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Saturday 9 March 2013
 

S.03
09:00 - 12:30
Symposium
Epigenetics: towards new drug targets

chair: Michel Hamon, France
chair: Klaus-Peter Lesch, Germany

09:00 - 09:40Introduction to epigenetics, new insights into psychiatric disorders
Johan Jakobsson, Sweden
 
09:40 - 10:20The epigenetics of brain disorders and their inheritance - focus on cognition
Isabelle Mansuy, Switzerland
 
 Break

 
10:50 - 12:30Presentations by 5 young scientists

 
10:50 - 11:10Possible interplay between BDNF and dynorphin in bipolar disorder: role of epigenetic mechanisms (P.3.004)
junior speaker: Andrea Di Francesco, Italy
 
11:10 - 11:30Early environment affects activity based anorexia genetic susceptibility and epigenetic programming of neurodevelopmental genes in mice (P.3.005)
junior speaker: Eneda Pjetri, United States
 
11:30 - 11:50S-adenosyl-methionine impairs forced swimming-induced behavioural immobility by inhibiting gene expression in dentate gyrus neurons (P.3.008)
junior speaker: Emily Saunderson, United Kingdom
 
11:50 - 12:10Differential effects of prenatal stress on serotonin transporter deficient mice: the role of epigenetic programming (P.3.009)
junior speaker: Karla Schraut, Germany
 
12:10 - 12:30Time-dependent effects of antidepressant treatments on miRNome expression profile in hippocampus of rats (P.3.010)
junior speaker: Mara Seguini, Italy
 
 Lunch

 
 Free afternoon

 
OS.1
17:00 - 17:30
Optional Session
Getting funding

 Applying for interdisciplinary research: finding the right collaborators
Cathy Fernandes, United Kingdom
 
 Getting funding: European Research Council Starting Grant
Christof Kuhstoß, Germany
 
OS.2
17:30 - 18:00
Optional Session
Jobs in industry versus academia

 
Jack Price, United Kingdom
 
 &
Thomas Steckler, Belgium
 
P.02
18:00 - 20:30
Poster sessions
Poster session 2