IGSN Speakers - 2019

Dora Angelaki
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU, New York, USA
A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain

Dori Derdikmann
Department of Neuroscience, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
On the formation and readout from the hippocampus cognitive map

Susanne Diekelmann
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
Cueing reactivation during sleep to facilitate memory consolidation

Christian Doeller
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany / Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Structuring experience in cognitive spaces

David Dupret
MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, UK
Circuit dynamics of a memory representation within the hippocampus, and beyond

Laura Ewell
Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
The impact of pathological high frequency oscillations on hippocampal network activity in rats with chronic epilepsy

Anna Fejtova
Molecular Psychiatry, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Presynaptic homeostatic plasticity contributes to the activity-driven remodelling of cortical networks

Alexander Fleischmann
Department of Neuroscience and Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, USA
Encoding of Odor Memories in the Olfactory Cortex

Eckhard Friauf
Animal Physiology, Department of Biology, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Speedy synapses with perfect precision! Formula 1 cars in the auditory brain?

Markus Glatzel
Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany
Membrane homeostasis of the prion protein

Saskia Haegens
Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA
Oscillatory building blocks underlying perception & cognition

David A. Harris
Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Neurotoxic mechanisms in prion and Alzheimer's diseases

Michael Häusser
University College London, UK

Martin Herrmann
Center of Mental Health, Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
odulation of fear learning and extinction by non-invasive brain stimulation

Michael Herzog
Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Crowding, Patterns and the Fundamentals of Vision

Livia de Hoz García-Bellido
Neuroscience Research Center, Charité Medical University, Berlin, Germany
Subcortical coding of statistical learning

John Huguenard
Stanford University, USA

Friedrich Johenning
Neuroscience Research Center/Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Charité University, Berlin
Micro- and Mesoscale Calcium Imaging in the Piriform Cortex ex vivo and in vivo

Carien Lansink
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Center for Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
How visual is the visual cortex? The influence of auditory information on the detection and processing of visual stimuli

Masanobu Kano
University of Tokyo, Japan

Thomas Knöpfel
Optogenetics and Circuit Neurosciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Light-based electrophysiology

Tatiana Korotkova
Neuronal Circuits and Behavior, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
To eat? To sleep? To run? Neural dynamics of innate behaviors

Mara Mather
Gerontology and Psychology, USC, Los Angeles, USA
How arousal increases neural gain and attentional selectivity in younger vs. older adults

Hannah Monyer
Clinical Neurobiology, Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
GABAergic neurones - the cellular substrate for local and long-range synchrony

Ester Nakamura-Palacios
Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
Ventral medial prefrontal cortex and its potential role in the emotional and compulsive-addictive cognitive control

Jeffrey Noebels
Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Jonas Obleser
Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany
Adaptive neural states and traits in the attentive listener

Jeanne Paz
University California San Francisco, USA

Christian Plewnia
Dpt. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Neurophysiology & Interventional Neuropsychiatry, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Enhanced Cognitive Control Training - Perspectives for the Treatment of Depression

Cindy Poo
Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation; Lisbon, Portugal
Conjunctive Code for Odors and Space in posterior Piriform Cortex

Conny Quaedflieg
Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Temporal Dynamics of stress-induced alternations of memory and brain connectivity

Jenny Read
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
The neural basis of depth perception: how binocular disparity is encoded in the primary visual cortex

Susanne Schoch McGovern
Institute of Neuropathology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
Control of presynaptic function and plasticity by strategic phosphorylation

Hee-Sup Shin
Institute for Basic Science, South Korea

Helen A. Slagter
Department of Psychology, Vrije University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Facilitation and inhibition in selective attention: Two sides of the same coin?

Chenchen Song
Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Dynamics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Cortical signatures of somatosensory processing

Charlotte Stagg
Human Neurophysiology, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Using Advanced Neuroimaging to Increase Precision for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation

Michael Tranulis
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Oslo, Norway
Prion protein physiology ‐ what does the goat say?

Carmelo Vicario
Department of Cognitive, Psychological, Pedagogical and Cultural Studies, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
The contribution of the tongue motor neurons in the processing reward and aversion

Chris De Zeeuw
Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands