[BBC] final program invited lectures symposium Radboud University Nijmegen 6 september

[elenam at cs.ru.nl]

Dear Colleague,

Please find below the final program of the invited lectures of the  
one-day symposium on the integrative analysis of brain diseases to be  
held at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (see  
http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/program).

A pdf version of the program with abstracts of talks can be downloaded at
http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/files/program-with-abstracts.pdf

Registration at http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/registration

Could you please distribute this information to your colleagues?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Elena Marchiori
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Program
Thursday 6 September 2012

Opening: Elena Marchiori and Inge Huitinga
9:00 – 9:30 	Registration, coffee and opening

Session 1: Brain Banks
Chair: James Ironside

9:30 – 10:20 	Jean-Paul Vonsattel – Director of the New York Brain  
Bank at Columbia University The NYBB at Columbia University and donor  
data

10:20 – 11:10 	Maree Webster – Director SMRI Brain Collection and  
Research Laboratory The Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI)  
Brain Collection and Database

11:10 – 11:30 	Coffee break

Session 2: Data Mining and Machine Learning
Chair: Pedro Larranaga

11:30 – 12:20 	Sophia Ananiadou – Director of the National Centre for  
Text Mining (NaCTeM) Extracting Events of Biological Relevance from Text

12:20 – 13:10 	Yves Moreau – KU Leuven ESAT-SCD & SymBioSys Center for  
Computational Systems Biology Candidate Gene Prioritization by Genomic  
Data Fusion

13:10 – 14:00	Lunch break

Session 3: Clinical and Pathological Studies
Chair: Peter Lucas

14:00 – 14:50 	Amanda Kiliaan – Department of Anatomy/Cognitive  
Neurosciences, Radboud University Nijmegen On Diet and the Brain: from  
mice to men

14:50 – 15:40 	Harro Seelaar – Erasmus MC Genetic background of  
frontotemporal dementia and its relation with the neuropathology

15:40 – 16:00 	Coffee break

16:00 – 16:40 	Tineke van Veen – Dept. of Psychiatry, Leiden  
University Medical Centre, The Netherlands Cross-linking pathological  
and clinical observations in depression and anxiety: building a  
genetic bridge

16:40 – 17:10 	Inge Huitinga and Elena Marchiori – Netherlands Brain  
Bank & Radboud University Machine Learning in Action: Mining the  
Netherlands Brain Bank

17:10 – 18:00 	Closure and Drinks