iPET.8
Dear colleagues,
The upcoming Berlin BRAIN & BRAIN PET 2017 conference, held from April 1st – 4th, 2017 and organized by ISCBFM, will feature state-of-the-art neuroscience research in all fields of multimodal brain PET imaging (http://www.brain2017.net/).
Taking advantage of this unique opportunity to bring together leading scientists to present novel discoveries, the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the University of Leipzig have collaborated to organize a mini satellite symposium in Leipzig. Within the frame of this workshop, we have organized an exciting program of inspiring talks by local and international researchers, which we anticipate will incite fruitful discussions regarding brain function under physiological and pathological conditions through basic, translational and clinical investigation.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
Prof. Dr. Osama Sabri & PD Dr. Julia Sacher & Prof. Dr. Swen Hesse & Prof. Dr. Henryk Barthel & Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer
Program
9:15 – 9.30 Welcome – Coffee Reception
9.30 – 9.45 Welcoming Speech, Osama Sabri & Julia Sacher
SESSION A: Sex Hormones and Serotonin
Chairs: Sabri, Price
9.45 – 10:30 Sex Hormones and the Serotonin Transporter: A vulnerability model for depression, Vibe Frokjaer & Julia Sacher
10:30 – 11:15 From the serotonergic system in non-human and human primates to cognitive decline and dementia, Brad Christian
11:15 – 12:00 Statistical methods for neuroimaging studies of Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome, Dana Tudorascu
12:00 – 12:45 iPET.7 www.ipet-science.de, Michael Rullmann
12:45 – 14:00 LUNCH-BREAK
SESSION B: Cognitive Decline & Dementia
Chairs: Sacher, Hesse
14:00 – 14:45 PET amyloid imaging, autopsy studies and how the dead continue to teach the living, Julie Price
14:45 – 15:30 Lifestyle factors and the aging brain, Veronica Witte
15.30 – 16.15 Obesity and Alzheimer’s disease – Waiting to be uncovered by PET/MRI?, Henryk Barthel & Swen Hesse
16:15 – 16:45 COFFEE-BREAK
SESSION C: iPET_MR
Chairs: Barthel, Villringer
16:45 – 17:30 Multimodal PET/MR Studies of Brain Function and Physiology – An Approach from MR Physics, Harald Möller
17:30 – 18:15 Information flow matters…, Julius Popp
18:15 – 19:00 TBA, Tom Fritz
19:00 Dinner & Music – DJ Tom Fritz
Guest Speakers and Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Osama Sabri, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer, Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Swen Hesse, Department of Nuclear Medicine, IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Germany
PD Dr. Julia Sacher, Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Henryk Barthel, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Bradley Christian, Waisman Brain Imaging Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fritz, Research group «Music Evoked Brain Plasticity» Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany; Empirical music research at the Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) University of Gent, Belgium
Dr. Vibe Frokjaer, Neurobiology Research Unit, Dept. of Neurology and Copenhagen Mental Health Services Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Harald Möller, Methods & Development Group: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
Julius Popp, Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Julie Price, MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Dr. Michael Rullmann, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dana Tudorascu, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr. Veronica Witte, Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
April 6, 2017
Wilhelm Wundt Room
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
