas, University College London, England: "The birth and death of the synapse: a role for WNT signaling"; Friday June 1^st, 2012

European Calcium Channel Conference, ECCC 2012, Alpbach, Austria: May 16-19^th, 2012 - Sympisia and workshops - Voltage-gated  Ca²⁺ channels TRP, TPC and other exciting channels; Workshops: Photoactivable probes; cell and gene therapy; women in science

Joseph Claßen, University of Leipzig, Germany: "Voltage-gated calcium channels in human models of synaptic neuroplasticity"; Tuesday, May 8^th, 2012

Neuroscience Day 2012, Vill, Austria:

• Olaf Riess, University of Tübingen, Germany: "Transgenic models of Neurodegenerative Diseases"
• André Fischer, European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Germany: "Epigenetic Mechanisms in Brain Diseases" and
• Jens Rettig, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany: "Mechanistic Insights in Ca-dependent Exocytosis"; Friday April 20th, 2012

First Annual Meeting, Vill, Austria; Thursday, April 19th, 2012

2011

Innsbruck Neuroscience Colloquium "cell signaling in chronic CNS disorders" - Inauguration of SFB-F44:

• Werner Poewe, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria: "Treatment Unmet medical needs in neurology"
• Birgit Liss, Ulm University, Germany: "Functional role of ion channels for dopamineneurons in health and Parkinsons disease"
• Frank Kirchoff, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany: "Glial responses and differentiation in acute injuries of the CNS"
• Stefan Herlitze,  Bochum University, Germany: "Role of calcium channels in absence epilepsy, dyskinesia and ataxia" and
• Vania Broccoli, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy: "Generation of functional dopaminergic neurons from mouse and human fibroblasts"; Friday, November 25^th, 2011

Michael K. Ahlijanian, Bristol Myers Squibb, USA: "Novel therapies targeting tau pathology"; Monday, November 7^th, 2011

SFB-F44 Neuroscience Colloquium "Anxiety and depression: from fish to human therapy":

• Alexander Sartorius, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany: "Treatment Resistant Depression: functional inhabition of the habenula - from rats to patient" and
• Alan Kalueff, Tulane University Medical School, USA: "Experimental models of anxiety for drugs discovery and brain research"; Friday, November 4^th, 2011

Paul Dietl, University Ulm, Germany: "Exocytotic fusion-activated Ca2+ and Na+ entry: New roles for extracellular ATP"; Friday, October 21^st, 2011

Anjali Rajadhyaksha, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA: “Emerging role of Cav1.2 and Cav1.3 Ca2+ channels in neuropsychiatric disorders” ; Monday, June 20^th, 2011

Andrew Holmes, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Health, Rockville, USA: “Molecular Machinery of Decision Making”; Wednesday, June 15^th, 2011

Carsten Wotjak, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry Munich, Germany: “Traces of a Trauma – Lessons from a Mouse Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”; Friday, May 20^th, 2011

Christian Schubert, University Clinic for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria: “Psychoneuroimmunology – from Psychological Factors to Immune System and Back”; Friday, May 6^th, 2011

Mark Millan, Institute of Recherches Servier, France: “Agomelatine from the cell to the Clinic”;  Monday, April 4^th, 2011