Program
Please note the venue has been changed to B250, Center Building
DAY 1 -- Tuesday, November 5
7:00-9:00 Breakfast
Session I
9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-10:05 Gaspar Jekely, University of Exeter
The interplay of synaptic and volumetric signalling during behaviour in Platynereis larvae
10:05-11:05 Simon Sprecher, University of Freiburg
Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into learning and memory
11:05-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Nils Brose, MPI Multidisciplinary Sciences, Goettingen
Dynamic regulation of presynaptic function and plasticity in health and disease
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Campus-Unit visits/Free time
Session II
16:00-17:00 Cecile Charrier, IBENS, Paris
Insights from human-specific genes on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic development
17:00-18:00 Shyam Srinivasan, UC San Diego
Scalable and adaptive features of astrocyte architecture
18:00-18:15 Short talk – Camila Pannunzio, Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires
Circular RNAs as Regulators of Neurotransmission and Behavior
18:15-18:30 Short talk – Jose Davila, Human Technopole, Milan
Tracing the genomic evolution of animal molecular and cellular excitability
18:30-21:30 Dinner @Yuntaku
19:30-21:30 Poster session and Evening discussion
*Posters are to be displayed throughout the meeting
DAY 2 -- Wednesday, November 6
7:00-9:00 Breakfast
Session III
9:00-10:00 Lena van Giesen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Do what you can where you are with what you have- Insights from marine invertebrate sensory systems
10:00-11:00 Yasushi Okamura, Osaka University
“Archeology” of rapid conduction of vertebrate neurons viewed from ion channel molecules
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Tomoyuki Takahashi
Postnatal reformation of synaptic machineries toward functional maturation of neurocircuitry
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Campus-Unit visits/Free time
Session IV
16:00-17:00 Tom Südhof, Stanford University
Towards understanding the molecular logic of synaptic connections
17:00-18:00 Jinny Kim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
From synaptic connectivity to comprehensive brain atlas: mGRASPi and eLemur
18:00-18:15 Short talk – Marina Saskovets, Kyoto University of Advanced Science
Evaluating Stress Management Through Brain Imaging and Voice Acoustics
18:15-18:30 Short talk – Andrew Snow, University of British Columbia
Investigating the roles of zoo-1/TJP in synapse patterning
18:30-20:30 Dinner @Yuntaku
19:30-21:30 Poster session and Evening discussion
DAY 3 -- Thursday, November 7
7:00-9:00 Breakfast
Session V
9:00-10:00 Seth Grant, Edinburgh University
Shaping the synaptome architecture
10:00-11:00 Lucy Palmer, University of Melbourne
The function and modulation of cortical neural networks during learning and behaviour
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Teruhiro Okuyama, University of Tokyo
Social memory representation in the ventral hippocampus
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Campus-Unit visits/Free time
Session VI
16:00-17:00 Sam Reiter, OIST
Cephalopod vision and the three dimensions of light
17:00-18:00 Wataru Yamamoto, Columbia University
Neuronal computations of evolutionary simple nervous systems of Hydra vulgaris
18:30-21:30 Dinner (TBD)