4th International Symposium, Society for Research on the Cerebellum
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第4回国際小脳学会


Congress Schedule
8:30- Registration
9:00- Welcoming remarks (Chair: N. Koibuchi)
Ferdinando Rossi, President SRC
Shoji Tsuji, Univ. of Tokyo
9:10-9:50 Plenary lecture（Chair: F. Rossi）
Masao Ito (RIKEN, Japan)
“Ever-growing significance of the cerebellum”

<Symposium 1>
Cerebellar Development and Regeneration (Chair: K. Tsutsui)

9:50-10:10 Ferdinando Rossi (Univ. of Turin, Itary)
“Specification and differentiation of cerebellar GABAergic neurons”
10:10-10:30 Mikio Hoshino (Natl Inst. Neurosci, Japan)
“Roles of transcription factors in specifying neuron subtypes in the cerebellar system”
10:30-10:50 David Vaudry (INSERM, France)
“Role of PAPCAP in cerebellar development”
10:50-11:10 Kazuyoshi Tsutsui (Waseda Univ., Japan)
“Neurosteroid biosynthesis and action during cerebellar development”
11:10-11:25 Coffee Break

<Symposium 2>
Synaptic Plasticity of Cerebellum (Chair:T. Ebner)

11:25-11:45 Masanobu Kano (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
“Activity-dependent maturation of climbing fiber to Purkinje cell synapses during postnatal cerebellar development”
11:45-12:05 Tomoo Hirano (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
“Regulation of inhibitory synaptic plasticity in a Purkinje neuron”
12:05-12:25 Timothy Ebner (Univ. Minnesota, USA)
Flavoprotein optical imaging of cerebellar circuits: Beams, bands, patches and plasticity.
12:25-12:45 Michisuke Yuzaki (Keio Univ., Japan)
“The ins and outs of GluD2: Why and how Purkinje cells use the special glutamate receptor.”
12:45-13:50 Luncheon Seminar (Chair: S. Tsuji)
Hideyuki Okano (Keio Univ., Japan)
“Brain Science using iPS technologies and transgenic non-human primates”


<Symposium 3>
Molecular basis of cerebellar structure and function (Chair:N. Koibuchi)

13:50-14:10 Jan Voogd (Erasmus Med. Ctr., Netherlands)
“The modular organization of the cerebellum: history and future.”
14:10-14:30 Jean Mariani (UPM, France)
“The nuclear receptor RORα: acritical actor in the neuron-astrocyte dialogue”
14:30-14:50 Mario Manto (FNRS-ULB, Belgium)
“Cerebellar Research: 2 centuries of discoveries.”
14:50-15:50 Poster Presentation
 Poster viewing (See below for poster titles and authors) 


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Cerebellar functional analysis (Chair: Y. Ugawa)

15:50-16:10 Thomas Knopfel (RIKEN, Japan)
“Cellular diversity in the deep cerebellar nuclei.”
16:10-16:30 Izumi Sugihara (Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ., Japan)
“Cerebellar functional and anatomical connection.”
16:30-16:50 Shinji Kakei (Tokyo Metropol. Inst. Med. Sci., Japan)
“Functional evaluation of the feedforward and feedback controllers in cerebellar disorders.”
16:50-17:10 Yoshikazu Ugawa (Fukushima Med. Univ., Japan)
“Cerebellar stimulation in cerebellar disorders.”

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Recent advances ofresearch on human cerebellum and disease models. (Chair: S. Tsuji)

17:10-17:30 Im Joo Rhyu (Korea University, Korea)
“Macroscopic and microscopic changes of cerebellum in response to motor skill learning in human and animal models”
17:30-17:50 Hirokazu Hirai (Gunma Univ., Japan)
“Rescue of developmental defects in mice with cerebellar ataxia using lentiviral vectors.”
17:50-18:10 Ichiro Miyai (Morinomiya Hospital, Japan)
“Challenge of neurorehabilitaion for cerebellar degenerative diseases.”
18:10-18:40 Shoji Tsuji (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
“Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of ataxias based on personal genome analysis and translation into therapeutic approaches.”
18:40-18:45 Closing Remarks
Mario Manto (Editor-in-Chief, The Cerebellum)
19:00- Reception

  POSTER TITLES

Poster 1
“Modeling study for a possible mechanism of spacing effect in cerebellar motor learning”
Tadashi Yamazaki (RIKEN BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration, Japan)

