Program 2019 Meeting SSN
09:00-09:45 Registration and Poster Setup
09:45-10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00-10:45 Keynote lecture: Camilla Bellone, University of Geneva
Neural basis of social motivation: Implication for Autism Spectrum Disorder
10:45-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:30 Parallel symposia
S1: Neuroscience approaches to psychiatric disorders
11:15 Carmen Sandi, EPFL. Mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens links anxiety with coping behaviors
11:40 Manuel Mameli, UNIL. Encoding of aversive states in the habenula
12:05 Marie Schaer, UNIGE. Trajectories of social cognition and brain development in young children with autism
S2: Learning and neural plasticity in sensory systems
11:15 Tania Rinaldi Barkat, UNIBAS. Critical periods for plasticity in the developing auditory cortex
11:40 Lut Arckens, Uni Leuven. Reprogramming of sensory cortex: brain adaptations to vision loss in mice
12:05 Daphne Bavelier, UNIGE. Learning to learn: lessons from action video game play
12:30-14:00 Poster session (odd) and lunch
14:00-15:30 Poster session (even) and lunch
13:30-14:15 SSN business meeting
14:15-14:30 Honorary Membership and Best Publication Awards
14:30-15:15 Swiss Brain Council Initiative
15:30-16:50 Parallel symposia
S3: Coding and decoding: machine learning in brain sciences
15:35 Anne-Lise Giraud, UNIGE. The use of artificial intelligence in cognitive neuroscience: geometry versus function
16:00 Shih-Chii Liu, UNIZH. DNNs for cognitive scence analysis: decoding EEG signals and source separation
16:25 Athena Akrami, UCL. How sensory history impacts present stimuli in perceptual decision making and working memory tasks
S4: Lipid metabolism in the brain (ySSN)
15:35 Marlen Knobloch, UNIL. Metabolic regulation of neural stem cells
16:00 Marie-Claude Potier, CNRS Paris. Cholesterol and ApoE in Alzheimer's disease
16:25 Mark Verheijen, Uni Amsterdam. Control of synaptogenesis and myelination by astrocyte lipid metabolism