Fundamental and applied sciences should converge to speed up translational research.
This time comes up for connectomics.
After a decade of productive fundamental research around connectomes, a large amount of knowledge could be integrated in clinical neuroscience. Among the brain regions, the deep brain is the forgotten continent of this translational research. Deep gray matter and white matter territories are organized in a complex manner, and their exploration, whether structural or functional, is still difficult.
The aim of this first DEEP BRAIN CONNECTOMICS symposium is to create an event for all the people working directly or indirectly in this field, sharing their experiences, which in return will stimulate translational research.
This first Symposium on DEEP BRAIN CONNECTOMICS is held in France, as an International satellite symposium of the IBMISPS-SBMT society, and under the auspices of the French's Institutes of Health and Technology and of Neuroscience.
It will be held at the Auvergne University, in Clermont-Ferrand, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29, September 2012.
On behalf of the organizing committee, welcome to this scientific event, at the frontier of cutting edge basic science and clinical neurosciences. Many people suffering of neurological diseases wait for new medical solutions that should benefit of our debates.
Everything will be done to offer to all speakers and participants, the optimal conditions for a fruitful meeting, within a convivial environment.
We already thank all our sponsors showing their interest in this stimulating domain and helping us to make this event a success.
Kind regards.
Jean-Jacques Lemaire MD, PhD Professor of Neurosurgery Auvergne University - CHU Clermont-Ferrand Research Unit EA IGCNC Image-Guided Clinical Neuroscience and Connectomics, UMR 6284 ISIT
Opening Addresses
Jean-Jacques Lemaire President of the DBC 2012
Jean Chazal Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Francois Dumuis Head of the Regional Agency of Health
Alain Eschalier ResearchDeputy director, Auvergne University, France
Jacques Grassi Head ITMO Health and Technology, Paris, France
Babak Kateb Founding Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO and Scientific Director Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics (SBMT)
Already confirmed speakers : International leaders
Fabien Almairac - MD, PhD, Neurosurgical department, University hospital Nice,
France
Paul Avan - MD, PhD, U1107 Inserm, Team Neurosensory biophysics, Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Jean-Marie Bonny - INRA, UR370 Theix
Pierre Burbaud - MD, PhD, Prof of Neurology, functional exploration, CHU Pellegrin, Université Bordeaux 2 Segalen
Christopher Butson - PhD, Assoc Prof Neurology and Neurosurgery, Medical
College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Franck Durif - MD, PhD, Prof Neurology, Service of Neurology, NPsy-Sydo EA 7280, Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Matthieu Gallopin - PhD, Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Stéphane Gobron - Neuronax, CEO; Clermont-Ferrand, France
Kenneth P. Green - MD; Commander, (DC) US Navy, Washington, DC, USA
Vikash Gupta - PhD, Inria, Nice, France
Patric Hagmann - MD, PhD, Department of Radiology University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Christopher Hess - MD, PhD, San Francisco VA Medical Center Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging University of California, San Francisco, USA
Pierre Jannin - PhD, Inserm, LTSI, MediCIS, University of Rennes 1, France
Ron Kikinis - MD, Prof Medical Imaging, SPL, Boston, USA
Jean-Jacques Lemaire - MD, PhD, Prof Neurosurgery, Service of Neurosurgery, EA 7282, Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Christophe Lenglet - PhD, Department of Radiology, Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Wladimir Litvak - PhD, Lecturer, Welcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London, UK
Jacques Luauté - MD, PhD, Prof Rehabilitation, HCL, Lyon 1; Inserm UMR-S 864, 69500 Bron, France
Luc Mallet - MD, PhD, Team - Behavior, Emotion, and Basal Ganglia UPMC - Inserm UMR_S 975 - CNRS UMR 7225, ICM – Brain & Spine Institute Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Andre Marreiros - PhD, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, UK
Yves Maurin - UR1197 Jouy en Josas, France
Stéphane Palfi - MD, PhD, APH Henri Mondor Créteil, Innovative Functional treatments, Paris XII University, Mircen, Fontenay aux Roses, France
Nadine Peyriéras - PhD,CNRS-NED Institut of Neurobiology Alfred Fessard, Gif sur Yvette, France
Roland Peyron - MD, Neurologist, Pain Center, Saint Etienne; Central Integration of Pain Lab - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM, U1028, France
Louis Puybasset - MD, Neuro Intensive Care Unit, Pitié Salpétrière Paris, France
Michael Roy - MD, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, USA
Laurent Sakka - MD, DVM, Msc, Neurosurgeon, EA 7282, Auvergne University
Jean-Philippe Thiran - PhD, Signal Processing Laboratory 5, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Switzerland
J Yelnik - MD, CRICM UPMC/Inserm UMR_S 975, CNRS UMR 7225, La Pitié Salptérière, CNRS UMR 5293, Paris, France
Deborah Zelinsky - O.D., F.N.O.R.A., Northbrook, IL, USA
