Fri, 15th Nov
Mini-Symposium: Somatosensory Neuroscience
Venue: 1F Auditorium (B106), Interdisciplinary Research Building (IST)
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-10:40 Opening Remark
10:40-11:10 EMBO Global Lecture:
Dr. John Wood (UCL, UK)
From Genes to Drugs
11:20-11:50 Dr. Hiroshi Ueda (Kyoto U, JP)
The Role of LPA in Pain Associated Fibromyalgia and Peripheral Neuropathy
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Dr. Geoffrey Woods (Cambridge, UK)
How the First Gene to Cause Primary Microcephaly was Discovered; Microcephalin - and Its Link to ZICA
13:40-14:10 Dr. Delphine Bichet (CNRS, FR)
THIK Group K2P Channels Involved in Acute and Inflammatory Pain
14:20-14:50 Dr. Chun-Hsiang Tan (KMU, TW)
TRP Channels and Thermosensation
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00 Dr. Kuo-Shen Lee (AS, TW)
LTMRs and their Central Circuits
16:10-16:40 Dr. Sung-Tsang Hsieh (NTU, TW)
Connectome in Neuropathic Pain of Nerve Degeneration
16:50-17:20 Dr. Kathleen Sluka (U Iowa, US)
Sex Differences in the Development of Muscle Pain
17:30-17:40 Closing Remark
18:00 Welcome Banquet
