Brain and Nervous System

(2009/01/28)

Typically at our annual meeting there are 20-30 oral/poster presentations with the Theme of "Brain and Nervous System". These presentations cover a wide-range of topics from the use of "state of the art" imaging techniques to determine signal transduction pathways in single neurons to higher-order functions exemplified by studies on learning and memory. Our members employ a wide range of subject material ranging from single neurons from invertebrate (e.g. C. elegans, Drosophila and Aplysia) and mammalian model systems (e.g. mice and rats) to primate studies (monkeys and humans). The presenters at our meeting come from diverse disciplines and bring with them a high level of enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity. What sets our meeting apart from other academic society meetings concerned with nervous function is that our presentations often make use of cutting-edge techniques that only some time later become "mainstream".

Isolation of a single neuron.


Quantification of mRNA copy number for a memory-related gene in a single neuron by real-time PCR.