INC Day 2017 - Brain and Epigenetics - 16 octobre 2017 - Paris

INC Day 2017
Brain and Epigenetics
16 octobre 2017 – Paris
L’Institut Neurosciences et Cognition organise tous les ans depuis 2014 une journée scientifique internationale. Le thème choisi pour l’INC Day 2017 est Cerveau et Epigénétique.
Aucune inscription n’est requise.
Amphithéâtre Vulpian, locomotion
Université Paris Descartes,
12 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris
Organizers:
Jacqueline Fagard (Laboratoire psychologie de la Perception, UMR 8242 CNRS -Paris Descartes),
Valérie Mezger (Epigénétique et Destin Cellulaire, UMR7216 CNRS – Paris Diderot),
Claire Legay (Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie, UMR8119 CNRS – Paris Descartes)
Claude Meunier (Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie, UMR8119 CNRS – Paris Descartes)
Program:
9:00-9:30: Breakfast and Welcome Address
9:30-10:30: Keynote Lecture : “EPIGENETICS IN DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE : LESSONS FROM THE X CHROMOSOME” by Edith Heard, Collège de France, Paris
10:30-12:30: From Biochemical mechanisms to Pathology
TBA
Jonathan Weitzman (Epigénétique et destin cellulaire, Paris Diderot) :
Epigenome and transcriptome changes across tissues during mouse aging
Bérénice Benayoun (University of Southern California, Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles) :
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease
Johannes Gräff (Neuro-Epigenetics Laboratory – UPGRAEFF, Lausanne, Switzerland) :
12:30-14:00 Lunch in Galerie Saint-Germain
14:00-16:00 Epigenetics and Brain development
The 3D genome fingerprint of neuronal differentiation
Giacomo Cavalli (Institut de Génétique humaine, Montpellier) :
A glance through epigenetic brain sex differences
Claudine Junien (INRA and UVSQ) :
Maternal stress and epigenetic programming of the developing brain
Tracy Bale (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA):
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18h30: An epigenetic determinism?
Epigenetic considerations for behavioral addictions: Gene and environmental contributions to gambling disorder Marc Potenza (University of Yale, USA) :
Brain Evolution and Neurodevelopmental Disorders : From Genetics to Epigenetics
Ernesto Burgio (ECERI, Brussels, Belgium and ISDE, Arezzo, Italy) :
Epigenetics and the anti-reductionist promise: just an epistemological mirage?
Francesca Merlin (Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne)
18:30-19:00 Conclusion and Refreshments