Program of the 2022 Meeting of the SSN

10:00 – 10:45 Keynote lecture

Gilles Laurent, MPI Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany:

Sleep and camouflage: explorations in neural dynamics.

11:15 – 12:30 Parallel Symposia

Symposium 1a:  Novel tools in Neuroscience

Chair: Mario Prsa (University of Fribourg)

11:15 – 11:40 Tomasso Patriarchi (University of Zurich)

Genetically encoded sensors for imaging chemical neurotransmission in-vivo

11:40 – 12:05 McKenzie Mathis (EPFL)

DeepLabCut: open source machine learning tool for markerless animal behavior analysis

12:05 – 12:30 Fabian V. Voigt (University of Zurich)

mesoSPIM: open source light-sheet microscopy for whole brain imaging

Symposium 1b: Neuroinflammation

Chair: Giorgia Melli (University of Southern Switzerland USI)

11:15 – 11:40 Rosa Chiara Paolicelli University of Lausanne

The role of glia cells in neurodegenerative diseases

11:40 – 12:05 Cinthia Farina (IRCSS San Raffaele Milano)

Interaction between nervous and immune systems in multiple sclerosis

12:05 – 12:30 Helmar C Lehmann, (University of Cologne)

Pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches of neuroinflammatory diseases of the peripheral nervous system

12:30 – 15:30 Poster Session and Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Coffee

14:00 – 15:30 Poster Session 2 (even numbers)

15:30 – 16:45 Parallel Symposia

Symposium 2a: The interaction of brain and body for consciousness

Chair: Juliane Britz (University of Fribourg)

15:30 – 15:55 Mariza de Lucia (CHUV & UNIL)

Interoceptive and exteroceptive processing in humans: implications for consciousness research

15:55 – 16:20 Bigna Lenggenhager (UniZH)

Intero- and exteroceptive processing in self-consciounsess

16:20 – 16:45 Juliane Britz (University of Fribourg)

modulation of awareness by cardiac and respiratory phase

Session 2b: Motor disorders

Chair: Salvatore Galati (University of Southern Switzerland, USI)

15:30 – 15:55 Gerd Tinkhauser, (university of Bern)

The Electrophysiological correlation of motor performance: focus on STN transient synchrony states

15:55 – 16:20 Grégoire Courtine (EPFL, CHUV, UNIL)

Spinal cord gateways to restore motor functions

16:20 – 16:45 Barbara Picconi, (University of Rome)

Striatal spreading depolarization in the emerging of levodopa-induced dyskinesia