IGSN Speakers - 2017

Kevin Allen
Department of Clinical Neurobiology, Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and DKFZ, Germany
Impact of visual landmarks on the activity of grid cells and other spatially selective neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex

Dora Angelaki
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Multisensory Neural Computations for Perceiving Self-Motion and Object Motion

Dorthe Berntsen
Center on Autobiographical Memory Research CON AMORE, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
Trauma and Memory Distortions: A view from Autobiographical Memory Research

Tobias Brügmann
Institute for Physiology I, University of Bonn
Optogenetic termination of atrial fibrillation in the mouse heart

Stefan M. Brudzynski
Department of Psychology, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Reticular Systems For Emotional Arousal

Juan De Los Reyes Aguilar
Experimental Neurophysiology Group, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo, Spain
Neural plasticity is temporally and spatially heterogeneous in the somatosensory cortex after a spinal cord injury

Dennis Eickelbeck
Department of General Zoology and Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum
Switching GPCR signaling on and off with light: Melanopsin variants for transient versus sustained activation

Jakob von Engelhardt
Institute of Pathophysiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
NMDA receptors in the healthy and diseased brain

Maria Fitzgerald
Dept. Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London, UK
Cortical pain processing in infant rat pups and human infants

Loren Frank
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physiology , University of California, San Francisco, USA
Neural substrates of memories and decisions

Pascal Fries
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience, Frankfurt/M., Germany
Rhythms for cognition: communication through coherence

Rudolf Fuchshofer
Institute of Human Anatomy & Embryology, University of Regensburg, Germany
The functional role of growth factors in the pathogenesis of glaucoma

Benoît Girard
Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University Pierre & Marie Curie & National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Function agnostic basal ganglia models, which perform action selection and oscillate under dopamine depletion

Alexander Gottschalk
Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
Optogenetics - from tools to applications in neuro- and cell biology

Christine Grienberger
HHMI/Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA
Inhibition enhances spatial selectivity in CA1 place cells

Franz Grus
Experimental Ophthalmology, University of Mainz, Germany
Glaucoma and autoimmunity

Sebastien Hélie
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Rule-based categorization in a multiple-system framework

Emily Holmes
Department for Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut, Sweden
Images of Trauma and Imaging: from Experimental Psychopathology to FMRI and back

Jeffry Isaacson
Center for Neural Circuits & Behavior, Department of Neuroscience, University of California, La Jolla, USA
Cortical circuits underlying audition

Simon Jacob
Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Neuronal dynamics and neuromodulation of category representations in primate frontoparietal cortex

Kate Jeffery
Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Navigating over complex terrain

Stephanie Joachim
Experimental Eye Research Institute, University Eye Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Immune-based cell death mechanisms in glaucoma

Catherine Jutzeler
School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sensorimotor recovery after human and porcine spinal trauma: A translational study

James Marshall
Complex Systems Modelling Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Attempting to model an entire 'cognitive' mini-brain

Petra May
Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Modulation of NMDA receptor signaling by LDL receptor-related proteins

Anne Nørremølle
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mitochondrial Dysfunction In Huntington's Disease: What Went Wrong, When And Where?

Nadine Ravel
Center for research in Neuroscience (CRNL), University of Lyon, France
Detecting learning-induced modulation of oscillatory activities in olfactory memory network: a new functional imaging?

David Redish
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Mental time travel: imagining the past and remembering the future

Nathalie Rochefort
Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Behavioral state modulation of inhibition in mouse visual cortex

Robert Schmidt
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK
To go, or not to go: behavioural models and the basal ganglia neurophysiology of stopping

Cornelius Schwarz
Werner Reichardt Center of Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany
Linking cortical columns. What is the functional basis of learned associations?

Anton Sirota
Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Network and behavioral dynamics of sensory integration in the rodent hippocampal system

Fabián Soto
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Florida, Miami, USA
Object categorization and perceptual separability: A two-way street

Peggy St Jacques
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK
Constructing Memories for Events from Multiple Visual Perspectives

Marian Tsanov
Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Place Field Assembly Distribution Encodes Episodic-like Memory

Dennis Vivien
Serine Proteases and Pathophysiology of the Neurovascular Unit , University of Caen, France
The tissue type Plasminogen Activator (tPA), more than a fibrinolytic?

Dagmar Wachten
Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn
Controlling ciliary function

Alfredo Weitzenfeld
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, USA
A multi-scale Spatial Cognition Model integrating Grid Cells and Place Cells

Emma Wood
Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems & Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Landmark and directional control of hippocampal place cell firing