Workshop 2019
Methods in Experimental Neurosciences: From Animal Models to Humans
February 13 - 15, 2019
Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Seminar room 258
Organizers:
Andrea Federspiel, Thomas König, Smita Saxena, Hans Rudolf Widmer, Stéphane Ciocchi, Shankar Sachidhanandam and Jürg Streit
Depts. of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiology, University of Bern
Speakers:
- Lucie Bréchet, Laboratory of functional and metabolic imaging, EPFL, Lausanne
- Dr. Stefano di Santo, DBMR, Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bern
- Prof. Andrea Federspiel, Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Bern
- Dr. Frédéric Gambino, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, CNRS, Bordeaux
- Dr. Basil Grüter, Neurochirurgie, Kantonsspital Aarau
- Prof. Thomas König, Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Bern
- Dr. Balint Lasztoczi, Department of Cognitive Neurobiology, University of Vienna
- Dr. Kaizhen Li, Department of Physiology, University of Bern
- Dr. Sabine Liebscher, Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Biomedical Center Munich
- Andjela Markovic, Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie (KJP), University of Bern
- Prof. Claudio Pollo, Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bern
- Dr. Nelson Rebola, Brain & Spine Institute, Paris
- Dr. Roger Redondo, Roche Innovation Center, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Basel
- Dr. Shankar Sachidhanandam, Department of Physiology, University of Bern
- Prof. Hans Rudolf Widmer, Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bern
- Dr. Preeti Yadav, DBMR, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern
- Prof. Daniel Zytnicki, Neurosciences (SPPIN – CNRS) University Paris Descartes
Participants of the BENEFRI Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience are requested to present a poster about their research projects. Please send the title and a short abstract of your presentation not later than January 30, 2019 to: streit@pyl.unibe.ch
Credits: 2 ECTS points for poster presentation
The workshop is open for non-participants of the BENEFRI Ph.D. program in Neuroscience. Guests are welcome. Please register immediatly. The number of participants is limited!
Deadline for registration : January 30, 2019
Register per email to: streit@pyl.unibe.ch
Program:
Wednesday, February 13
| 09:15 - 09:20 | Introduction (Jürg Streit, Physiology Bern) |
| 09:20 - 12:00 | Session 1: (Stéphane Ciocchi, Physiology Bern, Abstracts) |
| 09:20 - 10:10 | The role of network oscillations in hippocampal information processing (Balint Lasztoczi, Cognitive Neurobiology Vienna) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Circuit dissection tools: from engrams to medicines (Roger Redondo, Roche Innovation Center Basel) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Dendritic mechanisms of map plasticity in somatosensory cortex (Frédéric Gambino, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Bordeaux) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Student's poster session I >> |
| 14:15 - 17:00 | Session 2: (Shankar Sachidhanandam, Physiology Bern, Abstracts) |
| 14:15 - 14:50 | Calcium imaging in freely behaving rodents: monitoring hippocampal mnemonic processes (Kaizhen Li, Physiology Bern) |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Coffee break |
| 15:10 - 15:55 | Mechanisms and functional roles of synapse diversity in sensory circuits (Nelson Rebola, Brain & Spine Institute, Paris) |
| 15:55 - 16:40 | Sensory perception at the posterior parietal cortex (Shankar Sachidhanandam, Physiology Bern) |
Thursday, February 14
| 09:15 - 12:00 | Session 3: (Andrea Federspiel, Psychiatry Bern) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Basic concepts of functional Neuroimaging (Andrea Federspiel, Psychiatry Bern, pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Basic concepts of structural Neuroimaging (Andrea Federspiel, Psychiatry Bern, pdf) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Advanced Neuroimaging methods in Neurosciences (Andrea Federspiel, Psychiatry Bern, pdf) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | Student's poster session II >> |
| 14:15 - 17:00 | Session 4: (Thomas König, Psychiatry Bern) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Sleep, Development, and Psychiatry: Insights gained from quantitative EEG analysis (Andjela Markovic, Psychiatry Bern) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Combined EEG and fMRI in humans (Lucie Brechet, EPFL Lausanne, pdf) |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Human EEG analysis in Psychiatry (Thomas König, Psychiatry Bern) |
Friday, February 15
| 09:15 - 12:00 | Session 5: (Preeti Yadav, Neurology Bern, Abstracts) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | In vivo spinal cord electrophysiology in rodent models of ALS (Daniel Zytnicki, Neurosciences Paris) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Patient-derived inducible pluripotent stem cells in ALS (Preeti Yadav, Neurology Bern) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Live in vivoimaging in mice models of neurodegeneration studying network activity (Sabine Liebscher, Clinical Neuroimmunology Munich) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | Student's poster session III >> |
| 14:15 - 17:00 | Session 6: (Hans Rudolf Widmer, Neurosurgery Bern, Abstracts) |
| 14:15 - 14:20 | Introduction (Hans Rudolf Widmer, Neurosurgery Bern) |
| 14:20 - 15:05 | Hemorrhagic stroke: Background, mechanism and treatment strategies from animals to humans (Basil Grüter, Neurosurgery, Aarau) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Paracrine factors: Mechanism and effects (Stefano Di Santo, Neurosurgery, Bern) |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | The potential of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in neurological and psychiatric diseases (Claudio Pollo, Neurosurgery, Bern) |
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