Tuesday,
17 June

08:00-08:30

Poster placement for Poster session I

VBH, 1st floor

08:30-16:00

Posters available for viewing

VBH, 1st floor

08:30-09:30

Plenary lecture: The Nightlife of the Brain

Speaker: Maiken Nedergaard, University of Rochester, USA

SLH, Sophus Lies
auditorium

09:30-09:45

Break

09:45-11:00

Symposia - Parallel sessions

Symposium: The multi-laned hippocampus: parallel circuits for memory processing

Chair: Flavio Donato, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland

Speakers:

Flavio Donato, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland

Liset de la Prida, Instituto Cajal CSIC, Spain

David Dupret, MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, UK

SLH, Sophus Lies
auditorium

Symposium: Decoding Brain Waves: Understanding Their Roles and Mechanisms

Chairs:

Shoi Shi, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Adamantidis Antoine, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Switzerland

Speakers:

Adamantidis Antoine, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Switzerland

Rachel Swanson, University College London, UK

Shoi Shi, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan

GSH,
Auditorium 1

Symposium: Progress in Consciousness Research: A Multiscale Integrative Approach

Chairs:

Johan Frederik Storm, University of Oslo, Norway

Bjørn Erik Juel, University of Oslo, Norway

Speakers:

Matthew Larkum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Anil Seth, University of Sussex, UK

Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany

VBH,
Auditorium 5

Symposium: Functions and regulatory mechanisms of the neuronal actin cytoskeleton in health and disease

Chair: Marco Rust, University of Marburg, Germany

Speakers:

Theresa Wiesner, The Institute of Neurophysiopathology (INP), France

Monica Sousa, University of Porto, Portugal

Marco Rust, University of Marburg, Germany

VBH,
Auditorium 1

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-12:15

Special lectures

SLH, Sophus Lies
auditorium

GSH,
Auditorium 1

12:15-13:15

Cajal Training Programme 10-Year Anniversary Symposium

HEH,
Auditorium TBC

12:15-14:15

Lunch break

Exhibitions

GSH, 1st floor

Poster Session I with presenters in attendance

VBH, 1st floor

13:15-14:15

EJN Workshop Tips to Effectively Prepare, Publish and Review EJN Articles

Chairs:

John Foxe, University of Rochester, co-Editor-in-Chief at EJN, USA

Yoland Smith, Emory University, co-Editor-in-Chief at EJN, USA

Speakers:

John Foxe, University of Rochester, co-Editor-in-Chief at EJN, USA

Yoland Smith, Emory University, co-Editor-in-Chief at EJN, USA

Sophie Molholm, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Section Editor at EJN, USA

Guillaume Rousselet, University of Glasgow, Section Editor and Registered Reports Editor at EJN, UK

14:15-15:30

Symposia - Parallel sessions

Symposium: Resolving the cognitive (dys)function of prefrontal circuits: from molecules to behavior

Chairs:

Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Thomas Klausberger, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Speakers:

Thomas Klausberger, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Sandra Reinert, Sainsbury Wellcome Center, UK

Jens Hjerling Leffler, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

SLH, Sophus Lies
auditorium

Symposium: “We are all fatheads!” Why lipids are important for neurodevelopment

Chairs:

Maija Castren, University of Helsinki, Finland

Adrian Harwood, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Speakers:

Adrian Harwood, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Edna Grünblatt, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Mimmu Hiltunen, University of Helsinki, Finland

VBH,
Auditorium 1

Symposium: Spotlight on senescence: Cutting-edge tools and approaches to study senescence in neurodegeneration

Chairs:

Pascal Kienlen-Campard, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Michael T. Heneka, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg

Speakers:

Nuria Suelves, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Nurun Fancy, Imperial College London, UK

Christina Ising, University of Cologne, Germany

GSH,
Auditorium 1

Symposium: Hypothalamic mechanisms for adaptive behavioral control

Chair: Nicholas Betley, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Speakers:

Derya Sargin, University of Calgary, Canada

Maribel Rios, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

Anne Petzold, Georg August University, Germany

VBH,
Auditorium 5

15:30-15:45

Break

15:45-16:45

Kavli Prize lecture: Visual face processing in brain networks and in artificial neural networks

Speaker: Kavli Prize laureate Nancy Kanwisher, MIT McGovern Institute, USA

SLH, Sophus Lies
auditorium

16:45-17:00

Break

17:00-18:00

Plenary lecture: Synaptic propagation of tau in Alzheimer’s disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Speaker: Tara Spires-Jones, University of Edinburgh, UK

SLH, Sophus Lies
auditorium

20:00-23:00

Young researchers’ social event