Wednesday,
18 June
08:00-08:30
Poster placement for Poster session II
VBH, 1st floor
08:30-16:00
Posters available for viewing
VBH, 1st floor
08:30-09:30
Plenary lecture: Fate and freedom in developing cortical circuits
Speaker: Denis Jabaudon, University of Geneva, Switzerland
SLH, Sophus Lies auditorium
09:30-09:45
Break
09:45-11:00
Symposia - Parallel sessions
Symposium: Heterogeneity of pyramidal neurons: exploring cell diversity to untangle circuit function
Chair: Jake F. Watson, IST Austria, Austria
Speakers:
Menno P. Witter, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jake F. Watson, IST Austria, Austria
Judit Makara, Institute of Experimental Medicine (KOKI), Hungary
GSH,
Auditorium 1
Symposium: Advances and applications in Voltage Imaging
Chairs:
Matthijs Dorst, University of Oslo, Norway
Janos Fuzik, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Speakers:
Christiane Grimm, Vision Institute, France
Weijian Zong, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Madhuvanthi Kannan, University of Minnesota, USA
SLH, Sophus Lies auditorium
Symposium: Activation and roadblocks of the myelination programme
Chair: Balazs Varga, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
Speakers:
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Maryam Faiz, University of Toronto, Canada
Balazs Varga, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
VBH,
Auditorium 1
Symposium: Neuronal Diversity in the Dorsal Raphe: Connectivity and Modulatory Mechanisms in Motivated Behavior
Chairs:
Raffaella Tonini, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Speakers:
Iskra Pollak Dorocic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Raffaella Tonini, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
François Georges, University of Bordeaux, France
VBH,
Auditorium 5
11:00-11:15
Break
11:15-12:15
IBRO symposium: Neuro AI and Computational Neuroscience
Keynote speaker: Li Zhaoping, University of Tuebingen; Max Planck Institute, Germany: What does the primary visual cortex (V1) do?
Keynote speaker: Sacha van Albada, Jülich Research Centre, Germany: Large-scale spiking models of the cerebral cortex: from anatomy to dynamics
GSH,
Auditorium 1
12:15-13:15
ALBA Network session: The evolving landscape of Nordic neuroscience
Speaker: Maryam Ziaei, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ALBA Ambassador, Norway
13:15-14:15
FENS Neuroscience Career Path event: A world full of opportunities: What career paths for neuroscientists?
Chair: Dirk Schubert, (The Netherlands), Chair of the FENS Committee on Higher Education and Training (CHET), Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen
Speakers:
Ane Charlotte Christensen, Medical Advisor at MSD, Norway
Plinio Casarotto, Deputy Editor at Cell Press, Denmark
Klas Petterson, CEO at NORA.ai, Norway
12:15-14:15
Break
Exhibitions
GSH, 1st floor
Poster Session II with presenters in attendance
VBH, 1st floor
14:15-15:30
Symposia - Parallel sessions
Symposium: Decoding Brain Development and Function Through GABAergic Inhibitory Neurons
Chairs:
Carla Gomes da Silva, Translational Neuroscience Department - Brain Centre, The Netherlands
Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Speakers:
Mercedes Paredes, Weill Institute/UCSF, USA
Christian Mayer, Max Planck Institute for Biological Inteligence, Germany
Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
GSH,
Auditorium 1
Symposium: Neural Computation Principles: From Biological Networks to Autonomous Systems
Chair: Mikkel Lepperød, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Speakers:
Aran Nayebi, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
James Whittington, University of Oxford, UK
Mia Kvalsund, University of Oslo, Norway
SLH, Sophus Lies auditorium
Symposium: Impact of early life adversity on inhibitory neural circuits and emergence of psychiatric disorders
Chairs:
Sari Lauri, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland
Juan Nacher, Universitat de València, Spain
Speakers:
Juan Nacher, Universitat de València, Spain
Sari Lauri, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland
Naguib Mechawar, McGill University, Canada
VBH,
Auditorium 5
Symposium: Mixed messages: ligand-switching in the glutamate and GABA receptor families
Chairs:
Stefan Gründer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Timothy Lynagh, Michael Sars Center, University of Bergen, Norway
Speakers:
Stefan Gründer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Yuhong Wang, University of Bergen, Norway
Laetitia Mony, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
VBH,
Auditorium 1
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:45
Brain Prize Lecture: Brains and AI
Speaker: Brain Prize laureate Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
SLH, Sophus Lies auditorium
16:45-17:00
Break
17:00-17:15
SLH, Sophus Lies auditorium
17:15-18:00
#CuttingEdgeAI in Experimental Neuroscience
Speaker: Kenneth Harris, University College London, UK
SLH, Sophus Lies auditorium
18:00-19:15
Live Streaming of Podcast Recording for Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast: Philosophy of Computational Neuroscience
Host: Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Speakers:
Mazviita Chirimuuta, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Brain Prize laureate Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA