Scientific Program

Tuesday, November 2nd
16:00–18:00
Auditori, Centre de Cultures i Cooperació Transfronterera, Universitat de Lleida
Satellite Event 1
The ins and outs of Parkinson’s disease
  Ariadna Laguna
Senior researcher at the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR)-Network Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED).
Analia Bortolozzi
Senior scientist at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and leads group CB/07/09/0034 of the Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Mental Health (CIBERSAM).
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18:30–19:30
Auditori, Centre de Cultures i Cooperació Transfronterera, Universitat de Lleida
Conference
 

Speaker:

 

La interacción nervio-músculo y los fundamentos de la neurociencia.
Josep Esquerda
Universitat de Lleida (UdL), Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida (IRBLLEIDA), Lleida, Spain.

Wednesday, November 3rd
08:30-11:00
Auditorium 2
11th Meeting of the Spanish Glial Network (RGE) (Part I)

Organized by RGE

09:00–11:00
Auditorium 1
Excellent Rita Levi-Montalcini Award (Part I)

Organized by the Young Researchers Committee of SENC

Co-financed by IBRO-PERC/ SENC
 
09:00-11:00
 Room MR1
XII Meeting of the Red NeuroEvoDevo Pedro Ramón y Cajal (Part I)

Organized by Pedro Ramón y Cajal Network

09:00-11:00
Room MR2-3
3rd Symposium organized by Spanish Network for the Interaction between Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (SINC2) (Part I)

Organized by SINC2

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–13:00
Auditorium 1
Excellent Rita Levi-Montalcini Award (Part II)
Organized by the Young Researchers Committee of SENC
11:30-13:00
Auditorium 2
11th Meeting of the Spanish Glial Network (Part II)

Organized by Organized by RGE

11:30-13:00
Room MR1
 XII Meeting of the Red NeuroEvoDevo Pedro Ramón y Cajal (Part II)

Organized by Pedro Ramón y Cajal Network

11:30-13:00
Room MR2-3
3rd Symposium organized by Spanish Network for the Interaction between Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (SINC2) (Part II)

Organized by SINC2

13:00–14:00 Welcome Cocktail
14:00–14:30 Opening Ceremony
14:30–15:30
Auditorium 1
Opening Lecture
Chair: Eloisa Herrera
President of SENC’s Programme Commitee.
Speaker: All-optical interrogation of brain circuits using optogenetics and holography.
Valentina Emiliani

Institute de la Vision, Paris, France.
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15:30–17:30
Auditorium 1
Symposium 1
Binding cell assemblies into memory engrams
Chairs: Santiago Canals
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Alicante, Spain.
Claudio Mirasso
Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain.
Speakers: The hippocampus converges volatile entorhinal inputs in stable spatial maps.
Marlene Bartos

Institute for Physiology, Dept. I, Cellular and Systemic Neurophysiology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Active dendrites and their role in memory assemblies.
Panayiota Poirazi
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Crete, Greece.
Regulation of inhibitory circuits in the dentate gyrus: role on temporal coding and pattern separation.
Claudio Mirasso

Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain.
The dentate gyrus coordinates brain-wide functional networks during memory formation.
Santiago Canals
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Alicante, Spain.
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: SP3-51 S01 Exploring network coding strategies that could be essential for the proper execution of behavioural sequences during an operant conditioning task. Raudel Sánchez-Campusano. Division of Neurosciences, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
SP3-55 S01Specialized prefrontal circuits explain population dynamics during working memory encoding and maintenance. Nicolás Pollán. Centre De Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain.
SP5-48 S01Learning conditions influence hippocampal-dependent memory and context discrimination. Nuria Cano-Adamuz. Cajal Institute (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
15:30–17:30
Auditorium 2
Symposium 2
Deciphering Brain Circuits: Insights from Reward and Neuronal Excitability
Chairs: Marta Navarrete Llinás
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Juliana Martins Da Rosa
Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo, Spain.
Speakers: Neurobiological basis of reward and aversion: a focus on the nucleus accumbens circuitry.
Ana João Rodrigues
University of Minho, ICVS; School of Medicine, Campus Gualtar, Braga, Portugal.
Revealing the functional anatomy of synaptic partners using super-resolution STED microscopy.
Jan Tonnesen
Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Science Park of the UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain.
On the road map of astrocyte functional heterogeneity: implications in sensory processing and spontaneous activity.
Juliana Martins da Rosa

Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo, Spain.
Astrocytic Network Heterogeneity in the Nucleus Accumbens.
Marta Navarrete Llinás
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS1-22 S02mGlu4 receptors rescue parallel fiber LTP and motor skilled reaching deficits in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome. Ricardo Martín Herranz. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
PS4-23 S02Afferent synaptic terminals on spinal cord motor neurons are acutely disrupted after peripheral nerve transection: involvement of necroptotic pathway and microglial piecemeal phagocytosis. Sara Salvany. Universitat de Lleida / IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain.
PS5-25 S02Dissociation of functional and structural plasticity of dendritic spines during NMDAR and mGluR-dependent long-term synaptic depression in wild-type and fragile X model mice. Miquel Bosch. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain.
15:30–19:00
Exhibition hall
Poster Session 1
PS1-01 to PS1-88 (See the posters of this session here)
17:30–18:00 Coffe Break
19:00–20:00
Auditorium 1
Iberian Neuroscience Lecture
Chair: Paola Bovolenta
President Elected of SENC.
Speaker: On the complexities of immobility.
Marta Moita

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Thursday, November 4th
09:00–11:00
Auditorium 1
Symposium 3
Inhibitory cells throughout brain circuits
Chair: Sara Mederos
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (UCL), London.
Speakers: Interneuron regulation of early developmental dynamics.
Laura Modol

King’s College London, London, UK.
The role of inhibition in hippocampal place cells.
Manuel Valero
NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York, USA.
Uncovering how behaviour arises out of inhibitory circuits.
Sara Mederos

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (UCL), London, UK.
Two tunable inhibitory systems govern the activity of neocortical layer 1
(L1).

Bernardo Rudy
NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York, USA.
Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC

Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS3-39 S03Neuronal activity reflecting sensory and behavioural variables in the mouse somatosensory and posterior parietal cortex. Miguel Maravall. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
PS3-40 S03Neural probes for multimodal interrogation of brain lamination. María Teresa Jurado Parras. Instituto Cajal. CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
PS5-37 S03M1- muscarinic control of slow oscillations and epileptiform discharges by light. José Manuel Sánchez Sánchez. Instituto De Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi I Sunyer (idibaps), Barcelona, Spain.
09:00–11:00
Auditorium 2
Symposium 4
Understanding quiescence in adult neurogenic niches
Chairs: Aixa V. Morales
Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid, Spain..
Helena Mira
Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
Speakers: Progressive changes in hippocampal stem cell properties ensure lifelong neurogenesis.
François Guillemot

The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Injury-induced activation of quiescent neural progenitors in the adult fly brain.
Christa Rhiner
Champalimaud Foundation, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.
From quiescence to proliferation and back: the active life of neural stem cells.
Aixa V. Morales

Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Coming from within: cell-intrinsic modulators of quiescent neural stem cells.
Helena Mira
Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS2-02 S04Chromatin signatures of neuronal subpopulations with divergent projection at the midline identify novel wiring regulators. Marta Fernández-Nogales. Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante, Spain.
PS3-10 S04Microglia gradually acquire their mature phenotype in the developing hippocampus. Marta Pereira. Achucarro Basque Center For Neuroscience, Leioa, Spain.
PS3-11 S04 The sound of sight: mapping crossmodal circuits of audio-visual connectivity in the mammalian brain Irene. Irene Varela Martínez. Centro Nacional De Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
09:00–12:30
Exhibition hall
Poster Session 2
PS2-01 to PS2-89 (See the posters of this session here)
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
12:30–13:30
Auditorium 1
Olympus Award Talk
12:30-12:45 Olympus
Josep Molist
SSD Regional Representative South
12:45-12:55 SENC-Olympus Award
Ángel Acebes

SENC Young Researcher’s Committee
12:55-13:25 From commissural axon guidance to cerebellar circuits
Juan Antonio Moreno Bravo

Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante. CSIC-UMH
2021 VII SENC-Olympus Award winner.
13:25-13:30 Closing remarks
Paola Bovolenta Comella

Elected SENC President.
13:30–14:30
Auditorium 1
Satellite event 2
Submitting your work to an international journal: The peer review and what we expect in a good paper
Speaker: Juan Lerma
Editor in Chief of Neuroscience. Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
13:30–14:45
Auditorium 2
Satellite event 3
La retina de los vertebrados (por Santiago Ramón y Cajal)
Speakers: Nicolás Cuenca
Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Pedro de la Villa
Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Fernando de Castro Soubriet
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Xabier Sánchez Sáez
Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Mateo Pazo González
Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Manuel Vidal Sanz
Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
13:30–14:45
Parallel Room 1
Commercial Session – Miltenyi Biotec
Live Demo: UltraMicroscope Blaze for 3D automated imaging of large samples in neuroscience
Speakers:

