Top sessions to attend at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience 2018

Technical workshops

Two-photon holographic optogenetics: technical advances and experimental in vivo applications

Using insights from basic science to improve the methodology of transcranial magnetic stimulation

Plenary lectures

Sunday 8^th July 8:30 – 9:30, Paola Arlotta

Development, reprogramming and modelling of the central nervous system: from the embryo to human brain organoids

Monday 9^th July 8:30 – 9:30, Frans de Waal

Prosocial Animals: Empathy and Cooperation

Monday 9^th July 17:30 – 18:30, Irene Tracey

Imaging Perception: Lessons from Pain, Analgesia and Anaesthesia-induced Altered States of Consciousness

Tuesday 10^th July 17:30 – 18:30, Beth Stevens

Immune Mechanisms of Synapse Loss in Disease: Lessons from Development

Special lectures

Sunday 8^th July 13:30 – 14:15, Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz

The Brain Prize Lecture 2017

Sunday 8th July 13:30 – 14:15, Helen Mayberg

EDAB / Special Lecture on Neuroethics

Monday 9^th July 13:30 – 14:15, Hans Lassmann

Host Society Special Lecture

Monday 9th July 13:30 – 14:15, Karel Svoboda

EDAB / Max Cowan Special Lecture

Tuesday 10^th July 13:30 – 14:15, Eleanor Maguire

EBBS / Behavioural Brain Research Lecture

Parallel symposia

Sunday 8th July 9:45 – 11:15

• Neurotransmitter signalling in brain development and disease – looking beyond synapses.
• Thalamo-cortical circuits in sleep and cognition
• Deep brain imaging of neuronal ensembles in freely moving animals using mitiaturized microscopes.
• Cannabinoid regulation of stress, emotion and memory: mechanisms & clinical implications.

Sunday 8th July 15:45 – 17:15

• Aberrant pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in Parkinson’s: pre-degeneration to late stage disease.
• Crispr/cas9-based gene editing for modeling and treating neurological disorders
• Two to tango: brain-immune interactions

Monday 9^th July 9:45 – 11:15

• Schwann cell development and repair in health and disease
• Ampa-receptor plasticity at synapses as an instrument to adapt behaviour
• Exciting new technologies emerging from the u.s. national institutes of health brain initiative
• Cortical and hippocampal inhibitory GABA function in cognition and behaviour

Monday 9th July 15:45 – 17:15

• Neural circuits underlying stress susceptibility
• Using computational neuroethology to dissect the neural basis of behaviour

Tuesday 10^th July 9:45 – 11:15

• The ins and outs of the midbrain dopamine system: from cellular systems to behavioural insights
• Mechanisms controlling the localization of axonal ion channels
• Neuronal network and synapse dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease
• Epigenetic inheritance: from chromatin to behaviour across species

Tuesday 10th July 15:45 – 17:15

• Stem cells and the brain: Neurons, niches and organoids
• Dentate gyrus - from circuits to behaviour
• Promoting myelin repair in multiple sclerosis
• Epigenetic remodeling of brain function: addiction & neurodegeneration
• Serotonin & antidepressants: molecular mechanisms, neuropharmacology & psychological processing
• Prefrontal mechanisms underlying working memory
• From super-resolution to in vivo imaging: new ways to see & understand synaptic function

Wednesday 11^th July 9:45 – 11:15

• Cognitive functions of the cerebellum
• Resolving the cognitive function of prefrontal circuits: from neurons to behaviour
• Novel cell-type and region-specific perspectives on hippocampal function Neuronal circuits of fear, extinction and beyond: recent advances

Special interest events

Sunday 8^th July 12:30 – 13:30

The crisis of reproducibility in biology

Sunday 8th July 18:45 – 21:00

Dealing with Gender-bias in Neuroscience

Monday 9^th July 12:00 – 13:30

Alternative Careers for Neuroscientists

Monday 9^th July 12:30 – 13:30

European Research Council: Funding opportunities for investigator-driven research in Europe

Tuesday 10^th July 12:30 – 13:30

Start your lab (lunch session)

Publishing workshop: What happens to your paper when submitted to a journal?

Tuesday 10^th July 18:45 - 20:15

Start your lab (evening session)

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