Maffei 90th Birthday Symposium
Organizers
Program
DAY 1 – Thursday, April 9
Auditorium Area della Ricerca CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa
10.00 Opening Remarks: Francesco Dotta | Director DSB CNR and Michela Fagiolini | Director IN CNR
10.10 Morning session
Chair: Tommaso Pizzorusso | Scuola Normale Superiore
10.15 Takao Hensch | Harvard University
Translating critical periods
10.45 Hannah Monyer | German Cancer Research Center
Exciting inhibition in health and disease
11.15 Michael Stryker | University of California, San Francisco
Competition without Competitors in Developing Visual Cortex
11.45 Wolf Singer | Max Planck Institute
The dynamic brain: Computing with oscillations and waves
12.15 End of morning session
12.30 Lunch
14.45 Afternoon session
Chair: Alessandro Cellerino | Scuola Normale Superiore
15.00 Graziella Di Cristo | Université de Montréal
Neurodevelopmental mechanisms linking cortical interneurons to autism-related phenotypes
15.30 Eero Castrén | University of Helsinki
Neuronal plasticity in the recovery from mood disorders
16.00 Tobias Bonhoeffer | Max Planck Institute
Of Spines and Engrams
16.30 Laura Cancedda | Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
…but always keep the human in mind
17.00 Mriganka Sur | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lamberto’s insights
17.30 Concluding remarks
DAY 2 – Friday, April 10
Sala Azzurra, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
14.45 Afternoon session
Chair: Lina Bolzoni | Accademia dei Lincei
15.00 Alessandro Schiesaro | Scuola Normale Superiore
Opening remarks
15.10 Salvatore Settis | Accademia dei Lincei
Un dialogo fra discipline, da Pisa a Los Angeles a Roma
15.35 Lina Bolzoni | Accademia dei Lincei
Lamberto, o dell’arte della memoria
16.00 Alain Prochiantz | Collège de France
Science, the diurnal and the nocturnal
16.25 Tommaso Spazzini Villa
In questo cielo nascosto tra noi
16.50 Sara Longo | singer
Matteo Anelli | double bassist
Per Lamberto: godersi il momento, canzoni in jazz, musical performance
17.20 Cardinale José Tolentino de Mendonça | Dicastero per la Cultura e l’Educazione della Santa Sede
Video connection
17.30 Tommaso Pizzorusso | Scuola Normale Superiore
Concluding remarks