Monday,
16 June
08:30
Registration opens. Coffee is served
Frederikke plassen
09:00-10:30
Parallel Technical Symposia
Technical Symposium: Age-specific brain mapping: Advances in automated atlas-based data analysis
Chair: Trygve Leergaard, University of Oslo, Norway
Speakers:
Sharon Yates, University of Oslo, Norway
Ingvild E. Bjerke, University of Oslo, Norway
Johanna Perens, Gubra ApS, Denmark
Technical Symposium: Clearing the way for Systems Neuroscience
Chair: Moritz Negwer, Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour / Radboudumc, Netherlands
Speakers:
Hei Ming Lai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR of China
Moritz Negwer, Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour / Radboudumc, Netherlands
Doris Kaltenecker, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
09:00-09:45
Exhibitor’s Technical Workshop: EBRAINS: Unlocking the Power of Data: Tools of the trade in FAIR data management and sharing
Speaker: Mathew Birdsall Abrams, INCF Secretariat, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
09:45-10:30
Exhibitor’s Technical Workshop: Alamar Biosciences
Speakers:
Barry Lynch, Head of Business Development, Alamar Biosciences, USA: NULISA – Ultra-Sensitive Profiling of CNS Disease & Neuroinflammatory blood-based biomarkers
Henrik Zetterberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Biofluid-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease and related disorders – precision, panels and patterns
10:30-11:30
Brunch break
FENS Special Workshop: Funny Brains - Science Communication via Comedy – FRM edition
Speakers:
John Butler, TU Dublin, Ireland
Rebecca Ellis, UK
Michele Marini, Belgium
CARE event: Transparency on the use of animals in research and its relevance in Neurosciences
Speakers:
Christelle Baunez, Chair of the Committee on Animals in Research, Aix-Marseille University, France
Monique Havermans, EARA Policy & Projects Officer, Belgium
11:30-12:00
Opening ceremony of FRM 2025
12:00-13:00
Plenary Lecture: Neural network dynamics in entorhinal cortex: Space and time
Speaker: Nobel Prize laureate Edvard I. Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Chair: Marianne Fyhn, University of Oslo, Norway
12:15-14:15
Exhibitions
13:00-13:15
Break
13:15-14:45
Symposia - Parallel sessions
Symposium: Glia-neuron interactions in plasticity, cognition, and behaviour
Chairs:
Antonis Asiminas, Centre for Translational Neuromedicine, Denmark
Rasmus Herlo, Centre for Translational Neuromedicine, Denmark
Speakers:
Amit Agarwal, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Sandra Vaz, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Juliana Rosa, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Spain
Symposium: NeuroAI: Catalyzing the Future of Artificial Intelligence Through Brain-Inspired Principles
Chairs:
Ramaswamy Srikanth, University of Newcastle, UK
Jie Mei, Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria
Speakers:
Chavlis Spyridon, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Jie Mei, Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria
Symposium: FKNE Symposium: Navigating Protein Landscapes in the Development and Aging of Neural Circuits
Chair: Mateusz Ambrożkiewicz, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Speakers:
Mateusz Ambrożkiewicz, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Georgia Rapti, EMBL, Germany
Urtė Neniškytė, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Symposium: The neurovascular niche and neuroinflammation in CNS repair
Chairs:
Francisco Rivera, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ilias Kazanis, University of Westminster & University of Cambridge, UK
Speakers:
Ilias Kazanis, University of Westminster & University of Cambridge, UK
Alerie Guzmán de la Fuente, Instituto de Neurociencias, Spanish National Research Council & Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
Fernando de Castro, Instituto Cajal-CSIC, Spain
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-15:30
Special Lecture: History and Future of Neuroscience in Norway and the Nordic Countries
Speaker: Ole Petter Ottersen, University of Oslo, Norway
Chair: Eero Castrén, University of Helsinki, Finland
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-17:15
Special Symposium: Long-term potentiation: from discovery to the present day
Chairs:
Terje Lømo, University of Oslo, Norway
Tim Bliss, National Institute for Medical Research, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Speakers:
Graham Collingridge, University of Toronto, University of Bristol, UK
Roger A. Nicoll, University of California, USA: CaMKII and LTP
Todd Sacktor, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, USA: LTP and Memory Maintained by Persistent Synaptic Tagging of PKMζ
Ole Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK: Linking past and present: Associative properties of LTP
Dorothy Tse, Edge Hill University, UK: The Effects of Novelty and Prior Knowledge on Memory