Symposium: Dr Reinhard Jahn and Dr Thomas C Südhof
The conferences are free of charge and open to the whole community of staff of the University of Paris-Saclay campus without registration.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Venue: Grand Amphi of ENS Paris-Saclay
Conference: Thursday 28 April 2022, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Organizers: IDA Institute
Programm
Of Molecules and Synapses
- 9.30 am: welcome of the participants with Bruno Le Pioufle (Director of IDA)
- 9.35 am: introduction to the lecture by Dr Reinhard Jahn (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen)
- 9h40-10h40: lecture by Dr Reinhard Jahn: "Membrane fusion mediated by SNARE-proteins - an update
- 10.40-10.50: questions and answers
- 10.55 am: introduction to the lecture by Dr Thomas Südhof (Stanford University, USA)
- 11h00-12h00 : lecture by Dr Thomas Südhof : "Towards a molecular logic of synaptic connections in neural circuits
- 12:00-12:10: questions and answers
- 12h15 : introduction to the lecture by Dr Isis N.O. Souza (Federal University of Rio Janeiro, Brazil)
- 12h15-12h40 : Dr Isis N.O. Souza lecture : "Is Zika still a thing? Long-term neurological consequences and therapeutic targets".
- 12h40-12h45 : questions and answers
Bios
Dr Reinhard Jahn
Reinhard Jahn is a biochemist known for his work on the structure and function of synaptic vesicles in neurons and the molecular mechanisms of exocytosis and membrane fusion.
He received many hornors: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2000), Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine (2006), 2008 Sir Bernhard Katz Award (with T.C. Südhof), 2013 Eduard Buchner Prize , Heinrich Wieland Prize (2014), German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), EMBO member, NAS Member, Academia Europaea Member, Heinrich Wieland Prize 2014 for paradigmatic studies on membrane fusion, synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter release, 2016 Balzan Prize for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.
Since 1997, Dr Jahn is the Director of The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Neurobiology, Goettingen, Germany.
Dr Thomas Südhof
Thomas Südhof is a neuroscientist whose work has described how neurons communicate with each other at synapses, and how such communication becomes impaired in neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases.
He is known particularly for the discovery of how synapses rapidly release neurotransmitters, and how neurons form synapses via engagement of trans-synaptic adhesion molecules. Thomas Südhof has received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (with R.H. Scheller) and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013.
Dr Südhof is the Avram Goldstein Professor, a professor of molecular and cellular physiology and of neurosurgery and, by courtesy, Professor of neurology and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr Isis N. O. Souza
Isis N. O. Souza is a EMBO postdoc fellow at ENS Paris-Saclay and Assistant Professor at Federal University of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. During her PhD, she established mice models for the study of neurological consequences of Zika virus infection in the developing and mature neural system.
She received the 23rd Young Talent Award in Life Sciences by the Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the CAPES Grand Thesis Award in the area of Health, Agrarian, Biological and Life Sciences.
She has a special interest in excitatory-inhibitory balance assessments in neurological diseases.