ONWAR GRADUATE SCHOOL NEUROSCIENCES AMSTERDAM ROTTERDAM 5th Postgraduate ONWAR Course in Behavioral Neuroscience In vivo Phenotyping of Mutant Rodents: Integrating Neural Activity, Neurochemistry, Heart Rate & Behavior VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 24 - 29, 2015 Organizers: Oliver Stiedl, Tommy Pattij & Matthijs Verhage This postgraduate course aims at Ph.D. students and early post-docs interested in integrative approaches combining behavior research with electrophysiological, autonomic and neurochemical measures under physiological conditions. The course promotes advanced phenotyping of rodent models including novel approaches with a focus on aspects of psychopathology and cognitive dysfunction. Current topics are presented and experimental experience will be provided for several state-of-the-art techniques and analyses combining both theoretical aspects and practical approaches with the contribution of prominent expert scientists in the field. Guest speakers besides the organizers are: Roger Adan Lique M. Coolen Wim E. Crusio Ilan Golani Stephan von Hörsten Martien J.H. Kas Helmut W. Kessels Antonio Luchicchi Maarten Loos Denise Manahan-Vaughan Sabine Spijker Thomas Steckler Ingo Willuhn York Winter Participants: max. 24 University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, USA University Bordeaux, France Tel Aviv University, Israel University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Sylics BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands University Bochum, Germany VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Janssen R&D, Beerse, Belgium Amsterdam Medical Center, Netherlands Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Course Fee: 500 € Application deadline: June 30, 2015 For further information see: www.cncr.nl/research_teams/behavioral_neuroscience/behaviorcourse, www.onwar.nl/pages/courses/cpages/9.html www.fens.org/Training/Training-Grants-and-Stipends/NENS-Grants/Slots-in-national-courses-orprogrammes/ Supported by: