1^st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY OF ROMANIA PROGRAMME OUTLINE
Timetable	Thursday, September 25^th, 2003
17^00	Opening of the Registration Desk
	Friday, September 26^th, 2003
9^00-11^00	SESSION 1 David Nicholls, USA (The role of mitochondria in neuronal excitotoxicity) Alex Verkhratsky, UK (Mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic sensory neuropathy) Jürgen R. Schwarz, Germany (Physiology of erg K channels)
11^00–11^15	COFFEE BREAK
11^15–13^00	SESSION 2 Emil C. Toescu, UK (Neuronal metabolic status in ageing neurones – an important issue) Marianne Schultzberg, Sweden (Cytokine involvement in neurodegeneration) Bogdan O. Popescu, Romania and Sweden (Presenilins – from Alzheimer’s disease back to basic signal transduction pathways) Roxana Nat, Romania (Apoptosis and Fas expression in developing human brain)
13^00-14^30	LUNCH & POSTER EXHIBITION
14^30-16^30	SESSION 3 Gordon Reid, Romania (A cold- and menthol-activated current in sensory neurones: properties and role in cold sensing) Alex Babes, Romania (Electrophysiological characterisation of cold-sensitive neurones from rat dorsal root ganglia (DRGs)) Mihai Moldovan, Romania and Denmark (Cat motor axons show increased sensitivity to hyperpolarization years after crush)
16^30–16^45	COFFEE BREAK
16^45–18^45	SESSION 4 Paul Kemp, UK (Oxygen sensing by neuronal ion channels: from principles to proteomics) I. Mhairi Macrae, UK (Oestrogen and stroke) Mircea Oprica, Romania and Sweden (Effects of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist overexpression in a model of permanent focal cerebral ischemia in mouse)
	Saturday, September 27^th, 2003
9^00-11^00	SESSION 5 Thelma Lovick, UK (Signalling between neurones and cerebral microvessels - implications for cerebral ischaemia) Ashley Pringle, UK (Discovery of new neuroprotective compounds using cultured hippocampal slices as high content screens') Valérie Crepel, France (Remodeling of CA3 pyramidal circuit induced by ischemia)
11^00–11^15	COFFEE BREAK
11^15–13^00	SESSION 6 Jean-Luc Gaiarsa, France (Plasticity and formation of functional GABA ergic synapses in the neonatal rat hippocampus: role of synaptic activity) Leszek Kaczmarek, Poland (Extracellular matrix remodelling in synaptic plasticity: From c-Fos to MMP-9) Cezar Tigaret, UK (AMPA receptors made visible with the enhanced green fluorescent protein-tagged AMPA receptor subunit GLUR2)
13^00-14^00	LUNCH
14^00-14^30	STUDENTS PRESENTATIONS
14^30-16^20	SESSION 7 Bruno Frenguelli, UK (Plasticity of purine release during cerebral ischemia: clinical implications?) Mihai Coculescu, Romania (Blood-Brain Barrier for peptidic hormones) Dan Mircea, Romania (Theoretical basis of pathophysiology in neuroprotection strategy – a proposal of phases-related therapy) Jean Ciurea, Romania (Cerebral local microcirculation in comatose patients with acute head injury) Radu Negoescu, Romania (A neurocardiology & bioengineering joint venture: sudden cardiac death corde indemno is preventable)
16^20–16^35	COFFEE BREAK
16^35–18^30	SESSION 8 Reinoud Maex, Belgium (Resonant synchronization in networks of inhibitory neurons) Dragos Al. Nita, Romania and Canada (Sleep modulation of paroxysmal activity in a partially deafferented cortex) Daniela Popa, Romania and France (Sleep and stress response in female knock-out mice that do not express the serotonin transporter) Corin Badiu, Romania (Ontogeny of the human hypothalamic nonapeptidergic system) Adrian Restian, Romania (The virtual character of conscience) Awards for the best student presentations Closing ceremony