About the event
This event aims to promote an integrative discussion about the physiological neural mechanisms and internal states that give rise to cognitive functions.
By integrating knowledge from diverse perspectives in neuroscience, ranging from cellular interactions to cognitive processes, we seek to foster a holistic understanding of brain function.
Scientific Programming
Day 1 | August 16
10:00-11:00 Registration
11:00-11:20 Opening and Welcome Remarks
11:20-12:00 Stefano Panzeri – Decoding neural activity from the EEG
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40 Fernanda Selingardi Matias – Statistical physics applied
to neuroscience: data analysis and numerical simulations
14:40-15:20 Emily Stephen – Spectral decompositions of neural voltage recordings are
susceptible to model misspecifications that cause significant estimation error
15:20-16:00 Andrea Navas Olive – Network architecture shapes memory storage in hippocampal CA3 models
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break & Networking
16:30-18:00 Debate: How do we infer neural mechanisms from complex data?
Moderator: Vitor Lopes dos Santos
Day 2 | August 17
10:00-10:40 Sarthak Chandra – Emergence of functionally-constrained
neural circuits through activity-dependent developmental mechanisms
10:40-11:20 Abhilasha Joshi – Organization of hippocampal spiking at stepping hotspots
11:20-12:00 Vicente Raja – Computer Killed the Radio Star: On Ecology and the Brain
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40 Manuel Valero – Cooperative actions of interneuron families in the hippocampus
14:40-15:20 Sanja Mikulovic – Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice
15:20-16:00 Jake Watson – Untangling cell-type contributions to the hippocampal choir
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break & Networking
16:30-18:00 Poster Session
Day 3 | August 18
10:00-10:40 Antonia Marin Burgin – Experience-dependent sensory processing
10:40-11:20 Janine Rossato – Memory updating in the aging brain: neural signatures of
reconsolidation in rodents
11:20-12:00 Flash Talks – Short presentations by three selected students
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40 Grace Schenatto Pereira – Acquisition, retrieval, and updating of social memory
14:40-15:20 Noelia Weisstaub – Prefrontal control of competing memories: from
neuromodulatory circuits to adaptive behavior
15:20-16:00 Flávio Mourão – Hippocampal–Thalamocortical Circuitry Coordinates Aversive
Memory Extinction
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break & Networking
16:30-17:30 Roundtable: Women in Science in the Global South. Maria Carolina Gonzalez, Antonia Marin Burgin, Andressa Radiske, Abhilasha Joshi
Day 4 | August 19
10:00-10:40 Tosif Ahamed – Capturing the continuous complexity of behavior in
Caenorhabditis elegans
10:40-11:20 Nivaldo Antonio Portela de Vasconcelos – Reward coding in large neurons
populations
11:20-12:00 Flash Talks – Short presentations by three selected students
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40 Sara Mederos – Brainwide circuits for adaptive decisions in response to threat
14:40-15:20 Mohamady El-Gaby – From structure knowledge to flexible behavior: the
importance of prefrontal computations
15:20-16:00 Cristina Becchio – Kinematic coding of intentions
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break & Networking
16:30-18:30 Poster Session
Day 5 | August 20
10:00-10:40 Rodrigo Pavão – Sound Source Localization
10:40-11:20 Fernanda Palhano Fontes – Effects of inhaled DMT on healthy volunteers and
patients with depression
11:20-12:00 Flash Talks – Short presentations by three selected students
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40 Márcio Flávio Dutra de Moraes – Theta Oscillations and the Temporal
Organization of Memory Formation
14:40-15:20 Closing Ceremony & Best Poster Presentation Awards
confirmed speakers
Abhilasha Joshi
National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Andrea Navas Olive
Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria
Andressa Radiske
Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, Brazil
Antonia Marin Burgin
IBioBA-CONICET-Max Planck Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cristina Becchio
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Emily Stephen / Boston University, USA
Fernanda Palhano Fontes
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Fernanda Selingardi Matias
Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Flavio Mourão
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Grace Schenatto Pereira
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jake Watson
Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
Janine Rossato
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Manuel Valero
Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
Maria Carolina Gonzalez
Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, Brazil
Mohamady El-Gaby
University of Oxford, UK
Nivaldo Vasconcelos
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Márcio Flávio Dutra de Moraes
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Noelia Weisstaub
Buenos Aires Technological Institute (ITBA), Argentina
Rodrigo Pavão
Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Sanja Mikulovic
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Sara Mederos
Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
Sarthak Chandra
International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India
Stefano Panzeri
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Tosif Ahamed
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Vicente Raja
University of Murcia, Spain
Victor Lopes-dos-Santos
MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford
Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee
Organizing Committee
Abhilasha Joshi
Andressa Radiske
Maria Carolina Gonzalez
Vitor Lopes dos Santos
Scientific Committee
President: Maria Carolina Gonzalez
Abhilasha Joshi
Andressa Radiske
Antonia Marin Burgin
Janine Inez Rossato
Márcio Flávio Dutra de Moraes
Martín Cammarota
Mohamady El-Gaby
Stefano Panzeri
Vitor Lopes dos Santos
Local
The event will be held in Praia da Pipa, one of the main tourist destinations in Rio Grande do Norte, approximately 80 kilometers from Natal.
