Program 2026

Martin Pofahl (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway)
"A hot spot of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex"

Samuel Eckmann (University of Cambridge, UK)
"Anti-Hebbian plasticity protects against memory interference"

Nicole Hoffmann (University of Bonn, Germany)
"Mechanism underlying rapid astrocytic morphology changes after long-term potentiation in the CA1 hippocampal region"

Carlo Castoldi (Université Cote d'Azur, France)
"ABBA+BraiAn, a novel open-source pipeline for 2D to 3D whole-brain mapping"

Karen Yu Chen Cheng (University of Bonn, Germany)
"Locomotor modulation of olfactory processing in Drosophila melanogaster"

Carina Seidl (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria)
"Restoring motor circuit function during axolotl spinal cord regeneration"

Jens-Bastian Eppler (Centre de Recerca Matematica, Spain)
"Representational similarity is preserved during representational drift in random networks"

Julia Schnermann (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
"Neuroanatomy of the visual pathway of the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) brain"

Leonie Welberg (Nature Neuroscience; London, UK)
"Behind the scenes at Nature Neuroscience"

Inna Slutsky (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"Homeostasis of activity in hippocampal circuits: From basic principles to malfunctions"

Abhilasha Joshi (National Center for Biological Sciences, India)
"Learning requires precise hippocampal timing during locomotion"

Dmitriy Aronov (Columbia University, USA)
"Using food-caching chickadees to study the neuroscience of episodic memory"

Lukas Anneser (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"Semantic segmentation of space in the adult zebrafish pallium"

David Wolf (University of Bonn, Germany)
"Single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex represent spatial distances"

Ruben Portugues (Cornell University, USA)
"The heading direction system in larval zebrafish"

Laura Busse (LMU, Germany)
"Thalamo-Cortico-Thalamic Loops: Shaping Visual Processing and Behavior"

Kishore Kuchibhotla (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"The neural basis of flexible, lifelong learning"

Tamas Dalmay (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland)
"Joint visual-vestibular computation of head direction and reflexive eye movement"

Inbal Shainer (Technion, Israel)
"Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology"

Long-Jun Wu (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
"Rod-shaped microglia regulate neuronal activity and protect against TDP-43 neurodegeneration"

Rune Enger (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Elucidating gliovascular interactions in sleep"

Ania Majewska (University of Rochester, USA)
"Purinergic and noradrenergic signaling in microglia in health and disease"

Melania Capasso (DZNE Bonn, Germany)
"Aged microglia alter their protein homeostasis in a mTORC1-dependent fashion"

Silvia Viana da Silva (Charité and DZNE Berlin, Germany)
"Inhibitory interneurons participate in reactivated memory engrams during sharp wave ripple replay"

Sarah Melzer (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
"Neuromodulation of neuronal and nonneuronal cells in cortical fear processing"

Carolina Rezaval (University of Birmingham, UK)
"Decoding Competition in the Brain"

Josh Dudman (HHMI Janelia, USA)
"Dopamine balances rapid learning with stable performance through dynamic modulation of learning rate"

Isabel Beets (KU Leuven, Belgium)
"Experience-dependent plasticity of the neuropeptide signaling network"

Oleg Tolstenkov (Michael Sars Center University of Bergen, Norway)
"A minimal parasite circuit includes autonomous units: a tractable cellular-resolution model for comparative neurobiology and drug discovery"