Tuesday,
17 June
08:00-08:30
Poster placement for Poster session I
08:30-16:00
Posters available for viewing
08:30-09:30
Plenary lecture: The Nightlife of the Brain
Speaker: Maiken Nedergaard, University of Rochester, USA
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
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
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
Symposium: Functions and regulatory mechanisms of the neuronal actin cytoskeleton in health and disease
Chair: Marco Rust, University of Marburg, Germany
Speakers:
Christophe Leterrier, CNRS-Aix Marseille University, France
Monica Sousa, University of Porto, Portugal
Marco Rust, University of Marburg, Germany
11:00-11:15
Break
11:15-12:15
Special lectures
Special lecture: Translating genetic discoveries to understand underlying neurobiology in mental disorders
Speaker: Ole A. Andreasen, University of Oslo, Norway
Special lecture: Viral infection, neuroinflammation, and associated neurodegeneration
Speaker: Martin Korte, Helmhotz Center for Infection Research, Germany
12:15-13:15
Cajal Training Programme 10-Year Anniversary Symposium
12:15-14:15
Lunch break
Exhibitions
FENS special events
Poster Session I with presenters in attendance
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
Symposium: “We are all fatheads!” Why lipids are important for neurodevelopment
Chairs:
Maija Castren, University of Helsinki, Finland
Adrian Harwood, Cardiff University, UK
Speakers:
Karolina Dec, Cardiff University, UK
Edna Grünblatt, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Mimmu Hiltunen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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
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
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
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