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Program & Speakers
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Prof Darwin Berg (USA)
Professor Darwin Berg is a Distinguished Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He received a PhD from UC Berkeley, carried out postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and then joined the faculty at UC San Diego, serving a term as Chair. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Javits Investigator, and a Councilor for the Society for Neuroscience. His research has examined nicotinic cholinergic signaling and synapse formation in the autonomic nervous system. Current studies also address unexpected roles of nicotinic input in guiding the development of glutamatergic and GABAergic pathways in the mammalian brain. |
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Prof Hugo Critchley (UK)
Prof Hugo Critchley was appointed in 2006 as Foundation Professor of Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, a new UK medical school founded in 2001. Hugo’s research programme is supported by the Wellcome Trust and examines brain-body interactions combining functional neuroimaging with autonomic monitoring and patient studies. The research addresses central autonomic control, investigating the coupling of bodily responses with emotion and the influence of such integration on the expression of neurological, cardiovascular and psychological symptoms. Hugo trained in Physiology and Medicine in the University of Liverpool and later received his doctorate degree at the University of Oxford. He his specialist training in psychiatry took place at Institute of Psychiatry and then the Institute of Neurology in parallel with research fellowships in sponsored by Prof Chris Mathias (autonomic medicine) and Ray Dolan (neuroimaging of emotion). In 2004, he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science and became principal investigator at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL. Hugo is also a consultant psychiatrist with a clinical interest in the expression and management of neurodevelopmental disorders in adulthood. In 2006, Hugo received the President’s Award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the Neal E. Miller Award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine.
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Prof Max Hilz (Germany)
Prof Max Hilz is Professor and Vice-Chairman of Neurology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany. He also holds professorships in Neurology, Medicine and Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) in New York, NY. He is a specialist in Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Intensive Care Medicine and Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System. He is a member of 16 national and international scientific societies and is on the board of several autonomic nervous system societies. He is President of the German Autonomic Society, Past-President of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies, Chair of the Autonomic Section of the European Federation of Neurological Societies, and Chair of the Autonomic Section of the American Academy of Neurology. He has published more than 250 original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in textbooks and presented his work at several hundred scientific conferences. Prof. Hilz is experienced in the hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies, in quantitative sensory testing of small fiber neuropathies, and has particular interest in clinical aspects of central autonomic nervous system disorders. |
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Prof Elspeth McLachlan (Australia)
Prof Elspeth McLachlan has been at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney since it opened in 1993. She established and co-directs the Spinal Injuries Research Centre set up in 1999. She works on the consequences of nerve and spinal cord injury including chronic inflammation and on the neurobiology of synaptic transmission and excitability in the peripheral (particularly sympathetic) nervous system. She is Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Institute and Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) (2001-4). She was previously Head of Physiology & Pharmacology at the University of Queensland, following a career as an academic / National Health & Medical Research Council Fellow at Monash and Sydney Universities and the Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne. She received the Max-Planck Research Prize with Wilfrid Jänig in 1993 and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1997, was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003 and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Australian Neuroscience Society in 2006. She was President of the Australian Neuroscience Society (1996-7) and later the founding Chair of IBRO’s Asia-Pacific Regional Committee (1999-2001). She recently chaired the International Programming Committee for the IBRO World Congress in Melbourne, 2007.
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CONFIRMED SYMPOSIA
Molecular control of autonomic neuron development
Chairpersons:
Heather Young & Colin Anderson
Invited Speakers:
Paul Kulesa
Herman Rohrer
Christo Goridis
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Neurotrophic factors in autonomic nervous system development
Chairpersons:
Hermann Rohrer & Don Newgreen
Invited Speakers:
Alun Davies
Hideki Enomoto
Janet Keast
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Central cardiovascular control: plasticity in response to normal physiological challenges
Chairspersons:
Ida Llewelyn-Smith & Ann Schreihofer
Invited Speakers:
Cheryl Heesch
Ann Schreihofer
David Paterson
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FOUNDATION FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE RESEARCH
Secretariat: Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne
Control of neuronal functions by the endothelium in the autonomic and neuroendocrine brain
Chairpersons:
Julian Paton & Sergey Kasparov
Invited Speakers:
Constantino Iadecola
Carmen Rodriguez Sunico
Vincent Prevot
Advances in sympathetic junctional transmission
Chairpersons:
Keith Brain & James Brock
Invited Speakers:
James Galligan
William Dunn
Rohit Manchanda
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Ion channels, neuromodulators and ganglionic regulation
Chairpersons:
John Horn & David Adams
Invited Speakers:
Diane Lipscombe
Ann Rittenhouse
Mark Shapiro
Stephen Ikeda
Autonomic mechanisms contributing to the control of the long term blood pressure level
Chairpersons:
Gunnar Wallin & Mike Joyner
Invited Speakers:
Mike Joyner
Tom Lohmeier
Italo Biaggioni
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FOUNDATION FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE RESEARCH
Secretariat: Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne
Neural control of gut functions
Chairpersons:
Alberto Travagli & Elyanne Ratcliffe
Invited Speakers:
Kirsteen Browning
Stefan Trapp
Elyanne Ratcliffe
Gastrointestinal chemoreception and autonomic impact on energy balance
Chairpersons:
Kunio Torii & Yvette Tache
Invited Speakers:
Tatsuro Tanaka
Helen Raybould
Robert Margolskee
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Thermoregulation Plus
Chairpersons:
Robin McAllen & Bill Blessing
Invited Speakers:
Youichiou Ootsuka
Alexandre Steiner
Mutsumi Tanaka
Kazu Nakamura
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Autonomic Neuropathies - recent advances
Chairpersons:
Philip Low & Steven Vernino
Invited Speakers:
Steven Vernino
Phillip Low
Roy Freeman
Autonomic disorders in Parkinson's Disease
Chairpersons:
Marie-Francoise Chesselet & Glenda Halliday
Invited Speakers:
Glenda Halliday
Sheila Fleming
Dominic Rowe
Linking emotional stress to autonomic function
Chairpersons:
Pascal Carrive & Roger Dampney
Invited Speakers:
Elisabeth Lambert
Tomoyuki Kuwaki
Eugene Nalivaiko
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Human evaluation of autonomic activity
Chairpersons:
Walter Struhal & Stefan Dawid-Milner
Invited Speakers:
Walter Struhal
Isabel Rocha
Mariana Santos-Bento
Chemo-baroreflex interactions in physiological and pathological conditions
Chairspersons:
Wouter Wieling
Invited Speakers:
Luciano Bernardi
David Jardine
Pietro Cortelli
The autonomic nervous system in spinal cord injury – bench to bedside
Chairpersons:
Christopher Mathias & Janet Keast
Invited Speakers:
James Brock
Ida Llewelyn-Smith
Victoria Claydon
Christopher Mathias
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Music and the autonomic nervous system
Chairpersons:
Luciano Bernardi & Jean-Luc Elghozi
Invited Speakers:
Roger Dean
Jean-Luc Elghozi
Luciano Bernardi
SATELLITE MEETINGS
Invasive and Non-Invasive Studies of the Human Autonomic Nervous System
Dates: Saturday 5 – Sunday 6 September 2009
Location: Macarthur (60 km south of Sydney)
This two-day satellite meeting will bring together experts in the assessment of human autonomic function through invasive and non-invasive approaches, with the aim of developing ways of optimizing human autonomic research. Symposium topics will cover microneurography, noradrenaline release, neurochemistry, pharmacology, functional MRI, tissue imaging, blood flow and blood pressure.
Confirmed speakers include Hugo Critchley, André Diedrich, Mikael Elam, Murray Elser, John Floras, Roy Freeman, David Goldstein, Luke Henderson, Max Hilz, Mike Joyner, Karsten Heusser, Horacio Kaufmann, Philip Low, Henrique Sequeira, Kevin Shoemaker, Jens Tank, and Gunnar Wallin. The meeting will also include a hands-on microneurography workshop.
Organiser:
Prof Vaughan Macefield, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Contact: v.macefield@uws.edu.au tel. +61 2 9852 4654
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Autonomic Adjustments to Environmental Challenges
Dates: Sunday 6 – Monday 7 September 2009
Location: Newcastle (160 km north of Sydney)
The last few years have witnessed substantial advances in our knowledge of how the body reacts to various psychological and physical stressors. We now better understand central mechanisms involved in the development of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, immune, metabolic and other reactions provoked by environmental challenges. The purpose of this satellite meeting is to provide an opportunity for the leaders in the field to present snapshots of their latest achievements, and to discuss principal directions in which this field will develop. The number of participants is limited to 70-80 persons, so please do not delay your registration to the last moment. Note that registration to the satellite will incur a registration fee of AUD50 which will be collected at a later time.
Organisers:
Dr Eugene Nalivaiko, University of Newcastle, Australia
Assoc Prof Pascal Carrive, University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof Benedito Machado, University of San Paulo at Ribeirao-Preto, Brazil
Contact: Eugene.nalivaiko@newcastle.edu.au; tel. +61 2 4921 5620
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WORKSHOP
Studying dysfunction in rodent models of spinal cord injury
Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled, we apologise for any inconvenience.
Organisers:
Assoc Prof Ida Llewellyn-Smith, Flinders University, Australia
Assoc Prof Janet Keast, University of Sydney, Australia
Contact: Ida.Llewellyn-Smith@flinders.edu.au; tel. +61 8 8204 4456
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Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: Closed |
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Registration Deadline: Late Registration 19 August 2009 |
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