We are currently building the scientific program. The Data Blitz sessions are for everyone, and will enable anyone to present their data without being in a themed session. See the "Latest Info" page if you are interested in organizing a session or being in a Data Blitz...
The first sessions and Data Blitz talks are listed below but the program has not yet been finalized or scheduled.
1. "Ups and Downs in CA3-Dentate Gyrus Relations" (18 May)
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Chair
- Irmgard Amrein (University of Zurich, Switzerland) "Beyond the standard model of the mammalian area CA3"
- Qian Sun (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) "Dorsoventral 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"
2. "The Ventral Side of the Hippocampus: Circuits and Functions"
Bénédicte Amilhon and Andrew MacAskill, Chairs (Thursday, 22 May requested)
- 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"
3. "The Hippocampus: From Cells to the Clinic” (19-21 May requested)
Steven Poulter, Chair
- Karen Duff (UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL, UK) “Hippocampal mechanisms of pathogenesis in the tauopathies”
- Neil Burgess (University College London, UK) "Neural mechanisms of spatial updating"
- Colin Lever (University of Durham, UK) “Memory for object locations in subicular vector trace cells”
- Dennis Chan (University College London, UK) “Impaired path integration in early Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Steven Poulter (University of Durham, UK) “Vector trace cells: a cell-level window into episodic memory”
4. “Hippocampal Regulation of the Lateral Septum” (21 May requested)
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”
- Antoine Besnard (Institute of Functional Genomics, France) “Putting defensive behaviors in their place: anatomy of defensive actions and reactions”
- Félix Leroy (Institute of Neurosciences, Alicante, Spain) “Septal circuits regulating social preferences”
5. “What is Hippocampal Replay Really Doing”
Daniel Bendor and Matt Vandermeer, Chairs
- Matt Vandermeer (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”
- Lisa Genzel (Donders Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands) “Sharp wave ripples and semantic memory”
- Kamran Diba (University of Michigan, USA) “Retuning of hippocampal representations during sleep”
- Dan Bendor (University College London, UK) “Awake replay prioritises memories for consolidation"
Associated Data blitz #1
Daniel Bendor and Matt Vandermeer, 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"
- Zhenglong Zhou (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation"
6. “Hippocampal Dysfunction in Neurodevelopmental Disorders" (20 May or later requested)
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”
7. “Synaptic and Circuit Functions of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex” (20 May or later requested)
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”
8. "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) “Genes x environments effects on ventral vs. dorsal dentate gyrus leading to vulnerability to depression; a mouse to human translational approach
9. "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”
10. “Ripple-Locked Spiking Activity during Human Behavior and Sleep”
Soraya Dunn and Zita Patai, Chairs
- Julio Chapeton (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) "Spiking activity and coding in local modules of the temporal lobe"
- Soraya Dunn (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "Title"
- Florian Mormann (University of Bonn, Germany) "Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events"
- John Sakon (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "Ripple-locked synchrony of hippocampal and prefrontal ensembles is enhanced during recall"
- Bryan Strange (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) "Title"
- Aarti Swaminathan (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Awake ripples in humans"
11. “Spatial Memory and Navigation in Humans”
Alex Quent and Darya Frank, Chairs
- Khazar Ahmadi (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Mapping the laminar signature of hippocampal subregions during spatial navigation"
- Darya Frank (University of Manchester, UK) "Exploring memory formation in novel environments"
- 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 and Place representations: from cells to LFPs to iEEGs"
- Alex Quent (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) "Influence of conceptual knowledge on the spatial representations in the human brain using VR and fMRI"
- Matthias Stangl (Boston University, USA) "Neural dynamics in the human medial temporal lobe during real-world spatial navigation"
12. "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"
- Simon Hanslmayr (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"
- Maria Wimber (University of Glasgow, UK) "Theta rhythmicity during memory-dependent behaviours"
13. “Hippocampal and Cortical Circuits in Rat Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
Paul Dudchenko and Adrian Duszkiewicz, Chairs
- Shantanu Jadhav (Brandeis University, USA) "Hippocampal-prefrontal physiology during cooperative behavior and sleep in rat autism models"
- Adrian Duszkiewicz (University of Stirling, UK) “Multisensory integration within the head-direction system in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome”
- Emma Wood (University of Edinburgh, UK) "Characterisation of hippocampal function in a rat model of GRIN2B-related neurodevelopmental disorder"
- Michael Coulter (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Understanding spatial learning deficits in a rat model of SCN2A haploinsufficiency"
14. “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”
15. "Hippocampal and Neocortical Dynamics during NREM and REM Sleep"
Sylvain Williams, Chair
- Gabrielle Girardeau (Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, France) "The role 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"
- Majid Mohajerani (McGill University, Canada) "Probing spatio-temporal dynamics of inhibition across neocortex around hippocampal sharp-wave ripples"
- Suzanne van der Veldt (Université de Montréal, Saint-Justine, Canada) "Sex differences in neural oscillatory patterns along the septo-temporal axis of the mouse hippocampus"
- Eric Carmichael (McGill University, Canada) "Hippocampal ensembles in pre- and post-task REM sleep"
- Guillaume Etter (McGill University, Canada) "Differential expression of internally generated and experience-modulated hippocampal sequences in REM sleep"
- Sylvain Williams (McGill University, Canada) "Alterations of REM sleep in Alzheimer mouse models"
16. “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) “Hippocampo-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”
17. "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”
18. “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"
19. "Synaptic Tagging in Memory: From Synapses to Behavior" 45
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”
20. “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 cells activation during development"
- Yi Gu (NIH, 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 "
- Daniel Dombeck (Northwestern University, USA) "Entorhinal-hippocampal spatial representations during multisensory navigation"
21. “From Sleep Patterns to Network Dynamics; Novel Approaches and their Applications in Neuroscience" (19 May)
Lisa Genzel (Donders Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands), Chair
- Liset de la Prida (Cajal Institute, Spain) "Topological features of cell-type specific population activities"
- David Dupret (University of Oxford, UK) "Diversity of hippocampal network events associated with offline memory consolidation"
- Devika Narain (Erasmus Medical University, Netherlands) "RATS: Riemannian Alignment of Tangent Spaces for neural manifold computations"
- Benjamin Dunn (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway): "Title"
- Abdel Rayan (Radboud University, Netherlands) "Beyond conventional sleep-state identification in rodents; exploring the role of deep neural networks in detecting sleep substates"
22. "Computations of Spatial Memory in Health and Sickness" 30
Radha Raghuraman, Chair
- Radha Raghuraman (Columbia University, New York, USA) “Impairment of trace and object cell in lateral entorhinal cortex in Alzheimer's mouse model”
- Marc Aurel Busche (Dementia Research Institute at UCL, UK) “Hippocampal-cortical dysfunctions across the sleep-wake cycle in Alzheimer’s disease”
- Mark Brandon (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) "Spatial coding deficits in a mouse model of amyloid pathology”
- Denise Manahan-Vaughan (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Orchestration by catecholaminergic hippocampal inputs of synaptic information storage"
23. “Toward a Better Understanding of Hippocampal Area CA2”
Georgia Alexander, Chair
- Helen Scharfman (New York University, USA) “The role of area CA2 in the normal and epileptic hippocampus”
- Rebecca Piskorowski (Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris, France) “Delicious food, dopamine, and synaptic plasticity in hippocampal area CA2”
- Tristan Stöber (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) “Area CA2 and spatial learning”
- Serena Dudek (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA) “Role of mineralocorticoid receptors in area CA2; form and function”
- Pegah Kassraian (Columbia University, USA) “Hippocampal circuits for discriminating social threat from social safety”
Associated Data Blitz: 30'
- Shannon Farris (Virginia Tech, USA) “Mitochondrial diversity shapes CA2 circuit-specific plasticity”
- Elise Cope (University of Virginia, USA): “Hippocampal CA2 perineuronal net plasticity in social memory”
- Matthew Birnie (University of California, Irvine, USA) “BLA-CA2 projection neurons modulate spatial and recognition memory”
- Georgia Alexander (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA) “Social novelty associated oscillations in CA2”
24. "Thalamic-Hippocampal Memory Circuits: An Open Relationship" 30'
Elvira De Leonibus and Bianca Silva, Chairs
- Elvira De Leonibus (Tigem, 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"
- Kasia Radwanska (Nencki, 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"
25. "The Determinants of Memory Networks in Humans" 30' (19 May requested)
Dorothy Tse (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom), Chair
- Shayna Rosenbaum (York University, Canada) "From cognitive maps to spatial gists and schemas; insights from patient-lesion and neuroimaging studies"
- 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 and University of Toronto, Canada) "How shared experience and interpretation shapes neural representations and intersubject synchrony"
26. "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 in-vivo human brain”
- Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany) “Distributed cortical networks associated with the human entorhinal-hippocampal system”
- Samuel C. Berry (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) “The subiculum: the heart of the extended hippocampal system?”
