June 30th
Arrival
Dinner
July 1st
Theme: Prediction error, and feedforward/feedback organization in cortex.
Session 1 930-1100
Anna Vasilevskaya (FMI Basel) - Computational principles of interlaminar interactions in cortex
Jake Westerberg (NIN Amsterdam) - Hierarchical interactions supporting oddball detection
Rebecca Jordan (U Edinburgh) - Evidence for visuomotor prediction error minimization in mouse V1
Break
Session 2 1130-1300
Andreas Keller (U Basel) - Coordinated restructuring of cortical feedforward and feedback circuits
Leopoldo Petreanu (Champalimaud, Lisbon) - How cortico-cortical feedforward and feedback signals shape visual cortex processing
Christiaan Levelt (NIN Amsterdam) - Plasticity of direct and contextual inputs underlie saliency assignment
Lunch
Theme: Frontal cortex and basal ganglia circuits controlling behavior and learning.
Session 3 1400-1600
Michael Lohse (SWC London) - Frontal cortex clamps behavioural states in basal ganglia during decision-makin
Ilka Diester (U Freiburg) - Frontal Circuits for Flexibility
Simon Musall (Forschungscentrum Juelich) - A hierarchical cortical circuit for multisensory evidence accumulation and adaptive learning
Adil Khan (King's College London) - Neurexin1α knockout mice overcome impulsivity by rerouting cortical activity
Posters 1600-1730
Dinner 2000
Ristorante Tonino (down-town)
July 2nd
Theme: Neurodevelopmental and Adaptive Circuit Mechanisms
Session 4: 930-1100
Tommaso Pizzorusso (SNS Pisa) - Novel tools to study perineuronal nets
Tommaso Fellin (IST Genoa) - Enlarged field-of-view endoscopic brain imaging using benchtop and miniaturized two-photon microscopes
Enny van Beest (UCL London) - Brainwide encoding of mixed navigational signals
Break
Session 5: 1130-1230
Selected short talks:
Sigrid Trägenap (FIAS - Frankfurt) - Millimeter-scale selective amplification in the developing visual cortex
Irene Di Marco (CNR Neuroscience Pisa) - Short-term monocular deprivation engages rapid, inhibition-gated ocular dominance plasticity in mouse visual cortex
Uwe Lewin (MPI Martinsried) -Representational drift is insensitive to altered levels of inhibition
Lunch
Theme: Flexible sensory representations and behavioral relevance.
Session 6 1330-1500
Maximilian Jösch (IST Vienna) - Dynamic saliency maps as a neuronal substrate for visual selective attention
Matthias Kaschube (FIAS Frankfurt) - The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations
Tobias Rose (U Bonn) - Behavioral and circuit components of representational drift in mouse visual cortex
Break
Session 7 1530-1630
Katarina Schmack (FCI London) - Did you hear that? Auditory cortex dynamics during hallucination-like perception
Short talks:
Santiago Rompani (EMBL Rome) - Tackling the molecular mechanisms of early brain aging via ethological mouse behavior
Claudia Alia ( CNR Neuroscience, Pisa) - Uncovering Social Facilitation in Mice: Neural Mechanisms and Developmental Regulation
1630- Socials & Dinner at Pallazone
July 3rd
Theme: Multisensory coding and noncanonical sensory systems.
Session 8 930-1100
Yue Zhang (MPI Martinsried)- Distance matters in multisensory representation of object location
Laura Busse (LMU Munich) - Neural representation of color in the pigeon visual Wulst
Alexander Heimel (NIN Amsterdam) - Variability and coordination in superior colliculus responses to visual motion
End of meeting