Monday,
16 June
08:30
Registration opens
09:00-10:30
Technical symposia & ECTP activities
Technical symposium: Age-specific brain mapping: Advances in automated atlas-based data analysis
Chair: Trygve Leergaard, University of Oslo, Norway
Speakers:
Sharon Yates, University of Oslo, Norway
Ingvild E. Bjerke, University of Oslo, Norway
Johanna Perens, Gubra ApS, Denmark
Technical symposium: Clearing the way for Systems Neuroscience
Chair: Moritz Negwer, Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour / Radboudumc, Netherlands
Speakers:
Hei Ming Lai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR of China
Moritz Negwer, Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour / Radboudumc, Netherlands
Doris Kaltenecker, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
10:30-11:30
Lunch break
FENS Special events
11:30-12:00
Opening ceremony of FRM 2025
12:00-13:00
Plenary lecture: Neural network dynamics in entorhinal cortex: Space and time
Speaker: Nobel Prize laureate Edvard I. Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
13:00-13:15
Break
13:15-14:45
Symposia - Parallel sessions
Symposium: Glia-neuron interactions in plasticity, cognition, and behaviour
Chairs:
Antonis Asiminas, Centre for Translational Neuromedicine, Denmark
Rasmus Herlo, Centre for Translational Neuromedicine, Denmark
Speakers:
Amit Agarwal, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Sandra Vaz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Juliana Rosa, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Spain
Symposium: NeuroAI: Catalyzing the Future of Artificial Intelligence Through Brain-Inspired Principles
Chairs:
Ramaswamy Srikanth, University of Newcastle, UK
Jie Mei, Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria
Speakers:
Chavlis Spyridon, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Yulia Sandamirskaya, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Symposium: FKNE Symposium: Navigating Protein Landscapes in the Development and Aging of Neural Circuits
Chair: Mateusz Ambrożkiewicz, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Speakers:
Mateusz Ambrożkiewicz, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Georgia Rapti, EMBL, Germany
Urtė Neniškytė, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Symposium: The neurovascular niche and neuroinflammation in CNS repair
Chairs:
Francisco Rivera, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ilias Kazanis, University of Westminster & University of Cambridge, UK
Speakers:
Ilias Kazanis, University of Westminster & University of Cambridge, UK
Alerie Guzmán de la Fuente, Instituto de Neurociencias, Spanish National Research Council & Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
Fernando de Castro, Instituto Cajal-CSIC, Spain
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-15:30
Special lecture: History and Future of Neuroscience in Norway and the Nordic Countries
Speaker: Ole Petter Ottersen, University of Oslo, Norway
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-17:15
Special symposium: Long-term potentiation: from discovery to the present day
Chairs:
Terje Lømo, University of Oslo, Norway
Tim Bliss, National Institute for Medical Research, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Speakers:
Graham Collingridge, University of Toronto, University of Bristol, UK
Roger A. Nicoll, University of California, USA: CaMKII and LTP
Todd Sacktor, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, USA
Ole Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK: Linking past and present: Associative properties of LTP
Dorothy Tse, Edge Hill University, UK: The Effects of Novelty and Prior Knowledge on Memory