Mini-Symposium on Somatosensory Neuroscience
Venue: B1C Auditorium, IBMS
Date: November 2, 2026 (Monday)
Time: 09:20-17:20
Mini-Symposium on Somatosensory Neuroscience
Venue: B1C Auditorium, IBMS
Date: November 2, 2026 (Monday)
Time: 09:20-17:20
09:00-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Opening Remark
Host: Kuo-Sheng Lee, IBMS
09:30-10:20 Keynote Speaker:
Xinzhong Dong/ Mechanisms and therapeutic targeting of DRG nociceptors in chronic pain
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Host: Chih-Cheng Chen, IBMS
10:40-11:10 Yves De Koninck/TBA
11:10-11:40 Reza Sharif/TBA
11:40-12:10 Kuo-Sheng Lee/Body–Brain Circuits Underlying Interoceptive Mechanosensation and Mechanical Allodynia
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Host: TBA
13:30-14:00 Suewei Lin/Osmosensation in an insect brain
14:00-14:30 Mateusz Kucharczyk/TBA
14:30-15:00 Marie-Ève Paquet/Expanding the gene delivery and genetically encoded sensor toolbox to understand the nervous system
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
Host: TBA
15:30-16:00 Angelika Lampert/Sodium channel NaV1.9: the ever-active player in sleeping nociceptors
16:00-16:30 Han Chin Wang/Somatosensory map expansion in autism spectrum disorders
16:30-17:00 Shuenn-Der Yu/Is there a space for culture in our perceptions of pain and syn?
17:00-17:20 Closing Remark