8.00–8.30 Registration and Coffee
8.30–8.40 Welcome words, Symposium organizer, Satu Palva
8.40–8.50 Welcome words, Vice Director of the Neuroscience Center, Matias Palva
8.50–9.00 Welcome words, Vice Rector of the Helsinki University, Pertti Panula
Neuroscience Center research highlights:
9.00–9.30 Kai Kaila |Brain protection during mammalian birth by vasopressin-mediated suppression of network activity.
9.30-10.00 Claudio Rivera |Depolarising GABA triggers Glutamatergic sprouting in epilepsy
10.00-10.30 Sari Lauri |Kainate-type of glutamate receptors and wiring of intrinsic glutamatergic connectivity in the amygdala
Coffee & Posters
11.00–12.00 Henry Kennedy | Cortical connectomics - Of mice and men
Labex Cortex, University of Lyon, France
12.00-13.00 Laura Busse | Processing of feedforward and feedback signals in mouse dLGN
Department of Neurobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Lunch & Posters
14.00–15.00 Pascal Fries | Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Germany
15.00–16.00 Markus Siegel | Spectral fingerprints of neuronal interactions
Center for Integrative NeuroImaging, University of Tubingen, Germany
16.15–18.00 Honorary Reception of the University
19.00– Speaker’s Dinner
Restaurant Töölönranta, Helsinginkatu 56
9.00–10.00 Thomas Mrsic-flogel | Principles of local and long range connectivity in cortical circuits
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, UCL, UK
10.00-11.00 David Dupret | From continuous stream to discrete waves: parsing hippocampal theta to support memory
MRC Brain Network Dynamic Unit, University of Oxford, UK
Coffee & Posters
11.30-12.30 Tobias Donner | Brain State, Decision-Making, and Behavioral Variability
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Lunch & Posters
13.30-14.00 Leonard Khirug | Microscopic changes in (sub)cellular structures visualized in the cortex of awake mice: mechanisms of brain response to anesthetics and to traumatic/ischemic injury
Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Finland
14.00-14.30 Juzoh Umemori (Castrén lab) | Optical activation of neuronal plasticity
Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Finland
14.30-15.00 Tiina Paunio | Sleep, development and mental health
Department of psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
Coffee
15.30-16.00 Risto Ilmoniemi | New Technology for Coupling to the Dynamics of the Human Brain
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
16.00-16.30 Kimmo Alho | Imaging attention to audiovisual speech
Department of psychology and logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
16.30-17.00 Riitta Salmelin | Language in the brain: from processing stages towards representations
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
17.00-17.15 Closing Remarks