The 2010 Kavli Prize Symposium on Neuroscience

Coffee will be served from 09:00

09:20  Opening addresses by
Nils Christian Stenseth, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Ole Petter Ottersen, Rector of the University of Oslo

09:30-10:00: Antonio R Damasio
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Public Awareness Lecture:  "Emotion, Feeling and Self: A Neuroscience Framework"

10:00 -10:30: Richard Axel
Columbia University, New York, USA
"Representations of Odor in Higher Olfactory Centers"

10:30 -11:00: Tobias Bonhoeffer
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
"How Experience Changes the Circuitry of the Brain"

11:00 -11:15  Coffee break

11:15 -11:45: Michael E Goldberg
Columbia University, New York, USA
"The Neurobiology of Attention and Arousal"

11:45 -12:15: Poul Nissen
University of Aarhus, Denmark
"The Structure and Function of Ion Pumps in Cells and Changes in Disease"

12:15 -13:00  Lunch

13:00 -13:30: Giacomo Rizzolatti
University of Parma, Italy
"Mirror Neurons: Interpretations and misinterpretations"

13:30 -14:00: Huda Y Zoghbi
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
"The Story of Rett Syndrome: Where Epigenetics Meets Neurobiology"