Program

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23RD

13.45 Opening

Developmental trajectories: morphometrics and quantification

14.00 Keynote lecture
Jay Giedd, University of California in San Diego, USA. "The Teen Brain: Insights from Neuroimaging"

15.00 Guillaume Auzias, Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone, France. "Deciphering normal and pathological brain maturation using cortical morphometry"

15.45 Coffee break

16.15 Jessica Dubois, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, France "Mapping the early development: cortical folding and maturation"

17.00 Julien Lefèvre, Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone, France "Global and local descriptors of cortical folding pattern: from observation to model validation"

17.45 Drinks and food, INT

THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH

From macro to micro: architecture and cellular mechanisms

09.15 Victor Borrell, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain. "Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortex growth and folding"

10.00 Lisa Ronan, University of Cambridge, UK. "Getting curvature straight: a review of cortical gyrification theory"

10.45 Coffee Break

Models of cortical development and folding

11.00 Roberto Toro, Institut Pasteur, France. "Mechanical morphogenesis and neocortical development"

11.45 Tuomas Tallinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. "Folding instabilities of soft gray matter"

12.30 Discussion

13.00 Lunch at INT

Registration is free, but mandatory: https://corticaldev.sciencesconf.org