Program Friday

08:00-14:00

Satellite Symposium: Behavioural flexibility in normal and diseased brain
Location: MPI of Psychiatry
Chair: Jacques Micheau, University of Bordeaux, FRA
Gernot Riedel, University of Aberdeen, UK

Hippocampal dynamics during encoding of a contextually ambiguous
Vincent Hok. University of Aix-Marseille, FRA

Pattern separation in the brain: What, why, where, when and how?
Timothy Bussey. University of Camgridge, UK

Pattern separation in the human Hippocampus
Michael Yassa. Johns Hopkins University, USA

Bridging temporal gaps: the source of long-term memory degradation in aging
Aline Marighetto. University of Bordeaux, FRA

Glutamatergic transmission and behavioural flexibility
Thomas Steckler. Johnson & Johnson, BEL

Pattern separation shift to pattern completion in GluK2 KO mice?
Gernot Riedel, University of Aberdeen, UK

Three automated flexibility tests conducted in mice in the same home cage situation.
Berry Spruijt, Delta Phenomics, NL

Effects of hippocampal and striatal lesions on cognitive flexibility in mice, tested in an automated touchscreen testing method
Anelise Marti, CNS Disease Research Boehringer Ingelheim, GER

Dopaminergic neurotransmission and impulsive behaviour.
Marcel van Gaalen, Neuroscience Research, Abbott GmbH, GER

Modelling behavioural plasticity in rodents: a translational approach of some symptoms of psychiatric or neurological diseases.
Olivier Bergis, SANOFI, FRA

12:30-14:30

W1. Workshop - The forgotten tenets of behavioural neuroscience: power, reliability and reproducibility
Location: Lecture Hall A140
Chair: Simone Macri. Instituto Superiore di Santiá, ITA
Hanno Wuerbel, University of Bern, CH

High-quality laboratory animal science: fundamental principles
Malcom MacLeod. University Edinburgh, UK
Internal validity of experimental studies
Simone Macri. Instituto Superiore di Santiá, ITA
Standardization - fallacy or necessity?
Franz Josef van der Staay. University Utrecht, NL
Improving external validity - advantages and limitations of heterogenization
Hanno Wuerbel. University of Bern, CH

W2. Workshop - Advanced genetic methods in the modern neuroendocrinology
Location: Lecture Hall A240
Chair: Valery Grinevich, German Cancer Research Center, GER
Alon Chen, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL

Dissecting the central stress response using site-specific genetic manipulation in adult mice
Alon Chen.Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
Using gain- and -loss of function mouse models to address the CRH/CRHR1 system
Jan Deussing. Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, GER
Exploration of anatomy and physiology of hypothalamic neurons by viral techniques
Valery Grinevich. German Cancer Research Center, GER
Using the zebrafish model to study hypothalamic development and function
Gil Levkowitz. Weizmann Institute of Science, IL

15:00-15:30

Welcome
Location: Große Aula

Dr. Mathias Schmidt, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
Prof. Martine Ammassari-Teule, President of the EBBS

15:30-16:30

L1. Opening Plenary Lecture
Location: Große Aula
Chair: Prof. Martine Ammassari-Teule, IBCN-Cell Biology and Neurobiology Institute, ITA
Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich, CH

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-19:00

S1. Challenging the dogma: How declarative is declarative memory?
Location: Lecture Hall A140
Chair: Yadin Dudai, Weizmann Institute, IL

Expressed and non-expressed memory traces
Christina Alberini. New York University, USA
Memories 'declared' by single neurons
Howard Eichenbaum. Boston University, USA
Episodic memories nondeclared
Katharina Henke. Bern University, CH
The declarativeness of declarative consolidaiton
Yadin Dudai. Weizmann Institute, IL

S2. Brain plasticity: studies in normal and abnormal development
Location: Lecture Hall A240
Chair: Thalía Harmony, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Cortical Plasticity in the developing brain: Specific auditory training impacts early acoustic mapping
April Benasich, State University of New Jersey, USA
Structural network analysis in brain development
Alan Evans. McGill University, CAN
Structural connectivity in the developing preterm brain
Gareth Ball. King's College London, UK
Early neurohabilitatory treatment improves motor development
Thalía Harmony. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MEX