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IZN Scientific EventsIZN Retreat 2018

The gut-brain axis in health and disease

In this IZN retreat, participants gained insight into the two-way signaling pathway between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system.

IZN Retreat Program 2018

Invited Speakers 2018

Table

Speaker	Institute	Talk Title

Speaker	Institute	Talk Title
Michael Schemann	Technical University Munich	Enteric nervous system structure and function
Vassilis Pachnis	The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom	Enteric nervous system development
Emeran Mayer	G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA	Gut microbes and the brain: a paradigm shift in neuroscience
Beate Niesler	Institute of Human Genetics, Heidelberg University Hospital	Resolving the enigma of genetics in irritable bowel syndrome: a gut-brain disorder
Lukan van Oudenhove	TARGID, Leuven, Belgium	Brain imaging in functional GI disorders and correlation to functional traits
Stefanie Kürten	Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg	Central nervous system diseases and the gastrointestinal tract
Annarita Patrizi	German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg	Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating the maturation of GABAergic interneurons
Amit Agarwal	Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty Heidelberg	Decoding calcium signals in astrocytes
Claudio Acuna Goycolea	Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical Faculty Heidelberg	My two cents...

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