15:30 - 16:15 Registration and Welcome Reception
16:15 - 18:15 Symposium One
Neuroscience Medley
Chair: Sonja Hofer (UK)
Speakers:
Lorenz Fenk (Germany) Sleep, Dragons, CPGs
Sonja Hofer (UK) Prethalamic Mechanisms Underlying Flexible Behavior in Aversive Contexts
Marcus Stephenson-Jones (UK) Replay of procedural experience is independent of the hippocampus
Michael Lohse (UK) Cognitive control by cortico-striatal clamping of neural dynamics
18:15 - 18:30 Break
18:30 - 19:30 Keynote One
Ole Kiehn
08:15 - 10:15 Symposium Two
Flexible Memory Systems: Adaptive and Maladaptive Pathways
Chair: Johannes Felsenberg (Switzerland)
Speakers:
Kate Wassum (USA) Amygdala-striatal control of actions and habits
Yvette Fisher (USA) Dopamine-Mediated Learning in Spatial Navigation: Balancing Plasticity and Stability
Mihaela Iordanova (Canada) Valence-Based Prediction Error Signals in Dopamine Neurons During Reward and Aversive Learning
Scott Waddell (UK) Neurophysiological Principles of Reward
Johannes Felsenberg (Switzerland) Plasticity in Hierarchical Memory Circuits: From Sensory Deprivation to Enhanced Memory Capacities
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Special Interest Session One
Immune-neural interactions: from T cell-driven encephalitis to cortical hyperexcitability and back?
Chairs: Sven Meuth (Germany) and Angélique Bordey (USA)
Speakers:
Sven G. Meuth (Germany) Neuron-oligodendrocyte potassium shuttling at nodes of Ranvier protects against inflammatory demyelination and neurodegeneration in experimental autoimmune encephalitis and human Multiple Sclerosis
Nico Melzer (Germany) T-Lymphocyte-Driven Limbic Encephalitis Results in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Hippocampal Sclerosis
Kristof Egervari (Switzerland) Mechanisms of CD8+ T-Lymphocyte-driven Neurodegeneration in Rasmussen's Encephalitis
Angélique Bordey (USA) Contribution of pathological and molecular abnormalities to epilepsy in mTOR-related focal cortical malformations
12:30 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 18:15 Symposium Three
Photons meet electrons - and electrodes: Mapping brain tissue across modalities
Chair: Johann Danzl (Austria)
Speakers:
Marta Zlatic (UK) Characterizing learning rules in the Drosophila mushroom body
Albert Cardona (UK) Analysis and simulation of connectomes
Peter Jonas (Austria) Synaptic signaling in the human hippocampal CA3 network: From electrodes to photons
Johann Danzl (Austria) Reconstructing brain tissue at synaptic resolution with light microscopy
18:15 - 18:30 Break
18:30 - 19:30 Keynote Two
Adrienne Fairhall
08:15 - 10:15 Symposium Four
Social behavior and socio-affective communication in rodents and humans: Genetic underpinnings, neurobiological mechanisms, and disease models
Chairs: Markus Wöhr (Belgium/Germany) and Ewelina Knapska (Poland)
Speakers:
Ewelina Knapska (Poland) Cortical and hippocampal circuits for discriminating positive emotions and social learning in mice
Francesco Papaleo (Italy) Cortical astrocytes modulate emotion recognition in mice
Markus Wöhr (Belgium/Germany) Socio-affective communication through ultrasonic vocalizations in rats: From pharmacological manipulations to genetic models of neurodevelopmental disorders
Valeria Gazzola (Netherlands) Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents and humans
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Special Interest Session Two
Novel Insights into the Regulation of Glutamate Receptors and Excitatory Neurotransmission
Chairs: Martin Horák (Czech Republic) and Cyril Hanus (France)
Speakers:
Martin Horák (Czech Republic) Regulation of early trafficking of the NMDA receptors by structural modifications in the ligand-binding domains of the GluN1 and GluN2 subunits
