There are still free places at the International conference on ‘Brain Dynamics and Decision Making’. The meeting will be held on 27-31 May 2012 in the Monte Verità Conference Centre located in Ascona, Switzerland, situated in a quiet and beautiful historical park and providing a venue for world-famous seminars and conferences.
Conference subject
The overarching subject of the conference is “decision making” and how it is achieved through and influenced by mechanisms on various levels in the brain. The meeting brings together top international scientists working in the related research fields. Decision making is a highly relevant subject that is currently a prominent research topic worldwide. The conference strengthens the exchange with the leading scientists from abroad and to foster further interactions between different disciplines such as cellular neurobiology, theoretical neuroscience, neuroeconomics and behavioural economics. It is orientated towards five main topics: i) novel in vivo tools for studies in behaving rodents, ii) bridging rodent and human studies, iii) role of uncertainty and risk, iv) linking theoretical concepts at cellular and brain area levels and v) Molecular and circuit dysfunction in addiction.
Speakers
We aim to bring together leading international scientists from diverse disciplines such as molecular and cellular neurobiology, theoretical neuroscience and neuro-economics, to provide a forum for discussion on brain dynamics during decision making across the various scales. The conference’s invited speakers group includes: Carlos Brody (Princeton, USA), Christian Büchel (Hamburg,DE), Ernst Fehr (Zürich, CH), Karl Friston (London, UK), Fritjof Helmchen (Zürich, CH), Daniel Huber (Ashburn, USA), Alla Karpova (Ashburn, USA), Matthew Larkum (Berlin, DE), Christian Lüscher (Geneva, CH), Zach Mainen (Lisbon, PO), Bijan Pesaran, (New York, USA), Carl Petersen (Lausanne, CH), Markus Rudin (Zürich, CH), Christian Ruff (London, UK), Matthew Rushworth (Oxford, UK), Walter Senn (Bern, CH), Michael Shadlen (Seattle, USA), Klaas Enno Stephan (Zürich, CH), David Tank (Princeton, USA), Philippe Tobler (Zürich, CH), Xiao-Jing Wang (New Haven, USA), Bruno Weber (Zürich, CH) and Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbour, USA).
Thematic sessions
Following thematic sessions will have a place during the conference:
• Novel in vivo tools for studies in behaving rodents
• Bridging rodent and human studies
• Role of uncertainty and risk in decision-making
• Linking theoretical concepts at cellular and brain area levels
• Molecular and circuit dysfunctions in addiction
Registration
The registration deadline extended to May 10th 2012 . To register to the meeting, please visit the following website to find further information.
http://www.hifo.uzh.ch/events/upcoming/braindynamics-ascona12.html
Organizers
The organizers are principal investigators within the RTD-project "Neurochoice" of the Swiss Systems Biology initiative SystemsX.ch. Please refer to the Neurochoice website (http://www.systemsx.ch/projects/systemsxch-projects/research-technology-and-development-projects-rtd/neurochoice/) for more comprehensive information about the project.
The organizing committee
Prof. Fritjof Helmchen, University of Zürich
Prof. Ernst Fehr, University of Zürich
Prof. Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva
Prof. Walter Senn, University of Bern
Contact person
Dr Isabelle Weiss
Dando, Weiss & Colucci Ltd
University of Zurich, Brain Research Institute
Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 635 33 82, Fax: +41 44 635 33 03
email: ascona2012@dwc-alliance.com
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