Wednesday,
18 June

08:00-08:30

Poster placement for Poster session II

08:30-16:00

Posters available for viewing

08:30-09:30

Plenary lecture: Fate and freedom in developing cortical circuits

Speaker: Denis Jabaudon, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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

Symposium: Advances and applications in Voltage Imaging

Chairs:

Matthijs Dorst, University of Oslo, Norway

Janos Fuzik, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Speakers:

Valentina Emiliani, Sorbonne University, France

Weijian Zong, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Janos Fuzik, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Symposium: Activation and roadblocks of the myelination programme

Chair: Balazs Varga, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK

Speakers:

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Maryam Faiz, University of Toronto, Canada

Balazs Varga, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK

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

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

12:15-14:15

Break

Exhibitions

FENS special events

Poster Session II with presenters in attendance

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

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

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

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

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

16:45-17:00

Break

17:00-17:15

ALBA-FKNE award prize ceremony

17:15-18:00

#CuttingEdgeAI in Experimental Neuroscience with Kenneth Harris

Speaker: Kenneth Harris, University College London, UK

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

19:30

FRM 2025 BBQ dinner and social event