Programme

Day 1 - Monday, 1 September 2008

0800-0900 Registration of participants
0900-0920 Conference Opening Ceremony

Welcome Address
Chairman, Organizing Committee

Opening Address
Guest-of-Honour

Session 1: Ageing and Dementia
0920-0955 Isoprostanes and related compounds in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Jason Morrow
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA
0955-1030 AB(1-42)-Mediated Oxidative Stress in Brain of Subjects with Alzheimer.s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Insights into the Progression of This Dementing Disorder from Redox Proteomics
Allan Butterfield
University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
1030-1105 Knowledge-based screening for neuroactive compounds from Traditional Chinese medicine
Nancy Ip
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
1105-1125 Coffee break
1125-1200 Biochemical mechanisms of neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease David Small
Biochemical mechanisms of neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease
1200-1235 Novel insight into the role of tau in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinsonism
Jurgen Gotz
Brain and Mind Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
1235-1310 Role of testosterone and gonadotropins on beta amyloid metabolism in AD
Ralph Martins
Edith Cowan University
1310-1430 Lunch Break

Session 2: Molecular Basis of Neural Disorders
1430-1505 Brain circuitry and epistatic gene mechanisms of psychosis - dopamine and beyond
Tan Hao-Yang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
1505-1540 Molecular mechanisms of antipsychotics
Yong Sik Kim
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1540-1600 Coffee Break
1600-1635 Ligand-dependent interactions of the 5-HT2A receptor
Mitradas Panicker
Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
1635-1710 Impact of stress on cells and synapses in the amygdala: implications for anxiety disorders
Sumantra Chatterji
Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India