Amis de l'IHES
A public conference on 4 April 2019
The association “Les Amis de l’IHES” will organise a conference on Thursday 4 April 2019 at 5pm, in the Marilyn and James Simons Conference Centre.
Antoine TRILLER (IBENS, ENS Ulm) will give a talk entitled:
“Communication between neurons: molecular instability
and memory, from normal to pathological.”
The neurons communicating with each other form networks that are at the origin of the properties of the nervous system. Neurons communicate with each other
between them at junctions called “synapses”. The components of
molecular synapses are unstable and move all the time diffusion processes, which are at the origin of a paradox that we will address: how to ensure stable memory when all the molecules move? We will then discuss the consequences of alterations of these movements in neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease.
The conference will be followed by a musical interlude. Guillaume Lachaussée (piano) et Caroline Apra (soprano) will perform works by F. Schubert, R. Schumann, G. Fauré, and F. Poulenc.
Contact: Ingrid Peeters (01 60 92 66 64)
Free admission on registration: amisihes@ihes.fr