Poster 2
“Protein synthesis in the cerebellar cortex underlies the transfer of memory trace of adaptation induced by spacing learning”
Soichi Nagao (RIKEN BSI, Japan)

Poster 3
“Purkinje cells actively produce an unknown neurosteroid from pregnenolone during cerebellar development”
Shin-ichiro Okuyama (Waseda Univ., Japan)

Poster 4
“Estradiol promotes Purkinje dendritic growth, spinogenesis and synaptogenesis during neonatal life by inducing the expression of BDNF”
Shogo Haraguchi (Waseda Univ., Japan)

Poster 6
“Cerebellar dysfunction and behavioral disorder in congenital hypothyroid (rdw) rat”
Sayo Yamaguchi (Gunma Univ., Japan)

Poster 7
“Regulatory roles of DNA topoisomerase IIβin the developing cerebellar neurons”
Kimiko M. Tsutsui (Okayama Univ., Japan)

Poster 8
“Could the tail tell the tale? About the Cerebellar Tonsil and the Resting Brain”
Federico D'Agata (Univ. Turin, Italy)

Poster 9
“Multi-site modulation of AMPA-receptor trafficking during cerebellar LTD”
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (RIKEN BSI, Japan)

Poster 10
“Purkinje cell clusters in the embryonic cerebellum are the origin of the longitudinal compartments in the adult cerebellum”
Hirofumi Fujita (Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ., Japan)

Poster 11
“Physiological characteristics of small inhibitory interneurons underneath the cerebellar Purkinje cell layer”
Moritoshi Hirono (RIKEN BSI, Japan)

Poster 12
“Direct causality between single Purkinje cell activities and motor learning revealed by a cerebellum-machine interface utilizing VOR adaptation paradigm”
Yutaka Hirata (Chubu Univ., Japan)

Poster 13
“Searching for novel binding partners of Atoh1 and Ptf1a, cerebellar development-related proteins using Proteomic analyses”
Tomoo Owa (NCNP, Japan)

Poster 14
“Spatial specification of cerebellar neuroepithelium by bHLH transcription factors, Ptf1a and Atoh1, during development”
Mayumi Yamada (NCNP, Japan)

Poster 15
“Diffuse reduction of cerebral blood flow, cognitive impairment and depressive mood in sporadic cases of autosomal recessive spinocerebellar degeneration with APTX and SETX mutations”
Masaki Ikeda (Gunma Univ., Japan)

Poster 16
“Transcription factors expressed in the Purkinje cells lineage”
Yusuke Seto (NCNP, Japan)

Poster 17
“The effect of lipopolysaccharides on thyroid hormone-regulated functions of astrocyte”
Ming Xu (Gunma Univ., Japan)

Poster 18
“Disruption of Cerebellar Development by Brominated Organic Chemicals Possibly through Suppression of TR-mediated Transcription”
Toshiharu Iwasaki (Gunma Univ., Japan)

Poster 19
“The birthdate of Purkinje cells" is the key to understanding the cerebellar compartmentalization and the cerebellar function”
Mitsuhiro Hashimoto (RIKEN BSI, Japan)

Poster 20
“Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum in ataxic and non-ataxic patients with progressive supranuclear palsy”
Yuichiro Shirota (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

Poster 21
“Disruption of mGluR-mediated signaling at cerebellar parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses in staggerer mutant mice”
Nobutake Hosoi (Gunma Univ., Japan)

Poster 22
“Analysis of cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific vesicular GABA transporter deficient mice”
Toshikazu Kakizaki (Gunma Univ., Japan)

Poster 23
“Activity-dependent synapse elimination of climbing fiber to Purkinje cell projections in vitro”
Takayasu Mikuni (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

Poster 24
“Simple spike activities of cerebellar Purkinje cells for step-tracking wrist movement of the wrist”
Takahiro Ishikawa (Tokyo Metropol. Inst. Med. Sci., Japan)

Poster 25
“Activation of autophagy protects neurons from remote degeneration after acute focal damage”
Maria Teresa Viscomi (IRCCS S., Italy)

Poster 26
“Investigation of cerebellar ataxia prevalence rate in South Korea”
Chan-Nyoung Lee (Korea University, Korea)

Poster 27
“RNA mediated neurodegeneration in SCA31, a non-coding pentanucleotide repeat expansion disorder common in Japan”
Yusuke Niimi (Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ., Japan)

Poster 28
“Polyglutamine expansions inα1A calcium channel C-terminal exert toxicity in the cytoplasm with CREB transcriptional activation”
Makoto Takahashi (Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ., Japan)
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