09.00

Registration

09.45

Opening

10.00

NVE Teaching session
The metabolic syndrome

11.45

Parallel sessions
Glycoprotein hormone receptors
Osteoporosis
Stress and corticosteroid receptors
Psychiatry and the metabolic syndrome

13.15

Endocrinology posters

15.00

Plenary session
Hot topics in endocrinology

16.30

Parallel sessions
Diabetes and fat metabolism
Polymorphic variations in endocrine genes
Stress endocrinology and metabolism
Somatostatin within the endocrine system

21.00

Organon Award Lecture
Winner to be announced at the meeting by the NVE

08.00

Registration

08.30

Endocrinology Keynote Lecture
Louis Gooren

09.30

Parallel sessions
Gender, hormones and brain function
Is eating always fun?
Calcium and exocytose
Neurotrophins

11.30

Marius Tausk lecture
Bruce McEwen
13.30

Parallel sessions
Neuron-Schwann cell interactions
The HPA axis in inflammatory diseases
GABA in circuits
Diabetes and the brain

15.00

Neuroscience posters 1

17.00

Parallel sessions
Neuron-glia signaling in the CNS
Protein transport in neurodegeneration
Midbrain dopamine system and drugs of abuse
Imaging biological processes with MRI

21.00

Hersenstichting Lecture
James McGaugh

08.00

Registration

08.30

Parallel sessions
Serotonin systems in psychiatry
Neural mechanisms of sound decoding
Molecular aspects of receptor and channel function
Neurogenesis and gliogenesis in cortical development

10.00

Neuroscience posters 2

12.00

EKN Keynote Lecture
Michel Ferrari

14.00

Parallel sessions
Hormones, plasticity and behavior
siRNA, how to silence nerves?
Voltage-sensitive dyes as neuronal activity indicators
The neuromuscular synapse

Satellite NvN 1

16.00

Neurofederation Lecture
Helmut Kettenmann

Satellite NvN 2

17.00

Parallel sessions
Mechanism of synaptic plasticity
Neurogenomics
5-HT and behavior
Human and animal long-term choice behavior

21.00

NVP Keynote Lecture
Ian Robertson

08.00

Registration

08.30

Parallel sessions
Attention and working memory
Neuroactive steroids in emotion and stress
Cognitive function in MDMA and cannabis
Speech perception and disorders
10.30

Parallel sessions
Oscillatory brain dynamics during cognitive processes
Stress hormones and memory functioning
New developments in schizophrenia research
Object categories in the brain
13.00

Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience posters

14.30

Parallel sessions
Genetic approaches to attention disorders
The cognitive neuroscience of response inhibition
Monoamines, cognition, and symptoms
Numbers and the brain

16.00

Special NVN Lectures
'What it means to be human'

17.30

Closure