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08.30 – 09.15 
Session 12 
(Branding)Endocrinology Keynote Lecture
 
Chairperson: Sytze van 
Dam (Amsterdam) 
Louis Gooren
(Amsterdam): 
Hormones and the 
brain, studies in transsexuals 
                                     
09.30 – 11.00
Parallel sessions 
  
Session 13 (Doorwerth) 
Gender, hormones 
and brain function  Moderators: Gert ter Horst (Groningen) and Mechiel Korte (Lelystad / Utrecht)
 
Inga Neumann 
(Regensburg, Germany): Brain 
neuropeptides: regulation of stress coping not only in the maternal 
brain (30) 
Zuoxin Wang 
(Tallahassee, FL, USA): 
Dopamine regulation 
of social attachment in a monogamous rodent (30) 
Cornelieke van de Beek 
(Amsterdam): 
Prenatal influences of sex hormones on gender-related behavior in 
infants (15) 
Christel Westenbroek 
(Groningen): Sex-specific effects of ‘social support’ in rats after chronic 
stress (15) 
 
Session 14 (Branding)
Is eating always fun? 
 
Moderators: Louk 
Vanderschuren and Roger Adan (Utrecht) 
Kenneth Carr 
(New York, NY, USA): Augmentation of drug reward by chronic food restriction: behavioral evidence and underlying mechanisms (30) 
Jacquelien 
Hillebrand 
(Utrecht): Hypothalamic signaling in an animal model of anorexia nervosa (15) 
Donné Schmidt 
(Amsterdam): Overlapping and segregating corticolimbic circuits involved in 
sucrose seeking and heroin seeking (15) 
Ramona Guerrieri 
(Maastricht): The relationship between impulsivity and feeding in humans (15) 
Celine Morens 
(Groningen): Interactions between cholinergic systems and melanin concentrating 
hormone (15) 
             
Session 15 (Patio)Calcium and 
exocytosis
 
Moderators: 
Remco Westerink and
Matthijs Verhage 
(Amsterdam) 
Ron Habets 
(Rotterdam): Residual calcium and plasticity of transmitter release (15) 
Sander Groffen 
(Amsterdam): DOC2B and the art 
of vesicle pool maintenance: a molecular gearbox triggered by calcium (15) 
Remco 
Westerink 
(Amsterdam): Reduced vesicular catecholamine release in calbindin-D28k null 
mutant mouse chromaffin cells (15) 
Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo 
(Sevilla, 
Spain): Exocytosis studied with high resolution patch clamp capacitance, 
amperometric and fluorescence measurements (45)  
  
Session 16 (Gelderland)Neurotrophins: from the central nervous system to the 
neuroendocrine cell
 
Moderators: Wim 
Scheenen and Bruce Jenks (Nijmegen) 
Susana Cohen-Cory 
(Irvine, CA, USA): Neurotrophin-induced plasticity in the developing CNS: from 
dendrites and axons to synapses (30) 
Thomas Dijkmans 
(Leiden): The effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) on double-cortin-like kinase, 
a novel CamK-like kinase, in a PC12 cell model (15)
 
Shridhara 
Chrakravarthy 
(Amsterdam): 
Cell autonomous inhibition of TrkB signaling can induce dendritic 
pruning in the adult visual cortex (15) 
Adhanet Kidane 
(Nijmegen): Expression and function of p75 and TrkB receptors in the pituitary 
melanotrope cell (15) 
Dorien de Groot 
(Nijmegen): 
Generation and analysis of Xenopus laevis with cell-specific 
transgene expression of (pro)BDNF (15) 
  
11.00 - 11.30 
Break 
  
11.30 – 12.15 
Session 17 (Branding) 
Marius Tausk Lecture 
Chairperson: Ron de 
Kloet (Leiden) 
Bruce McEwen
(New York City, NY, USA): 
Stress, sex and the 
hippocampus  
  
12.15 – 13.30
Lunch 
  
13.30 – 15.00
Parallel sessions 
                                                 
Session 18 (Doorwerth) 
Neuron-Schwann cell 
interactions in health and disease 
Moderators: Dies 
Meijer (Rotterdam) and Mark Verheijen (Amsterdam) 
Lawrence Wrabetz 
(Italy): Protein quality control in the pathogenesis of Charcot Marie Tooth 1B 
hereditary neuropathy (30) 
Martine Jaegle
(Rotterdam): The Claw Paw gene and its role in peripheral nerve development (15) 
Mark Verheijen 
(Amsterdam): Schwann cell SREBP-1 and associated lipid metabolism are implicated 
in diabetic peripheral neuropathy (15) 
Valeria Ramaglia 
(Amsterdam): The role of complement in Wallerian degeneration (15) 
Martijn Tannemaat 
(Amsterdam): 
The effect of lentiviral vector-mediated delivery of neurotrophic 
factors on peripheral nerve regeneration (15) 
  
Session 19 
(Branding) 
The HPA axis in 
inflammatory diseases 
Moderator: Inge 
Huitinga (Amsterdam)  
Christoph Heesen 
(Hamburg, Germany): 
HPA-axis activity in multiple sclerosis, relation with severity 
and cognition (30) 
Bert Beishuizen 
(Amsterdam): HPA-axis in severe critical illness (30) 
Lisa van Winsen 
(Amsterdam): Glucocorticoid receptor in multiple sclerosis (15) 
Zeynel Erkut 
(Amsterdam): 
HPA-axis in multiple sclerosis; post mortem studies (15) 
  
Session 20 (Patio) 
GABA in circuits 
(organized under auspices of the 
‘SWO/Liga tegen Epilepsie’) 
Moderators: Tineke van 
Rijn (Nijmegen) and Govert Hoogland (Maastricht) 
Arjen Brussaard 
(Amsterdam): GABAergic synapses: from receptors to cognition (30) 
Maarten Kamermans 
(Amsterdam): GABA, a neuromodulator in the retina (30) 
Gitte Bouwman 
(Nijmegen): GABA and absence epilepsy: corticothalamic circuits (15) 
Lia Liefaard 
(Leiden): Changes in GABAA receptor properties in the post-SE model 
for temporal lobe epilepsy (15) 
  
Session 21 
(Gelderland) 
Diabetes and the brain 
 
Moderators: Suat Simsek  
(Amsterdam) and Geert-Jan Biessels (Utrecht) 
Chris Ryan 
(Pittsburgh, PA, USA): 
Cognitive (dys)function 
and diabetes (30) 
Alette Wessels 
(Amsterdam): Type 1 diabetes mellitus and cognitive dysfunction: microangiopathy 
of the brain (15) 
Ineke Brands 
(Utrecht): 
Brain MRI correlates of cognitive dysfunction in type 2 diabetes 
mellitus (15) 
Peter de Jonge 
(Groningen): Depression and diabetes mellitus: what is the relationship? (15) 
Esther Pelgrim 
(Amsterdam): Relationship between diabetes mellitus and hippocampal atrophy: the
HAAS study 
(15) 
  
15.00 - 17.00 
Poster 
session Neuroscience 1 (Branding) 
  
17.00 - 18.30 
Parallel 
sessions 
  
Session 22 (Branding) 
Neuron-glia signaling in the CNS 
Moderator: Eric Boddeke 
(Groningen) 
Giorgio Carmignoto 
(Padova, Italy): 
Astrocyte-mediated 
neuronal synchrony in the hippocampus (30) 
Alfonso Araque 
(Madrid, Spain): Synaptic information processing by astrocytes (30) 
Eiko de Jong 
(Groningen): Neuron-glia communication in neuronal stress (15)Robert Hoek (Amsterdam): CD200-mediated regulation of microglia 
activation (15)
 
  
Session 23 (Gelderland) 
Short-cuts and traffic jams: 
protein transport in neurodegeneration 
Moderator: Wiep 
Scheper (Amsterdam) 
Casper Hoogenraad 
(Boston, MA, USA): GRIP1 
specifies dendrite morphogenesis by regulating receptor trafficking 
(30) 
Martijn Roelandse 
(Amsterdam): The role of 
synaptic vesicle release in neurodegeneration and axon outgrowth 
(15) 
Sidhartha Chafekar 
(Amsterdam): Aβ trafficking and toxicity (15) 
Peter Peters 
(Amsterdam): Intracellular trafficking of PrP (30) 
  
Session 24 (Patio) 
Impulse activity in 
the midbrain dopamine system and the vulnerability to drugs of abuse 
 
Moderator: Geert 
Ramakers (Utrecht) 
 
Michela Marinelli 
(Chicago, IL, USA): Electrophysiological correlates of addiction liability (45) 
Mischa de Rover 
(Amsterdam): Long term effects of changes in dopaminergic transmission on 
cholinergic modulation in the nucleus accumbens (15)  
Annelies Olijslagers 
(Amsterdam): Serotonin's potentiating interaction with dopamine neurons in SN 
and VTA areas of the rat (15) 
Daniel Mathon 
(Utrecht): Neurophysiological changes in the midbrain dopamine system of μ 
opioid receptor knockout mice (15) 
  
Session 25 (Doorwerth) 
Imaging biological 
processes with MRI  
Moderators: Erwin 
Blezer (Utrecht) and Elga de Vries (Amsterdam) 
Mathias Hoehn 
(Köln, Germany): 
In vivo MR imaging of cells in brain: methodological and physiological 
challenges (30) 
Raoul Oude Engberink 
(Utrecht): Ex vivo labeling of monocytes for in vivo cell tracking using MR 
imaging (15) 
Willem Mulder 
(Eindhoven): Lipid-based contrast agents for molecular and cellular MR imaging 
(15) 
Jeroen Geurts 
(Amsterdam): Grey matter involvement in multiple sclerosis: pathology and MRI 
(15) 
Jet van der Zijden 
(Utrecht): Mapping cortical projections 
after stroke using in vivo manganese enhanced 
MRI
(15) 
  
19.00
Dinner / 
Poster Award 
Ceremony Neuroscience 1 
  
21.00-21.45 
Session 26 (Branding) 
Hersenstichting Lecture
  
Chairperson: Marian Joëls 
(Amsterdam) 
James McGaugh
(Irvine, CA, USA): 
Emotional arousal, 
memory consolidation and the amygdala 
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