21st Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience

From stem cells to behaviour in the normal and diseased nervous system

11 – 14 May 2016 | Palais des Congres d’Antibes Juan les Pins, France

Join us in Antibes, along the beautiful Mediterranean coast of Southern France, for an exciting and diverse scientific programme that will provide an opportunity to keep you informed about the most recent advances in fundamental and disease-focused developmental neuroscience.

Organised by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN), this meeting will include a balance of topics on human and animal models of neural development and disease:

Pluripotent stem cell approaches in the normal and diseased brain
Stem cells and psychiatric disorders
Evolution of the mammalian cortex
Autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases
Generation of cell diversity in the developing brain
Signaling centers in forebrain development
Hypothalamic cell fate specification and function
From circuits to behaviour
Control of neuronal morphology, from genes to activity
Sensorimotor assembly and integration
The role of microRNAs in neurogenesis
Neurobiology of stress
Sleep evolution in childhood and brain development
Astrocyte development and function

As in previous years, ISDN will provide a number of travel and poster awards for trainees.

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Speakers include:

Corinne Houart, UK
Reto Huber, Switzerland
George Koob, USA
Arnold Kriegstein, USA
Scott Russo, USA

See the full line-up of speakers

Executive Committee

Michèle Studer, Institute of Biology Valrose (iBV), France (Meeting Chair)
Stefano Stifani, ISDN Secretary-General (Meeting Co-Chair)
Helene Marie, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC), France (Local Meeting Co-Chair)
Francois Guillemot, ISDN President
Pierre Leprince, ISDN Treasurer
Regino Perez-Polo, ISDN Editor-in-Chief

Scientific Committee

Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bassem Hassan, VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology), Belgium
Freda Miller, SickKids, Canada
Franck Polleux, Columbia University, USA
Shuba Tole, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India