The lectures during the Cajal course are open to every member of Bordeaux Neurocampus.
Venue: CGFB
Monday 20 September – 14:00-15:30
Luisa Lopes (Neurobiology of Ageing & Disease – iMM Lisboa, Portugal)
Tuesday 21 September – 9:00-10:30
Cheryl Grady (The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest & University Toronto, Canada)
Tuesday 21 September – 11:00-12:30
Nora Abrous (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux Neurocampus, France)
Wednesday 22 September – 9:00-10:30
Carol Barnes (University of Arizona, USA)
Wednesday 22 September – 11:00-12:30 / remotely
Maria Llorens-Martins (Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain)
Friday 24 September – 9:00-10:30
Laure Rondi-Reig (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
Friday 24 September – 11:00-12:30
Aline Marighetto (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux Neurocampus, France)
Monday 27 September – 17:00-18:30
Yaakov Stern (Columbia University, USA)
Thursday 30 September – 11:00-12:30
Adam Antebi (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany)
Monday 4 October – 9:00-10:30
Luc Buée (University of Lille, France)
Monday 4 October- 11:00-12:30
Hélène Amieva (Bordeaux population Health Center, France)
Tuesday 5 October – 9:00-10:30
Lars Nyberg (Umeå University, Sweden)
Tuesday 5 October – 11:00-12:30
Gwenaelle Catheline (INCIA, Bordeaux Neurocampus, France)
About the Cajal course
Venue: Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
The normal aging process is associated with reduced performance on cognitive tasks that require one to quickly process or transform information to make a decision, including measures of speed of processing, executive cognitive function, working and relational memories. Structural and functional alterations in the brain correlate with these age-related cognitive changes, such as loss of synapses, and dysfunction of neuronal networks. It is crucial to develop new approaches that consider the whole neuroanatomical, endocrine, immunological, vascular and cellular changes impacting on cognition.
This 3-week course will cover the fundamentals of cognitive aging -including inter-individual differences, cognitive and brain reserve and risk factors- and highlight the newest functional imaging methods to study human brain function. The Faculty will share the state-of-the-art molecular, optical, computational, electrophysiological, behavioural and epidemiological approaches available for studying the aging brain in diverse model systems. The Students will learn the potential and limitations of these methods, through practical experience in a combination of lectures addressing aging in both humans and animal models and hands-on-projects. They will acquire sufficient practical experience to model, design and interpret experiments and brainstorm on novel technologies and hypotheses to explore the aging of the brain using more integrative and creative approaches.
Course director
Luísa Lopes
Neurobiology of Ageing & Disease
iMM Lisboa
Portugal
Co-directors
Cheryl Grady
The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest,
Canada
Nora Abrous
Neurocentre Magendie INSERM U 1215,
University of Bordeaux
France
Keynote speakers
Hélène Amieva (Bordeaux Population Health, France)
Adam Antebi (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany)
Carol Barnes (University of Arizona, USA)
Luc Buée (Centre de Recherche Jean-Pierre Aubert, France)
Gwenaëlle Catheline (Bordeaux Neurocampus, France)
Maria Llorens (Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Spain)
Aline Marighetto (Bordeaux Neurocampus, France)
Lars Nyberg (Umeå University, Sweden)
Laure Rondi-Reig (Sorbonne University, France)
Yaakov Stern (Columbia University, USA)
Tony Wyss-Coray (Stanford University, USA)