Timetable 2021
Wednesday 13.10.2021
15.00 – 15.15 – Official Opening
AFFECTIVE DISORDERS I
15.15 – 15.50 Mathias Schmidt (Munich) Routes to enhance stress resilience: Manipulation of genes or environment?
15.50 – 16.25 Paul Franken (Lausanne) What drives the rhythmic transcriptome: clock genes versus behavior?
16.25 – 17.00 Michał Ślęzak (Łukasiewicz – PORT) Astrocytes’ metabolic transcriptome in chronic stress and depression.
17.00 – 17.35 Robert Lucas (Manchester) Animal opsins as optogenetic actuators.
17.35 – 18.00 Break
18.00 – 19.00 Keynote Lecture 1: Isabelle Mansuy (Zurich) Epigenetics of the effects of traumatic stress and their heritability across generations.
Thursday 14.10.2021
AFFECTIVE DISORDERS II
09.35 – 10.10 Hsing-Jung Chen-Engerer (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Biberach an der Riss) Increasing the excitatory drive rescues E/I imbalance caused by parvalbumin specific GluA1 deletion.
10.10 – 10.45 Wojciech Krężel (Strasbourg) A X vitamin for the brain.
10.45 – 11.15 Break
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS I
11.15 – 11.50 Konstantin Khodosevich (Copenhagen) Understanding mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders by single cell and spatial omics.
11.50 – 12.25 Bassem Hassan (Paris) The Amyloid Precursor Protein in human cortical development document.
12.25 – 13.00 Tomasz Prószyński (Łukasiewicz-PORT) Behavioral abnormalities in Amotl1 KO mice.
13.00 – 14.15 Break
14.15 – 14.50 John Isaac (Johnson & Johnson, London) Industry collaboration: what is big pharma looking for, and (more importantly) what are you look for from big pharma?
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS II
14.50 – 15.25 Steven Kushner (Rotterdam) Oligodendrocyte lineage dysfunction in familial schizophrenia.
15.25 – 16.00 Leszek Kaczmarek (Warsaw) Extrasynaptic proteolysis in neurodevelopmental disorders.
16.00 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 17.30 Keynote Lecture 2: Anna Molofsky (San Francisco) Microglia, memories, and the extracellular space.
Friday 15.10.2021
EATING DISORDERS I
9.00 – 9.35 Filip Rybakowski (Poznan) From anorexia to obesity – common mechanisms, common treatment targets.
9.35 – 10.10 Carsten Wotjak (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Biberach an der Riss) Endocannabinoids in the land of milk and honey – motivational control by 2-AG.
10.10 – 10.45 Witold Konopka (Łukasiewicz-PORT) microRNA dependent neuronal plasticity in feeding behavior.
10.45 – 11.15 Break
EATING DISORDERS II
11.15 – 11.50 Ali Jawaid (Warsaw) Pathogenesis of Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Diseases: From What We Eat to How Our Parents Felt.
11.50 – 12.25 Ilya Vinnikov (Shanghai) MicroRNAs in proopiomelanocortin neurons are indispensable for energy homeostasis.
12.30 – 13.30 Keynote Lecture 3: Daniela Cota (Bordeaux) Hypothalamic bile acids-TGR5 signaling protects from obesity.
13.30 – 15.00 Official closure