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