Keynote Speakers
- Dick Swaab (opening lecturer, introduced by Ruud Buijs, Chair of 23rdRegPep). Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Netherlands, plenary speaker. Sexual differentiation of the human brain
- Carmen Sandi (introduced by Limei Zhang, IRPS Co-President). Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland. Neural circuits linking stress, anxiety, and motivation
- Valery Grinevich (Introduced by Mary Lee). University of Heidelberg, Germany. How does a single neuropeptide elicit pleiotropic behavioral and metabolic effects?
- Robert Millar (introduced by Victor Navarro). University of Pretoria, S. Africa. Rescue of function of mutant human GPCRs in the HPG axis
- Geert De Vries (introduced by Árp ád Dobolyi). Georgia State University, USA. Sex differences in the brain seen from whole-body perspective
- Diego Bohorquez (Duke University, USA). Victor Mutt lectureship awardee. Introduced by: Lee E Eiden (IRPS Co-President). A gut sense for calories
Keynote Symposium
- Patrick Sexton (Monash University, Australia), Mechanisms of signaling by G protein-coupled receptors
- Luis de Lecea (Stanford University, USA): Optogenetic control of neuromodulatory circuits in brain states
- Marisela Morales (NIDA/NIH, USA): Fast and slow co-transmission in modulatory system
- Árpád Dobolyi (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): Tuberoinfundibular peptide 39: an emerging new social neuropeptide
- Xioke Chen (Stanford University, USA): Thalamic control of opioid associated memory
- Victor Navarro (Harvard Medical School, USA): Upstream neuropeptides in HPG axis pulse generation
- Javier Stern (GSU, USA): Real-time two-photon imaging of the rat hypothalamus in vivo