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Speaker: Juho Rousu, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland.

The Nansen Neuroscience Lectures (NNL) honour Nansen’s ground-breaking contribution to neuroscience, and since 10.10.10 the event is part of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters annual Nansen-celebration. 

Keeping the brain in shape is a prerequisite for good life, and particularly at old age, when age-associated diseases encroach upon us. Here we get updated on the current advances.

Speaker: Ville Mustonen, Professor, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Department of Computer Science and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland.

Florian Markowetz, Group Leader, Integrative Cancer Biology Team, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

Speaker: Jan Beyersmann, Professor, Institute of Statistics, Ulm University, Germany.

Speaker: Tero Aittokallio, Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology and at the Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway.

Speaker: Maud Fagny, Postdoctoral fellow, Le Moulon, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Paris-Sud University, France and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), AgroParisTech, University of Paris-Saclay, France

The Nansen Neuroscience Lectures (NNL) honour Nansen’s ground-breaking contribution to neuroscience and since 10.10.2010 are part of the Academy’s Nansen celebration. This year, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA), University of Copenhagen, will speak on "Discovering interventions for healthier, happier and more productive ageing".

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Speaker: Malka Gorfine, Dept. of Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Speakers: Morten Valberg, OCBE and Torben Martinussen, University of Copenhagen

Speaker: Mark Robinson, Associate Professor, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Speaker: Marieke Kuijjer, Group Leader for Computational Biology and Systems Medicine, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine (NCMM), University of Oslo.

Speaker: Pekka Marttinen, Assistant Professor, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland.

Speaker: Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Professor, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Fafulty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany.

Speaker: Jonas Peters, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Speaker: Evrim Acar, Senior Research Scientist, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Speaker: Maja Pohar Perme, Associate Professor, Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Speaker: Susanna Röblitz, Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen.

Speaker: Ørnulf Borgan, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo.

Speaker: Axel Benner, Senior Researcher and Group Leader "Statistics for Translational Oncology", Department of Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany,  

Speaker: Ruth Keogh, Associate Professor in Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Speaker: Ricardo De Bin, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo.

The Nansen Neuroscience Lectures (NNL) are organized in conjunction with Fridtjof Nansen’s birthday to commemorate his fundamental contribution to neuroscience. The NNL are given by speakers selected from the top tier of neuroscience research.

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Speakers: Veronica Vinciotti, Reader in Statistics, College of Engineering, Brunel University London, UK, and Sami Kaski, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland.