Friday, January 19, 2024

16:00 - 18:00: Arrival and Check-In

18:00 – 22:00: Registration and Welcome Reception 

Saturday, January 20, 2024

7:00 - 9:00: Breakfast at the Sunset Restaurant

9:00 – 9:10: Opening Remarks by the Organizers

9:10 – 10:00: Opening Keynote

Istvan Mody, University of California, Los Angeles

My late path to drug discovery: A small molecule that enhances gamma oscillations 

10:00 – 10:40: Session 1 - Synapses 

János Szabadics, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest  

Axons actively maintain uniform action potentials

Istvan Katona, Indiana Univ Bloomington | Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest  

Nanoscale molecular principles of tonic cannabinoid signaling

10:40 – 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:15: Session 2 -  Circuits 

Attila Losonczy, Columbia University

Microcircuits in the hippocampus and beyond

Jordan Farrell, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Hippocampal dentate spikes in cognition and epilepsy

Peyman Golshani, University of California, Los Angeles

Practice crystalizes volatile working memory representations.

Message from Péter Somogyi, University of Oxford 

12:15 – 15:00: Lunch Break

(Possibilities for social activities)

15:00 – 16:20: Session 3 - Epilepsy

Esther Krook-Magnuson, University of Minnesota 

The cerebellum in temporal lobe epilepsy

Viji Santhakumar, University of California, Riverside

Reclusive Chandeliers: Functional Isolation of Dentate Axo-Axonic Cells after Experimental Status Epilepticus

Anna Ratzliff, University of Washington

Advancing mental health services

Allyson Alexander, University of Colorado

Advances in Pediatric Epilepsy: Bench to Bedside

16:20 – 16:40: Refreshment Break

16:40 – 17:20: Closing Keynote

Thomas Südhof, Stanford University

How to make a synapse - the basics

17:20 - 17:30: Closing Remarks by Prof Ivan Soltesz

19:00 – 23:00: Reception and Banquet Dinner 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

7:00 - 11:00: Breakfast followed by Check-Out