Mini-Symposium on Brain Development and Evolution

Venue: 1F Auditorium (B106), Interdisciplinary Research Building (IST)

Date: February 29th, 2024 (Thursday)

10:00               Registration & Morning Tea

11:00-11:10   Opening Remark

                        Dr. Hung-Chih Kuo, Academia Sinica, Taiwan   

Session I      Chair:  Dr. Y. Henry Sun                                      

11:10-11:50 Dr. Fumio Matsuzaki, Kyoto University, JP  

                        Common and species-specific mechanisms underlying the expansion of brain size and complecity in 

gyrencephalic mammals

12:00-13:30    Lunch

Session II                                                                          Chair:  Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng                             

13:30-14:10     Dr. Tang K. Tang, Academia Sinica, TW  

                        Centrosomal mechanism of brain development and disease

14:20-14:40     Dr. Shen-Ju Chou, Academia Sinica, TW 

  Mechanisms for mammalian cortical patterning

14:50-15:20     Coffee Break

Session III                                                                             Chair:  Dr. Hung-Chih Kuo                                 

15:20-15:40     Dr. Pei-Shan Hou, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, TW 

                        Molecular mechinery underlying neocortical development during the evolution

15:50-16:30     Dr. Wieland B. Huttner, Max Planck Institute, DE (Online talk)

  Development and evolution of the human neocortex - neural stem cells, human-specific genes, and 

human-specific protein variants

16:40 Closing Remark