Invited speakers:

Alfonso Araque, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Giorgio Carmignoto, CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Padua, Italy

Joachim Deitmer, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Philip G. Haydon, Tufts University, USA

Michael Heneka, University of Bonn, Germany

Kazuhide Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan

Helmut Kettenmann, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

Frank Kirchhoff, Max Planck Instit. of Exp. Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

Marta Navarrete Llinás, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Pierre Magistretti, Brain Mind Instit., Federal Instit. of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Michela Matteoli, University of Milan, Italy

Stéphane Oliet, Bordeaux Neurosciences Institute, France

Vladimir Parpura, University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA

Milos Pekny, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Sweden

Andreas Reichenbach, Leipzig University, Germany

Arne Schousboe, University of Copenhagen, Danmark

David C. Spray, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, USA

Christian Steinhäuser, University of Bonn, Germany

Eva Sykova, Institute of Experimental Medicine ASCR, Czech Republic

Alexei Verkhratsky, The University of Manchester, UK

Robert Zorec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia