Speakers and Abstracts
 
Prof. Tim Bliss, FRS
tbliss@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
"Neurogenetic strategies in the study of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory"

Dr. Paul Chapman
chapmanPF@cardiff.ac.uk
School of Bioscience, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
"Transgenic models of human degenerative disease"

Dr. Gerry Dawson
gerry_dawson@merck.com
Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, Neuroscience Research Centre, Terlings Park, Harlow, Essex, UK
"Assessing learning and memory in transgenic mice: No cause for anxiety"

Prof. Howard Eichenbaum
hbe@play.by.edu
Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, USA.
"Hippocampal function with a focus on single unit recording"

Prof. Paul Flecknall
Comparative Biology Centre, Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
"Science and Society: the legal ethical and pragmatic issues involved in the design and conduct of animal experiments"

Dr. Karl-Peter Giese
p.giese@ucl.ac.uk
Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.
"The use of targeted point mutants in the study of learning and memory"

Dr. Seth Grant
sgrant@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk
Department of Neuroscience and Centre for Genome Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
"The NMDA receptor-PSD95 multi-protein signalling complex: a central mechanism for the induction of synaptic plasticity"

Dr. Lucia Jacobs
squirrel@sokrates.berkley.edu
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
"The ecology and evolution of hippocampal function"

Prof. Barry Keverne, FRS
ebk10@cus.cam.ac.uk
Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
"Genomic Imprinting, Brain Development and Behaviour"

Prof. Rick Lathe
rlathe@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk
Centre for Genome Research, Roger Land Building, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh, UK.

"Techniques for the Transgenic Manipulation of Mice"
and
"All that glisters is not gold – genes, transgenesis and behavior"

Prof. Hans-Peter Lipp
hplipp@anatomie.unizh.ch
Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
"Beyond the rim of Morris’ maze: targeted gene deletions, thigmotaxis, mossy fibres and ecological brain research"

Dr. Isabelle Mansuy
isabelle.mansuy@cell.biol.ethz.ch
Institute of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland.
"A genetic approach to the role of calcineurin in synaptic plasticity, learning and memory"

Dr. Jacques Micheau
micheau@neurocog.u-bordeaux.fr
Laboratory of Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience, Talence Cedex, France.
"Modelling human memory in mice: a challenge to cognitive neuroscientists"

Dr. Derek Rogers
Derek_C_Rogers@sbphrd.com
Neuroscience Research, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Harlow, Essex, UK.
"SHIRPA – A Comprehensive Behavioural Characterisation of the Phenotype of Mouse Mutation"

Prof. John Mullins
Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh Medical School, UK.
"Using transgenic animals to study cardiovascular disease" (no abstract)

Dr. Neil Watt
Animal Scientific Procedures Inspectorate, The Home Office, Dundee, UK.
"Science and Society: the legal ethical and pragmatic issues involved in the design and conduct of animal experiments"

Dr. Lawrence Wilkinson
lawrence.wilkinson@bbsrc.ac.uk
The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
"Applying operant methods to mouse behaviour with particular reference to visuospatial attentional functioning"

Prof. Richard Morris
R.G.M.Morris@ed.ac.uk
Department of Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
"Introduction to Mouse Transgenics and Behaviour"

Dr. David Wolfer
dpwolfer@swissonline.ch
Department of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
"Is it the Mutation or the Genetic Background? Lessons from Meta-Analysis of Water-Maze Experiments"
Additionally: Slides in PDF-format

Demonstrators and affiliations

Dr Sabrina Davis CNRS, Orsay, Paris, France.
Dr Jennifer Inglis Department of Neuroscience, Univ. Edinburgh.
Dr Matt Jones N.I.M.R., Mill Hill, London, UK.
Ms Jane Knox Department of Neuroscience, Univ. Edinburgh.
Dr Stephen Martin Department of Neuroscience, Univ. Edinburgh.
Mr Mark Ramsay  School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales.
Dr David Reynolds Merck, Sharpe and Dohme Ltd., Harlow, UK
Mr Christopher Spratt Fujisawa Institute for Neuroscience, Univ. Edinburgh.