Organizing Committee
Tobias Bonhoeffer (Germany)
Nils Brose (Germany)
Alois Saria (chair, Austria)
Stephan Schwarzacher (Germany)
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Final Program
Wednesday
April 11th Afternoon
14:30 - 16:30 Registration
16:30 - 17:00 Welcome Cocktail
17:00 - 17:45 Keynote Lecture 1
Ann Churchland (USA) Excitatory and inhibitory neural populations reflect single trial decisions
17:45 - 19:45 Symposium 1: Circuits for Perception & Action
Chair: Sonja Hofer (Switzerland)
Speakers:
Tiago Branco (UK):
Computation of visually-evoked escape decisions
Georg Keller (CH): Predictive processing in cortex
Sonja Hofer (CH): Putting vision into
context: visual processing during behaviour
Thomas Mrsic-Flogel (CH): Cerebellum-neocortex interactions during visually-guided behaviour
Thursday
April 12th
Morning
08:15 - 09:00
Keynote Lecture 2
John O'Keefe (UK) How rats navigate: some recent studies on the place and grid cells of the hippocampal formation
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 2: Molecular Mechanisms Generating Genetic and Functional
Cell-Type Diversity in Cerebral Cortex
Chair: Simon Hippenmeyer (Austria)
Speakers:
Federico Calegari (Germany): Control of Mammalian Neurogenesis
Laurent Nguyen (Belgium): Role of the Unfolded Protein Response in
Cortical Neurogenesis in Health and Disease
Simon Hippenmeyer (Austria): Mechanisms Generating Cell-Type Diversity in
Cerebral Cortex
Simona Lodato (Italy): Molecular Mechanisms of Microcircuit Assembly in the
Cerebral Cortex
Thursday
April 12th
Afternoon
16:00 - 18:00
Symposium 3: Calcium control of vesicular
release in neuron and astrocytes
Chair: David Holcman (France)
Speakers:
Yusuke Hirabayashi (USA): Regular of synaptic
transmission by ER
David Holcman (France): Modeling vesicular release
and role of the ER
Martin Heine (Germany): Super-resolution of CaV
trafficking
Paola Bezzi (CH): Calcium regulation of vesicular release in
Astrocyte
18:00 - 18:20 Coffee Break
18:20 - 20:20 Symposium 4: Brain Imaging,
reloaded!
Chair: Valentin Nägerl (France)
Speakers:
Markus Sauer (Germany): Mapping of
synaptic proteins by super-resolution microscopy
Daniel Choquet (France): Dynamic nanoscale organization of AMPA
receptors in synaptic plasticity
Michael Häusser (UK): Closed-loop all-optical interrogation of neural
circuits
Valentin Nägerl (France): STED imaging of synapses in the hippocampus in
vivo
Friday
April 13th
Morning
08:15 - 09:00
Keynote Lecture 3
Reinhard Jahn (Germany) SNARE-mediated exocytosis of synaptic vesicles
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 5: Organization of synapse
diversity and integrity
Chairs: Markus Missler & Stephan Sigrist (Germany)
Speakers:
Kang Shen (USA): A conserved
nuclear export complex coordinates transcripts for dopaminergic synaptogenesis
and neuronal survival
Stephan Sigrist (Germany): A nanoscopic design principle tuning synapse
functional diversity
Jason Aoto (USA): A rare human mutation in the neurexin-3 alpha ectodomain identified in an evolutionarily conserved region that unexpectedly modulates synapse morphology, function and trans-synaptic ligand binding
David DiGregorio (France): Distinct nanoscale motifs of calcium channels and synaptic vesicle topologies contribute to the diversity of synaptic function
Markus Missler (Germany) Synaptic Ca2+ influx and release depends on neurexins
acting together with distinct α2δ auxiliary subunits of calcium channels
Friday
April 13th
Afternoon
16:00 - 18:00
Symposium 6: Hippocampal mossy fiber synapses: From structure to function
Chair: Peter Jonas (Austria)
Speakers:
Benjamin Cooper (Germany): The ultrastructural architecture of mossy fiber
release sites resolved by high-pressure freezing and electron tomography
Katalin Toth (Canada): Calcium dynamics and information coding in hippocampal
mossy fiber terminals
Alexander Drakew (Germany): Single
mossy fiber synapses control hilar mossy cell firing
Peter Jonas (Austria): Mechanisms of
presynaptic plasticity in hippocampal mossy fiber synapses
Christophe Mulle (France):
Role of presenilin and APP in short term plasticity at Mf-CA3 synapses
18:00 - 18:20 Coffee Break
18:20 – 20:20
Symposium 7: Quantitative behavior as a key
to understanding neural function
Chair: Claire Wyart (France)
Speakers:
Iain Couzin (Germany) Collective sensing and decision-making in animal
groups
Florian Engert (USA) Understanding vision: from behavior to functional
models
Anthony Leonardo (USA) Components of the neural circuitry for an internal
model
Bence ölveczky (USA) High-resolution long-term behavioral monitoring
reveals hierarchical structure in rodent behavior and associated neural
dynamics
Claire Wyart (France) Light on an ancestral sensory interface linking cerebrospinal fluid to motor circuits in vertebrates
Saturday
April 14th
Morning
08:15 - 09:00
Keynote Lecture 4
Yang Dan (USA) Neural circuits controlling sleep
09:00 - 11:00
Symposium 8: Snapshot on synaptic circuit activity
Chairs: Jeanne Ster & Julie Perroy (France)
Speakers:
Anthony Holmaat (Switzerland) Circuit mechanisms
underlying cortical plasticity
Pico Caroni (Switzerland) Roles of Fos and Arc neurons in memory networks
Nathalie Rouach (France) Astroglial regulation of
synaptic circuits
Andreas Frick (France) Cellular and
Circuit Mechanisms of Neocortical Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 - 13:20 Special Interest Session: ISN Symposium on Molecular mechanisms of neuropathic pain
Chairs: Marc Landry (France) and Jenny Gunnersen (Australia)
(supported by the International Society for Neurochemistry)
Speakers:
Michaela Kress (Austria)
Neurodegeneration and pain associated with lipid storage disorders
Marc Landry (France) miR-134
dependent plasticity of nociceptive spinal circuits
Nigel Bunnett (USA) Endosomal
platforms for signaling pain
Ipek Yalcin (France) Molecular
alterations in neuropathic pain-induced depression
Jenny Gunnersen (Australia) The role
of seizure protein 6 (Sez6) in neuropathic pain-associated synaptic changes
after peripheral nerve injury
Saturday
April 14th
Afternoon
16:00 -
18:00 Symposium 9: Deeper, wider,
smaller - new approaches to imaging and manipulation of neural activity
Chair: Tobias Rose (Germany)
Speakers:
Peyman Golshani (USA) Imaging the behaving brain with miniscopes
Liangyi Chen (China) Fast high-resolution miniature two-photon
microscopy for brain imaging in freely behaving mice
Chris Xu (USA) In vivo three-photon imaging of activity of
GCaMP6-labeled neurons deep in intact mouse brain
18:00 - 19:30 Coffee and Poster Session
19:30 Gala Dinner (free for Das Central hotel residents, others
book at registration desk for 50,- € until Tuesday evening)
Sunday
April 15th
Morning
08:15 - 09:00
Keynote Lecture 5
Jens Brüning
(Germany) Neurocircuits in control of metabolism
9:00-11:00 Symposium 10: Presynaptic neurotransmitter release
Chair: Zoltan Nusser (Hungary)
Speakers:
Stefan Hallermann (Germany): Apparent Ca2+-dependence of
vesicle recruitment with two pools of vesicles
Angus Silver (UK): Vesicle mobility in
hippocampal and cerebellar mossy fibre varicosities
Nils Brose (Germany): Mechanisms
of presynaptic plasticity in hippocampal circuits
Zoltan Nusser (Hungary): Distinct distribution of different
molecules in the presynaptic active zone
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 – 13:20 Symposium 11: Dynamic Regulation of Synaptic Glutamate Receptors
Chair: Katherine W. Roche (USA)
Speakers:
Katherine W. Roche
(USA) Regulation of synaptic NMDA and AMPA receptors by phosphorylation
Jonathan G. Hanley (UK) Molecular mechanisms of AMPAR endocytosis and
endosomal sorting
Andres Villu Maricq (USA) Identification and Characterization of a novel NMDA receptor auxiliary protein
Laurent Groc
(France) Trafficking of glutamate NMDA receptors in models of psychosis
End of the Meeting