PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Session 1 : New Methods and Developments
13:15 – 13:20 : Christian Lüscher – Introduction
13:20 – 14:10 : Mackenzie Mathis – Markerless Pose Estimation
14:10 – 14:40 : Tommaso Patriarchi – Genetically Encoded Transmitter Sensors, D-Light
14:40 – 15:10 : TBD
15:10 – 15:40 : Ofer Yizhar – Novel optogenetic effectors, mPFC function in decision making
15:40 – 17:00 : Coffee Break and Poster Session
17:00 – 17:20 : TBD
17:20 – 18:10 : Kip Ludwig – Calcium Imaging during DBS in Mice
*** Speaker’s Dinner ***
Session 2 : DBS in Movement Disorders
08:30 – 09:00 : Welcome with Drinks and Croissants
09:00 – 09:30 : Grégoire Courtine & Jocelyne Bloch – Optogenetically-inspired neuromodulation therapies for spinal cord injury
09:30 – 10:00 : Wolf-Julian Neumann – Segregating Direct, Indirect and Hyperdirect Pathways by means of DBS
10:00 – 10:30 : Ueli Rutishauser – Specific Roles of Cancelling Actions vs. Action-Selection in the STN
10:30 – 11:00 : Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 : Alexandra Nelson – Circuit Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease in DBS
11:30 – 12:00 : Nadine Gogolla – Face Expression in Mice
12:00 – 12:30 : Birte Forstmann – Toward a mechanistic understanding of the human subcortex
12:30 – 14:00 : Lunch and Poster Session
Session 3 : DBS of the Basal Ganglia : From Bench to Bedside
14:00 – 14:50 : Carola Haas – DBS for epilepsy in Mice
14:50 – 15:20 : Andreas Lüthi – Fear Circuits of the Amygdala
15:20 – 15:50 : Meaghan Creed – Acrypallidal Neurons in Reward
15:50 – 16:20 : Aryn Gittis – GPe neuromodulation
16:20 – 16:50 : Coffee Break
16:50 – 17:20 : Asa Mackenzie – The role of the STN in motor control – optogenetics
17:20 – 17:40 : Roxanne Lofredi – The role of the STN in motor control – DBS
17:40 – 18:10 : TBD
20:30 : OptoDBS after dinner party at the Buvette des Bains des Pâquis
Session 4 : DBS in Clinical & Systems Neuroscience
08:30 – 09:00 : Welcome with Drinks and Croissants
09:00 – 09:30 : Esther Florin – Investigating remote DBS effects by MEG
09:30 – 09:50 : Robert Jech – Investigating remote DBS effects by fMRi
09:50 – 10:10 : Chencheng Zhang – Network Effects in STN- vs. GPi-DBS: Similarities & Differences
10:10 – 10:30 : Andreas Horn – Multi-Site Connectomic DBS Modeling in Neurology & Psychiatry
10:30 – 11:20 : Valerie Voon – Cognitive Models for Neuromodulation in OCD: From Lesions to DBS and Back
11:20 – 11:50 : TBD
11:50 – 12:20 : TBD
12:20 : Light Farewell Apéro