Program


Day 1

July 19, 2022

14:00 - 14:15

Introduction

Maurizio De Pitta, Organizer
Marlene Hao, Chair

14:15 - 15:00

Modelling the modulation of cortical up-down state switching by astrocytes

Hugues Berry, INRIA Lyon Research Center, Villeurbanne, France

15:00 - 15:45

Conserved dynamics in the production of murine and human oligodendrocytes

Davide Gonsalvez, Department of Anatomy and Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

15:45 - 16:30

The ultrastructural basis of brain energy metabolism

Corrado Cali, Department of Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini," University of Turin, Turin, Italy

16:30 - 17:15

Astrocyte sodium signaling at tripartite synapses in health and disease

Christine R. Rose, Institute of Neurobiology, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany

17:15 - 18:00

A computational approach to neuron-astrocyte ionic exchange via obstacle-filled extracellular space

Leonid Savtchenko, University College London, London, UK

Day 2

July 20, 2022

08:30 - 08:45

Session Opening

Maurizio De Pitta, Organizer and Chair

08:45 - 09:30

Neuron-glial interactions shape hippocampal-dependent learning

Annalisa Scimemi, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA

09:30 - 10:15

The role of astrocytes in stress-induced behavioral dysfunction

Ciaran Murphy-Royal, Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Canada

10:15 - 11:00

Activity-dependent myelination: A homeostatic gain control mechanism in recurrent neural networks

Jeremie Lefebvre, Departments of Biology and Physics, University of Ottawa, Canada

Coffe and Lunch Break 11:00 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:15

Session opening

Hugues Berry, Chair

14:15 - 15:00

Enteric glial interactions with the gut environment

Marlene Hao, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, the University of Melbourne, Australia

15:00 - 15:45

Neuron-glial theory of working memory

Maurizio De Pitta, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

15:45 - 16:30

Hippocampal Astrocytes Encode Reward Location

Adi Doron, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Break 16:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:45

Mechanisms of glial control of working memory duration

Tatjana Tsumatchenko, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University of Mainz Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

17:45 - 18:30

Astrocyte dysfunction and migraine

Daniela Pietrobon, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy

18:30 - 19:15

Ionostasis at the tripartite synapse

Liam McDaid, School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

19:15 - 19:30

Closing Remarks

Maurizio De Pitta, Organizer and Chair