NBNI-2002

[Shun-ichi Amari]

The following is the program of NBNI (Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics workshop).
Registration fee of 10,000 yen ispayable at the registration desk.
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NBNI-2002
Fourth Japan-Korea-China-India Joint Workshop on
Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics

November 25-26, 2002

RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Ohkouchi Hall
Seminar Room in BSI Central Building

Organized by RIKEN Brain Science Institute

Sponsored by
KAIST BSRC, KNIH BBRC, KIST BNRC, Korea
China Society for Neuroscience
National Brain Research Centre, India

Organizers:
Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Nobuyuki Nukina (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Chang-Rak Choi (Biomedical Brain Research Center, Korea)
Soo-Young Lee (Brain Science Research Center, KAIST, Korea)
Tae H. Oh (Brain Neurobiology Research Center, KIST, Korea)
Fanji Gu (Fudan University, China)
Yizheng Wang (Institute of Neuroscience, China)
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (National Brain Research Center, India)
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Program

November 25 (Monday)

	9:30 - 10:00 	Registration (Ohkouchi Hall)

Opening Ceremony: Ohkouchi Hall	(Chair  Shun-ichi Amari)

10:00 - 10:10 	Opening Address    Masao Ito (Director, BSI)
10:10 - 10:20	Welcome Address   Shun-ichi Amari (Vice director, BSI)
10:20 - 11:00	Overviews of Activities in Participating Countries
Organizers: Shun-ichi Amari, Nobuyuki Nukina, Chang-Rak Choi,
Soo-Young Lee, Tae H. Oh, Fanji Gu, Tian-Ming Gao, 
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Plenary Session I: Ohkouchi Hall	(Chair  Vijayalakshmi
Ravindranath)

11:00 - 11:30	Takao K. Hensch (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
$B!H(BInhibitory circuit control of critical period plasticity in developing
visual cortex$B!I(B
11:30 - 12:00	Tian-Ming Gao (First Military Medical University, China)
$B!H(BOveractivation of potassium channels mediates hippcampal neuronal
death induced by ischemi/hypoxi insult$B!I(B
12:30 - 13:00	Yun-Hee Kim (College of Medicine, Pochon CHA University,
Korea)
$B!H(BReorganization of motor and cognitive network following human brain
lesion investigated by functional neuroimaging$B!I(B

Luncheon Meeting

13:00 - 14:00    Chair: Shun-ichi Amari, Nobuyuki Nukina

Neurobiology Session I	(Ohkouch Hall;  Chair  Nobuyuki Nukina)

14:00 - 14:30	Masayuki Miura (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
$B!H(BGenetic pathway of neural cell death and degeneration in Drososphila$B!I(B
14:30 - 15:00	Shyamala Mani (National Brain Research Center, India)
		$B!H(BPatterning of the cerebellum in the GAP-43 knockout
mouse$B!I(B
15:00 - 15:30	Young J. Oh (Yonsei University College of Science,
Korea)
$B!H(BMitochondrial and extramitochondrial apoptotic pathways in
experimental model of Parkinson$B!G(Bs disease$B!I(B

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break

Neurobiology Session II	(Ohkouchi Hall;  Chair  Shyamala Mani)

16:00 - 16:30	Zhi-Wang Li (Tongji Medical College of Huazhong, China)
		$B!H(BThe action of tachykinins on the primary sensory
neurons$B!I(B
16:30 - 17:00	Sang Eun Kim (Samsung Medical Center, Korea)
$B!H(BEffect of chronic nicotine administration on dopaminergic
neurotransmission$B!I(B

Neuroinformatics Session I	(BSI Seminar Room;  Chair  Shiro Usui)	

14:00 - 14:30	Michio Sugeno (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
		$B!H(BLanguage-oriented approach to creating the brain$B!I(B
14:30 - 15:00	Posina Venkata Rayudu (National Brain Research Center,
India)
		$B!H(BBrain as mathematics$B!I(B
15:00 - 15:30	Eunjoo Kang (Seoul National University Medical Research
Center, Korea)
$B!H(BCross-modal interactions in speech perception during sentence
comprehension: an fMRI study$B!I(B

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break

Neuroinformatics Session II	(BSI Seminar Room;  Chair  Shobini L.
Rao)

16:00 - 16:30	Yiyuan Tang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
$B!H(BUnderstanding the brain function through neuroimaging database for
Chinese language processing$B!I(B
16:30 - 17:00	Seung Kee Han (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
		$B!H(BInferring neural connectivity from multiple spike
trains$B!I(B

Welcome Reception: Second Floor of The First Restaurant

18:00 - 20:00

November 26 (Tuesday)

Plenary Session II: Ohkouchi Hall	(Chair  Tian-Ming Gao)

10:00 - 10:30	Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (National Brain Research
Center, India)
$B!H(BTowards understanding the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative
disorders$B!I(B
10:30 - 11:00	Tomoki Fukai (Tamagawa University, Japan)
$B!H(BTowards the understanding of biological mechanisms and functional
roles of the gamma rhythmic activity$B!I(B
11:00 - 11:30	Yong-Keun Jung (Kwangju Institute of Science and
Technology, Korea)
$B!H(BUbiquitin conjugating enzyme E2-25K as a novel mediator of
amyloid-beta neurotoxicity in Alzheimer$B!G(Bs disease$B!I(B

11:30 - 12:00     Coffee Break

Plenary Session III: Ohkouchi Hall	(Chair  Soo-Young Lee)

12:00 - 12:30	Shobini L. Rao (National Brain Research Center, India)
$B!H(BEvidence for brain plasticity-cognitive retraining and functional
brain imaging$B!I(B
12:30 - 13:00	Pei-Ji Liang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
$B!H(BPossible mechanism of synaptic plasticity in retinal graded neurons$B!I(B

Luncheon Meeting

13:00 - 14:30

Neurobiology Session III	(Ohkouchi Hall:  Chair  Tae H. Oh)

14:30 - 15:00	Takeshi Iwatsubo (University of Tokyo, Japan$B!K(B
		$B!H(BFormation and function of g-secretase complex$B!I(B
15:00 - 15:30	Nihar Ranjan Jana (National Brain Research Center,
India)
$B!H(BDirect visualization of the expression, selective unclear
accumulation, aggregate formation and possible proteolytic processing of
the transgene product in a HD exon1-EGFP transgenic mice model$B!I(B

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break

Neurobiology Session IV	(Ohkouchi Hall:  Chair  Chang-Rak Choi)

16:00 - 16:30	Rubin Wang (Donghua University, China)
$B!H(BAnalysis of dynamics of the phase resetting on the set of the
population of neurons$B!I(B
16:30 - 17:00	Byoung Joo Gwag (Ajou University, Korea)
		$B!H(BMechanisms of selective neuronal death$B!I(B
$B!!!!!!!!(B
Neuroinformatics Session III	(BSI Seminar Room:  Chair  Fanji Gu)

14:30 - 15:00	Aditya Murthy (National Brain Research Center, India)
		$B!H(BThe role of frontal cortex in overt and covert
orienting$B!I(B
15:00 - 15:30	Lin Xu (Kunming Institute of Zoology, China)
$B!H(BHow synaptic plasticity in hippocampus underlies learning and memory$B!I(B

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break

Neuroinformatics Session IV	(BSI Seminar Room:  Chair  Yiyuan Tang)

16:00 - 16:30	Masataka Watanabe (University of Tokyo, Japan)
		$B!H(BPrefrontal cortex model of selective attention$B!I(B
16:30 - 17:00	Soo-Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Korea)
$B!H(BModeling Human Auditory Pathway for Artificial Auditory Systems in
Real-World Noisy Environments$B!I(B

Farewell Party: Second Floor of the Hirosawa Club

18:00 - 20:00  

Concluding Address	Nobuyuki Nukina (RIKEN BSI, Japan)

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Shun-ichi Amari
Vice director
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Wako-shi, Hirosawa 2-1, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
tel: +81-(0)48-467-9669; fax: +81-(0)48-467-9687
amari at brain.riken.go.jp; www.bsis.brain.riken.go.jp/