Program

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VI ENCONTRO
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FÓRUM INTERNACIONAL
DE INVESTIGADORES PORTUGUESES - FIIP

 

 

Brain, Life, and Culture

CÉREBRO, VIDA E CULTURA

Lisboa, 18 a 20 de Dezembro de 2008

Instituto de Medicina Molecular,
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa

Final version – December 2008

Thursday, December 18

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9:00 | Opening Session (Aula Magna, Faculdade de Medicina da UL)

• António Costa (Presidente da Câmara de Lisboa)
• António Sampaio da Nóvoa (Reitor da Universidade de Lisboa)
• Irene Fonseca (Presidente do FIIP)
• João Lobo Antunes (Presidente IMM)
• João Sentieiro (Presidente da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
• José Fernandes e Fernandes (Director da Faculdade de Medicina)
• José Mariano Gago (Ministro da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior)
• Luis Magalhães (UMIC)
• Rosalia Vargas (Ciência Viva)

10:00 | Coffee Break (Edifício Egas Moniz, floor 01)

10:30 | Inaugural Conference (Auditório 57, Edifício Egas Moniz, floor 01)

• Onésimo Almeida (Brown University)
  "Cultura versus natureza - uma revisitação de um cada vez mais actual debate"
• José Príncipe (University of Florida)
  "Neurotechnology for Rehabilitation and Beyond!

11:30 | Computational Approaches to Neuroscience and Biology
Chairs: Tiago Maia & Fernando Lopes da Silva

• Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Itália)
  "Is our life in the hippocampus? Or our culture, perhaps?"
• Wolfram Erlhagen (Universidade do Minho)
  "Neural Circuits underlying action understranding and goal inference: A modelling approach"
• J. Santos-Victor (Instituto Superior Técnico)
  "Recent results in learning and development in humanoid robots"
• Luis Amaral (Northwestern University)
  "Spinning a web of tales about SARS, fishing, and multiplying"

13:00 | Lunch + Posters

14:30 | Cognitive Psychology and Education
Chairs: Nuno Crato

• Alexandre Castro Caldas (Inst. de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
• Francisco Lacerda (Departamento de Linguística da Universidade Sweden)
  "On the infant's discovery of linguistic structure"
• Helena Damião (Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra)
  "Capacidades intelectuais e esquemas de ensino"
• José Morais (Unidade de Investigação em Neurociências Cognitivas Universidade Livre de Bruxelas - UBL)
  "Some implications of cognitive psychology for the learning of reasoning, visual cognition, attention and reading ability"

16:00 | Coffee Break + Posters

16:30 | Round Table - Science and Religion
Moderator: Guilherme Valente (Gradiva)

• João Caraça (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)
• Luciano Ravara (Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa)
• Michel Renaud (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Gerald Schatten (Pittsburgh Development Center, USA)
• António Coutinho (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)
  

19:00 | Bioart Exhibit with Wine and Cheese

• Joana Ricou
• Marta de Menezes
• Pedro Pinto da Silva

Friday, December 19

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9:00 | Molecular and developmental Neuroscience
Chairs: Sofia Araújo & Tiago Fleming Outeiro

• Rui Costa (NIH, USA)
  "Dichotomous effects of phasic dopamine on reinforcement learning revealed by cell-type specific NMDA receptor deletion"
• Odete Cruz e Silva (Center for Cell Biology, Universidade de Aveiro)
  "A molecular perspective of Alzheimer's Disease"
• Gerald Schatten (Pittsburgh Development Center, USA)
• Diogo Castro (NIMR, UK)
  "The Transcriptional program of the proneural factor Mash1 revealed by genomic location analysis"

10:30 | Coffee Break

11:00 | Round Table – Biomaterials and Biosensors
Chair: Raquel Soares

• Pedro Granja (INEB)
• João Pedro Conde (INESC, IST)
• Eduardo Silva (Harvard University, USA)

13:00 | Free Lunch (several available options on Campus)

14:00 | Artificial Life and Intelligence
Chairs: Luís Rocha

• Pedro Lima (IST)
  "Engineering or Emergence? Experiences with Robot Collectives"
• Vitorino Ramos (IST)
• Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
  "Multi-Robot Intelligence: Teamwork and Learning from Demonstration"

15:30 | Coffee Break + Posters

16:00 | Behaviour, Learning and Memory
Chairs: Edgar Cruz e Silva

• Ana Sebastião (Instituto de Medicina Molecular)
  "Fast and transient inhibition of nicotinic α7 currents in hippocampal interneurons by Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor - BDNF"
• George Perry (University of Texas, San Antonio, USA)
• Zach Mainen (Champalimaud Neurosciences Program)
• Marta Moita (Champalimaud Neurosciences Program)

17:30 | Sciences versus Science
Chair: Maria Elvira Calapez

• António Feijó (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa)
  "Physical posits and Homeric "
• Maria Ana Valdez (FLUL/Yale University, USA)
  "Hope and Faith at the eve of the Age of Reason: the case of António Vieira"
• Álvaro Santos Pereira (Simon Fraser University)
  "The State of Play: The economic impact of science and R&D activities in Portugal"

Saturday, December 20
(Edíficio Egas Moniz, Grande Auditório)

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9:00 | Round Table – “Informal Science Learning - The role of Scientists”
Chair: Sofia Jorge Araújo

• Ana Godinho (Head of Science Communication and Outreach, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)
• António Gomes da Costa (Director do Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva)
• Paulo Gama Mota (Director, Museu da Ciência de Coimbra)
• Ana Saldanha (Escritora)
• Constança Providência (Professora, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra)
• Marta Agostinho (Unidade de Comunicação & Formação, Instituto de Medicina Molecular)

10:30 | Coffee Break + Posters

11:30 | Decision Making, Ethics And the Brain
Chair: Miguel Castelo Branco "Perceptual decision-making: addressing uncertainty"

• Alan Sanfey (Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA)
  "Decision Neuroscience: new approaches to the study of social decision-making"
• Hauke Heekeren (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
  "A multi-level perspective on the neurocognition of decision making"
• Ricardo Gil da Costa (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)
  "Integrating Cognitive Neurosciences: a perspective on emerging factors, challenges and neuroethical implications"

13:00 | Lunch

14:00 | The Musical Brain
Chair: Carlos Fiolhais and Filipa Lã

• Helena Rodrigues (FCSH Universidade de Lisboa)
  "A Música e o bebé: das práticas artísticas à observação e à formulação de questões sobre o comportamento humano"
• Carlota Simões (Universidade de Coimbra)
  "Mozart e a matemática" ou à descoberta dos sons"
• Jorge Matta (FCSH Universidade de Lisboa)
  "Do manuscrito ao CD, um percurso singular"

15:30 | Coffee Break + Posters

16:00 | Portuguese Brain Council - Kick off initiative

• Fernando Lopes da Silva
• Tiago Maio
• João Malva
• Tiago Outeiro
• Armando Machado

17:00 | General Assembly FIIP

18:00 | Closing Ceremony

• Irene Fonseca (President of FIIP)

20:00 | Closing Dinner* (Hotel Mundial, Praça Martim Moniz, nº2 Lisboa)

* Limited Attendance.



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