Christine Ahlert
Application Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec, Bielefeld, Germany.
Luis Muñiz Menéndez
Imaging Sales Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec, Madrid, Spain.
15:00–17:00
Auditorium 1
Symposium 5
Modeling behavior during decision making
Chairs: Alfonso Renart Fernandez
Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Lisbon, Portugal.
Jaime de la Rocha
Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona.
Speakers: Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation
Cindy Poo
Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Social decision-making in rodents
Cristina Márquez
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Mechanisms underlying simple perceptual choices
Alfonso Renart Fernandez
Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Lisbon, Portugal.
The dynamics of evidence accumulation in expectation-guided perceptual decisions
Jaime de la Rocha
Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS5-40 S05Take care of your babies! Mouse pups produce pheromones that induce maternal behaviour. Rafael Goterris-Cerisuelo. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
PS5-47 S05Microglia Regulate Learning and Memory through NF-κB. Aysha María Bhojwani Cabrera. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones. Alicante, Spain.
PS4-57 S05Bump attractor dynamics underlying stimulus integration in perceptual estimation tasks. Jose M. Esnaola-Acebes. Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona, Spain.
15:00–17:00
Auditorium 2
Symposium 6
Tracing cell lineages in the brain
Chairs: Jorge García-Marqués
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain..
Isabel Espinosa-Medina
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland, USA.
Speakers: Neural stem cell lineage progression in developing cerebral cortex.
Simon Hippenmeyer

Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Austria..
Temporal encoding and manipulation of vertebrate cell histories with a new CRISPR/Cas9 system.
Isabel Espinosa-Medina
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland, USA.
Delving into the generation of cortical astrocyte diversity and plasticity using multicolour lineage tracing tools.
Karine Loulier

Institut for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), University of Montpellier, INSERM, Montpellier, France.
Cell lineages in the vertebrate brain: lessons from Drosophila.
Jorge García Marqués
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
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Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS3-07 S06Understanding the mechanisms involved in migration and circuit integration of thalamic interneurons. Irene Huerga Gómez. Instituto De Neurociencias De Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
PS3-08 S06Differential expression levels of Sox9 in early neocortical radial glial cells regulate the decision between stem cell maintenance and differentiation. Jaime Fabra-Beser. BIOTECMED Institute, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
PS5-03 S06Postnatal refinement of interhemispheric callosal projections: GluN3A-mediated mechanisms. Oliver Crawley. Instituto de Neurociencias, San Juan de Alicante, Spain.
15:00–18:30
Exhibition hall
Poster Session 3
PS3-01 to PS3-94 (See the posters of this session here)
17:00–17:30 Coffee Break
18:30–19:30
Auditorium 1
Honorary Lecture «María Teresa Miras Portugal»
Chair: Gertrudis Perea
Vicepresident of SENC.
Speaker: Neural Substrates Of Associative, Elective, And Cooperative Learning Tasks.
José María Delgado
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
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This event will be entirely in Spanish.
19:30–20:30
Parallel Room 1
Satellite event 4
A neuroscientific dialog on lucid dreaming
Speakers: Natalia López-González del Rey
PhD candidate at HM CINAC, natural lucid dreamer.
Guglielmo Foffani
Senior investigator at HM CINAC, trained lucid dreamer. 
Friday, November 5th
09:00–11:00
Auditorium 1
Symposium 7
Motor circuits and motor control from a basic and clinical view.
Chairs: Claudia Ammann
HM CINAC, Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, Móstoles, Spain.
Teresa Jurado-Parras
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Speakers: Sensorimotor integration by dorsal striatal circuits.
Ramón Reig

Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain.
Motor control in the dorsal striatum.
Teresa Jurado-Parras
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Chx10 pedunculopontine neurons, a midbrain glutamatergic subpopulation that causes global motor immobilization.
Roberto Leiras

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Disinhibition of the motor cortex in Parkinson’s disease.
Claudia Ammann
HM CINAC, Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, Móstoles, Spain.
Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC

Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS4-41 S07 Interference-based forgetting in a goal-directed spatial navigation task for rodents. Paula Peixoto Moledo. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain.
PS4-42 S07 Inhibition in a midbrain circuit controlling instinctive escape decisions. Oriol Pavón Arocas. Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, London, UK.
PS4-43 S07 Functional analysis of cholinergic neuromodulation of chandelier cells from single-cell to circuit. Emilio Martínez-Márquez. Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS)/HUVR/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
09:00–11:00
Auditorium 2
Symposium 8
Origin and expansion of the neocortex
Chair: Víctor Borrell
Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain.
Speakers: Evolution of the pallium: new insights from studies in amphibians.
Nerea Moreno

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain..
Mosaic evolutionary history of brain circuits through the lens of neurodevelopment.
Fernando Garcia-Moreno
Achucarro Basque Center For Neuroscience, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
Evolution of cortical progenitor cells: much to gain, much to loose.
Víctor Borrell

Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain.
How does the human brain develop to the right size and shape? The role of the extracellular matrix.
Katie Long
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Developmental Disorders, King’s College London, London, UK.

Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS4-10 S08In vitro study of neurodevelopment in Huntington’s disease. Phil Sanders. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
PS4-11 S08Increased GABA levels in postnatal development alter cortical inter-hemispheric circuits. Lorena Bragg-Gonzalo. Centro Nacional De Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain.
PS4-12 S08 CB1 receptors deficiency in oligodendrocyte precursors disrupts postnatal oligodendrogenesis and causes hypomyelination in mice. Aníbal Sánchez. Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain.
09:00–12:30
Exhibition hall
Poster Session 4
PS4-01 to PS4-95 (See the posters of this session here)
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
12:30–13:30
Auditorium 1
Presidential Lecture
Chair: Joan Comella
President of SENC.
Speaker: Innate immunity in Neurodegenerative disease.
Michael T. Heneka
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Sponsored by:
13:30–14:45
Auditorium 1
Satellite Event 5
From Alzheimer´s disease to vascular dementia: different roads leading to cognitive decline
Chair: María Ángeles Moro
Professor, Neurovascular Pathophysiology, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares,CNIC, Spain.
Speaker: Marion Buckwalter
Professor of Neurology and of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center, USA.
Marta Cortés-Canteli
Miguel Servet Research Fellow, CNIC, Spain.
Ismael Santa-Maria
Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, USA.
 

Sponsored by the British Journal of Pharmacology and GE Healthcare.

13:30–14:30
Auditorium 2
Satellite Event 6
Data-Driven Computational Neuroscience
Chair: Elena Galea
Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Speaker: Concha Bielza Lozoya
Computational Intelligence Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
15:00–17:00
Auditorium 1
Symposium9
Understanding the neuroimmune axis in health and disease: myeloid and lymphoid cells in the Central Nervous System
Chair: Amanda Sierra
Achucarro Basque Center for NeuroscienceIkerbasque Foundation, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bizkaia, Spain.
Speakers: Not just corpse removal: How microglial phagocytosis maintains tissue homeostasis.
Amanda Sierra

Achucarro Basque Center for NeuroscienceIkerbasque Foundation, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bizkaia, Spain.
Gene-Regulatory Dynamics of Microglia States during Neuroinflammation.
Jose P. Lopez-Atalaya
Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC), Alicante, Spain.
Role of CD4 T cells in brain development.
Emanuela Pasciuto
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven- VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC

Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS5-81 S09 Oleoylethanolamide treatment modulates neuroinflammation and microgliosis in a mouse model of cerebellar neurodegeneration. Eduardo Weruaga Prieto. Universidad De Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
PS5-82 S09Cortical and hippocampal rhythmopathies in experimental models of brain metastasis. Alberto Sanchez-Aguilera Lopez. Instituto Cajal – CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
PS5-83 S09From engrams to memory pathology in Down syndrome. Álvaro Fernández Blanco. Centre For Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.
15:00–17:00
Auditorium 2
Symposium 10
Rethinking the epigenetic landscape in the intellectual disability
Chairs: Angel Barco
Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain.
Mara Dierssen
Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.
Speakers: The RNA and histone-methylation landscape in cognitive diseases.
Andre Fischer
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany.
ID-linked KDMs prevent spurious transcription in neurons.
Angel Barco

Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain.
Emerging roles for long noncoding RNAs in Down syndrome hippocampus.
Mara Dierssen
Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: PS5-84 S10Pathological and therapeutic implications of myelin alterations in the Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency. Marta Guerrero-Valero. Centro De Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain.
PS5-85 S10Human amygdala involvement in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by MALDI Imaging and SWATH analysis. Melania González Rodríguez. Ciudad Real Medical School/CRIB, University of Castilla La-Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
PS5-86 S10 ApTOLL: A novel remyelinating molecule in a model of multiple sclerosis. Beatriz Fernandez Gomez. Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain.
15:00–18:30
Exhibition hall
Poster Session 5
PS5-01 to PS5-96 (See the posters of this session here)
17:00–17:30 Coffee Break
19:00–20:30
Auditorium 2
SENC Assembly