Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Date: Thursday, 02/May/2024
9:15am
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9:30am
Welcome
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
9:30am
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10:50am
Session 1: Cell Biology of the Synapse
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Agata Witkowska
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Talk

Endocytic Adaptors: Guardians of Cerebellar Synaptic Equilibrium

Natalia Kononenko



10:00am - 10:30am

Talk

Secretory autophagy shapes the synaptic surfaceome

Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou



10:30am - 10:50am

Talk

Characterization of functional vesicle pools in sensory enteroendocrine cells

Ahmed Shaaban, Benjamin H. Cooper, Cordelia Imig

11:20am
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12:50pm
Session 2: Synapses in Brain Disorders
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Marta Orlando
 
11:20am - 11:50am

Talk

Unbalanced protein turnover in autism spectrum disorders

Susana R. Louros



11:50am - 12:20pm

Talk

Immune-synaptopathies: how the immune system affect synapses

Michela Matteoli



12:20pm - 12:50pm

Talk

Pre- and postsynaptic (mis)functions of the microtubule associated protein Tau

Susanne Wegmann

2:10pm
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3:30pm
Session 3: Dynamics within Neural Circuits
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Hanna Hörnberg
 
2:10pm - 2:40pm

Talk

A trans-cellular signaling pathway for the control of neuronal excitation – inhibition balance

Peter Scheiffele



2:40pm - 3:10pm

Talk

A synaptic mechanism for sculpting neuron activity dynamics within neural circuits

David DiGregorio



3:10pm - 3:30pm

Talk

A bistable inhibitory OptoGPCR for multiplexed optogenetic control of neural circuits

Jonas Wietek, Adrianna Nozownik, Mauro Pulin, Inbar Saraf-Sinik, Noa Matosevich, Raajaram Gowrishankar, Asaf Gat, Daniela Malan, Bobbie J. Brown, Julien Dine, Bibi Nusreen Imambocus, Rivka Levy, Kathrin Sauter, Anna Litvin, Noa Regev, Suraj Subramaniam, Khalid Abrera, Dustin Summarli, Eva Madeline Goren, Gili Mizrachi, Eyal Bitton, Asaf Benjamin, Bryan A. Copits, Philipp Sasse, Benjamin R. Rost, Dietmar Schmitz, Michael R. Bruchas, Peter Soba, Oren-Suissa Meital, Nir Yuval, J. Simon Wiegert, Ofer Yizhar

4:15pm
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5:15pm
Key Note 1: Kang Shen
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Volker Haucke
 
4:15pm - 5:15pm

Talk

Morphological and Cytoskeletal Polarization during Neuronal Development

Kang Shen

Date: Friday, 03/May/2024
9:30am
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11:00am
Session 4: Nervous System Development
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Eugenio Fornasiero
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Talk

Synaptic specificity through self-organization in the fly visual map

Robin Hiesinger



10:00am - 10:30am

Talk

NMDA receptor activation drives early hippocampal synapse formation

Laura Andreae



10:30am - 11:00am

Talk

From genomic plasticity to synaptic plasticity in autism spectrum disorders

Gaia Novarino

11:40am
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1:00pm
Session 5: The Molecular Synapse
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Xavier Altafaj
 
11:40am - 12:00pm

Talk

Protein-lipid interactions drive presynaptic assembly upstream of cell adhesion molecules

Peri Kurshan



12:00pm - 12:30pm

Talk

Identification and characterization of a synaptic active zone assembly factor

Stephan Sigrist



12:30pm - 1:00pm

Talk

Monoamine-induced diacylglycerol signaling activates Unc13A for presynaptic potentiation

Alexander Walter

2:20pm
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4:10pm
Session 6: Emerging Imaging Techniques for Synaptic Studies
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Uri Ashery
 
2:20pm - 2:50pm

Talk

Novel super resolution imaging schemes for the visualization of dynamic subcellular structures in situ

Giovanna Coceano



2:50pm - 3:20pm

Talk

Chemical Approaches to shine light on biology

Johannes Broichhagen



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Talk

Shedding light on synaptic vesicle fusion: how optogenetic stimulation can be combined with iGluSnFR cryo-confocal microscopy and in situ cryo-electron tomography

Jana Kroll, Uljana Kravcenko, Magdalena Schacherl, Christoph A. Diebolder, Lia Ivanov, Malgorzata Lubas, Thiemo Sprink, Mikhail Kudryashev, Christian Rosenmund



3:40pm - 4:10pm

Talk

One-step nanoscale expansion microscopy reveals protein shapes using conventional microscopes

Silvio Rizzoli

5:30pm
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6:30pm
Key Note 2: Inna Slutsky
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Noa Lipstein
 
5:30pm - 6:30pm

Talk

Lost in Translation: Understanding the Silent Phase of Alzheimer’s Disease

Inna Slutsky

Date: Saturday, 04/May/2024
9:30am
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10:50am
Session 7: From Synapses to Networks
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: Dilja Krueger-Burg
 
9:30am - 10:00am

Talk

Cell-surface receptor-mediated regulation of synaptic organelle distribution controls dendritic spine maturation

Joris de Wit



10:00am - 10:20am

Talk

Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of dopamine neuron hyperexcitability in 3xTg-AD mice

Harris E. Blankenship, Michael J. Beckstead



10:20am - 10:50am

Talk

Interneuron-specific dendritic computations in the Neocortex

Annunziato Morabito, Yann Zerlaut, Dhanasak Dhanasobhon, Emmanuelle Berthaux, Gael Moneron, Laurence Cathala, Joana Lourenco, David Digregorio, Alberto Bacci, Nelson Rebola

11:20am
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12:40pm
Session 8: Molecular Presynaptic Plasticity
Location: MDC.C Axon 1
Chair: David Perrais
 
11:20am - 11:40am

Talk

Liprin-α proteins are critical mediators of human presynapse assembly

Fredrik Sterky



11:40am - 12:10pm

Talk

Diverse molecular mechanisms underlying heterogeneity in presynaptic release probability

Zoltan Nusser



12:10pm - 12:40pm

Talk

Munc13 nanoclusters increase during homeostatic plasticity

Stefan Hallermann

12:40pm
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1:00pm
Poster Award Ceremony & Concluding Remarks
Location: MDC.C Axon 1

 
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