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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

13:00 - 19:00 Satellite Symposium (Sat1), Lecture hall, MPINAT City-Campus
8th Schram Foundation Symposium
From molecular threads to brain networks: the evolutionary tapestry of cognition

Chairs: Eugenio F. Fornasiero and Ben H. Cooper | Göttingen
 


Wednesday, March 26, 2025

08:30 - 11:30

Satellite Symposium (Sat2), Historische Sternwarte/Observatorium, Georg-August-University Göttingen
International Symposium Research Unit 5424 (DFG) „Modulation of olfaction“
Chairs: Veronica Egger, Ilona Grunwald Kadow and Silke Sachse | Regensburg, Bonn and Jena
- Registration required -

 
09:00 - 11:45 Satellite Symposium (Sat3), ZHG, Georg-August-University Göttingen - Hall 10
GBM Study Group ‘Molecular Neurobiology’
"The Gut-Brain Axis: Interplay of the Immune System, Barrier Integrity, and Enteric Nervous System in Brain Diseases"

Chairs: Jörg W. Bartsch and Stefan Kins | Marburg and Kaiserslautern
 
12:00 - 13:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
 - Opening Lecture -
Frank Bradke | Bonn
Mechanisms of axon growth and regeneration
Chair: Frank Kirchhoff | Homburg
    
13:00 - 14:30 Poster Session I: Posters A
  13:00 - 13:45 Odd serial numbers
  13:45 - 14:30 Even serial numbers
   
14:30 - 16:30 Symposia I (S1 - S6)
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 1 - Hall 8
Assessing neuronal excitability and sensory neuron subclasses using Patch-seq
Chairs: Angelika Lampert and Eckhard Friauf | Aachen and Kaiserslautern 
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 2 - Hall 102
The endocrine brain: shaping women`s mental health during hormonal transitions
Chairs: Erika Comasco and Birgit Derntl | Uppsala, Sweden and Tübingen
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 3 - Hall 104
Prefrontal mechanisms of adaptive cognitive behaviors in health and disease
Chairs: Ilka Diester and Artur Schneider | Freiburg
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 4 - Hall 105
Current advances of extracellular vesicles in CNS-cell interaction and brain-periphery communication
Chairs: Eva-Maria Krämer-Albers and Christian Neri | Mainz and Paris, France
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 5 - Hall 103
The role of co-proteinopathies in neurodegenerative diseases: bystander or disease driver?
Chairs: Evgeni Ponimaskin and Franziska Richter Assencio | Hannover
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 6 - Hall 9
Sensing LOOPS: cortico-subcortical interactions for adaptive sensing, perception and learning
Chairs: Markus Rothermel and Julio Hechavarria | Magdeburg and Frankfurt/Main
 
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Session II: Posters A
16:30 - 17:15 Odd serial numbers
17:15 - 18:00 Even serial numbers
   
18:00 - 19:00 Light Buffet in the Foyer
   
19:00 - 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
- Translational Neuroscience Lecture of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation -
Richard A. Andersen
| Pasadena, USA
Unlocking movement: helping paralyzed people with brain-machine interfaces
Chair: Mathias Bähr | Göttingen


Thursday, March 27, 2025

08:00 - 09:00

Awarding & Lecture, Hall 11
- Schilling Award Lecture -
Chair: Tatjana Tchumatchenko | Bonn
 
Diane Rekow | Hamburg
Odors shape visual categorization in the human brain
 
Lukas Kunz | Bonn
Cellular mechanisms of spatial navigation in the human medial temporal lobe

 
09:00 - 10:30 Poster Session III: Posters B
  09:00 - 09:45 Odd serial numbers
  09:45 - 10:30 Even serial numbers
   
10:30 - 12:30 Symposia II (S7 - S12)
  10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 7 - Hall 9
The 4th dimension of plasticity: extracellular matrix interplay with neurons and glia at the synapse
Chairs: Svilen Georgiev and Silvio Rizzoli | Göttingen
   
  10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 8 - Hall 101
A neurobiological and computational framework for understanding the complex sensory symptoms of autism
Chairs: Andreas Frick and Susanne Schmid | Bordeaux, France and London, Canada
   
  10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 9 - Hall 105
Neuronal circuits, energy state and eating disorders
Chairs: Robert Chesters and Rachel Lippert | Nuthetal
   
  10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 10 - Hall 104
Sex, glia and disease: understanding sex-specific glia biology in health and disease
Chairs: Barbara Di Benedetto and Julia Schulze-Hentrich | Regensburg and Saarbrücken
   
  10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 11 - Hall 8
Wired for motion: perspectives on motor control
Chairs: Jonas Fisch and Lena Lion | junge Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
   
  10:30 - 12:30 Symposium 12 - Hall 103
Breaking News I
Chair: Marc Spehr | Aachen

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30 Annual General Meeting of the NWG (Hall 11)
 
12:30 - 13:30 Workshop I - Hall 102
TVV Workshop (Workshop on communicating animal research)
Animal research in Europe: How can neuroscience shape upcoming developments?
Chairs: Roman Stilling (Tierversuche verstehen - TVV) and Nuno Miguel Gonçalves (European Animal Research Association - EARA), Münster and London, UK
 
13:30 - 14:30 Meet the Companies and their latest products & developments at the booths or in workshops
 
13:30 - 14:30 Workshop II - Hall 101
Bruker Nano
Multi-Scale Imaging: from Molecules to Organisms using Bruker Super-Resolution and Light Sheet Microscopy
Clemens Schneider and Jürgen Mayer, Berlin
 
13:30 - 14:30

Workshop III - Hall 103
LICORbio
Generation of reliable and reproducible Western blots and Protein Assay Data

Stefanie Merfort and Maria Ercu, Bad Homburg

 
13:30 - 14:30 Workshop IV - Hall 104
INNOPSYS
How to generate quantitative data from whole-brain IF imaging in record time?
Eric Dyrcz and Perrine Borel, Berlin and Toulouse, France
 
13:30 - 14:30 Workshop V - Hall 105
Molecular Devices
Sensitive and Reliable: How the Spectral Optimization Wizard and AutoPMT can help you get the most out of your fluorescence experiments
Marie Pape-Bub, Wokingham, UK
 
14:30 - 16:30 Symposia III (S13 - S18)
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 13 - Hall 104
Breaking News II
Chair: Ivan Manzini | Gießen
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 14 - Hall 10
Circuits for behavior: cross-species strategies for adaptation and plasticity
Chairs: Graziana Gatto and Jan Gründemann | Köln and Bonn
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 15 - Hall 102
Building blocks of the brain: insights into CNS circuits and ultrastructure
Chairs: Matthias Haberl and Martina Schifferer | Berlin and München
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 16 - Hall 8
Big science, big challenges, and the diversity of life sciences - where does neuroscience go?
Chairs: Andreas Draguhn and Constanze Seidenbecher | Heidelberg and Magdeburg

   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 17 - Hall 103
Mechanisms of reperfusion-failure after cerebral ischemia
Chair: Nikolaus Plesnila | München
 
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 18 - Hall 105
How the nervous system builds and maintains myelin
Chairs: Amit Agarwal and Minou Djannatian | Heidelberg and München
 
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Session IV: Posters B
  16:30 - 17:15 Odd serial numbers
  17:15 - 18:00 Even serial numbers
 
18:00 - 19:00 Light Buffet in the Foyer
 
19:00 - 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
- Hertie Foundation Lecture -
Catherine Tallon-Baudry | Paris, France
How interoception shapes cognition
Chair: Veronica Egger | Regensburg


Friday, March 28, 2025

09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
- Norbert Elsner Lecture -
Rui Costa | Seattle, USA
Executing, reinforcing and refining actions
Chair: Gary Lewin | Berlin
 
10:00 - 11:30 Poster Session V: Posters C
  10:00 - 10:45 Odd serial numbers
  10:45 - 11:30 Even serial numbers
 
11:30 - 13:30 Symposia IV (S19 - S24)
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 19 - Hall 101
Visual processing in social behaviors
Chairs: Clara Ferreira, Johannes Larsch and Inês M.A. Ribeiro | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, Lausanne, Switzerland and München
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 20 - Hall 8
Investigating memory using human single-neuron recordings
Chairs: Alana Darcher and Ilona Vieten | Tübingen and Bonn
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 21 - Hall 103
Social immunity as defense against diseases: from sensory biology to collective animal behavior
Chairs: Giovanni Galizia and Valerie Kuklovsky | Konstanz
   
 11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 22 - Hall 104
The listening brain: frontiers in auditory cognition and health
Chair: Marcus Jeschke | Göttingen
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 23 - Hall 105
Extracellular matrix alterations in aging and neurological diseases
Chairs: Egor Dzyubenko and Alexander Dityatev | Essen and Magdeburg
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 24 - Hall 9
Evolution of behavior: from genes to circuits
Chairs: James Lightfoot and Monika Scholz | Bonn
   
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break and Workshops
 
13:30 - 14:30 Workshop VI - Hall 102
DFG (individual counselling available afterwards)
Starting your research career - DFG funding programs and application procedures
Andreas Görlich, Melina Overhoff-Bühnen and Stephanie Wegener | Bonn
 
13:30 - 14:30 Workshop VII - Hall 103
IBRO
Why publish in society journals: Neuroscience, IBRO's journal, as a model
Francesca Cirulli | Roma, Italy
 
14:30 - 16:30 Symposia V (S25 - S30)
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 25 - Hall 102
Multilevel human brain mapping and atlas as a tool connecting micro- and macro-structures
Chairs: Alexey Chervonnyy and Nataliia Fedorchenko | Düsseldorf
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 26 - Hall 8
Neural circuits for flexible social behavior
Chairs: Jan Clemens and Frederic Römschied | Oldenburg and Göttingen
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 27 - Hall 104
Brain organoids for modelling immune-neural interactions in epilepsy
Chair: Andreas Chiocchetti | Frankfurt/Main
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 28 - Hall 101
Early dysfunction of the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system in neurodegenerative diseases
Chairs: Sabine Liebscher and Lars Paeger | Innsbruck, Austria and München
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 29 - Hall 9
Neural circuits and decision strategies for behavioral trade-offs
Chairs: Madhura Ketkar, Carlotta Martelli and Luisa Ramirez | Göttingen and Mainz
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 30 - Hall 105
Glia-neuron interactions sculpting functional circuit architecture; insights from genetic animal models
Chairs: Christian Klämbt and Georgia Rapti | Münster and Heidelberg
   
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Session VI: Posters C
  16:30 - 17:15 Odd serial numbers
  17:15 - 18:00 Even serial numbers
 
18:00 - 19:00 Light Buffet in the Foyer
 
19:00 - 20:00
Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
- Armin Schram Lecture -
Michael Kreutz | Magdeburg
From synapse to nucleus and back again – communication over distance within neurons
Chair: Jochen Roeper | Frankfurt/Main
 


Saturday, March 29, 2025

09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
- Ernst Florey Lecture -
Amy Arnsten | New Haven, USA
Successful translation of treatments for higher cognitive disorders from macaques to humans
Chair: Andreas Nieder | Tübingen
   
10:00 - 11:30 Poster Session VII: Posters D
  10:00 - 10:45 Odd serial numbers
  10:45 - 11:30 Even serial numbers
   
11:30 - 13:30 Symposia VI (S31 - S36)
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 31 - Hall 9
From olfaction to emotions
Chairs: Tobias Ackels and Sabine Krabbe | Bonn
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 32 - Hall 10
Dendritic inhibition - role in network dynamics, memory and behavior
Chairs: Marlene Bartos and Jörg Geiger | Freiburg and Berlin
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 33 - Hall 103
Non-canonical contribution of oligodendrocyte precursors in brain circuits
Chairs: Xianshu Bai and Friederike Pfeiffer | Homburg and Tübingen
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 34 - Hall 104
Modelling CNS recovery from autoimmune neurodegeneration
Chairs: Alexander Flügel and Djordje Miljkovic | Göttingen and Belgrade, Serbia
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 35 - Hall 105
New perspectives on the locus coeruleus - noradrenergic activity during sleep and its role in memory function
Chairs: Oxana Eschenko and Sara Mednick | Tübingen and Irvine, USA
   
  11:30 - 13:30 Symposium 36 - Hall 8
Neuronal representation of space, directions and goals in insects and vertebrates
Chairs: Hannah Haberkern and Keram Pfeiffer | Würzburg
   
13:30 - 15:00 Poster Session VIII: Posters D
  13:30 - 14:15 Odd serial numbers
  14:15 - 15:00 Even serial numbers
   
15:00 - 16:00 Plenary Lecture, Hall 11
- Otto Creutzfeldt Lecture -
Iain D. Couzin
| Konstanz
Geometric principles of spatial decision making: from neural dynamics to individual and collective behavior
Chair: Ansgar Büschges | Köln
   
16:00 Departure


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