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 |
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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 |
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La interacción nervio-músculo y los fundamentos de la neurociencia. |
Wednesday, November 3rd
08:30-11:00 Auditorium 2 |
11th Meeting of the Spanish Glial Network (RGE) (Part I)
Organized by RGE |
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09:00–11:00 Auditorium 1 |
Excellent Rita Levi-Montalcini Award (Part I)
Organized by the Young Researchers Committee of SENC |
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Co-financed by IBRO-PERC/ SENC![]() |
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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 |
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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 |
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11:30-13:00 Auditorium 2 |
11th Meeting of the Spanish Glial Network (Part II)
Organized by Organized by RGE |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Chairs: | Santiago Canals Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Alicante, Spain. |
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Claudio Mirasso Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 S01 – Specialized prefrontal circuits explain population dynamics during working memory encoding and maintenance. Nicolás Pollán. Centre De Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain. SP5-48 S01 – Learning 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 |
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Chairs: | Marta Navarrete Llinás Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Juliana Martins Da Rosa Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo, Spain. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Astrocytic Network Heterogeneity in the Nucleus Accumbens. Marta Navarrete Llinás Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. |
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Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC ![]() |
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Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: | PS1-22 S02 – mGlu4 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 S02 – Afferent 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 S02 – Dissociation 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. |
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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 |
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Chair: | Sara Mederos Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (UCL), London. |
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Speakers: | Interneuron regulation of early developmental dynamics. Laura Modol King’s College London, London, UK. |
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The role of inhibition in hippocampal place cells. Manuel Valero NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York, USA. |
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Uncovering how behaviour arises out of inhibitory circuits. Sara Mederos Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (UCL), London, UK. |
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Two tunable inhibitory systems govern the activity of neocortical layer 1 (L1). Bernardo Rudy NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York, USA. |
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Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC![]() |
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Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: | PS3-39 S03 – Neuronal activity reflecting sensory and behavioural variables in the mouse somatosensory and posterior parietal cortex. Miguel Maravall. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. PS3-40 S03 – Neural probes for multimodal interrogation of brain lamination. María Teresa Jurado Parras. Instituto Cajal. CSIC, Madrid, Spain. PS5-37 S03 – M1- 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 |
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Chairs: | Aixa V. Morales Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.. |
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Helena Mira Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, Valencia, Spain. |
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Speakers: | Progressive changes in hippocampal stem cell properties ensure lifelong neurogenesis. François Guillemot The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. |
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Injury-induced activation of quiescent neural progenitors in the adult fly brain. Christa Rhiner Champalimaud Foundation, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal. |
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From quiescence to proliferation and back: the active life of neural stem cells. Aixa V. Morales Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. |
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Coming from within: cell-intrinsic modulators of quiescent neural stem cells. Helena Mira Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, Valencia, Spain. |
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Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: | PS2-02 S04 – Chromatin signatures of neuronal subpopulations with divergent projection at the midline identify novel wiring regulators. Marta Fernández-Nogales. Instituto de Neurociencias, Alicante, Spain. PS3-10 S04 – Microglia 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![]() |
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12:30-12:45 | Olympus Josep Molist SSD Regional Representative South |
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12:45-12:55 | SENC-Olympus Award Ángel Acebes SENC Young Researcher’s Committee |
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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. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Chairs: | Alfonso Renart Fernandez Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Lisbon, Portugal. |
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Jaime de la Rocha Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona. |
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Speakers: | Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation Cindy Poo Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. |
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Social decision-making in rodents Cristina Márquez Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. |
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Mechanisms underlying simple perceptual choices Alfonso Renart Fernandez Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Lisbon, Portugal. |
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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. |
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Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: | PS5-40 S05 – Take care of your babies! Mouse pups produce pheromones that induce maternal behaviour. Rafael Goterris-Cerisuelo. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. PS5-47 S05 – Microglia Regulate Learning and Memory through NF-κB. Aysha María Bhojwani Cabrera. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones. Alicante, Spain. PS4-57 S05 – Bump attractor dynamics underlying stimulus integration in perceptual estimation tasks. Jose M. Esnaola-Acebes. Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona, 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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Chairs: | Claudia Ammann HM CINAC, Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, Móstoles, Spain. |
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Teresa Jurado-Parras Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. |
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Speakers: | Sensorimotor integration by dorsal striatal circuits. Ramón Reig Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. |
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Motor control in the dorsal striatum. Teresa Jurado-Parras Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. |
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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. |
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Disinhibition of the motor cortex in Parkinson’s disease. Claudia Ammann HM CINAC, Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, Móstoles, Spain. |
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Co-financed by IBRO-PERC / SENC![]() |
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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 |
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Chair: | Víctor Borrell Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. |
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Speakers: | Evolution of the pallium: new insights from studies in amphibians. Nerea Moreno Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.. |
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Mosaic evolutionary history of brain circuits through the lens of neurodevelopment. Fernando Garcia-Moreno Achucarro Basque Center For Neuroscience, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain. |
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Evolution of cortical progenitor cells: much to gain, much to loose. Víctor Borrell Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. |
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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 ![]() |
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Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: | PS4-10 S08 – In vitro study of neurodevelopment in Huntington’s disease. Phil Sanders. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. PS4-11 S08 – Increased 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. |
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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 |
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Chair: | María Ángeles Moro Professor, Neurovascular Pathophysiology, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares,CNIC, Spain. |
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Speaker: | Marion Buckwalter Professor of Neurology and of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center, USA. |
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Marta Cortés-Canteli Miguel Servet Research Fellow, CNIC, Spain. |
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Ismael Santa-Maria Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, USA. |
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Sponsored by the British Journal of Pharmacology and GE Healthcare.
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13:30–14:30 Auditorium 2 |
Satellite Event 6 Data-Driven Computational Neuroscience |
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Chair: | Elena Galea Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. |
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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 |
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Chair: | Amanda Sierra Achucarro Basque Center for NeuroscienceIkerbasque Foundation, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bizkaia, Spain. |
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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. |
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Gene-Regulatory Dynamics of Microglia States during Neuroinflammation. Jose P. Lopez-Atalaya Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC), Alicante, Spain. |
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Role of CD4 T cells in brain development. Emanuela Pasciuto Katholieke Universiteit Leuven- VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, University of Leuven, Belgium. |
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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 S09 – Cortical and hippocampal rhythmopathies in experimental models of brain metastasis. Alberto Sanchez-Aguilera Lopez. Instituto Cajal – CSIC, Madrid, Spain. PS5-83 S09 – From 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 |
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Chairs: | Angel Barco Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. |
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Mara Dierssen Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain. |
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Speakers: | The RNA and histone-methylation landscape in cognitive diseases. Andre Fischer German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany. |
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ID-linked KDMs prevent spurious transcription in neurons. Angel Barco Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. |
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Emerging roles for long noncoding RNAs in Down syndrome hippocampus. Mara Dierssen Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain |
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Short Oral Poster Teaser Presentations: | PS5-84 S10 – Pathological 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 S10 – Human 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 |