- Xenia Grande (University of Oxford, UK) “Processing of spatiotemporal event information in the human entorhinal – hippocampal circuitry”
- Anna Shpektor (University of Oxford, UK) “A hierarchical representation of sequences in human entorhinal cortex”
- Bryan Strange (Technical University of Madrid; Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Spain) “Title”
- Jenna Adams (University of California, Irvine, USA) “Functional dynamics of entorhinal cortex and CA1 during statistical learning in preclinical Alzheimer's Disease”
- David Berron (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases; Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany; Lund University, Sweden) “Hippocampal subregional thinning related to Tau pathology in early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Individual Data Blitz presentations
Christos Lisgaras (New York University, USA) "Hippocampal high frequency oscillations (250-500Hz) as a novel biomarker and treatment target in Alzheimer's Disease models"
Su-Min Lee (Seoul National University in Korea, Republic of Korea) "The task structure-bound spatial representations of single neurons in the subiculum"
Antoine Bouyeure (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) "Laminar fMRI of the hippocampus during pattern separation"
Zoe Christenson Wick (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA) "Dentate gyrus inhibitory theta phase locking in the healthy and epileptic brain"
Gülşen Sürmeli (University of Edinburgh, UK) “Redefining the entorhinal cortex divisions through cortical projections”
George Jacob (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany) "Hippocampal single-neuron representations of fear extinction in humans: An intracranial EEG study"
Yul Kang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) "Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation: Bayesian & neural network models”
Anuj Vadher (University of Stirling, UK) "Quantifying path integration deficits in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome"
Adedamola Onih (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK) "Implicit statistical learning in mouse hippocampus"
George Dragoi (Yale University School of Medicine, USA) "Emergence of theta sequence during a novel detour"
Jiannis Taxidis (SickKids/University of Toronto, Canada) "Hippocampal interneurons shape memory-encoding pyramidal sequences"
Ricardo Guajardo (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Neuronal deposition of extracellular matrix in the dentate gyrus promotes hippocampal memory"
Daniel Goodwin (University of Exeter, UK) “Acetylcholine dynamics in the retrosplenial cortex during uncertainty”
Antoine Madar (University of Chicago, USA) “Synaptic plasticity during learning: the rules of representational shifting in areas CA1 and CA3”
Jim Heys (University of Utah, USA) "Title" (22 or 23 May)
Douglas GoodSmith (University of Chicago, USA) "Title"
Jamie Ainge (University of St Andrews, UK) “Grid cell symmetry is associated with accurate distance estimation”
Antje Kilias (University of Freiburg, Germany) “Title"
Keelin O’Neil (New York University, USA) “Title”
Ute Häussler (University of Freiburg, Germany) “Title”
Salman Qasim (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA) “Title”
Jamie Mustian (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) "Title”