IEM - Weizmann Brain Sciences Workshop 2024
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming IEM-Weizmann Brain Sciences Workshop, taking place on October 28-29, at the Lecture hall of the IEM.
Please find the program attached.
Everyone is welcome at the event, no prior registration is required - on a first come first served basis up to the capacity of the lecture room. At the same time, we would like to ask you to please only leave/arrive in the breaks between the sessions.
VENUE ADDRESS: SZIGONY UTCA 43. 1083 BUDAPEST
AGENDA – DAY 1
Monday, 28 th October 2024
08:30 - 09:00 Gathering
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome & Opening remarks: Beáta Sperlágh, Rony Paz, Yoav Livneh, Balázs Hangya
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Address: Balázs Gulyás, President of HUN-REN
The maintenance of high cognitive performance during ageing
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Networking break
11:00 - 12:30 Synaptic plasticity and physiology – Chaired by: Balázs Ujfalussy
Zoltán Nusser: Functional and structural properties of silent hippocampal pyramidal cells
Meital Oren-Swissa: Sexually dimorphic circuits: from molecular mechanisms to synapses and behavior
Judit Makara: Adaptation of hippocampal neuronal representations to task structure during virtual navigation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Subcortical modulation of behavior and cortical function – Chaired by: Yoav Livneh
Viktor Varga: Tuning of hippocampal and median raphe-targeting anterior cingulate neurons during a complex spatial alternation task
Balázs Hangya: Neuromodulatory signals during statistical learning
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee & Networking break
15:30 - 17:00 Molecular mechanisms of circuit function and dysfunction – Chaired by: Krisztina
Kovács
Ivo Spiegel: Behavioral state-dependent modulation of sensory processing and plasticity in cortical circuits
Beáta Sperlágh: Neuroinflammation and psychiatric disorders: cause or consequence?
Erik Hrabovszky: Sexually dimorphic sex steroid regulation of kisspeptin neuronal circuitries regulating fertility in mice
AGENDA – DAY 2
Tuesday, 29 th October 2024
09:00 - 09:30 Gathering
09:30 - 10:30 Brain-body interactions – Chaired by: Ferenc Mátyás
Yoav Livneh: Cortical estimation of current and future interoception within the brain-body loop
Krisztina Kovács: Involvement of PVH CRH neurons in behavioral and hormonal adaptation to chronic stress
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Networking break
11:00 - 12:30 Natural behavior – Chaired by: Rony Paz
Michal Ramot: Characterizing the causal role of large-scale network interactions in supporting human cognition
Balázs Ujfalussy: Contribution of active dendrites to hippocampal computations
Yarden Cohen: Dynamic properties of canary mating season song syntax and its underlying neural states
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Affective circuits – Chaired by: Balázs Hangya
Rony Paz: Cortico-amygdala circuits in affective learning
Norbert Hájos: Midbrain input to central amygdala controls contextual fear memory formation
Ferenc Mátyás: Cortico-thalamic principles define the information processing in mouse and human amygdala
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee & Networking break
15:30 - 16:30 Brain states – Chaired by: Ivo Spiegel
László Acsády: Region selective communication between the cortex and thalamus
Ilan Lampl: Detection and neural encoding of whisker-generated sounds in mice
16:30 - 17:00 Concluding remarks
ABOUT THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN SCIENCES
The Department of Brain Sciences has more than 20 research groups studying different levels of brain function,
design, and pathologies. These studies rely on multidisciplinary cutting-edge methodologies, ranging from molecular biology and genetics to electrophysiology (in vitro and in vivo), behavioral analysis, functional imaging, virtual reality, and computational modeling.
The Institute investigates how neural circuits function and guide behavior, how one learns, what one remembers, including, sensory perception and processing; navigation; group behavior; cortical organization; neural coding; synaptic and circuit dynamics; neural plasticity; emotions; neuromodulation; regeneration; and more.
The Department of Brain Sciences is a part of the faculty of Biology, and the department has over 100 graduate students and postdocs from multiple fields, including biology; computer sciences; physics; mathematics; chemistry; medicine; psychology; and engineering. They perform highly integrative and interdisciplinary research in a stimulating intellectual atmosphere using research facilities that are amongst the most advanced available, and where, they closely interact with top research institutions worldwide.
ABOUT THE HUN-REN INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, KOKI
The main theme of the Institute of Experimental Medicine is the exploration and understanding of the nervous system in order to increase knowledge of the brain and to contribute to the treatment of neurological diseases which is a huge burden on society and to the development of medical diagnostics and brain research methods.
The Institute was founded in 1952 to carry out biomedical research, and has developed over the last 20 years into the country's leading Centre for Neuroscience and has become a world-renowned Neurobiological Research Institute.