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Workshop 2023

Translational bridges in Neurosciences: From neural recordings to brain repair

February 1 - 3, 2023

Gemeinschaftshörsaal (Room 220), Gertrud-Wokerstrasse 5, University of Bern. The entrance to the lecture hall is facing the Mensa Bühlplatz.

Organizers:

Steven Proulx, Maxime Baud, Athina Tzovara, Ludovic Mure, Anna-Sophia Wahl, Shankar Sachidhanandam, Antoine Adamantidis

Speakers:

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 27, 2023 to: shankar.sachidhanandam@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 27, 2023

Register per email to: shankar.sachidhanandam@unibe.ch

Program:

Wednesday, February 1

09:30 - 09:45Introduction (Antoine Adamantidis, Insel Zen, Bern; Shankar Sachidhanandam, Department of Physiology, Bern)
09:45 - 12:15Session 1: Multi-site recordings in awake behaving rodents (Shankar Sachidhanandam, Physiology Bern)
09:45 - 10:45Sensory, decision and motor information in the mouse cortex (Sylvain Crochet, École Polytechnique de Lausanne, Lausanne, Abstracts)
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15Multi-regional imaging of the neuromodulatory and brain activity (Yaroslav Sych, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience, Strasbourg, Abstracts)
12:15 - 13:30Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30Students poster session I >>
14:30 - 17:00Session 2: The blood-brain barrier and fluid circulation of the CNS (Steven Proulx, Theodor Kocher Institute, Bern)
14:30 - 15:30Brain pericytes -a century of speculations and controversy (Annika Keller, Department of Neurosurgery, Zurich, Abstracts)
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00New insights into cerebrospinal fluid circulation and clearance pathways (Steven Proulx, Theodor Kocher Institute, Bern, Abstracts)

Thursday, February 2

09:30 - 09:45Introduction (Antoine Adamantidis, Insel Zen, Bern)
09:45 - 12:15Session 3: When, where and how do seizures start and stop? (Maxime Baud, Insel Zen, Bern)
09:45 - 10:45Core concepts (Timothée Proix, Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, Geneva Abstracts)
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15Illustrative examples from the lab and clinics (Maxime Baud, Insel Zen, Bern)
12:15 - 13:30Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30Students poster session II >>
14:30 - 17:00Session 4: EEG and computational methods (Athina Tzovara, Institute of Computer Science, Bern)
14:30 - 15:30There's a time for everything: Tracking the temporal dynamics of memory and decision-making with time-resolved pattern analysis of neural data (Nicolas Myers, University of Nottingham, Abstracts)
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00Timing in the auditory predictive brain: electrophysiological correlates and prediction of coma outcome (Athina Tzovara, Institute of Computer Science, Bern, Abstracts)

Friday, February 3

09:30 - 09:45Introduction (Shankar Sachidhanandam, Department of Physiology, Bern)
09:45 - 12:15Session 5: The retina as a model of the human nervous system (Ludovic Mure, Department of Ophthalmology, Bern)
09:45 - 10:45Retinal organoids to model development and disease (Magdalena Renner, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, Basel, Abstracts)
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15Non-visual responses to light in health and disease (Ludovic Mure, Department of Ophthalmology, Bern, Abstracts)
12:15 - 13:30Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30Students poster session III >>
14:30 - 17:00Session 6: Brain homeostasis and repair (Anna-Sophia Wahl, Brain Research Institute, Zurich)
14:30 - 15:30How oligodendrocytes influence axonal function and energy metabolism (Aiman Saab, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Zurich, Abstracts)
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00Studying neuronal repair on a microcircuit level (Anna-Sophia Wahl, Brain Research Institute, Zurich, Abstracts)

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