Top sessions to attend at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience 2022
The 2022 FENS Forum of Neuroscience is fast-approaching! We have created a list of sessions that we think will be particularly interesting, to help you make the most of your time at the event.
We have included lectures, mini conferences, workshops, symposia, special interest events, and networking events. For the full programme, please visit the FENS website.
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The crucial balance of Nitric Oxide (NO) signalling - from Synapse to Disease
Satellite Symposium - Friday 8th July, 09:00-20:00 (SE07)
Scientifica is a proud sponsor of this symposium. One of our Senior Product Specialists will be giving a short presentation at this event (9:10 AM).
This Symposium has been organised to bring together researchers from world-leading laboratories studying the elusive roles of NO signalling in the brain and will focus on physiological and pathological effects of this so-called Janus molecule. Over recent years, research targeting nitrergic signalling to study its role in physiology and disease has progressed substantially and is timely to present and discuss those recent findings.
If you would like to know more about this symposium, please click here.
Plenary and Special Lectures
Saturday 9th July, 13:30-15:00, Michal Schwartz (SL01 – FENS – EJN Awards Lectures)
A transformed view of neurodegenerative diseases: Immunotherapy to harness the immune system to defeat Alzheimer’s disease.
Sunday 10th July, 13:30-14:15, Julijana Gjorgijeva (SL03 – Eric Kandel Prize Lecture & Scientific Award Ceremony)
Organization and computation in neural circuits during development.
Sunday 10th July, 17:30-18:30, Sandrine Humbert (PL03 – Plenary Lecture)
Huntington’s disease: From neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration
Monday 11th July, 13:30-14:15, Tom Baden (SL07 – Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award Lecture)
The evolution of computation in the brain – insights from studying the retina.
Monday 11th July, 17:30-18:30, Thomas C. Südhof (PL05 – Presidential Lecture)
The molecular logic of synapse formation
Tuesday 12th July, 08:30-09:30, Panayiota Poirazi (PL06 – TCCI Plenary Lecture)
Learning with dendrites in brains and machines
Tuesday 12th July, 13:30-14:15, Timothy Behrens (SL08 – The EBBS Special Lecture)
Flexible inferences in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry
Wednesday 13th July, 08:30-09:30, Damien Fair (PL08 – ERA-NET NEURON Lecture)
Developmental cognitive neuroscience in the era of big data
Wednesday 13th July, 11:30-12:15, Seung-Hee Lee (SL13 – ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture on Brain Sciences)
Neural circuits for multisensory integration and perceptual decisions
Wednesday 13th July, 13:00-14:00, Matteo Carandini (PL09 – Closing Plenary Lecture)
Organisation of neural activity across the brain
Mini conferences
Attendance of the mini conferences requires separate registration here. All mini conferences will be held on Saturday 9th July 2022, between 09:00-15:00 CEST.
MC03 - Sleep regulation and functions: when the periphery talks to the brain.
Organized by the French Society of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (SFRMS) in collaboration with the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS).
Sleep plays a central part in our life. Its functions are multiple and its dysfunctions have large consequences on physical and mental health and performances. The expression and stability of sleep depend on a large brain network in interaction with its environment. The mini conference will provide a didactic overview of brain activities during sleep and their functions based on the most recent findings using state of the art techniques in animal models or human subjects. The role of environmental factors as well as basic mechanisms of neural networks and neuro-glial interactions will also be elucidated. Finally, innovative drug development will be discussed toward better cognitive functioning. The content will be brought to you by a multi-disciplinary faculty of basic scientists and clinicians.
The crucial balance of Nitric Oxide (NO) signalling - from Synapse to Disease
Satellite Symposium - Friday 8th July, 09:00-20:00 (SE07)
Scientifica is a proud sponsor of this symposium. One of our Senior Product Specialists will be giving a short presentation at this event (9:10 AM). You can find more info here.
This Symposium has been organised to bring together researchers from world-leading laboratories studying the elusive roles of NO signalling in the brain and will focus on physiological and pathological effects of this so-called Janus molecule. Over recent years, research targeting nitrergic signalling to study its role in physiology and disease has progressed substantially and is timely to present and discuss those recent findings.
If you would like to know more about this symposium, please click here.
Workshops
Workshop participation has a separate fee attached to it. See here for more detail.
W02 - Multiscale optical technologies for deep and large-volume brain imaging
Saturday 9th July, 10:00-13:00
Optical technologies have become an essential tool in neuroscience to record the structure and function of neural circuits in-vivo and the past years have seen a remarkable rate of innovation and development which has continually raised their performance. However, optical approaches also face omnipresent trade-offs between field of view, acquisition speed, imaging depth, and tissue irradiation, which can be difficult to comprehend from the user perspective. This workshop aims to showcase and discuss the latest strategies that enable neural recordings across scales, from synapses and dendrites to brain-wide circuits, from sub-second dynamics to developmental timescales.
Symposia
Sunday 10th July, 09:45-11:15
S03 – Hall C – Psychedelic effects without psychedelic experience – Kim Kuypers, Scott Thompson, Lindsay Cameron, Rafael Moliner
Sunday 10th July, 15:45-17:15
S14 – Hall H – Vascular hypotheses for understanding and restoring memory impairments – Joanna Wardlaw, Cecile Duplaà, Fabrice Dabertrand, Axel Montagne
Monday 11th July, 09:45-11:15
S23 – Hall E – The function(s) of the claustrum: attention, salience, sleep, all of the above, or something else? – Solange Brown, Alan Carleton, Mar Reus-Garcia, Lorenz August Fenk
Monday 11th July, 15:45-17:15
S25 – Hall H – Encoding in neurons and beyond: applications in machine learning – Wulfram Gerstner, Andrew Saxe, Carsen Stringer, Jonathan Cornford
Tuesday 12th July, 09:45-11:15
S39 – Hall F – Revisiting sensory cortices: implications for diverse cognitive processing – Pieter Roelfsema, Nathalie Rochefort, Alexandra Libby, Abhishek Banerjee
Tuesday 12th July, 15:45-17:15
S46 – Hall G – Barriers and hopes for functional restoration after traumatic CNS injury – Frank Bradke, Karthik Shekhar, Jessica Whited, Aya Takeoka
Wednesday 13th July, 09:45-11:15
S54 – Common mechanisms of brain-body interactions across humans and animal models – Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Micah Allen, Yoav Livneh, Monica Dus
Special interest events
SiE02 – The Brain Debate - Building and understanding brains: How can AI research inform neuroscience?
Saturday 9th July, 15:15-16:45
Panelists will discuss how new work in AI research can guide our understanding of biological brains, across levels of description, from cells to systems to behaviour.
SiE07 - Phasing out animal research: a justified worry for neuroscience?
Sunday 10th July, 18:45-20:30
The September 2021 vote in the European Parliament appears to show we are reaching a watershed moment on the use of animals in biomedical research in the EU. This moderated discussion will relate to the pressure to phase out animal research and how the neuroscience community can provide a more balanced narrative on the use of animals in research.
Networking events
NE04 - Networking, Training and Funding Opportunities in Neuroscience
Sunday 10th July, 18:45-20:30
Are you a student or postdoc interested in further developing your skills, knowledge, and network? Set in a relaxed and cosy environment, this networking event offers a unique opportunity to ask questions to representatives from ERA-NET Neuron, ebrains, FENS, IBRO-PERC and the Cajal Training Programme on future funding and training activities.
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