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Prof. Dr. Michael Lazarus

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International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8575, Japan
Interests: sleep; motivation; arousal; sleep function; neural circuits; opto-biology/pharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Volkmar Lessmann

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Institute of Physiology, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Interests: synaptic plasticity; spike timing-dependent plasticity, STDP; hippocampus; cortex; amygdala; BDNF; neurotrophins; peptide secretion; learning and memory; Alzheimer's disease; neuromodulation; dopamine; electrophysiology; fluorescence microscopy

Prof. Dr. Joachim Lübke

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1. Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine INM-10, Research Centre Jülich GmbH, Leo-Brandt Str., 52425 Jülich, Germany
2. JARA-BRAIN-Translational Medicine, Aachen, Germany
Interests: anatomy and physiology of cortical and hippocampal networks in experimental animals and in humans in health and disease; structure and function of synapses; neurotransmitter receptors and synaptic proteins; neurodegenerative and neurological disorders

Dr. Matteo Lucchini

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Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Interests: multiple sclerosis; inflammatory myopathies

Prof. Dr. Michele Maffia

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Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, Via Lecce—Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: cell physiology and differentiation; adaptive physiology; neurodegeneration; cancer biology; functional proteomics
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Dr. Michelangelo Mancuso

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Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Neurological Institute, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: mitochondria; mitochondrial disease
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Dr. Matteo Marti

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Department of Translational Medicine, Section of Legal Medicine and LTTA Centre, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Interests: pharmaco-toxicology of drug abuse; novel psychoactive substances; forensic toxicology; sex/gender differences; safety pharmacology studies
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Prof. Dr. Manuel Menéndez-González

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Department of Medicine, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Interests: neurology; Alzheimer; frontotemporal dementia; Lewy; Parkinson; cerebrospinal fluid
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Prof. Dr. Nicola B. Mercuri

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IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; autoimmune diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system; neuroprotective drugs
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Prof. Dr. A. Messina

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Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: voltage dependent anion channels–mitochondria–amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Prof. Dr. Massimo Milione

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Division of Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
Interests: gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors; lung neuroendocrine tumors; biliary tract and pancreas neoplasms
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Prof. Dr. Puliyur S. MohanKumar

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Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: animal model; rats; anatomy; endocrinology; neuroanatomy; neuroendocrinology
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Prof. Dr. Elek Molnár

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School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
Interests: molecular and cellular basis of learning and memory; synaptic plasticity; long-term depression/potentiation (LTD/LTP); development; synapses; receptor function and localisation; signalling; postsynaptic density; GABA; glutamate receptors; NMDA; AMPA; kainate; myelination; oligodendrocytes; white matter damage; epilepsy; neuropharmacology; immunocytochemistry; membrane biochemistry; microscopy

Prof. Dr. Changjong Moon

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College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
Interests: behavioral neuroscience; cognitive function; emotional regulation; prefrontal cortex; hippocampus; molecular neurobiology
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Dr. Hyo Eun Moon

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Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea
Interests: brain cancer; therapeutics; translational research
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Prof. Dr. Micaela Morelli

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Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Interests: neurodegeneration; Parkinson’s disease; amphetamine-like drugs; adenosine A2A receptors
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Prof. Dr. Ludmilla A. Morozova-Roche

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Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, UmeaUniversity, 90781 Umea, Sweden
Interests: biophysics; amyloid formation; amyloid cytotoxicity; protein misfolding; amyloid- neuroinflammatory cascade; amyloid diagnostics and prognostics; neurodegenerative diseases
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Mroczko

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Department of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland
Interests: neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation; neurodegenerative diseases; neurodevelopmental disorders; tumor markers; specific proteins
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Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Nakanishi

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Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Yasuda Women’s University, Yasuhigashi, Hiroshima 731-0153, Japan
Interests: microglia; brain inflammation; cathepsins; Alzheimer's disease; porphyromonas gingivalis
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Dr. Salvatore Oddo

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres, 31, 98168 Messina, Italy
Interests: Alzheimer's disease; genetically modified mice; APP; amyloid beta; brain aging; learning and memory; neurodegeneration; necroptosis; tau; tangles
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Prof. Dr. Yohei Okada

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Department of Neural iPSC Research, Institute for Medical Science of Aging, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute 480-1195, Aichi, Japan
Interests: embryonic stem cells; induced pluripotent stem cells; neural stem cells; neural development; disease specific iPSCs; neurodegenerative diseases; motor neuron diseases

Prof. Dr. Kenjiro Ono

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Department of Neurology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan
Interests: neurology; dementia; Alzheimer’s disease; Lewy body diseases; amyloid, oligomer; protein aggregation
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Dr. Toshiyuki Oshitari

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Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Inohana 1-8-1, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Interests: diabetic retinopathy; neuronal cell death; neurovascular units; axonal degeneration; glial changes; vascular abnormalities; neuroprotection; regeneration; optic coherence tomography; visual function
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Dr. Robert P. Ostrowski

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Department of Neurooncology, Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5 St., 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: brain inflammation; myelin Injury; subarachnoid hemorrhage
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Prof. Dr. Saak Victor Ovsepian

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Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich London, Chatham Maritime ME4 4TB, UK
Interests: cholinergic neuron diseases; Alzheimer’s and Dementia; neuron
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Prof. Dr. Mercè Pallàs

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Pharmacology Section, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Institute of Neuroscience, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: ageing; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's disease; neuropharmacology; oxidative stress; mitochondria; proteostasis; epigenetics
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Prof. Dr. Maria Anttonietta Panaro

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Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: inflammation; microglia; astrocytes; neurodegeneration; Parkinson's disease; neuroinflammation; immune system; brain; inflammatory bowel diseases
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Prof. Dr. Michele Papa

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Laboratory of Neuronal Networks Morphology and System Biology, Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Campania ‘‘Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: neuroinflammation; astrocytes; synaptic plasticity; nerve growth factor; vagus nerve stimulation
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Prof. Dr. Jae H. Park

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Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Interests: cell death

Prof. Dr. Massimo Pasqualetti

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Unit of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Interests: memory; hippocampal; autism

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