Keynote Speakers
Gordon Fishell
Havard Medical School, USA
The intimate dependence and remarkable precision of cortical interneuron-pyramidal cell connectivity
Reinhard Jahn
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany
Novel functions of oligodendrocytes in the neuronal circuitry
Invited Speakers
Andrea Barberis
Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Short-range interaction between excitatory and inhibitory synapses in dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons
Beatriz Rico
King’s College London, United Kingdom
Mechanisms orchestrating the assembly of interneuron-pyramidal cell networks
Britta Eickholt
Charite Berlin, Germany
Coordination of synaptic (stress) signaling and actin filament dynamics
Camilla Bellone
University of Genève, Switzerland
The synaptic basis of social approach and avoidance behaviour
Eleonora Palma
University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Looking for an altered synaptic function in epilepsy
Ira Milosevic
MIA Portugal, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Coordination of synaptic vesicle acidification and trafficking by rabconnectin-3a
Klaus-Armin Nave
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
Novel functions of oligodendrocytes in the neuronal circuitry
Laurent Groc
Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, France
Dysfunction of NMDA receptor trafficking in neuropsychiatric disorders
Nathalie Rouach
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie, Collège de France
Astrocytes : guardians of critical period plasticity of the visual cortex
Olivier Thoumine
University of Bordeaux, France
Role of the adhesion molecule neuroligin-1 in synapse differentiation: membrane dynamics, phosphotyrosine signalling, and regulation by cis-binders
Paola Bezzi
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Astrocytic VMAT2 in the developing prefrontal cortex is required for normal grooming behavior in mice
Peter Kind
University of Edinburgh, UK
Rosa Cossart
Institute of Mediterranean Neurobiology, France
From the synapse to the network: is the CA1 GABAergic synapse really inhibitory?
Sabine Lévi
Fer à Moulin Institute, Sorbonne University, France
Stabilization and elimination of synapses by the adenosine signaling pathway
Thomas Blanpied
University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Subunit-specific NMDA receptor nanoarchitecture
Selected Speakers
Ana Beltran Arranz
King’s College London, United Kingdom
Glia-to-interneuron conversion in the postnatal mouse cortex
Ângela S. Inácio
Centre for Neurocience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Aberrant hippocampal transmission and behavior in mice with a stargazin mutation linked to intellectual disability
Ayça Olcay
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań
Analysis of Synapse-enriched Circular RNAs for Loss-of-Function Studies in Primary Cortical Neuron
Domenico Azarnia Tehran
Leibniz-FMP, Berlin, Germany
Selective Endocytosis of Ca2+-permeable AMPARs by the Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factor CALM Bidirectionally Controls Synaptic Plasticity
Ludovic Tricoire
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
GRID1/GluD1 homozygous variants linked to intellectual disability and spastic paraplegia impair mGlu1/5 receptor signaling and excitatory synapses
Maria Joana Pinto
Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Microglial TNFα orchestrates phosphorylation of synaptic proteins and controls homeostatic sleep
Nicolas Morgenstern
Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Pyramidal tract neurons amplify excitation to the striatum through cholinergic interneurons
Rafael Almeida
Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Non-synaptic axonal neurotransmission regulates myelinated circuit formation in vivo
Sébastien Delhaye
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/Université Côte d’Azur, France
Phosphodiesterase 2A is a Goldilocks protein involved in neurodevelopment