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

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

19:00-20:30

Welcome Reception