II Portuguese-Brazilian Colloquium
on Neurochemistry
II
Colóquio Luso-Brasileiro de Neuroquímica
Búzios,
Brazil, 2008
Organizing
committee:
Ana Sebastião
(Univ. Lisboa)
João Malva (Univ. Coimbra)
Fernando Garcia de Mello (Univ. Fed.
Rio de Janeiro)
Roberto Paes-de-Carvalho (Univ. Fed.
Fluminense)
Program
September
1st, 2008
8:00
Opening session
8:30
Opening conference: J. Alexandre Ribeiro
(Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
“35 YEARS OF NEUROPHARMACOLOGY”
DEVOTED TO KNOWLEDGE TO PROTECT THE
BRAIN
International
Society for Neurochemistry Symposium:
Neurotransmitters, Glia and Development
First
part:
Chair:
Roberto Paes-de-Carvalho
9:30 Ana Sebastião (Instituto
de Medicina Molecular, Universidade
de. Lisboa, Portugal)
“Modulation of GABA transport
at nerve endings and astrocytes”
9:55
Fernando G. de Mello (Instituto
de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil))
“Dopaminergic default in purified
cultured Muller glia”
10:20
Coffee break
10:40
João Malva (Centro de
Neurociências e Biologia Celular,
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
“Inflammation and neuronal survival”
11:05
Carlos Alberto Gonçalves
(Departamento de Bioquímica,
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil)
“Neurotransmitter-modulated secretion
of S100B, an astrocyte-derived neurotrophic
protein”
11:30
António Francisco Ambrósio
(Instituto Biomédico de Investigação
da Luz e Imagem, Universidade de Coimbra,
Portugal)
“Diabetic retinopathy: inside
and beyond microvascular dysfunction”
11:55
Mariana Silveira (Instituto
de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
“The role of the neuropeptide
PACAP in cell proliferation of retinal
progenitors”
12:20
Lunch
Second part
Chair: João Malva
14:00 João Relvas
(Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular,
Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
“Extracellular regulation of myelination”
14:25
Roberto Paes-de-Carvalho (Instituto
de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Niterói, Brasil)
“Glutamate and nitric oxide regulate
multiple signaling cascades leading
to CREB phosphorylation in cultured
retinal cells”
14:50
Rodrigo Cunha (Centro de Neurociências
e Biologia celular, Universidade de
Coimbra, Portugal)
“Caffeine, adenosine A2A receptor
antagonists and memory”
15:15
Coffee break
15:35
Cláudio Serfaty (Instituto
de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Niterói, Brasil)
“Serotonergic modulation on development
and plasticity of visual pathways”
16:00
Miguel Castelo Branco (Instituto
Biomédico de Investigação
da Luz e Imagem, Universidade de Coimbra,
Portugal)
“Non-motor manifestations in Parkinson’s
Disease: implications for neurochemical
models of disease pathophysiology”
16:25
Marcelo Santiago (Instituto
de Ciências Biomédicas,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil)
“Intravitreal transplantation
of Mononuclear bone marrow cells increase
retinal ganglion cell survival and axon
regeneration in the adult rat”
17:30
First Poster session of NeuroLatam
19:30
Opening session of I NeuroLatam
