If you determine at the last minute that you cannot travel to Verona, you will have the option of providing a video of your presentation, which will be played in the session in which you are scheduled to speak. You will receive a Certificate of Participation/Attendance to facilitate reimbursement of your registration fee.
(Program updated 28 April, 2025)
Saturday, 17 May
1:00- 4:00pm Registration open- if you are here, please come on Saturday afternoon to register and get your name tag.
Sunday, 18 May
07:00- Registration open
Please come early if possible to register and get your name tag. If everyone comes at 08:25, it will complicate the start of the Conference.
8:30- 9:00 am Welcome and Announcements
9:00-10:30 am "Ups and Downs in CA3-Dentate Gyrus Relations"
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Chair
10:30- 11:15 am Coffee break
11:15- 12:15 pm "Hippocampal Brain-Machine Interfaces"
Timothy O’Leary, Chair
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #1
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch break
2:00- 3:00 pm “Expanding the Engram Search”
Christine Ann Denny, Chair
3:00- 4:00 pm "Human Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry; Latest Advances from Anatomical, Functional, and Clinical Research"
Xenia Grande and Marshall Dalton, Chairs
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45-5:45 pm “What is Hippocampal Replay Really Doing?”
Daniel Bendor and Matt van der Meer, Chairs
5:45- 6:45 pm Associated Data Blitz
Daniel Bendor and Matt van der Meer, Chairs
7:00-8:00 pm Welcome event (food and drinks/hotel lobby)
Monday, 19 May
8:30- 9:30 am “Toward a Better Understanding of Hippocampal Area CA2”
Georgia Alexander, Chair
9:30- 10:00 am Associated Data Blitz
Georgia Alexander, Chair
10:00- 10:30 am Data Blitz #2
10:30- 11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm "Synaptic Tagging in Memory: From Synapses to Behavior"
Sreedharan Sajikumar, Chair
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #3
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm "Thalamic-Hippocampal Memory Circuits: An Open Relationship"
Elvira De Leonibus and Bianca Silva, Chairs
3:00- 4:00 pm "The Determinants of Memory Networks in Humans"
Dorothy Tse (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom), Chair
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm Data Blitz #4
5:45-6:45 pm "The Hippocampus: From Cells to the Clinic”
Steven Poulter, Chair
Tuesday, 20 May
8:30- 9:30 am “Hippocampal Dysfunction in Neurodevelopmental Disorders"
Vitaly Klyachko, Chair
9:30- 10:30 am “Synaptic and Circuit Functions of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex”
Jayeeta Basu and Kei Igarashi, Chairs
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm “New Perspectives on Hippocampal Interneurons”
Annabelle Singer and Tristan Shuman, Chairs
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #5
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm "Inhibitory and Disinhibitory Circuit Motifs Shaping Hippocampal Memory"
Lisa Topolnik and Suhel Tamboli (Laval University, Canada), Chairs
3:00- 4:00 pm Data Blitz #6
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm “Spatial Memory and Navigation in Humans”
Jörn Alexander Quent and Darya Frank, Chairs
5:45- 6:30 pm “Ripple-Locked Spiking Activity during Human Behavior and Sleep”
Zita Patai, Chair
Wednesday, 21 May
8:30- 9:30 am “Hippocampal Regulation of the Lateral Septum”
Felix Leroy, Chair
9:30-10:30 am "Hippocampal and Neocortical Dynamics during NREM and REM Sleep"
Sylvain Williams, Chair
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm "Thalamocortical Interactions in Navigation and Memory"
Adrien Peyrache, Chair
12:15-12:30 pm Associated Data Blitz
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm "MEG / iEEG Studies of Human Hippocampal Function"
Daniel Bush and Oliver Vikbladh, Chairs
3:00- 4:00 pm “Inflammatory Targets in Epilepsy and its Cognitive Co-morbidities”
Nicholas Varvel, Chair
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm “Hippocampal and Cortical Circuits in Rat Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
Paul Dudchenko and Adrian Duszkiewicz, Chairs
5:45-6:30 pm Data Blitz #7
Thursday, 22 May
8:30- 9:30 am "The Ventral Side of the Hippocampus: Circuits and Functions"
Bénédicte Amilhon and Andrew MacAskill, Chairs
9:30- 10:30 am “Neural Dynamics of Cross-Structural Communication”
Ralitsa Todorova and Marco Pompili, Chairs
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 am "Spatial Maps in the Subiculum"
Doug Nitz and Jordan Carpenter, Chairs
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #8
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm “Engram Ensembles Emergence in Learning and Memory”
Michele Pignatelli and Tomás Ryan, Chairs
3:00- 4:00 pm "The Dentate Gyrus Dorso-Ventral axis; Circuit and Molecular Insights for Domain-Specific Regulation of Cognition and Mood"
Juan Song and Chris Anacker, Chairs
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm “Experience- and Sensory-Dependent Coding of Place and Grid Cells”
Guifen Chen and Yi Gu, Chairs
5:45- 6:30 pm Data Blitz #9
Friday, 23 May
8:30- 9:30 am “The Ontogeny of Space”
Freyja Ólafsdóttir and Francesca Cacucci, Chairs
9:30- 10:30 am “The Ontogeny of Memory”
Charlotte Boccara and Flavio Donato, Chairs
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 pm "Single Cell Recordings in Non-Mammalian Hippocampi"
Yoram Gutfreund, Chair
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #10
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 4:00 pm Data Blitz #11
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm "Functional Interactions Between the Hippocampal Region and the Neocortex; From Animal Anatomy to Human Conceptual Spaces"
Menno Witter and Daniel Reznik, Chairs
End of Conference
(Program updated 28 April, 2025)
Saturday, 17 May
1:00- 4:00pm Registration open- if you are here, please come on Saturday afternoon to register and get your name tag.
Sunday, 18 May
07:00- Registration open
Please come early if possible to register and get your name tag. If everyone comes at 08:25, it will complicate the start of the Conference.
8:30- 9:00 am Welcome and Announcements
9:00-10:30 am "Ups and Downs in CA3-Dentate Gyrus Relations"
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Chair
- Irmgard Amrein (University of Zurich, Switzerland) "Beyond the standard model of the mammalian area CA3"
- Shir Maimon (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Sparse versus dense coding of very large environments in hippocampal subregions CA3 and CA1"
- Qian Sun (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) "Dorso-ventral heterogeneity in CA3 circuitry"
- Gal Richter-Levin (University of Haifa, Israel) "Do dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus lead separate lives?"
- Federico Stella (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) "The effect of heterogeneity of place fields on CA3 charts"
- Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) "And so, is spatial memory that special?"
10:30- 11:15 am Coffee break
11:15- 12:15 pm "Hippocampal Brain-Machine Interfaces"
Timothy O’Leary, Chair
- Albert Lee (HHMI, BIDMC/Harvard Medical School, USA) “Investigating memory recall and imagination with a hippocampal brain-machine interface”
- Timothy O’Leary (University of Cambridge, UK) “Control of spatial navigation by an optical hippocampal brain-machine interface induces rapid reconfiguration of cognitive maps (Part I)”
- Julija Krupic (University College London, UK) “Control of spatial navigation by an optical hippocampal brain-machine interface induces rapid reconfiguration of cognitive maps (Part II)”
- Yaniv Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) “Optical imaging based brain-computer interface in freely behaving mice for long-term investigation of hippocampal memory codes”
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #1
- Stefano Guglielmo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) "The role of a lateral entorhinal cortex engram in episodic-like memory recall"
- Melissa Hernández-Frausto (New York University, USA) "Glutamatergic and GABAergic projections from the lateral entorhinal cortex to the hippocampus and their role in episodic memory"
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch break
2:00- 3:00 pm “Expanding the Engram Search”
Christine Ann Denny, Chair
- Christine Ann Denny (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, USA) "A SMARTR workflow for multi-ensemble atlas mapping and brain-wide network analysis"
- Michael Drew (University of Texas at Austin, USA) "Fear ensembles in stress-induced fear sensitization”
- Denise Cai (Mount Sinai, NY, USA): "The brain in motion: How dynamic memory ensembles support memory-updating"
- Steve Ramirez (Boston University, MA, USA) "Stable engrams within drifting ensembles"
- Takashi Kitamura (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA) "Differential contributions of dorsal and ventral hippocampus on observational fear"
- Gisella Vetere (ESPCI PSL Paris, France): "Dissection of an hippocampal engram to understand memory formation”
3:00- 4:00 pm "Human Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry; Latest Advances from Anatomical, Functional, and Clinical Research"
Xenia Grande and Marshall Dalton, Chairs
- Marshall Dalton (University of Sydney, Australia) “Mapping anatomical connectivity between the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus in the human brain in vivo”
- Samuel C. Berry (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) “Is the subiculum the heart of the extended hippocampal system?”