Cyril Hanus (France) Core-glycosylation regulates iGluR transmission and synaptic plasticity
Laetitia Mony (France) Molecular profiling of NMDA receptors with subunit stoichiometry resolution reveals no enrichment of GluN2B diheteromers at extrasynaptic sites
Antonio Sanz-Clemente (USA) Molecular mechanism controlling synaptic/extrasynaptic NMDA receptor balance
12:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Symposium Five
Neuronal dynamics across spatial scales
Chair: Claudia Clopath (UK)
Speakers:
Claudia Clopath (UK) Modelling motor cortex - basal ganglia interaction during motor adaptation
Angus Silver (UK) Decoding dendritic activity patterns in motor cortex during behaviour
Peter Latham (UK) Fast and slow synaptic plasticity enables concurrent control and learning
Ian Duguid (UK) Corticospinal control of contextually appropriate actions
18:00 - 18:15 Break
18:15 - 20:00 Symposium Six
How should we interpret high-dimensional neural activity? Perspectives from theory and experiments
Chair: Alexander Mathis (Switzerland)
Speakers:
Mackenzie Mathis (Switzerland) Neural dynamics during forelimb motor adaptation
Mark Churchland (USA) Neurobiology of flexible deductive reasoning
Andreas Tolias (USA) A less artificial intelligence: foundation models of visual cortex
08:15 - 10:15 Symposium Seven
What do we mean when we say 'causality'? Interdisciplinary exchange with philosophy can help to understand a fundamental concept in neuroscience
Chairs: Markus Kunze (Austria) and Isabella Sarto-Jackson (Vienna)
Speakers:
Jan Pieter Konsman (France) Different accounts of causation in neuroscience: causing trouble or troubling causes?
Balint Lasztoczi (Austria) Inferring inter-regional interactions from observed spike-timing in neuronal circuits
Isabella Sarto-Jackson (Austria) Can Reciprocal Causation Inform Evolutionary Concepts?
Michael Herzog (Switzerland) Computational complexity may set impenetrable barriers for neural reductionism
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Symposium Eight
Cerebral Cortex Assembly at Single Cell Level in Health and Disease
Chair: Simon Hippenmeyer (Austria)
Speakers:
Laurent Nguyen (Belgium) Cortical Interneuron Migration in Health, Evolution and Disease
Victor Borrell (Spain) Epigenetic and Cellular Regulation of Cortex Expansion and Folding
Sandra Siegert (Austria) Mechanisms of Neuron-Glia Interactions in Health and Disease
Csaba Földy (Switzerland) Mechanisms of Circuit Assembly in the Adult Hippocampus
12:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Symposium Nine
Comparing synaptic-resolution brain circuit architecture across the animal kingdom
Chairs: Marta Zlatic (UK) and Albert Cardona (UK)
Speakers:
Moritz Helmstaedter (Germany) Mouse cortical connectomes
Helene Schmidt (Germany) Connectome of Etruscan shrew hippocampus
Kevin Briggman (Germany) Comparing fish and amphibian brain connectomes
Tomoko Ohyama (Canada) Comparative connectomics and escape behavior in larvae of closely related Drosophila species
18:00 - 18:15 Break
18:15 - 19:15 Keynote Three
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
19:30 - Gala Dinner at Das Central
08:15 - 10:15 Special Interest Session Three
Sensing and acting under the constraints of nature
Chair: Maximilian Jösch (Austria)
Speakers:
Lisa Fenk (Germany) Neural mechanisms for active eye movements in Drosophila
Wiktor Młynarski (Germany) Building a theory of sensory coding for active behavior
Karin Norström (Austria) Neural responses to reconstructed target pursuits
Maximilian Jösch (Austria) Neural Adaptations to the Statistical Properties of Natural Vision
10:15 Meeting Ends