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Workshop 2020

Experimental neuroscience in invertebrates, mammals and humans

February 12 - 14, 2020

Auditorium Anatomy (Per03, R16) Route Albert Gockel 1, CH-1700 Fribourg

Participants of the BENEFRI Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience are requested to prepare a poster and a «Blitz» presentation (2 slides, 3 minutes) describing their specific research projects. Please send the title and a short abstract of your presentation not later than January 31, 2020 to: katrin.huber@unifr.ch

Transportation charges are reimbursed by the home university to all inscribed BENEFRI students.

No fees requested.

The workshop is also open for non-participants of the BENEFRI Ph.D. program in Neuroscience. Guests are welcome. Please register immediately.

Deadline for registration: January 31, 2020

Register per email to katrin.huber@unifr.ch

Organizers:

Simon Sprecher, Dominique Glauser, Boris Egger, Franck Girard, Michael Schmid, Juliane Britz, Meike Ramon, Katrin Huber

Wednesday, February 12

	Morning session: "Invertebrate models in experimental neuroscience I" Chairs: Simon Sprecher, Dominique Glauser, Boris Egger, University of Fribourg
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome and general organization (Katrin Huber)
	Introduction (Simon Sprecher)
09:15 - 10:15	Sleep - a worm’s-eye view (Henrik Bringmann, Max Planck Institute For Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	Neural principles of tiredness and memories in Drosophila (David Owald, Charité, Berlin, Germany)
11:30 - 12:30	Dissecting cognitive complexity in a miniature brain: lessons from honeybees (Martin Giurfa, Research Center on Animal Cognition, University Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France)
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch break
	Afternoon session: "molecular genetics of invertebrate brains" Chairs: Simon Sprecher, Dominique Glauser, Boris Egger, University of Fribourg
14:00 - 14:15	Poster "Blitz" presentations*
14:15 - 15:15	Molecular carriers of the brain lipid shuttling (Quan Yuan, National Institute of Mental Health National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
15:15 - 16:00	Coffee Break and Poster** Viewing Session
16:00 - 17:00	Size matters, tales of neural proliferation with respect to development, evolution and cancer (Rita Sousa-Nunes, Center for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London, UK)
17:00 - 17:15	Closing address

Thursday, February 13

	Morning session: "Mouse models in experimental neuroscience" Chair: Franck Girard, University of Fribourg
09:00 - 09:15	Introduction (Franck Girard, University of Fribourg)
09:15 - 10:15	Mouse models in sleep research
	Methods and concepts in sleep research (Carolina Guttierez-Herrera, Neurology, Inselspital, Bern)
	Neuronal substrate of eye movement during REM sleep (Franck Girard, Dept of Neurosciences, University of Fribourg)
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	Mouse as model for autism spectrum disorder (Federica Filice, University of Fribourg)
11:30 - 12:30	Genetically encoded tools for high-resolution in vivo imaging of neuromodulator dynamics (Tommaso Patriarchi, University of Zurich)
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch break
	Afternoon session: "Non-human primates in experimental neuroscience" Chair: Michael Schmid, University of Fribourg
14:00 - 14:15	Poster "Blitz" presentations*
14:15 - 14:30	Introduction (Michael Schmid, University of Fribourg)
14:30 - 15:30	How to induce cortical plasticity and perceptual learning in primates (Wim Vanduffel, KU Leuven)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break and Poster** Viewing Session
16:00 - 17:00	The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from the real-time decoding of the attentional spotlight (Suliann Ben Hamed, CNRS, Lyon)

Friday, February 14

	Morning session: "Tackling neural correlates of consciousness with EEG" Chair: Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg
09:00 - 09:15	Introduction (Juliane Britz)
9:15 - 10:15	Eye movements and EEG - the curse and the blessing (Leon Deouell, Hebrew University Jerusalem)
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30	Predicting conscious awareness from the state of the brain and the body (Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg)
11:30 - 12:30	Decoding methods for event-related potential analyses in healthy and clinical populations (Marzia de Lucia (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland)
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch break
	Afternoon session: "Individual differences in human cognition" Chair: Meike Ramon, University of Fribourg
14:00 - 14:15	Poster "Blitz" presentations*
14:15 - 14:30	Introduction
14:30 - 15:30	Indivisual - individual differences in visual perception and gaze behaviour (Benjamin de Haas, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break and Poster** Viewing Session
16:00 - 17:00	Individual differences in unfamiliar face individuation response as revealed by fast periodic stimulation (Milena Dzhelyova, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
17:00	End of the symposium

* PhD students give a 3 min "Blitz" presentation (+ 2 min discussion) of their poster for the full audience in the main auditorium. A maximum of 2 power point slides are admitted. Students are advised to upload their slides on the conference-room computer 15 min before the start of the session. The posters can be visited during the coffee breaks for the duration of the workshop. Authors are encouraged to attend their posters to promote discussion.

** Format: AO Portrait, 84,1cm wide and 118,9 cm high