- Xenia Grande (University of Oxford, UK) “Processing of spatio-temporal event information in the human entorhinal-hippocampal circuit”
- Bryan Strange (Technical University of Madrid; Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Spain) “Human entorhinal vs hippocampal contributions to emotional memory studied with intracranial recordings”
- Jenna Adams (University of California, Irvine, USA) “Functional dynamics of entorhinal cortex and CA1 during statistical learning in pre-clinical Alzheimer's Disease”
- Hannah Baumeister (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany) "Linking medial temporal lobe subregional atrophy and clinical progression in Alzheimer’s disease"
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45-5:45 pm “What is Hippocampal Replay Really Doing?”
Daniel Bendor and Matt van der Meer, Chairs
- Matt van der Meer (Dartmouth College, USA) “Paradoxical replay protects contextual task representations against interference”
- David Foster (University of California, Berkeley, USA) “Self-avoidance dominates the selection of hippocampal replay”
- Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) “Hippocampal replay and predictive coding”
- Kamran Diba (University of Michigan, USA) “Re-tuning of hippocampal representations during sleep”
- Dan Bendor (University College London, UK) “Awake replay prioritises memories for consolidation"
5:45- 6:45 pm Associated Data Blitz
Daniel Bendor and Matt van der Meer, Chairs
- Masa Takigawa (University College London, UK) "Cortico-hippocampal interactions during sharp wave ripples"
- Pierre Varichon (University College London, UK) "Offline place field stabilisation during one-shot learning"
- Ben Borthwick (University College London, UK) "Temporal dynamics underlying offline place field stabilisation"
- Alexandra Narin (University College London, UK) "Targeted memory reactivation in behaving mice"
- Charlotte Burdon (University College London, UK) "Sex difference in mice performing a serial novel object recognition task"
- Diao Tong (University College London, UK) "Spatial representations in visual and spatial areas during visual navigation"
7:00-8:00 pm Welcome event (food and drinks/hotel lobby)
Monday, 19 May
8:30- 9:30 am “Toward a Better Understanding of Hippocampal Area CA2”
Georgia Alexander, Chair
- Serena Dudek (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA) “Role of mineralocorticoid receptors in area CA2; form and function”
- Helen Scharfman (New York University, USA) “The role of area CA2 in the normal and epileptic hippocampus”
- Hazim Eldirdiri Abdelrahman (Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris, France) “Delicious food, dopamine, and synaptic plasticity in hippocampal area CA2”
- Pegah Kassraian (Columbia University, USA) “Hippocampal circuits for discriminating social threat from social safety”
9:30- 10:00 am Associated Data Blitz
Georgia Alexander, Chair
- Shannon Farris (Virginia Tech, USA) “Mitochondrial diversity shapes area CA2 circuit-specific plasticity”
- Elise Cope (University of Virginia, USA): “Hippocampal area CA2 perineuronal net plasticity in social memory”
- Jeffrey Lopez-Rojas (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) “Hearing the news from a faraway place: entorhinal-hippocampal circuit in social recognition memory"
- Georgia Alexander (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA) “Social novelty-associated oscillations in area CA2”
10:00- 10:30 am Data Blitz #2
- Antoine Madar (University of Chicago, USA) “Synaptic plasticity during learning: the rules of representational shifting in areas CA1 and CA3”
- George Jacob (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany) "Hippocampal single-neuron representations of fear extinction in humans; an intracranial EEG study"
- Jason Moore (New York University, USA) "Differential stability across the dendritic axis of CA3 pyramidal neurons"
- Su-Min Lee (Seoul National University in Korea, Republic of Korea) "The task structure-bound spatial representations of single neurons in the subiculum"
10:30- 11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm "Synaptic Tagging in Memory: From Synapses to Behavior"
Sreedharan Sajikumar, Chair
- Laura Koek (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA) “Role of intracellular calcium stores and CP-AMPARs in functional and structural plasticity”
- Sreedharan Sajikumar (National University of Singapore) “Synaptic tagging in memory; metaplastic insights from hippocampal areas CA2 and CA1"
- Rosalina Fonseca (Instituto Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal) “The hippocampal role in fear memory association; focusing on time”
- Justin O'Hare (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA) “Dendritic mechanisms for conjunctive feature storage in hippocampal area CA1”
- Jannik Luboeinski (University of Göttingen Medical Center, Germany) “Cognitive dynamics arising from synaptic tagging and capture in recurrent networks”
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #3
- Yul Kang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) "Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation; Bayesian & neural network models”
- Benjamin Thompson (University of St Andrews, UK) “Grid cell symmetry is associated with accurate distance estimation”
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm "Thalamic-Hippocampal Memory Circuits: An Open Relationship"
Elvira De Leonibus and Bianca Silva, Chairs
- Elvira De Leonibus (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy) "Sex-dependent engagement of reuniens-hippocampal pathway during incidental encoding"
- Livia Autore (ESPCI, Paris, France) "Remote recall and fear expression; the role of hippocampal-cortical-thalamic communication"
- Katarzyna Radwańska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland) "The contribution of thalamo-hippocampal connections to contextual fear extinction"
- Mark Sheffield (University of Chicago, USA) "The thalamo-CA1 circuit modulates contextual fear memory by altering CA1 neural dynamics"
3:00- 4:00 pm "The Determinants of Memory Networks in Humans"
Dorothy Tse (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom), Chair
- R. Shayna Rosenbaum (York University, Canada) "From cognitive maps to spatial gists and schemas; insights from lesion and neuroimaging studies in patients"
- Asaf Gilboa (The Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto, Canada) "Prior knowledge supports the rapid formation of memory engrams in the human neocortex"
- Aidan Horner (University of York, United Kingdom) "Schema effects in temporal order memory"
- Alexander Barnett (McGill University, Montreal, and University of Toronto, Canada) "How shared experience and interpretation shapes neural representations and inter-subject synchrony"
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm Data Blitz #4
- Svenja Stomberg (University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology, Germany) "Understanding the role of soluble guanylyl cyclase in neuronal architecture; a focus on the interaction with scaffolding protein Scribble"
- Svenja Nierwetberg (University College London, UK) "A role for hippocampal CA1 in structural learning in mice"
- Dániel Dobolyi (University College London, UK) "All-optical perturbation of context-selective hippocampal representations during temporal association learning"
- Antoine Bouyeure (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Laminar fMRI of the hippocampus during pattern separation"
- Ricardo Guajardo (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Neuronal deposition of extracellular matrix in the dentate gyrus promotes hippocampal memory"
- Zoe Christenson Wick (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, USA) "Dentate gyrus inhibitory theta phase locking in the healthy and epileptic brain"
- Uma Mohan (National Institutes of Health, USA) “Direct electrical microstimulation of hippocampus evokes high-frequency ripple oscillations in humans”
5:45-6:45 pm "The Hippocampus: From Cells to the Clinic”
Steven Poulter, Chair
- John O'Keefe (University College London, UK) “ How hippocampal CA1 cells support flexible navigation”
- Steven Poulter (University of Durham, UK) “Vector trace cells; a cell-level window into episodic memory”
- Colin Lever (University of Durham, UK) “Memory for object locations in subicular vector trace cells”
- Neil Burgess (University College London, UK) "Neural mechanisms of spatial updating"
- Dennis Chan (University College London, UK) “Impaired path integration in early Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Karen Duff (UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL, UK) “Hippocampal mechanisms of pathogenesis in the tauopathies”
- Sarah Shipley (University College London, UK) "Disordered hippocampal reactivations predict spatial memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease"
Tuesday, 20 May
8:30- 9:30 am “Hippocampal Dysfunction in Neurodevelopmental Disorders"
Vitaly Klyachko, Chair
- Nathalie Rouach (College de France, France) “Astroglial Kir4.1 potassium channel deficit drives neuronal hyperexcitability and behavioral defects in Fragile X syndrome”
- Anis Contractor (Northwestern University, USA) “Hippocampal dysfunction in mice with “lurcher” mutations in GluA1”
- Vitaly Klyachko (Washington University, USA) “Interplay of excitatory and inhibitory deficits driving hippocampal circuit hyperexcitability in a Fragile X mouse model”
- Alex Chubykin (Purdue University, USA) “Impaired visual familiarity-evoked theta oscillations in the hippocampus of Fmr1 KO mice”
9:30- 10:30 am “Synaptic and Circuit Functions of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex”
Jayeeta Basu and Kei Igarashi, Chairs
- John Issa (Northwestern University, USA) “Reward representation in the lateral entorhinal cortex”
- Jim Knierim (Johns Hopkins University, USA) “Multiplexed spatial and temporal coding in the lateral entorhinal cortex”
- Jayeeta Basu (New York University, USA) “Disinhibitory gating in the lateral entorhinal cortico-hippocampal circuit”
- Kei Igarashi (University of California, Irvine, USA) “Interaction between the lateral entorhinal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex”
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm “New Perspectives on Hippocampal Interneurons”
Annabelle Singer and Tristan Shuman, Chairs
- Annabelle Singer (Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, USA) "Learning from inhibition; hippocampal interneurons in navigating to new goals"
- Tristan Shuman (Mount Sinai, New York, USA) "Causal influence of interneuron spike timing on behavior"
- Marlene Bartos (University of Freiburg, Germany) "Somatostatin interneurons flexibly encode goal locations depending on current and past experience"
- Azahara Oliva (Cornell University, NY, USA) "An inhibitory circuit to balance hippocampal reactivations during sleep"
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #5
- Jack Mellor (University of Bristol, UK) "OLM interneurons regulate CA1 place cell plasticity and remapping"
- Douglas GoodSmith (University of Chicago, USA) "Differential effects of cell-type specific dentate gyrus inhibition on CA1 place cell stability"
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm "Inhibitory and Disinhibitory Circuit Motifs Shaping Hippocampal Memory"
Lisa Topolnik and Suhel Tamboli (Laval University, Canada), Chairs
- Gabor Nyiri (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary) “Brainstem nucleus incertus controls hippocampal memory processing”
- Suhel Tamboli (Laval University, Canada) “Unveiling the role of hippocampal CA1 VIP interneurons in contextual fear memory encoding”
- Stephanie Herrlinger (Columbia University, New York, USA) “Disorganized inhibitory dynamics and inferred connectivity in hippocampal area CA1 of 22q11. 2 deletion mutant mice”
- Jiannis Taxidis (SickKids/University of Toronto, Canada) "Hippocampal interneurons shape memory-encoding pyramidal sequences"
- Nathalie Immerzeel (Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland) "Experience-dependent plasticity shapes inhibitory circuits and regulates the generation of hippocampal cognitive maps"
3:00- 4:00 pm Data Blitz #6
- Daniel Goodwin (University of Exeter, UK) “Acetylcholine dynamics in the retrosplenial cortex during uncertainty”
- Benedetta Bigio (Carla Nasca Lab, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA) "Single-cell transcriptomic maps of the ventral hippocampus identified a novel pathway to regulate brain plasticity"
- Maya Hopkins (New York University, USA) "Hippocampal CA1 stability and flexibility during an odor guided spatial navigation task"
- Keelin O’Neil (New York University, USA) “Integration of entorhinal cortices in hippocampal area CA3”
- Salman Qasim (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA) “Hippocampal-prefrontal dynamics link reinforcement learning and memory in the human brain”
- Ella Svahn (University College London, UK) "Cholinergic inputs to ventral hippocampus inform hidden-state inference needed for flexible behaviour"
- Adedamola Onih (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK) "Pupil dynamics and hippocampal representations reveal fast statistical learning in mice"
- Jennifer Ding (Harvard University, USA) "Hippocampal representations of episode boundaries and their reactivations"
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm “Spatial Memory and Navigation in Humans”
Jörn Alexander Quent and Darya Frank, Chairs
- Khazar Ahmadi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Mapping the laminar signature of hippocampal subregions during spatial navigation"
- Cory Inman (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) "Capturing synchronized neural and experiential data during human navigation in the wild"
- Zita Patai (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Grid-like representations and navigation strategies"
- Jörn Alexander Quent (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) "Graded encoding of spatial novelty scales
in the human hippocampus"
5:45- 6:30 pm “Ripple-Locked Spiking Activity during Human Behavior and Sleep”
Zita Patai, Chair
- Julio Chapeton (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) "Spiking activity and coding in local modules of the temporal lobe"
- Aarti Swaminathan (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Awake ripples in humans"
- Florian Mormann (University of Bonn, Germany) "Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events"
Wednesday, 21 May
8:30- 9:30 am “Hippocampal Regulation of the Lateral Septum”
Felix Leroy, Chair
- Andy Lee (University of Toronto, Canada) “Hippocampus-lateral septum connectivity in rats and humans”
- Guillaume Etter (McGill University, Canada) “A population code for idiothetic representations in the hippocampal-septal circuit”
- Tatiana Korotkova (University of Cologne, Germany) “Coordination of hippocampus and lateral septum regulates innate behaviors”
- Man Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) “Dynamic regulation of social memory by GABAergic neurons in the lateral septum”
- Félix Leroy (Institute of Neurosciences, Alicante, Spain) “Septal circuits regulating social preferences”
9:30-10:30 am "Hippocampal and Neocortical Dynamics during NREM and REM Sleep"
Sylvain Williams, Chair
- Gabrielle Girardeau (Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, France) "The role of dorso-ventral hippocampal coordination in the consolidation of emotional experiences"
- Justine Fortin-Houde (Université de Montréal, Saint-Justine, Canada) "Modulation of hippocampal rhythms by median raphe VGLUT3+ neurons during sleep"
- Suzanne van der Veldt (Université de Montréal, Saint-Justine, Canada) "Modulation of hippocampal rhythms by serotonergic neurons in the median raphe during sleep"
- Eric Carmichael (McGill University, Canada) "Hippocampal ensembles in pre- and post-task REM sleep"
- Sylvain Williams (McGill University, Canada) "Alterations of REM sleep in mouse Alzheimer models"
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm "Thalamocortical Interactions in Navigation and Memory"
Adrien Peyrache, Chair
- J. Quinn Lee (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) "Population dynamics of thalamocortical and hippocampal networks during reorientation"
- Dheeraj Roy (University of Buffalo, NY, USA) “From anterior thalamic cell types to cognitive functions”
- Adrien Peyrache (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) “The thalamus orchestrates entorhinal-hippocampal activity during sleep and memory replay”
- Miao Wang (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany) "Behavioral modulation of the head direction representation in postsubiculum"
12:15-12:30 pm Associated Data Blitz
- Dongkyun Lim (Université Paris Cité, France) "Anatomical and electrophysiological properties of anterior thalamic neurons projecting to cortical head direction areas"
- Nicola Sartorato (University of Tübingen, Germany) "Behavioral modulation of the hippocampal spatial map"
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm "MEG / iEEG Studies of Human Hippocampal Function"
Daniel Bush and Oliver Vikbladh, Chairs
- Daniel Bush (University College London, UK) "Goal distance coding in the human hippocampus"
- Darya Frank (University of Manchester, UK) "Human hippocampal ripple activity and cortical prediction errors"
- Eleonora Marcantoni (University of Glasgow, UK) "Multi-sensory rhythmic stimulation of hippocampal theta to modulate episodic memory in humans"
- Yunzhe Liu (Beijing Normal University, China) "Human hippocampal ripples in learning and inference"
- Oliver Vikbladh (University College London, UK) "Systems consolidation of sequential planning"
3:00- 4:00 pm “Inflammatory Targets in Epilepsy and its Cognitive Co-morbidities”
Nicholas Varvel, Chair
- Annamaria Vezzani (Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy) “Neuroinflammation microenvironment sharpens seizure circuit”
- Nicholas Varvel (Emory University, Atlanta, USA) “CCR2+ monocytes are a driver of brain inflammation and seizure-associated behavioral co-morbidities”
- Amy Brewster (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA) “Trem2 and complement signaling in epilepsy; a role in cognitive decline”
- Ray Dingledine (Emory University, Atlanta, USA) “Role of EP2 receptors in seizure-induced hippocampal microgliosis and cognitive deficits”
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm “Hippocampal and Cortical Circuits in Rat Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
Paul Dudchenko and Adrian Duszkiewicz, Chairs
- Emma Wood (University of Edinburgh, UK) "Characterisation of hippocampal function in a rat model of GRIN2B-related neurodevelopmental disorder"
- Adrian Duszkiewicz (University of Stirling, UK) “Multisensory integration within the head direction system in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome”
- Sam Booker (University of Edinburgh, UK) "Impaired temporoammonic synaptic function in multiple rat models of neurodevelopmental disorders"
- Michael Coulter (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Understanding spatial learning deficits in a rat model of SCN2A haplo-insufficiency"
5:45-6:30 pm Data Blitz #7
- Radha Raghuraman (Columbia University, New York, USA) “Impairment of trace and object cell in lateral entorhinal cortex in mouse Alzheimer model”
- Anuj Vadher (University of Stirling, UK) "Quantifying path integration deficits in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome"
- Hinze Ho (University of Cambridge, UK and UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL, UK) "Impaired path-integration is associated with early Tau pathology in the entorhinal-hippocampal neural networks"
- Dylan Rich (Princeton University, USA) "Error-driven changes in hippocampal representations enable flexible re-learning"
- Cliff Kentros (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) "Circuit-specific manipulation of entorhinal- hippocampal interactions"
- Antje Kilias (University of Freiburg, Germany) “Influence of MEC inputs onto dentate gyrus spatial maps"
- Ute Häussler (University of Freiburg, Germany) “Structural, behavioral, and physiological benefits of deep brain stimulation in epilepsy”
Thursday, 22 May
8:30- 9:30 am "The Ventral Side of the Hippocampus: Circuits and Functions"
Bénédicte Amilhon and Andrew MacAskill, Chairs
- Bénédicte Amilhon (Université de Montréal, Canada) "Sex-specific serotonergic modulation of ventral hippocampus rhythms and anxiety"
- Rutsuko Ito (University of Toronto, Canada) "Ventral hippocampal circuits in the arbitration of approach-avoidance conflict"
- Stéphane Ciocchi (University of Bern, Switzerland) "Neuronal circuits of anxiety in the ventral hippocampus"
- Mazen Kheirbek (University of California San Francisco, USA) "Representing rewarding and aversive experiences in ventral hippocampal circuits"
- Andrew MacAskill (University College London, UK) "Hidden-state inference requires abstract contextual representations in ventral hippocampus"
- Sanja Mikulovic (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany) "The role of the ventral hippocampus in modulating prosocial learning"
9:30- 10:30 am “Neural Dynamics of Cross-Structural Communication”
Ralitsa Todorova and Marco Pompili, Chairs
- Pascale Quilichini (Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France) “Communication within the cortico-hippocampo-thalamic network in episodic memory”
- Lisa Roux (Interdisciplinary Institute For Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France) “Olfactory system impact on hippocampal networks”
- Ralitsa Todorova (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) “Hippocampal-cortical consolidation mediated by sharp-wave ripples”
- Raphaël Brito (Collège de France, Paris, France) “Interaction between hippocampus, VTA, and nucleus accumbens during learning and memory consolidation”
- Wenbo Tang (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) “Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay”
- Marco Pompili (Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France) “Neuronal avalanches and interstructural communication”
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 am "Spatial Maps in the Subiculum"
Doug Nitz and Jordan Carpenter, Chairs
- Douglas Nitz (University of California San Diego, USA) “Subiculum encoding of directional transitions”
- Jordan Carpenter (KISN, Trondheim, Norway) “Responses to hippocampal remapping in the subiculum”
- Kenji Mizuseki (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan) "Encoding and routing of navigational information by the subiculum"
- Jorge Brotons-Mas (Universidad Cardinal Herrera, Alicante, Spain) “Heterogeneous spatial representation in the subiculum”
- Ryan Place (University of California San Diego, USA) "Multiple types of directional signals in dorsal subiculum"
- Yanjun Sun (Stanford University, USA) “Latrophilin-2 regulates topographic spatial information processing in the hippocampus”
- Inah Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea) “Dissection of the task space by the subiculum”
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #8
- Zilong Ji (University College London, UK) "Phase precession relative to turning angle in theta-modulated head direction cells"
- Sze Chai Kwok (Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China) "Sustained hippocampal theta-oscillations reflect experience-dependent learning in backward temporal order memory retrieval"
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00 pm “Engram Ensembles Emergence in Learning and Memory”
Michele Pignatelli and Tomás Ryan, Chairs
- Andrew Mocle (Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto, Canada) “Activity-dependent allocation and plasticity of hippocampal engram ensembles during contextual memory formation”
- Clara Ortega de San Luis (University of Jaén, Spain) "Molecular modulation of memory: role of clustered protocadherin plasticity in engram function"
- Johannes Gräff (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) “Engram ensembles emergence in learning and memory”
- George Dragoi (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA) “Emergence of theta sequence during a novel detour”
- Michele Pignatelli (MIT, Cambridge, USA) “Engram-tracker: a real-time activity-dependent tagging tool tracking Fos expression”
- Tomás Ryan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) “Innate Memory; the plasticity of instinct”
3:00- 4:00 pm "The Dentate Gyrus Dorso-Ventral axis; Circuit and Molecular Insights for Domain-Specific Regulation of Cognition and Mood"
Juan Song and Chris Anacker, Chairs
- Hwai-Jong Cheng (Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) “The role of Blm-s, a novel BH3-only BCL-2 family gene, in hippocampus-mediated mood control”
- Cheng-Chang Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) “Hippocampal mossy cell circuitry and function”
- Juan Song (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) “Supramammillary control of memory and mood along the dorso-ventral axis of the dentate gyrus”
- Chris Anacker (Columbia University, USA) “Early-life adversity impairs serotonergic regulation of cellular and molecular responses in the ventral dentate gyrus during fear generalization”
- Milenna van Dijk (Columbia University, USA) “Effects of genes and environments on ventral vs. dorsal dentate gyrus leading to vulnerability to depression; a mouse-to-human translational approach"
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm “Experience- and Sensory-Dependent Coding of Place and Grid Cells”
Guifen Chen and Yi Gu, Chairs
- Jérôme Epsztein (INMED, France) "Landmark and self motion-driven place cell activation during development"
- Yi Gu (National Institutes of Health, USA) "The medial entorhinal cortex encodes multisensory spatial information"
- Dori Derdikman (Technion, Israel) "To drift or not to drift, that is the question"
- Guifen Chen (Queen Mary University of London, UK) "Formation of place and grid fields in a visual-only environment "
5:45- 6:30 pm Data Blitz #9
- Shan Jiang (University of Oxford, UK) "Pathological Tau alters head direction signaling and induces spatial disorientation"
