Workshop 2024
The brain: evolution, and plasticity
January 24 - 26, 2024
Auditorium Biology (PER 04, 0.110), Rte A. Gockel 3, CH-1700 Fribourg
Organizers:
Thomas Auer, Patricia Boya, Juliane Britz, Boris Egger, Dominique Glauser, Michael Harvey, Anne von Philipsborn, Mario Prsa, Michael Schmid, Simon Sprecher, and Katrin Huber
Deadline for registration: January 22, 2024
Deadline for abstract submission: January 12, 2024
Register via Microsoft forms
Wednesday, January 24
| Morning Session: «Circuits, Metabolism and Memory» Chairs: Simon Sprecher, Dominique Glauser, Boris Egger | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and general organization (Katrin Huber) |
| Introduction (Sprecher, Glauser, Egger) | |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Genetic and biochemical analysis of a microcircuit that switches animal states (Mario de Bono, Institute of Science and Technology Austria) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Metabolic remodeling during Drosophila brain tumor formation (Catarina Homem, Nova Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Metabolic plasticity in the Drosophila memory center (Pierre-Yves Plaçais, Brain Plasticity Department, ESPCI, Paris, France) |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch break |
| Afternoon Session: «Clever guts and food for thoughts in Drosophila» Chairs: Anne von Philipsborn, Thomas Auer | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Poster «Blitz» presentations* (students) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Introduction (von Philipsborn, Auer) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Exploring gut senses (Dafni Hadjieconomou, Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute, France) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break and Poster** Viewing Session |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Neuronal principles of internal state dependent sensory processing (Daniel Münch, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal) |
Thursday, January 25
| Morning session: «Cerebral cortex: what is it good for?» Chair: Michael Harvey, Mario Prsa | |
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Introduction (Harvey/Prsa) |
| 09:10 - 10:00 | Sensory Cortex in Context and Learning (Prof. Randy Bruno, Oxford) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 11:10 | Cortical real estate for an ancestral visual system (Prof. Riccardo Beltramo, Cambridge) |
| 11:15 - 12:05 | Surprise response across adolescence (Prof. Tania Rinaldi Barkat, Basel) |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Roundtable discussion |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch break |
| Afternoon session: «Mouse models to study neuronal metabolism and function» Chair: Patricia Boya | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Poster «Blitz» presentations* (students) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Introduction (Boya) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Impact of astrocyte metabolism on cognition (Juan Pedro Bolaños, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, CSIC, Salamanca, Spain) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break and Poster** Viewing Session |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Out of Breath: the impact of hypoxia on photoreceptor metabolism and vision (Christian Grimm, Lab for Retinal Cell Biology, Dept Ophthalmology / USZ, University of Zürich) |
Friday, January 26
| Morning session: «Unraveling the primate brain: Insights into neurorehabilitation and cognitive brain function» Chair: Michael Schmid | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Introduction (Schmid) |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | NHP model of stroke for the development of neurorehabilitation technologies (Dr. Charles Latchoumane (EPFL)) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | On the inevitability of visual interruption (Prof. Ziad Hafed, University of Tübingen) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Decision Making Under Working Memory Limitation (Prof. Alex Thiele, Newcastle University) |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch break |
| Afternoon session: «Brain-Body Interactions» Chair: Juliane Britz | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Poster «Blitz» presentations* (students) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Introduction (Britz) |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Bodily signals shape the neural pathway to awareness (Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break and Poster** Viewing Session |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | A brain disconnected from its body (Dorothée Lulé, University of Ulm, Germany) |
*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
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