Training Center PENS à Bordeaux

Stress, drug addiction and eating disorders
PENS Summer School (Dubrovnik/Croatia) - June 21-28, 2009
Goals: Eating disorders and drug addiction are health problems that showed an alarming growth in Europe over the last ten years. It appears that they could share common psychobiological mechanisms. In particular, both are strongly influenced by stressful situations. The aims of the school are both to provide to PhD/postdoc students a state of the art of the psychobiological basis of reward-related disorders and to promote an active debate confronting opposing views. The ultimate goal is to get students to forge a solide and objective opinion to guide future efficient researches in the field. Lectures and active discussions with highly renowned scientists will allow reaching these goals.
Contents: Neurobiology of stress, Corticosteroids and neurobiology, animal models of eating disorders, animal models of drug use/addiction, neurobiology of eating behaviour/eating disorders, neurobiology of drug use/drug addiction, endocannabinoids and eating disorders, endocannabinoids and drug addiction, theoretical constructs of reward-related disorders.
Scientific Program schedule
The daily schedule will include 3 to 4 lectures (40 minutes each) followed by discussions (20 minutes each), and depending on the day workshops and one poster session. In a purpose of synthesis, to close the week of lectures and interactions, a 2 hours general discussion is proposed. During the week, a total of two poster sessions will be held by students. Four workshops (10 students each) will be constitued. Faculty will be included in these working groups. Aim of these workshops will be to discuss one particular hypothesis/question related to drug addiction and eating disorders, guide reflection and lead students to propose a research project to test the hypothesis. At the end of the week, each working group will present his project and discuss it with the all community including faculty.


		Une école d'été à DUBROVNIK avec des conférenciers INB ! Inscription ouverte Inscription , deadline march ,23, 2009 Les étudiants (en thèse et post-docs) peuvent soumettre un CV et une simple lettre d'intention à Miquel-Angel Serra (miquel.serra@upf.edu) ou à Véronique Deroche-Gamonet (veronique.deroche@inserm.fr). PENS Summer School (Dubrovnik/Croatia)
Local Organizers I. Kostovic, A. Saria Faculty J. Antel, H.R. Berthoud, R. Ciccocioppo, , H. Crombag , E.R. De Kloet, V. De Semir, V. Deroche-Gamonet, M. Dierssen, A. Heyne, R. Maldonado, P.V. Piazza, R. Przewlocki, T.E. Robinson, M. Schindler, R. Sinha, R. Spanagel, A. Swiergiel, F. Tronche Contact rafael.maldonado@upf.edu, miquel.serra@upf.edu veronique.deroche@inserm.fr Les frais d'inscription à la PENS school sont de 300 euros Le lieu du séjour, Center for advanced academic studies	Stress, drug addiction and eating disorders PENS Summer School (Dubrovnik/Croatia) - June 21-28, 2009 Goals: Eating disorders and drug addiction are health problems that showed an alarming growth in Europe over the last ten years. It appears that they could share common psychobiological mechanisms. In particular, both are strongly influenced by stressful situations. The aims of the school are both to provide to PhD/postdoc students a state of the art of the psychobiological basis of reward-related disorders and to promote an active debate confronting opposing views. The ultimate goal is to get students to forge a solide and objective opinion to guide future efficient researches in the field. Lectures and active discussions with highly renowned scientists will allow reaching these goals. Contents: Neurobiology of stress, Corticosteroids and neurobiology, animal models of eating disorders, animal models of drug use/addiction, neurobiology of eating behaviour/eating disorders, neurobiology of drug use/drug addiction, endocannabinoids and eating disorders, endocannabinoids and drug addiction, theoretical constructs of reward-related disorders. Scientific Program schedule The daily schedule will include 3 to 4 lectures (40 minutes each) followed by discussions (20 minutes each), and depending on the day workshops and one poster session. In a purpose of synthesis, to close the week of lectures and interactions, a 2 hours general discussion is proposed. During the week, a total of two poster sessions will be held by students. Four workshops (10 students each) will be constitued. Faculty will be included in these working groups. Aim of these workshops will be to discuss one particular hypothesis/question related to drug addiction and eating disorders, guide reflection and lead students to propose a research project to test the hypothesis. At the end of the week, each working group will present his project and discuss it with the all community including faculty.

Website		Scientific Program schedule
		Sunday June 21 15:00-17:00 Registration 17:30-18:30: Opening lecture: E. Ron de Kloet, Dep Medical Pharmacology, Leiden University, The Netherlands “Stress and the brain: from adaptation to disease” 18:30-18:50 Discussion 19:00-20:15 Presentation of students and constitution of the working groups 20:15-22:00 Welcome reception and dinner -------------------------------------------------------------- Monday June 22 Reward-related disorders: theoretical constructs / Ethics & Communicating Science 9:00-9:40 Terry Robinson Incentive sensitization theory of addiction Discussion 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30 – 16:00 Informal meetings between students and Faculty 16:00-16:40 Pier Vincenzo Piazza Psychobiology of transition to addiction Discussion 17:00-17:40 Hans-Rudolf Berthoud Neural systems controlling drive to eat: mind versus metabolism Discussion 21:00-22:00 Vladimir de Semir Ethics & Communicating Science Discussion -------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday June 23 Neurobiology of stress and reward-related disorders 9:00-9:40 Artur Swiergiel Influence of stress in reward-related disorders Discussion 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30 – 16:00 Informal meetings between students and Faculty 16:00-16:40 François Tronche Corticosteroids: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of action Discussion 17:00-17:40 Rafael Maldonado Endocannabinoids and addiction Discussion 18:00-19h30 Poster session 1 -------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday June 24 Neurobiology of addiction 9:00-9:40 Ryszard Przewlocki Opiates and addiction Discussion 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30 – 16:00 Informal meetings between students and Faculty 16:00-16:40 Rajita Sinha Stress, drug craving and relapse susceptibility. Discussion 17:00-17:40 Roberto Ciccocioppo Neurobiology of alcoholism Discussion 18:00-19:30 Poster session 2 -------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday June 25 Neurobiology of eating behaviour/eating disorders 9:00-9:40 Daniela Cota Endocannabinoids, energy balance and obesity Discussion 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30 – 16:00 Informal meetings between students and Faculty 16:00-16h40 Jochen Antel An overview on research and development of anti-obesity compounds Discussion 17:00-17h40 Marcus Schindler Preclinical research on diabetes/obesity Discussion 18:00-19:30 Workshops 21:00-21:40 Hans Crombag Neurobiology of incentive learning for food and drugs Discussion -------------------------------------------------------------- Friday June 26 Experimental approaches of reward-related disorders 9:00-9:40 Rainer Spanagel Animal models of alcohol craving Discussion 10:00-10:30 coffee break 10:30 – 16:00 Informal meetings between students and Faculty 16:00-16:40 Andrea Heyne Animals models of compulsive food taking Discussion 17:00-17:40 Mara Dierssen Mice models of Eating disorders Discussion 18:00-19:30 Workshops -------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday June 27 Stress, drug addiction and eating disorders 9:00-11:00 General discussion (students and Faculty) 11:00-11:15 coffee break 11:15-13:00 working groups 13:00-14:30 Lunch 15:00-15:30 Report from working group 1 15:30-16:00 Report from working group 2 16:00-16:30 Report from working group 3 16:30-17:00 Report from working group 4 19:00- Farewell party -------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday June 28 Breakfast and departure -------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee Rafael Maldonado, Lab of Neuropharmacology, Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Miquel-Angel Serra, Lab of Neuropharmacology, Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Elena Martin, Lab of Neuropharmacology, Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Andrea Heyne, Medimod, Reutlingen, Germany Mara Dierssen, Center for Genomic Regulation, PRBB, Barcelona, Spain Barbara Przewlocka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland Ryszard Przewlocki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland Evelyne Célérier, Harvard Apparatus, Panlab, Barcelona, Spain Olga Millan, Institut d’Alta Tecnologia, Barcelona, Spain François Tronche, CNRS, UMR7148, Collège de France, Paris, France Rainer Spanagel, Central Institute of Mental Health, Univ of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany Pier Vincenzo Piazza, NeuroCentre Magendie, Bordeaux, France Véronique Deroche-Gamonet, NeuroCentre Magendie, Bordeaux, France