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 meaningful 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 – Organisation of hippocampal spiking atstepping 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 behaviour in
Caenorhabditis elegans

10:40-11:20 Nivaldo Antonio Portela de Vasconcelos – Reward coding in large neuronal
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 behaviour: 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