- Christos Lisgaras (New York University, USA) "Hippocampal high frequency oscillations (250-500Hz) as a novel biomarker and treatment target in Alzheimer's Disease models"
- Gergő Nagy (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary) "Activity of adult-born dentate granule cells during avoidance of aversive stimulus"
- Rachel Wahlberg (University of Michigan, USA) "Representations of event boundaries in rodent hippocampus"
- Mingkang Zhou (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Temporally specific hippocampal computations during associative learning bridging delays"
Friday, 23 May
8:30- 9:30 am “The Ontogeny of Space”
Freyja Ólafsdóttir and Francesca Cacucci, Chairs
- Francesca Caccuci (University College London, UK) “The development of spatial representations in post- and entorhinal cortices”
- Rosa Cossart (INMED, Marseille, France) “How developmental lineage shapes hippocampal circuit organization”
- Matteo Guardamagna (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) “Ontogeny of the grid network”
- Marco Abrate (University College London, UK) “A recurrent neural network model of cognitive map development”
9:30- 10:30 am “The Ontogeny of Memory”
Charlotte Boccara and Flavio Donato, Chairs
- Louisa Zielke (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) “Engram competition in infantile amnesia”
- Freyja Ólafsdóttir (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) “Parallel maturation of hippocampal memory and CA1 task representations"
- Flavio Donato (Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland) “Developmental dynamics shape memory ontogeny and functions”
- Charlotte Boccara (NCMM, Oslo, Norway) “Different developmental trajectories of hippocampal and cortical sleep activity”
10:30-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 pm "Single Cell Recordings in Non-Mammalian Hippocampi"
Yoram Gutfreund, Chair
- Yoram Gutfreund (The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) “Spatial representations in the hippocampus of a flying bird”
- Hanna Payne (Columbia University, New-York, USA) "Remote activation of place codes by gaze in food-caching birds"
- Ronen Segev (Ben-Gurion University, Be'er-Sheva, Israel) "The neural basis of navigation in goldfish"
- Jennifer Li (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen, Germany) "Geometric scaling of spatial maps in zebrafish"
12:15- 12:30 pm Data Blitz #10
- Johannes Kappel (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland) “Reconstructing the complete wiring logic of the larval zebrafish place cell network”
- Carolin Koretz (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) “An organotypic in vitro model to study activity-mediated mossy cell degeneration”
12:30- 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00- 4:00 pm Data Blitz #11
- Prithviraj Rajebhosale (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) “Membrane to nucleus signaling by Neuregulin1 regulates subtype diversity of dentate granule cells”
- Ain Chung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) "Hippocampus circuit mechanisms underlying social memory enhancement"
- Stephanie Page (Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, USA) “An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus”
- Kristina Valentinova (University College London, UK) "Hunger and thirst as context for decision-making"
- Ole Christian Sylte (University of Freiburg, Germany) “Coordinated representational drift supports stable place coding in
hippocampal area CA1” - Paul Philipsberg (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, USA) "The role of MEC2 stellate cells in dentate spikes and interictal epileptiform discharges"
- Martin Pofahl (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway) "Topographical organization of functional cell types in the medial entorhinal cortex"
- Ane Lautrup (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) "Population drift in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, with and without "space"
- Hilary Sweatman (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) "Self-referential memory development in the hippocampus”
- Angela Zordan (Donders Institute at Radboud University, Netherlands) "Brain reactivation under cortical excitation"
- Anton Sirota (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) "Spatial sources of theta oscillations"
- Michael Hasselmo (Boston University, USA) "Egocentric and allocentric neural codes for guiding behavior"
4:00- 4:45 pm Coffee Break
4:45- 5:45 pm "Functional Interactions Between the Hippocampal Region and the Neocortex; From Animal Anatomy to Human Conceptual Spaces"
Menno Witter and Daniel Reznik, Chairs
- Menno Witter (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway) "Comparative structure of cortico-entorhino-hippocampal networks in non-primates"
- Kari Hoffman (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA) "Functional organization of content across hippocampal-cortical circuits in primates"
- Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) "Hippocampal cortical networks in humans and their emergence through mammalian evolution"
- Stephanie Theves (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany) "Hippocampal contributions to abstraction and intelligence in humans"
End of Conference