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New animal models to understand the brain - 2nd edition

Dates

on the May 15, 2017

8:45 am to 5:00 pm
INRA Centre Val de Loire, Conference room, Nouzilly
The secon edition of the conference "New animal models to understand the brain" will be held on May 15th at INRA Centre Val de Loire. Registration is free but mandatory (deadline May 3rd, Elodie.Chaillou@inra.fr).

Go to the website or see the poster.

Preliminary program:

8:45 - Coffee
9:15 - Introduction of the meeting. E. Chaillou (INRA - Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly)

Session 1 – Diffusion MRI. F. Andersson (INSERM Imagerie et Cerveau, Tours)
9:35 - Diffusion MRI. T. Dyrby (DIG, Copenhagen - Denmark)
10:10 - Impact of early rearing experience on brain development in sheep infant. E. Chaillou (INRA - Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France)
10:45 - Sheep brain connectivity. C. Poupon (NeuroSpin, CEA Saclay, France)

11:15 - Coffee

Session 2 – Technical developments H. Adriaensen (INRA - Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France)
11:40 - Use of MPIOs as a contrast agent in sheep. L. Butruille (INRA - Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France)
12:05 - Adenoassociated virus vector for brain manipulations. D. Zelena (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
12:30 - Segmentation of sheep brain images using local probabilistic atlases coupled with topological information G. Galisot (Laboratoire d’Informatique, Université François Rabelais de Tours)
12:55 - Virtual slides for big brain : Services and system. B. Damart (Excilone® Elancourt France)
13:05 - Stereotactic neurosurgery based on 3D imagery (m2e, Inomed, Inra, Inserm). C. Destrieux (INSERM, Imagerie et Cerveau, Tours, France)

13:15 - Lunch

Session 3 – Model of neurological troubles
14:35 - Sheep, a model for Batten disease; J. Morton (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
15:10 - Sheep, a model for neurovascular pathology; B. Nitzsche (Fraunhofer Institute, Leipzig Germany).

Session 4 – Brain anatomy Y .Tillet (INRA - Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France)
15:45 - The Göttingen minipig telencephalon. C. Bjarkam (Department of neurobiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
16:20 - Atlas of the sheep cortex. S. Love (INSERM, Imagerie et Cerveau, Tours, France)

Conclusion
16:45 - M. Migaud (INRA - Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, Nouzilly, France)