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Prof. Dr. Graziano Pinna

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Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Dr. Christina Piperi

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Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece
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Prof. Dr. Aurel Popa-Wagner

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1. Department of Neurology, Chair of Vascular Neurology and Dementia, University Hospital Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
2. Center for Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, 200349 Craiova, Romania
Interests: genomics; proteomics; brain; epilepsy; aging; neurogenesis; stroke; behavior
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Dr. Domenico Antonio Restivo

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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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Prof. Dr. Paola Rocca

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Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: psychiatric research
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Dr. Philippe Rondard

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Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Interests: neuropharmacology; molecular pharmacology; structure-function; G protein-coupled receptor; GPCR; GABA-B; nanobody; single domain antibody; FRET

Prof. Dr. Akiyoshi Saitoh

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Laboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
Interests: neuropharmacology; neuropsychopharmacology; opioid; anxiety; depression; reward; fear; antidepressant; anxiolytics; animal model
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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Sancesario

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Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi, Università di Roma 2 Tor Vergata, 00133 Roma, Italy
Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; Parkinson disease; dystonia, movement disorders; neuropathology, proteinopathy; oligomers; lipids in neurodegenerative diseases
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Prof. Dr. Frank Schmitz

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Department of Neuroanatomy, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany
Interests: retina; ribbon synapses; synaptic ribbon; active zone; synaptic signaling in photoreceptor ribbon synapses
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Prof. Dr. Menahem Segal

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Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute, Herzl St 234, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Interests: electrophysiology; cultured neurons; memory; neuromodulation
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Prof. Dr. Seiji Shioda

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Department of Functional Morphology, Shonan University of Medical Sciences, 16-48 Kamishinano, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244-0806, Japan
Interests: VIP; PACAP; neuroprotection; neurogenesis
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Dr. Denis N. Silachev

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1. Laboratory of Biochemistry of Motor Systems, A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
2. Laboratory Stem Cells Technology, V.I. Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: extracellular vesicles; cerebral ischemia; stroke; brain trauma; mitochondrial traffic; neuroprotection; ischemic preconditioning; autophagy; aging; intercellular communication
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Prof. Dr. Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis

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Institute of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Division of Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre Alexander Fleming, 16672 Vari, Attika, Greece
Interests: mechanisms of associative and nonassciative learning and memory; Drosophila and mouse models of intelectual disability; neurological and psychiatric conditions
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Dr. Daniel Skuk

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Axe Neurosciences, Research Center of the CHU de Quebec-CHUL and Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada
Interests: muscular dystrophy; degenerative myopathy

Prof. Dr. Sandro Sonnino

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Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milano, 20054 Milano, Italy
Interests: gangliosides; Parkinson’s disease; mebrane organization; complex lipids; sphingosine; ceramide
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Dr. Magdalena Sowa-Kućma

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Department of Human Physiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, Kopisto 2a, 35-310 Rzeszow, Poland
Interests: antidepressants; glutamte receptors; Epigenetic; depression
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Prof. Dr. Veronika Stoka

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Structural Biology, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: aging; neurodegeneration; neurodegenerative diseases; cysteine cathepsins; cystatins
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Prof. Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya

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College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Interests: stem cell; Alzheimer’s disease; neurodegenerative diseases; down syndrome; regeneration therapy; cancer stem cell; exosome
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Prof. Dr. Per Svenningsson

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Department of Clinical Neuroscience (CNS), Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: aging diseases; Parkinson’s disease; neuroscience; neuropharmacology; polyQ diseases; move-ment disorders; G-proteins; molecular mechanisms of p11/S100a; animal models of Parkinson’s disease; Gaucher disease; optogenetics; signal transduction; genetics of Parkinson’s disease
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Prof. Dr. Karen K. Szumlinski

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Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Interests: behavioral neuroscience; addiction, alcoholism; stimulants; opioids; animal models; anxiety; psychosis
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Dr. Jana Tchekalarova

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Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Street, Block 23, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: neuroscience; neuropharmacology; antioxidants; neuroinflammation; models of neurodegenerative diseases; aging
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Dr. Carmine Tomasetti

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Laboratory of Translational and Molecular Psychiatry, Unit of Treatment-Resistant Psychosis, Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Sciences and Odontostomatology, University Medical School of Naples “Federico II”, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: neurosciences; neuropsychopharmacology; translational research; biological psychiatry; psychopharmacotherapeutics

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Tomita

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Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Graduate Course in Biological Sciences, Division of Science and Engineering, Iwate University, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka 020-8551, Iwate, Japan
Interests: photoreceptor degeneration; retinal development; retinal gene therapy
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Dr. Mattia Toni

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Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza University, Via A. Borelli 50, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: prion; prion-like proteins; synuclein; nervous system; zebrafish (Danio rerio)
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Dr. Hiroki Toyoda

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Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
Interests: synaptic transmission; synaptic plasticity; ion channel; electrophysiology; cortex; trigeminal system
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Dr. Karen Usdin

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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, MD, USA
Interests: fragile X–related disorders; repeat expansion diseases
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Prof. Dr. Maria Giuliana Vannucchi

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Histology and Embryology Research Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: morphology; neurochemistry; enteric nervous system; gut development; brain ischemia; brain aging; nitric oxide

Prof. Dr. László Vécsei

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1. HUN-REN-SZTE Neuroscience Research Group, Hungarian Research Network, University of Szeged (HUN-REN-SZTE), Danube Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Tisza Lajos krt. 113, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
2. Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Semmelweis u. 6, H-6725 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: multiple sclerosis; neurodegeneration; smouldering lesion; molecular pathology; novel therapies; kynurenines
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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Vitiello

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Dipartimento di Fisica ‘‘E.R.Caianiello’’, Università di Salerno, I-84100 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
Interests: elementary particle physics; condensed matter; quantum field theory; fractals; coherent states; mathematical models of brain; biological systems
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Dr. Maria Xilouri

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Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Athens, Greece
Interests: alpha-synuclein; autophagy; Multiple System Atrophy (MSA); neurodegenerative diseases; oligodendrocytes; Parkinson’s disease (PD); propagation
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