17th Göttingen Meeting 2027
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Tuesday, March 16, 2027

13:00 - 19:00 Satellite Symposium (Sat1), Lecture hall, MPINAT City-Campus
9th Schram Foundation Symposium
Chairs: Thomas Frank, Marisa Karow und Tomohisa Toda | Göttingen and Erlangen, Germany
 


Wednesday, March 17, 2027

09:00 - 11:00 Symposia I (S1 - S6)
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 1
Breathing: the enigmatic yet essential brain function – a tribute to Professor Diethelm W. Richter
Chairs: Jan-Marino Ramirez and Matthias Dutschmann | Seattle and Cleveland, USA
 
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 2
Neuroscience and cancer
Chairs: Mathias Bähr and Manfred Westphal | Göttingen and Hamburg, Germany
 
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 3
Beyond neurons: oxytocin signaling in glial cells
Chairs: Ferdinand Althammer and Alexandre Charlet | Heidelberg, Germany and Strasbourg, France
 
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 4
Behavioral regulation by hippocampal circuits: subcortical inputs, outputs, and state-dependent network dynamics
Chairs: Oliver Barnstedt and Anne Petzold | Göttingen, Germany
 
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 5
Inside and outside the synapse - challenging dogmas of synaptic signaling and neuromodulation
Chairs: Christian Henneberger and Susanne Schoch McGovern | Bonn, Germany
 
09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 6
Cross-species perspectives on pesticide neurotoxicity
Chairs: Kristina Corthals and Elisa Rigosi | Lund, Sweden
 
11:15 - 12:15 Plenary Lecture
 - Founders' Lecture -
Abdel El Manira | Stockholm, Sweden
Brain circuits for flexible locomotion
Chair: Ansgar Büschges | Köln, Germany
 
12:15 - 13:15 Poster Session II: Posters A (all posters)
 
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
 
13:15 - 14:15 Breaking News Session
Chair: Marc Spehr | Aachen
    
14:15 - 16:15 Symposia I (S7 - S12)
  14:15 - 16:15 Symposium 7
From burden to benefit: translating model-tailored severity assessment into scientific value
Chairs: Anne Mallien and Anna Munk | Mannheim and Munich, Germany
   
  14:15 - 16:15 Symposium 8
From genomes to circuits: engineering non-model insects for systems neuroscience
Chairs: Giulia Di Cristina, Martin Nawrot and Brian H. Smith | Köln, Germany and Tempe, USA
   
  14:15 - 16:15 Symposium 9
Synaptic heterogeneity in the flexibility and robustness of nervous system function
Chairs: Martin Heine and Dilja Krueger-Burg | Mainz, Germany
   
  14:15 - 16:15 Symposium 10
The glial blood-brain barrier in circumventricular organs
Chair: Markus Schwaninger | Lübeck, Germany
   
  14:15 - 16:15 Symposium 11
Vocal sequences as windows onto the neurobiology of vocal communication
Chairs: Mirjam Knörnschild and Lena Veit | Berlin and Tübingen, Germany
   
  14:15 - 16:15 Symposium 12
Neuronal control of adaptive locomotion in flies and mice
Chairs: Jan M. Ache and Stephan Dietrich | Würzburg, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark
 
14:15 - 16:15 Meet the Companies and their latest products & developments at the booths or in workshops
 
17:15 - 18:15 Plenary Lecture
- Translational Neuroscience Lecture of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation -
Michelle Monje
| Stanford, USA
The neuroscience of brain cancer
Chair: Mathias Bähr | Göttingen
 
18:15 - 19:00 Light Snack Buffet in the Foyer
 
19:00 - 20:30 Poster Session II: Posters A
19:00 - 19:45 Odd serial numbers
19:45 - 20:30 Even serial numbers


Thursday, March 18, 2027

09:00 - 11:00 Symposia III (S13 - S18)
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 13
Illuminating neural networks: integrating connectomics with molecular and behavioral neuroscience
Chairs: Katharina Eichler and Tomke Stürner | Leipzig, Germany and Cambridge, UK
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 14
The thalamus as a hub for cognitive control and network reorganization
Chairs: Burkhard Pleger and Anika Stockert | Bochum und Leipzig, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 15
Functional phase transitions shaping neuronal physiology
Chairs: Dragomir Milovanovic and Sofiia Reshetniak | Berlin and Göttingen, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 16
Reconciling stable memory and perception with representational drift
Chairs: Jonas-Frederic Sauer and Torfi Sigurdsson | Homburg/Saar and Frankfurt, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 17
Sensors and circuits for magnetic orientation in animals
Chairs: David Keays and Pascal Malkemper | Planegg-Martinsried and Bonn, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 18
Subcellular crosstalk: organelle interactions in neural physiology and development
Chair: Nina Bonekamp, Margret Bülow and Nicole Kucharowski | Mannheim, Potsdam and Düsseldorf, Germany
 
11:15 - 12:15 Plenary Lecture
- Armin Schram Lecture -
Ira Milosevic | Oxford, UK
Towards improving organellar acidification and genome stability in the ageing brain
Chair: Jochen Roeper | Frankfurt/Main, Germany
 
12:15 - 13:15 Poster Session III:  all Posters B
 

13:15 - 14:15

Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:15 Annual General Meeting of the NWG
 
14:30 - 16:30 Symposia IV (S19 - S24)
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 19 - Special Interest
Animal research in neuroscience: for knowledge and progress
Chairs: NWG and Tierversuche Verstehen
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 20
Adult neurogenesis in injury and aging
Chairs: Catherina Becker and Ismael Fernandez Hernandez | Dresden and Göttingen, Germany
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 21
New evidence for functional and causal roles of oscillatory activity in cognition and behavior
Chairs: Eric Drebitz and Julia Veit | Bremen, Germany
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 22
Smelling back and forth: modulation of olfaction via recurrent circuits across phyla
Chairs: Veronica Egger and Silke Sachse | Regensburg and Würzburg, Germany
   
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 23
Computational neuroscience: from cellular dynamics and organoids to sensory processing and cognition
Chairs: Johanna Rosa Heckmann, Florian Kremser and Luna Studer |Würzburg, Göttingen and Munich Germany
 
  14:30 - 16:30 Symposium 24
Networks and areas in cognitive neuropsychology
Chairs: Cornelius Weiller | Freiburg, Germany
 
16:45 - 17:45 Plenary Lecture
- Hertie Foundation Lecture -
Richard Naud | Ottawa, Canada
Towards a burst-coded solution of the credit assignment problem
Chair: Tatjana Tchumatchenko | Bonn, Germany
 
17:45 - 18:30 Light Snack Buffet in the Foyer
 
18:30 - 20:00 Poster Session IV: Posters B
  18:30 - 19:15 Odd serial numbers
  19:15 - 20:00 Even serial numbers

Friday, March 19, 2027

09:00 - 11:00 Symposia V (S25 - S30)
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 25
Computational neuroscience of group behavior: social brains, swarms, and multi-agent AI
Chairs: Amir Naderi and Sarath Ravindran Nair | Göttingen, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 26
Molecular tempo in the developing and aging brain: mechanisms and evolutionary insights
Chairs: Mateusz Ambrozkiewicz and Matthew Kraushar | Calgary, Canada and Berlin, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 27
On error
Chairs: Bertram Gerber and Philippe N. Tobler | Magdeburg, Germany and Zürich, Switzerland
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 28
Next level optical approaches to interrogate neural network modulation, function and behavior
Chairs: Alexander Dieter, Alexander Gottschalk and Peter Soba | Mannheim, Frankfurt and Erlangen, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 29
The emerging neuroimmunological role of the skull
Chairs: Rainer Glass | Munich, Germany
   
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 30
Real-time perception and the role of fast neuronal response adaptations in animals and humanst
Chair: Livia de Hoz and Irene Onorato | Berlin, Germany
 
11:00 - 12:00 Poster Session V:  all Posters C
 
12:00 - 13:00 Awarding & Lecture
- Schilling Award Lecture and Breaking News Award -
Chair: Franziska Richter Assencio | Hannover, Germany
 

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break
 
14:00 - 15:30 Poster Session VI: Posters C
14:00 - 14:45 Odd serial numbers
14:45 - 15:30 Even serial numbers
 
15:30 - 16:45 Plenary Lecture
- Norbert Elsner Lecture -
Rohini Kuner | Heidelberg German
Cortical plasticity in chronic pain and pain relief
Chair: Andreas Nieder | Tübingen, Germany
 
16:45 Departure


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