Program

Session 1: Structural and molecular organisation of healthy and diseased brain circuits

• 9:00–9:30
  Wei Huang (ION):  Human cortical progenitor-enriched FAM107A enhances self-renewal and extends neurogenesis by stabilizing nuclear microfilaments
• 9:30–10:00
  Beáta Sperlágh (KOKI):  Inflammation and neuro-psychiatric disorders: cause or consequence?
• 10:00–10:30
  Yi Zhou (ION):  Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific features
• 10:30–10:50
  Coffee break
• 10:50–11:20
  Zoltan Nusser (KOKI):  Molecular mechanisms underlying distinct release probabilities and short-term plasticities
• 11:20–11:50
  Chun Xu (ION):  Neural circuits for memory precision
• 11:50–12:10
  Flash talks for poster session I  (Ágoston Horváth, István Fodor, Réka Kispál, Yuan Zhang)

• 12:10–13:30
  Buffet lunch on site
• 13:30–15:00
  Poster session I

Session 2: Cognition, brain states and behavior

• 15:00–15:30
  Adil Khan (King’s College London):  Neural circuits in the ACC underlying flexible cognition
• 15:30–16:00
  Viktor Varga (KOKI):  Mapping the action of the hippocampo-septal feedback on the medial septal circuit
• 16:00–16:30
  Ninglong Xu (ION):  Circuit and dendritic computations for flexible decision-making
• 16:30–17:00
  Coffee break
• 17:00–17:30
  Éva Mikics (KOKI):  Brain network correlates of maladaptive stress coping
• 17:30–18:00
  Ferenc Mátyás (KOKI):  Thalamic principles define an unexpected complexity of information flow within the intra-amygdala circuit
• 18:00–18:30
  Gábor Nyíri (KOKI):  Brainstem Control of Fear and Memory

Session 3: Cellular and microcircuit function supporting behavior

• 9:00–9:30
  Balázs Rózsa (KOKI):  Flexible brain-computer interface for fast 3D imaging and photostimulation of neuronal networks in large volumes with subcellular resolution and real-time motion correction in freely moving animals
• 9:30–10:00
  László Acsády (KOKI):  Axo-spinous communication between the cortex and thalamus
• 10:00–10:30
  Andreas Lüthi (FMI Basel): A tale of two engrams
• 10:30–10:50
  Coffee break
• 10:50–11:20
  Marlene Bartos (Univ. Freiburg):  The dentate gyrus efficiently converges LEC and MEC inputs into multimodal, highly specific and reliable environmental representations
• 11:20–11:50
  Johann Danzl (IST Austria):  Reconstructing brain tissue at synaptic resolution with light microscopy
• 11:50–12:10
  Flash talks for poster session II  (Katalin Tóth/Réka Bod, Ling Li, Zsófia Reéb, Jiaqi Zuo)

• 12:10–13:30
  Buffet lunch on site
• 13:30–15:00
  Poster session II

Session 4: Reproduction and brain disorders

• 15:00–15:30
  Michael Heneka (LCSB Univ. Luxembourg): Innate Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease
• 15:30–16:00
  Yuejun Chen (ION): Stem cell therapy for Parkinson's disease
• 16:00–16:30
  Xue Li (ION):  Ultraflexible Neural Interfaces for Translational Brain–Machine Interface Applications
• 16:30–17:00
  Coffee break
• 17:00–17:30
  Paolo Giacobini (INSERM Univ. Lille):  Unravelling the neuroendocrine mysteries of polycystic ovary syndrome
• 17:30–18:00
  Zhen Liu (ION):  Primate genetic engineering: from early embryos to the brain cells
• 18:00–18:30

  Erik Hrabovszky (KOKI):  IHC/LCM-Seq' reveals novel mechanisms underlying the sex steroid-induced luteinizing hormone surge