Young Swiss Society for Neuroscience
Meeting Overview
The 2020 Early-Career Researchers Symposium took place on February 29th, 2020 at the University of Bern's Institute of Physiology. Thank you to all our participants for making this event a success.
This year's meeting focused on the latest developments and open questions regarding the processing of reward and punishment in the brain. The ERS meeting program was composed of a morning keynote lecture by Dr. Marcus Stephenson-Jones from the University College London Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. This was followed by morning and afternoon plenary lectures showcasing cutting-edge neuroscience research conducted by trainees at universities across Switzerland. In between lectures, poster sessions were held in which trainees presented and discussed their current findings and shared their knowledge with one another.
The meeting concluded with a lively panel discussion on navigating professional relationships with supervisors, peers, and institutions, followed by a social reception to promote networking.
Keynote Lecture
Dr. Marcus Stephenson-Jones
09:15 – 10:15
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London, UK
"Involvement of ventral pallidal neurons in reward seeking and punishment avoidance"
Coffee break
10:15 – 10:45
Meeting Program
Registration; Coffee and croissants
08:00–08:50
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome and opening remarks
Morning Lectures
Gwendolin Schoenfeld
10:45 – 11:00
University of Zürich (Group Helmchen)
"Reward-related functional changes in tuft dendrites of L5 pyramidal neurons in S1 during learning of a tactile discrimination task"
Simon d’Aquin
11:00 – 11:15
FMI, Basel (Group Lüthi)
"Compartment-specific plasticity in the lateral amygdala during fear learning"
Michael Kintscher
11:15 – 11:30
EPFL (Group Schneggenburger)
“Antagonistic but coordinated action of direct/indirect pathway medium spiny neurons in learned fear”
Silvia Monari
11:30 – 11:45
EPFL (Group Sandi)
“Fear extinction impairments in rats selected for blunted glucocorticoid responsiveness”
Sebastian Krüttner
11:45 – 12:00
FMI, Basel (Group Caroni)
“ASD-like behavioral phenotypes in Shank3-/- mice reflect specific deficits to engage to novelty”
Mario Acuña
12:00 – 12:15
University of Bern (Group Nevian)
“Network dynamics in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex”
Max Bautista Perpinyà
12:15 – 12:25
Utrecht University
“Journal of Trial and Error – Revising Science in the Making”
Afternoon Lectures
Clément Prévost-Solié
14:00 – 14:15
University of Geneva (Group Bellone)
“Dissecting aspects of social interaction encoded by Dopamine neurons within the Ventral Tegmental Area”
Hazem Toutounji
14:15 – 14:30
University of Zürich and ETH Zürich (Group Hahnloser)
“Inferring the subjective value of juvenile zebra finch's own song during motor learning”
Basil Preisig
14:30 – 14:45
University of Zürich (Group Hervais-Adelman)
“Modulating interhemispheric functional connectivity during auditory speech perception”
Guiseppe Zito
14:45 – 15:00
Hôpitaux Universitaires La Pitié salpêtrière (Group Worbe)
“Modulation of the sense of agency in functional neurological disorders using non-invasive brain stimulation”
Marc Grau Leguia
15: 00 – 15:15
University of Bern (Group Baud)
“Chronotypes in focal epilepsy”
Aagam Shah
15:15 – 15:30
ETH Zürich (Group Yanik)
“Non-invasive, receptor-specific, millimeter-precision manipulation of brain circuits”
Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1 and Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2 and Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
Closing Session
Best Presentation award and Closing remarks
17:00 – 17:15
Panel discussion
17:15 – 18:30
moderated by Sol Fustiñana
FMI, Basel (Group Lüthi)
Norbert Hogrefe
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Society for Neuroscience
Encoding Reward and Punishment From Single Cells to Behaviour
University of Bern
Saturday, February 29th 2020
2nd Annual Early-Career Researchers Symposium 2020