Timetable 2023
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:15 | Official Opening (Alicja Bachmatiuk, Director of Łukasiewicz – PORT, Michał Malewicz, Director of Life Science and Biotechnology Center) & presentation of SAME-NeuroID project (Witold Konopka) |
| CELLULAR MODELS IN NEURODEGENERATION – chair AGNIESZKA KRZYŻOSIAK (Łukasiewicz – PORT) | |
| 14:15-14:50 | Agnieszka Krzyżosiak
Research Group Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration, Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw Enhancing cellular proteostasis as a strategy against misfolded proteins accumulation. |
| 14:50-15:25 | Monika Myszczyńska
Dept. Neuroscience, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), Univ. Sheffield Modelling non-cell autonomous mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in vitro. |
| 15:25-16:00 | Sandra Acosta
Functional Neurogenomics Lab, Univ. Barcelona Understanding human brain development in health and disease with brain organoids. |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30-17:30 | Łukasiewicz – PORT Young Investigators (FlashTalks) |
| 17:30-18:30 | KEYNOTE LECTURE (Cellular Models):
Dominik Paquet Laboratory of Neurobiology, Univ. Hospital, LMU, Munich & Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) iPSC- and CRISPR-based brain tissue models recapitulate key features of neurodegenerative and neurovascular diseases. |
| 18:30 | Get together at Łukasiewicz – PORT |
| 21:00 | Transfer to the hotel |
| 8:00 | Transfer hotel – PORT |
| CELLULAR MODELS IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY – chair FEMKE DE VRIJ (Erasmus Medical Center) | |
| 9:00-9:35 | Femke De Vrij
Dept. Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam Using hiPSCs to model schizophrenia and related neuropsychiatric disorders. |
| 9:35-10:10 | Ebru Ercan-Herbst
Team Early Intervention in Psychiatric Diseases, BioMed X Institute, Heidelberg Unraveling the untapped pathology of schizophrenia: Hypomyelination. |
| 10:10-10:45 | Jacek Jaworski
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, International Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Warsaw Lessons from modeling mTORopathies. |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
| NEUROMETABOLIC DISORDERS – chair WITOLD KONOPKA (Łukasiewicz – PORT) | |
| 11:15-11:50 | Yann Ravussin
L.E.A.N. : Laboratory of Energetics and Advanced Nutrition, Dept. Medicine, Univ. Fribourg Overfeeding and neural pathways that regulate body weight. |
| 11:50-12:25 | Jens Lund
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Univ. Copenhagen The unidentified hormonal defense against weight gain. |
| 12:25-13:00 | Nils Gassen
Research Group Neurohomeostasis, Bonn Clinical Centre & Charité Hospital, Berlin Neurohomeostasis under Stress: Autophagy and Metabolism in stress-related diseases. |
| 13:00-13:50 | Lunch |
| 13:50-14:50 | MATCHMAKING: part I (3 x 20 min) “Meet the Speakers” |
| ANIMAL MODELS IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY – chair TOMASZ PRÓSZYŃSKI (Łukasiewicz – PORT) | |
| 15:00-15:35 | Laura Cancedda
Brain Development and Disease Laboratory, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova Basic researchers talk and listen to healthcare professionals: thinking wider together. |
| 15:35-16:10 | Christopher Pryce
Preclinical Laboratory, Univ. Zurich & ETH, Zurich Mouse models of stress-related emotional pathologies to understand neural circuitry and treatment. |
| 16:10-16:45 | Bianca Silva
Circuits Neuroscience Lab, CNR, Pisa Brain circuits for fear attenuation. |
| 16:45-17:15 | Coffee break |
| 17:15-18:15 | KEYNOTE LECTURE (Animal Models):
Andrew Holmes Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience, NIAAA, Rockville Astrocytes gate the recall of emotional fear memory. |
| 18:15 | Transfer to hotel |
| 19:30-22:00 | Dinner |
| 8:00 | Transfer hotel – PORT |
| COMPUTATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRY I – chair MATHIAS SCHMIDT (Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry) | |
| 9:00-9:35 | Ewelina Knapska
Neurophysiology of Mind Laboratory, BRAINCITY, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Warsaw Neuronal correlates of social behavior in health and disease. |
| 9:35-10:10 | Eric Burguiere
Neurophysiology of Repetitive Behaviors Lab, CNRS, Paris Brain Institute Translational approach to studying compulsive behaviors: Promise and limitations of animal models in psychiatry. |
| 10:10-10:45 | Tudor Ionescu
CNS Diseases, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Functional Ultrasound for the In Vivo Monitoring of Pharmacological Effects. |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
| COMPUTATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRY II – chair MICHAŁ ŚLĘZAK (Łukasiewicz – PORT) | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Dorota Frydecka
Dept. of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University Implicit and explicit learning in psychotic disorders. |
| 11:45-12:15 | Alessandro Crimi
Brain and More, Sano Centre for Computational Medicine, Cracow Brain Graph networks between biomarkers, graph convolutional networks, and causality. |
| 12:15-12:45 | Sabina Podlewska
Dept. Medicinal Chemistry, Maj Institute of Pharmacology PAS, Cracow The invaluable role of machine learning methods at different stages of drug design pipelines. |
| 12:45-13:15 | Brian Wallace
Calmsie Therapeutics, Inc. Pioneering the Future of Mental Healthcare: Leveraging Research in Emerging Digital Technologies and Computational Psychiatry. |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | KEYNOTE LECTURE (Computational Neuropsychiatry):
Johannes Passecker Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine, Medical University of Innsbruck Bridging the Species Gap in Translational Psychiatry. |
| 15:00-15:15 | Final Remarks & Official Closing (Michał Ślęzak & Witold Konopka, Łukasiewicz – PORT) |
| 15:20-16:20 | MATCHMAKING part II (3 x 20 min) “PORT for Health: Neuroscience meets International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics” |
| 16:20-16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 | 17th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS |