Scientific Program
25 June update
We are early in the process and have already exceeded the maximum number of theme-based, long-format sessions. Until we know in a few months which longer-format sessions will develop, we are not adding any additional talks to the Scientific Program page. There will presumably be additional space for short-format, theme-based sessions and individual Data Blitz talks, but for now, all future requests to speak will go on a wait list which we will incorporate into the program as the picture becomes clearer. Any changes in the process will be added here so please check this page regularly to see the current state of the program.
24 May update
For the next Conference, we are trying to enable more people to speak by having a mix of longer-format sessions with four speakers maximum in one hour (10 minute talks), shorter-format sessions on specific themes with 6-8 speakers in an hour (5 minute talks), and individual data blitz talks (5 minute talks).
Please keep in mind the following organizational details when inviting colleagues:
All participants pay the registration fee and the costs of attending as this is an unsponsored, non-hierarchical, and open meeting. Pre-doctoral students will be subsidized with a reduced registration fee.
Tentative theme-based sessions
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) "Hippocampus out of the Box"
Tomonori Takeuchi (Aarhus University, Denmark) "Modulation of hippocampal-dependent memory by several experiences"
(Accompanying Data Blitz session)
Thomas Deller/Andreas Vlachos: "Synaptopodin and the spine apparatus organelle (and more)" (Monday AM)
Félix Leroy (Instituto de Neurociencias en Alicante, Spain) “Hippocampal projections to the lateral septum.”
Michele Pignatelli di Spinazzola (Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, USA) "Title coming"
Menno Witter: "Title coming"
Stephan Schwarzacher and Peter Jedlicka: "Structural and synaptic plasticity in normal and epileptic hippocampus"
Dori Derdikman and Yaniv Ziv: "Hippocampal representational drift"
Lisa Genzel: "Sleep: From local to global regulation and function"
Bruce McNaughton (University of California Irvine, USA) and Francesco Battaglia (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands): "Hippocampal influence on neocortical coding and replay"
(Accompanying Data Blitz session)
Francesco Battaglia and Matteo Guardamagna: "Multiplicity of hippocampal coding schemes"
Hugo Spiers: "Title coming"
Ralitsa Todorova and Sidney Wiener: “Cell assemblies and sequences in the hippocampus and beyond"
Hannah Monyer: "Title coming"
Menahem Segal: "Title coming"
Denise Cai and Steve Ramirez: "The effects of stress on memory circuits and behavior"
Matthew Nolan: "Title coming"
Tristan Shuman: "Synchronization within the hippocampus"
Lisa Topolnik and Klas Kullander: "Hippocampal disinhibition"
Anton Sirota: "Title coming"
Josh Jacobs and Simon Hanslmayr: "Title coming"
Dan Lowenstein (UCSF, USA): "The hippocampus in neurological disorders"
Adrien Peyrache and Adrian Duszkiewicz: "The head-direction cortex: circuits and dynamics of spatial orientation"
(Accompanying Data Blitz session)
Kei Igarashi (University of California, Irvine, USA): “Interaction between the lateral entorhinal cortex and hippocampus”
Juan Song (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) and Paul Frankland (SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada): "The role of the supramammillary nucleus in hippocampal function"
DATA BLITZ SPEAKERS
Hwai-Jong Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) “Integration of newborn mossy fibers in the adult and aged hippocampus”
Miriam Nokia (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) “Hippocampal electrophysiological oscillations connect with bodily rhythms”
Suvi-Maaria Lehtonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) "Dentate gyrus activity during discrimination learning"
Salman Qasim (Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, USA) “LFP and single-unit correlates of high-salience memories in the human hippocampal formation”
Ute Häussler (University of Freiburg, Germany) "The subiculum in temporal lobe epilepsy"
Daniel Bendor (University College London, UK) "Hippocampal replay"
Silvia Ventura (University of St Andrews, UK) "The effect of environmental enrichment on contextual memory and hippocampal-entorhinal activity"
Lukas Kunz (Columbia University, NY, USA) "Human associative memory is tied to ripple-locked coactivity of object and place-like cells"
Tamara Gedankien (Columbia University, NY, USA) "Cholinergic modulation of human hippocampal and entorhinal oscillations during memory"
Briana Chen (Columbia University, NY, USA) "Sex differences in hippocampal mechanisms mediating fear learning and recall in mice"
Jiannis Taxidis (SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada) "The role of inhibition in shaping hippocampal memory-encoding sequences"
Andrew MacAskill (UCL, UK) "Inference strategies for probabilistic reversal learning"
Serena Dudek (NIEHS, NIH, USA) "Regulation of CA2 genes by a stress hormone receptor"
Andrea Muñoz Zamora (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) '' Cold sensitive engrams control whole-body thermoregulatory responses''
Drug effects session
Eva Kudová (IOCB Prague, Czech Republic) "Neurosteroids as drug-like compounds for CNS disorders"
Andrea Pačesová (IOCB Prague, Czech Republic) "Neuroprotective properties of anorexigenic neuropeptides"
Lenka Maletinska (IOCB Prague, Czech Republic) "Palmitoylated analog of prolactin-releasing peptide in mouse models of neurodegeneration"
Jochen Meier (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) "Novel drugs acting on hippocampal glycine receptors"
We are early in the process and have already exceeded the maximum number of theme-based, long-format sessions. Until we know in a few months which longer-format sessions will develop, we are not adding any additional talks to the Scientific Program page. There will presumably be additional space for short-format, theme-based sessions and individual Data Blitz talks, but for now, all future requests to speak will go on a wait list which we will incorporate into the program as the picture becomes clearer. Any changes in the process will be added here so please check this page regularly to see the current state of the program.
24 May update
For the next Conference, we are trying to enable more people to speak by having a mix of longer-format sessions with four speakers maximum in one hour (10 minute talks), shorter-format sessions on specific themes with 6-8 speakers in an hour (5 minute talks), and individual data blitz talks (5 minute talks).
Please keep in mind the following organizational details when inviting colleagues:
- For the longer-format sessions, four speakers in a one hour session (10 minutes for each speaker plus 5 minutes for questions).
- For theme-based shorter-format sessions, 5 minutes plus two minutes for discussion. These sessions can be 8 speakers in an hour or 6-7 speakers plus a 10-15 minute discussion period at the end of the session.
- For the individual Data Blitz presentations: 5 minutes for each speaker plus 2 minutes for questions.
- Please consider including both male and female participants as well as junior and more senior investigators in your session. We want to be an inclusive and diverse meeting.
All participants pay the registration fee and the costs of attending as this is an unsponsored, non-hierarchical, and open meeting. Pre-doctoral students will be subsidized with a reduced registration fee.
Tentative theme-based sessions
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) "Hippocampus out of the Box"
- To be named "Learning with no instructions" (on network models)
- Tamir Eliav (Munich) "Navigating out of the box" (on bats flying the 200m tunnel)
- Elisa Ciaramelli (Bologna) "Hippocampus and mind wandering in humans"
- Elvira De Leonibus (CNR, Rome) "Gender differences in mouse incidental learning, or why inhibiting the hippocampus when it would learn?"
Tomonori Takeuchi (Aarhus University, Denmark) "Modulation of hippocampal-dependent memory by several experiences"
- Alcino Silva (UCLA, USA) "Molecular, cellular, systems, and brain regions; how the brain integrates information across time"
- Tomonori Takeuchi (Aarhus University, Denmark) "Title"
- Hideaki Soya (University of Tsukuba, Japan) "Title"
- Judith Schomaker (Leiden University, the Netherlands) "Title"
(Accompanying Data Blitz session)
- Taichi Hiraga (University of Tsukuba, Japan) "Title"
- Dorothy Tse (Edge Hill University, UK) "Title"
Thomas Deller/Andreas Vlachos: "Synaptopodin and the spine apparatus organelle (and more)" (Monday AM)
- Marina Mihaylova "Cell biology of Synaptopodin and the spine apparatus"
- Deller/Drakew "Synaptopodin is a stabilizer of large and strong spines"
- Anne McKinney "Synaptopodin/spine apparatus and LTD"
- Vlachos/Lenz "Synaptopodin mediates retinoic acid effects in the human brain"
Félix Leroy (Instituto de Neurociencias en Alicante, Spain) “Hippocampal projections to the lateral septum.”
- Tatiana Korotkova, (Vegetative physiology institute, Köln) "Behavior-dependent coordination of lateral septum with hippocampus and prefrontal cortex"
- Antoine Besnard (Institute of functional genomic, Montpellier) "Hippocampal projections to the lateral septum regulating anxiety vs. defensive behaviors"
- Ann Clemens (University of Edinburgh) "Lateral septum circuits regulating kinship behaviors"
- Keri Martinowich (John Hopkins) "Septo-hippocampal circuits for social recognition"
- Félix Leroy (Instituto de Neurociencias en Alicante, Spain) "Title"
Michele Pignatelli di Spinazzola (Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, USA) "Title coming"
Menno Witter: "Title coming"
Stephan Schwarzacher and Peter Jedlicka: "Structural and synaptic plasticity in normal and epileptic hippocampus"
- Carola Haas (University of Freiburg, Germany) "Epilepsy in the hippocampus"
- Stephan Schwarzacher (University of Frankfurt, Germany) "Structural plasticity and excitability of newborn granule cells"
- Jan Marino Ramirez (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) "Functional networks in epileptic hippocampus"
- Peter Jedlicka (University of Giessen, Germany) "Computational models of hippocampal networks"
Dori Derdikman and Yaniv Ziv: "Hippocampal representational drift"
Lisa Genzel: "Sleep: From local to global regulation and function"
- Karim Benchenane
- Jacqueline van der Meij
- Vlad Vyazovskiy
- Julie Seibt
- Paul-Antoine Libourel
Bruce McNaughton (University of California Irvine, USA) and Francesco Battaglia (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands): "Hippocampal influence on neocortical coding and replay"
- Bruce McNaughton (University of California Irvine, USA)
- Francesco Battaglia (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands)
- Zaneta Navratilova (University of California Irvine, USA)
- Majid Mohajerani (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
- Freyja Olafsdottir (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands)
(Accompanying Data Blitz session)
Francesco Battaglia and Matteo Guardamagna: "Multiplicity of hippocampal coding schemes"
- Matteo Guardamagna (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, NTNU Trondheim, Norway)
- Oscar Chadney (NTNU Trondheim, Norway)
- Federico Stella (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Hugo Spiers: "Title coming"
Ralitsa Todorova and Sidney Wiener: “Cell assemblies and sequences in the hippocampus and beyond"
- Marco Pompili (Aix-Marseille University, France) “Cell assembly detection through the iterative search for recurrent synchrony”
- Céline Drieu (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) “How experience biases the direction of hippocampal sequences across brain states”
- Ralitsa Todorova (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA) “Cortical cell assemblies and the hippocampo-cortical dialogue”
- Virginie Oberto (KU Leuven, Belgium) “Prefrontal and striatal cross-structural assemblies form by phase-locking to theta and 4 Hz”
- Michaël Zugaro (Collège de France, Paris) “Flexible communication between cell assemblies and `reader' neurons"
- Sidney Wiener (Collège de France, Paris) “Differential responses of groups of ventral vs. dorsal hippocampal neurons to fear state and to fear expression”
- Mehdi Khamassi (Sorbonne University, Paris, France) “Prediction of cell activation sequences by computational models”
Hannah Monyer: "Title coming"
Menahem Segal: "Title coming"
Denise Cai and Steve Ramirez: "The effects of stress on memory circuits and behavior"
- Denise Cai (Mount Sinai) "Hippocampal and amygdala circuits support divergent consequences of severe stress"
- Steve Ramirez (Boston University) "Real-time dynamics of hippocampal engrams"
- Christine Denny (Columbia University Irving Medical Center) "Pharmacological manipulation of hippocampal fear memory traces"
- Mazen Kheirbek (UCSF) "Representing rewarding and aversive experiences in hippocampal circuits"
- Michael Drew (UT Austin) "Circuit and transcriptomic mechanisms of fear suppression in the hippocampus"
- Chris Anacker (Columbia University Irving Medical Center) "Hippocampal-orbitofrontal projections regulate cognitive flexibility and stress resilience"
Matthew Nolan: "Title coming"
Tristan Shuman: "Synchronization within the hippocampus"
Lisa Topolnik and Klas Kullander: "Hippocampal disinhibition"
Anton Sirota: "Title coming"
Josh Jacobs and Simon Hanslmayr: "Title coming"
Dan Lowenstein (UCSF, USA): "The hippocampus in neurological disorders"
Adrien Peyrache and Adrian Duszkiewicz: "The head-direction cortex: circuits and dynamics of spatial orientation"
- Adrian Duszkiewicz (McGill University, Canada and University of Edinburgh, UK) "title"
- Desdemona Fricker (CNRS, Paris Descartes, France) "title"
- Andrej Bicanski (University of Newcastle, UK) "title"
- Patricia Preston-Ferrier (University of Tubingen, Germany) "title"
(Accompanying Data Blitz session)
- Pierre-Yves Jacob (Aix-Marseille University, France)
- Kevin Allen (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
- Ryan Place (UCSD, USA)
Kei Igarashi (University of California, Irvine, USA): “Interaction between the lateral entorhinal cortex and hippocampus”
- Jayeeta Basu (New York University, USA) “Lateral entorhinal cortex recruits long-range and local disinhibitory circuits to drive dendritic spikes in hippocampus”
- James Ainge (University of St. Andrews, UK) “Lateral entorhinal – dentate gyrus interactions underlying episodic memory”
- Kei Igarashi (University of California, Irvine, USA) “Task rule representation in the lateral entorhinal cortex”
- Steven Siegelbaum (Columbia University, NY, USA) “Encoding social memory through the cortico-hippocampal circuit”
Juan Song (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) and Paul Frankland (SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada): "The role of the supramammillary nucleus in hippocampal function"
DATA BLITZ SPEAKERS
Hwai-Jong Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) “Integration of newborn mossy fibers in the adult and aged hippocampus”
Miriam Nokia (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) “Hippocampal electrophysiological oscillations connect with bodily rhythms”
Suvi-Maaria Lehtonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) "Dentate gyrus activity during discrimination learning"
Salman Qasim (Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, USA) “LFP and single-unit correlates of high-salience memories in the human hippocampal formation”
Ute Häussler (University of Freiburg, Germany) "The subiculum in temporal lobe epilepsy"
Daniel Bendor (University College London, UK) "Hippocampal replay"
Silvia Ventura (University of St Andrews, UK) "The effect of environmental enrichment on contextual memory and hippocampal-entorhinal activity"
Lukas Kunz (Columbia University, NY, USA) "Human associative memory is tied to ripple-locked coactivity of object and place-like cells"
Tamara Gedankien (Columbia University, NY, USA) "Cholinergic modulation of human hippocampal and entorhinal oscillations during memory"
Briana Chen (Columbia University, NY, USA) "Sex differences in hippocampal mechanisms mediating fear learning and recall in mice"
Jiannis Taxidis (SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada) "The role of inhibition in shaping hippocampal memory-encoding sequences"
Andrew MacAskill (UCL, UK) "Inference strategies for probabilistic reversal learning"
Serena Dudek (NIEHS, NIH, USA) "Regulation of CA2 genes by a stress hormone receptor"
Andrea Muñoz Zamora (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) '' Cold sensitive engrams control whole-body thermoregulatory responses''
Drug effects session
Eva Kudová (IOCB Prague, Czech Republic) "Neurosteroids as drug-like compounds for CNS disorders"
Andrea Pačesová (IOCB Prague, Czech Republic) "Neuroprotective properties of anorexigenic neuropeptides"
Lenka Maletinska (IOCB Prague, Czech Republic) "Palmitoylated analog of prolactin-releasing peptide in mouse models of neurodegeneration"
Jochen Meier (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) "Novel drugs acting on hippocampal glycine receptors"