IGSN Speakers - 2016

Heinz Beck
Department of Epileptology, Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn Medical Center
Mechanisms of sparse coding in the dentate gyrus

Henk-Jan Boele
Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands}
Modulation of cerebellar-dependent associative learning by the amygdala

Hajnalka Bokor
Laboratory of Thalamus Research, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Cortical control and extrathalamic inhibition in the thalamus

Jan Born
Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University Tübingen
Sleep, Memory and Perception

Stefan M. Brudzynski
Department of Psychology / Biological Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Brain systems of emotional arousal and emotional expression: studies of ultrasonic vocalizations

Randy M. Bruno
Department of Neuroscience and The Zuckerman Mind Brian Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
The many input layers of the neocortex

Dirk Dietrich
Laboratory of Experimental Neurophysiology, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical School
Activity-dependent myelination and neuro-glia synapses: role of oligodendrocyte precursor cells

Andreas Draguhn
Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg University
Multineuronal activity patterns and hippocampal network oscillations

Andreas Engel
Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Intrinsic Coupling Modes and Cognition

Guillén Fernández
Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Equipped to survive: Adaptive response to acute threat

Jay Gottfried
Department of Neurology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
All Roads Lead To Smell

Benedikt Grothe
Ludwig-Maximilians-University München / Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
The evolution of neuronal circuits for sound localization

Onur Güntürkün
Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum
Visual categories in the pigeon brain

Michael Hasselmo
Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, MA, USA
Neural coding of space and time in entorhinal cortex

Pawel Herman
Royal Institute of Technology, Computational Biology, School of Computer Science and Communication, Stockholm, Sweden
Mechanisms and dynamic correlates of multi-item working memory function in a mesoscopic attractor network model

Judith Hirsch
Department of Biological Sciences / Neurobiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA}
Involvement of cortico-subcortical loops in perceptual processing

Thomas Hummel
Smell & Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden Medical School, Dresden, Germany
Olfactory Disorders and Consequences

Christian Hölscher
Lancaster University, Biomed and Life Sciences, Furness College, Lancaster, UK
Drugs developed to treat diabetes show neuroprotective effects in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Mark Hübener
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
How sensory experience and learning change neuronal responses in the visual cortex

Raffael Kalisch
Neuroimaging Center Mainz, University of Mainz, Germany}
Dealing with trauma - the resilience approach

Jürgen Kaufmann
Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience / DFG Research Unit Person Perception, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Processing identity information in familiar and unfamiliar faces

Áine Kelly
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Exercise as a neuroprotectant: what are the underlying mechanisms?

Henrik Kessler
Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, LWL-Universitätsklinikum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Innovative treatment methods for post-traumatic stress disorder

Kamran Khodakhah
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Cerebellar Modulation of the Reward Circuitry

Matthias Kuhl
Department of Microsystems Engineering — IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Germany}
CMOS Electronics for Implantable Neural Interfaces

Rohini Kuner
Institute of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University
Cortical circuits in nociception and chronic pain

Jean-Philippe Lachaux
Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028 — CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France}
Some insights about attention and working memory from human intracerebral EEG

Johan N. Lundström
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia /
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia /

Siegrid Löwel
Department of Systems Neuroscience, Göttingen University
The dynamic architecture of the adult visual cortex, or: How can I keep my brain young?

Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Department of Neurophysiology, Ruhr University Bochum
Neuronal processing and integration of sensory information by the hippocampus

Olivia Masseck
Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum
Development and application of new optogenetic tools in Neuroscience - introduction

Tobias Moser
University Medical Center Göttingen / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Inner hair cells decompose auditory signals through active zones with different Ca2+-influx

Marius Peelen
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Neural mechanisms of person perception

Gal Richter-Levin
Department of Psychology, Sagol Department of Neurobiology, The Institute the for Study of Affective Neuroscience (ISAN), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
A unique role for the dentate gyrus in forming emotional memories

Patrick Ruther
Department of Microsystems Engineering — IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Germany
How to illuminate brain tissue?MEMS-based tools for optogenetics

Paul Sauseng
Research Unit Biological Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
How are working-memory-related cortical networks coordinated?

Etienne Save
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Marseille, France
Navigation by path integration: the role of the entorhinal cortex

Martijn Schonewille
Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Unraveling the cerebellar cortex: module-related differences in activity and plasticity

Gudrun Schwarzer
Department of Developmental Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Processing of faces in children

Leslie S. Smith
Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, UK
Using spikes to code sound

Trichur Vidyasagar
Departments of Optometry & Vision Science and Melbourne Neuroscience Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
Reading into neuronal oscillations and top-down attention: their implications for dyslexia

Ladislav Vyklicky
Department of Cellular Neurophysiology, Institute of Physiology CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
Steroid modulation of NMDA receptors

Kechen Zhang
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore USA
How large spaces are represented in hippocampus