Calcium dynamics in neuronal and glial cells:

experiments and models

University of Warwick, 4th April, 2011

This workshop will focus on the important role of calcium in controlling a great variety of neuronal and glial processes and on the bidirectional communication between glia and neurons. It will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in the fields of neuroscience and cell biology for a critical discussion of recent results and future directions.

Programme

9:45-10:20	Arrive	Tea and coffee
10:20-11:10	Kirill Volynski (Institute of Neurology, University College London)	"Variable presynaptic Ca2+ influx determines heterogeneity of release probability among small central synapses"
11:10-12:00	Eshel Ben-Jacob (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)	"Astrocyte regulation of synaptic information transfer and calcium waves in networks of astrocytes"
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:50	Tomas Bellamy (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham)	"Crosstalk between nitric oxide and calcium signalling pathways in astrocytes"
13:50-14:40	Victor Kazantsev (Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)	"Calcium signaling in astrocytes induced by the IP3 diffusion: instability, synchronization and chaos"
14:40-15:10	Coffee break
15:10-16:00	Nigel Emptage (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)	"Activity-regulated Ca2+ release from lysosomal stores in neurons"
16:00-16:50	Mark van Rossum (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)	"Weight dependent synaptic learning rules"

The meeting will take place in the Centre for Complexity Science at the Warwick Mathematics Institute (the Zeeman building). Click here for detailed directions to Complexity. All talks will be in Lecture Room D1.07.

Registration is free and includes tea/coffee and a buffet lunch. If you are interested to attend this workshop, please register here

Organisers:

Yulia Timofeeva (Warwick) and Rüdiger Thul (Nottingham)

The workshop is supported by the EPSRC via the UK Mathematical Neuroscience Network and the Symposium grant on The Mathematics of Complexity Science and Systems Biology.

List of participants:

Name	Institution
Afzali BaghdadAbadi, Hoda	University of Tehran
Amiri, Mahmood	University of Tehran
Azad, Abul Kalam al	University of Plymouth
Bellamy, Tomas	University of Nottingham
Ben-Jacob, Eshel	Tel Aviv University
Bootman, Martin	Babraham Institute, Cambridge
Bouchekhima, Abd-Nacer	University of Warwick
Bush, Daniel	University of Surrey
Caudron, Quentin	University of Warwick
Croisier, Huguette	University of Nottingham
Diaz, Vanessa	University College London
Emptage, Nigel	University of Oxford
Frenguelli, Bruno	University of Warwick
Hamilton, Benjamin	University of Warwick
Kang, YanMei	University of Warwick
Kang, Jing	Babraham Institute, Cambridge
Kazantsev, Victor	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Khovanov, Igor	University of Warwick
Klyuch, Boris	University of Warwick
Macdougall, Lindsey	University of Nottingham
Maryeh, Ajsh	Uni Paris 6
McDaid, Liam	University of Ulster
Mergenthaler, Konstantin	Technische Universität Berlin
Pichardo, Cesar	Pfizer
Pinheiro, Teresa	University of Warwick
Rasooli-Nejad, Ali	University of Warwick
Richardson, Magnus	University of Warwick
RodrÌguez GarcÌa, MÌriam	Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Ireland
Sadler, Peter	University of Warwick
Stocks, Nigel	University of Warwick
Thomas, Matthew	University of Warwick
Thul, Rüdiger	University of Nottingham
Timofeeva, Yulia	University of Warwick
van den Top, Marco	University of Warwick
van Rossum, Mark	University of Edinburgh
Vavoulis, Dimitris	University of Warwick
Volynski, Kirill	University College London
Wade, John	University of Ulster
Wall, Mark	University of Warwick
Wedgwood, Kyle	University of Nottingham
Wellstead, Peter	Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Ireland

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