Conferences and symposiums StratNeuro Retreat 2023

Buses depart from Aula Medica, Nobels väg 6, Karolinska Institutet, Solna

Coffee and buns

09:45-10:00

Opening of meeting and StratNeuro introduction

Konstantinos Meletis, Director for StratNeuro, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience

10:00–10:45

Keynote lecture: From mutation to possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease

Lars Lannfelt, Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences

Chair: Fredrik Piehl, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

10:50–12:05

Talks

"Towards precision prevention and combination therapies in Alzheimer’s disease: lessons learned from the FINGER studies"

Miia Kivipelto, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

"Unravelling the link between cardiometabolic disorders and brain health: the contribution of sex-differences"

Anna Marseglia, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

"Neuron-astrocyte mitochondrial communication in Alzheimer´s disease"

Luana Naia, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

Chair: Eric Westman, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

12:10–12:40

Poster blitz

(Two minutes each, ten participants, pseudo-random selection)

Audience votes best Basic & Translational Blitz

Group photo outside

13:50–14:35

Keynote lecture: Biology of Grasping in Elephants

Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University, Germany

Chair: Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience

14:40–15:10

Talks

"Functional maps of the mouse prefrontal cortex"

Marie Carlén, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience

Chair: Emanuela Santini, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience

15:10–15:30

Coffee break

15:30–16:00

Talks, cont'd

"Activity regimes in spiking neural networks"

Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz & University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany

Chair: Emanuela Santini, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience

Check-in, free time, hanging posters

Poster session

Drinks and finger food will be served.

Split in two groupings to allow everyone a chance to visit other posters:

17:30–18:45: Group 1 (odd numbered posters)

18:45-20:00: Group 2 (even numbered posters)

* Pay for own drinks

Please note you need to check-out by 11:00, at the latest.

09:30-10:15

Keynote lecture: Patterns of Spontaneous Activity in the Development and Plasticity of Sensory Circuits

Guillermina López-Bendito, Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain

Chair: Bob Harris, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Break-out session I: "Beyond the Neuron: Role of glial cells in neurodegeneration, inflammation and plasticity"

Venue: Congress hall

"Astrocytic control of glutamatergic synaptic crosstalk and dendritic integration in the hippocampus"

Christian Henneberger, University of Bonn, Germany

"Multilevel interaction of Innate immune activation in Alzheimer’s disease"

Michael Heneka, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg

"Molecular logic of microglia reactivity"

Jose P. Lopez-Atalaya, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain

Chair: Joana B. Pereira, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Break-out session II: "Molecular Neurobiology & single cell approaches"

Venue: Meeting room 5A, house 5

"Molecular mechanisms of neuronal-activity dependent signaling"

Onur Dagliyan, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

"A landscape of sensory receptor cells"

Patrik Ernfors, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

"Cellular diversity in the enteric nervous system – from development to circuits"

Ulrika Marklund, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

"Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analyses Reveal CD8 T Cells as the Driver of Brain Aging"

Özgün Gökce, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany

Chair: Onur Dagliyan, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

Break-out session III: Role of AI in Basic and Clinical Research: what does the future look like?

Venue: Congress hall

"Predicting treatment outcomes using complex clinical data – Machine learning and feature engineering"

Thomas Frisell, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna

"Advanced AI methods in basic and clinical"

Rodrigo Moreno, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

"What can the brain do for the quest for AI?"

Pawel Herman, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Chair: Tobias Granberg, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Break-out session IV: The genes, the environment, and their interaction: the key to understanding neuropsychiatric diseases?

Venue: Meeting room 5A, house 5

"Metabolism and immune responses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis"

Fang Fang, Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine

"Epigenetics of Multiple Sclerosis: towards a better understanding of the mechanisms of disease development and progression"

Lara Kular, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Chair: Lara Kular, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Buses return to KI (arrival approximately 17:15)