Thursday, June 13th
1530 Buses leave Pisa and Florence airports
1730 Buses arrive at Montecastelli
1730-1900 Registration & check in
1900 Dinner
Friday, June 14th
Session: Visual cortex circuits, Chair: Alexander Heimel
925-930 Tommaso Pizzorusso – Welcome
930-1000 Katrin Franke - Center-surround interactions in the primary visual cortex
1000-1030 Simon Weiler - Layer 6 corticocortical cells dominate the anatomical organization of intra and interhemispheric feedback
1030-1100 Tobias Rose - Stability of visual processing in passive and active vision
1100-1130 Break 30 min
Session: Subcortical and thalamocortical interactions I, Chair: Christiaan Levelt
1130-1200 Laura Busse - Neuronal circuit dynamics in the visual thalamocortical system
1230-1300 Maximilian Jösch - A thalamic action cue hub coordinates early visual processing and perception
1300-1430 Lunch 90 min
Session: Learning and plasticity I, Chair: Mark Hübener
1430-1500 Andreas Keller - Learning regulates visual processing by strengthening feedback circuits
1500-1530 Leopoldo Petreanu - Plasticity and specificity of cortico-cortical interactions
1530-1600 Huub Terra - The effect of visual experience on visual and auditory processing throughout the mouse visual cortex
1600-1630 Break, 30 min
Short talks from Posters, Chair: Pieter Goltstein
1630-1650 Mateo Velez-Fort - Cortical translation signals permit motion source separation during locomotion
1650-1710 Uwe Lewin - Mechanisms controlling representational drift in mouse visual cortex
1710-1730 Kaan Çetindağ - Patterned-light optogenetics reveal feature and pathway specific processing during perceptual behavior
1730-1900 Poster session, 90 min
1900 Dinner
Saturday June 15th
Session: Learning and plasticity II, Chair: Tommaso Pizzorusso
930-1000 Pieter Goltstein - Whole-brain approaches for mapping learning-related changes in activity and connectivity in the mouse brain
1000-1030 Matthias Kaschube - The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations
1030-1100 Sara Mederos - Visual cortex instructs learning during adaptive decision-making
1100-1130 Break 30 min
Session: Subcortical and thalamocortical interactions II, Chair: Laura Busse
1130-1200 Alexander Heimel - Divisive normalization and short-term depression
1230-1300 Jens Kremkow - Afferent input integration in the retinocollicular and thalamocortical visual circuits
1230-1400 Lunch 90 min
Session: Integrative function I, Chair: Nathalie Rochefort
1400-1430 Maureen van der Grinten - Development of a cortical visual prosthesis: producing multi-phosphene percepts
1430-1500 Santiago Rompani - Pupil-mediated binocularity potentiates low contrast vision
1500-1530 Break 30 min
15:30-1900 Applied gustatory neuroscience
1900 Dinner
Sunday June 16th
Session: Integrative function II, Chair: Emilie Macé
930-1000 Nathalie Rochefort - Noradrenergic-dependent deficit in visual cortex function in a mouse model of SYNGAP1- related intellectual disability and autism
1000-1030 Raffaele Mazziotti - Assessing emotional contagion in mice through pupillometry and whole brain c-fos activation
1030-1100 Michael Lohse - Frontal cortex clamps behavioural states in basal ganglia during decision-making
1100-1105 Christiaan Levelt - Closing remarks
1105 Light lunch
1200 Buses leave for airports