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