SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

• Wednesday 4^th
• Thursday 5^th
• Friday 6^th

• 08:30-13:30	SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZED BY A NETWORK SANTIAGO MAIN ROOM
  08:30-13:30	SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZED BY A NETWORK OBRADOIRO ROOM 1
  08:30-13:30	SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZED BY A NETWORK ROOM 2
  13:30-15:00	OPENING CEREMONY AND WELCOME COCKTAIL EXHIBITION HALL
  15:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM 1 LONG TERM EFFECTS OF STRESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH SANTIAGO MAIN ROOM Chair: Juan Nacher Neurobiology Unit, Cell Biology Department, Interdisciplinary Research Structure for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BIOTECMED), Universitat de València, Spain,CIBERSAM: Spanish National Network for Research in Mental Health, Spain. Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico De Valencia, INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain. Speakers: Hippocampal extracellular matrix alterations contribute to cognitive impairment associated with depressive-like state Sabine Spijker Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke Developmental Brain-Behaviour Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK. Short- and long-term behavioral, endocrine and neural effects of adolescent stress in a rat model Roser Nadal Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Psychobiology Unit, School of Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Animal Physiology Unit, School of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. CIBERSAM, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain. Impact of aversive experiences on interneuronal structure, connectivity and plasticity. Implications for major depressive disord Juan Nacher Neurobiology Unit, Cell Biology Department, Interdisciplinary Research Structure for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BIOTECMED), Universitat de València, Spain. CIBERSAM: Spanish National Network for Research in Mental Health, Spain. Fundación Investigación Hospital Clínico De Valencia, INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain.
  15:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM 2 SIGNALING IN BRAIN TUMORS Chair: Sergio Casas Tintó Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Speakers: Oncolytic virus infection as an antitumoral strategy in pediatric high-grade glioma Marta M Alonso Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Navarra. Program of Solid Tumors, Foundation for the Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Pamplona, Spain. EGFR signaling in brain tumors Pilar Sánchez-Gómez Instituto de Salud Carlos III, UFIEC/CROSADIS, Madrid, Spain. Molecular mechanisms for novel treatments against brain tumor Guillermo Velasco Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Signals that coordinate glia-neuron communication in glioma Sergio Casas Tintó Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
  15:00-19:00	POSTER SESSION I EXHIBITION HALL
  17:30-18:00	COFFEE BREAK EXHIBITION HALL
  19:00-20:00	PLENARY LECTURE UNDERSTANDING CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE: FROM EMBRYOS TO BRAIN ORGANOIDS SANTIAGO MAIN ROOM Chair: Fernando de Castro Instituto Cajal-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. President of the Programs Committee of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience, SENC SPEAKER: PAOLA ARLOTTA Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA). Sponsored by
  20:00-21:00	SATELLITE EVENT Obradoiro Room 1
  20:00-21:00	SATELLITE EVENT Room 2

• 08:30-11:00	SYMPOSIUM 3 NEW HORIZONS ON BRAIN DISORDERS: FROM CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS TO CELL THERAPY AND THE IMPACT ON NEURO-GLIAL CIRCUITS STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS SANTIAGO MAIN ROOM Chair: Paolo Bonifazi Biocruces Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain. Speakers Topological properties of neuronal circuits emerging from spontaneous dynamics: from hub neurons to cerebellar networks failures Paolo Bonifazi Biocruces Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain. Status epilépticus: from bench to bedside José Luis Fernández Torre Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain. Synapse-glial interactions in regulation of network dysfunction underpinning cognitive impairment Maurizio de Pittà Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain. Cell therapy: GABAergic neuronal precursor grafting Manuel Álvarez Dolado Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa, Seville, Spain.
  08:30-11:00	SYMPOSIUM 4 NEURAL BASIS OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OBRADOIRO ROOM 1 Chairs: Enrique Lanuza Navarro Dept. of Cell Biology, University of Valencia, Spain. Fernando Martínez-García Dept. of Medicine, University Jaume I of Castelló, Spain. Speakers Hypothalamic control of sexual behaviour Susana Lima Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal. Enrique Lanuza Navarro Dept. of Cell Biology, University of Valencia, Spain. Oxytocin: from attachment to bond disruption Tobias Pohl Dept. of Behavioural and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Germany. Pheromones and motherhood Fernando Martínez-García Dept. of Medicine, University Jaume I of Castelló, Spain.
  08:30-12:30	POSTER SESSION II Exhibition hall
  11:00-11:30	COFFEE BREAK Exhibition hall
  12:00-13:30	OLYMPUS AWARD Santiago Main Room
  13:30-15:00	LUNCH BREAK
  13:30-15:00	SATELLITE EVENT Obradoiro Room 1
  13:30-15:00	SATELLITE EVENT Room 2
  15:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM 5 NEW VIEWS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE FOREBRAIN Santiago Main Room Chairs: Diego García-González Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), Copenhagen, Denmark. Fernando García-Moreno Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain. Speakers: Instructive roles of the vasculature on nervous system development Amparo Acker-Palmer Goethe University and Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany. Biological hierarchy and the origin of the neocortex Steve Briscoe Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany. Chronological construction of telencephalic sensory processing circuits in amniotes Fernando García-Moreno Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain. Mechanisms of postnatal neuroblast migration Diego García-González Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), Copenhagen, Denmark. Sponsored by
  15:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM 6 TRANSITIONS ACROSS BRAIN STATES: EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, SIMULATIONS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OBRADOIRO ROOM 1 Chair: Mavi Sánchez-Vives ICREA – IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. Speakers: Global brain activity in different states and anesthesia levels Mavi Sánchez-Vives ICREA – IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. Modelling brain states: from single units to populations using mean-field models Alain Destexhe Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. Modulatory mechanisms underlying simulations of synchronous-asynchronous states in the neocortex Srikanth Ramaswamy Brain Mind Institute at the EPFL, Geneve, Switzerland. Brain states, complexity and consciousness levels Marcello Massimini IRCCS Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Milan.
  15:00-19:00	POSTER SESSION III Exhibition hall
  19:00-20:00	THE EMBO KEYNOTE LECTURE NEURONAL CIRCUIT-BASED MEDICINE Santiago Main Room Chair: Agnès Gruart Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain. President of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience, SENC SPEAKER BOTOND ROSKA Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland. Sponsored by
  20:00-21:00	SATELLITE EVENT Obradoiro Room 1
  20:00-21:00	SATELLITE EVENT Room 2

• 08:30-11:00	SYMPOSIUM 7 NOT THE USUAL SUSPECTS: NEW INSIGHTS INTO DAMAGE AND REPAIR IN THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BRAIN Santiago Main Room Chairs: Fernanda Marques Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal. João Cerqueira Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal. Speakers: Role of astrocytic proteins in multiple sclerosis Fernanda Marques Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal. Interplay between glial-immune cells in multiple sclerosis Adelaide Maria Afonso Fernandes Borralho Research Institute for Medicine (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Clonal glial response in multiple sclerosis Ana Bribian Departamento de Neurobiología Molecular, Celular y del Desarrollo, Instituto Cajal-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Neuronal alterations underpinning cognitive deficits in the mouse model of multiple sclerosis João Cerqueira Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal.
  08:30-11:00	SYMPOSIUM 8 CIRCUITS AND MECHANISMS OF EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOURS OBRADOIRO ROOM 1 Chairs: Juan Lerma Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. José Antonio Esteban García Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain. Speakers: Impact on circuit equilibrium and emotional behaviour of changing synaptic gain Juan Lerma Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Alicante, Spain. The role of reward system in social motivation deficits in ASDs Camilla Bellone University de Geneve, Switzerland. PI3K/PTEN signaling for synaptic plasticity and social behavior José Antonio Esteban García Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain. Molecular mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorders Gaia Novarino Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.
  08:30-12:30	POSTER SESSION IV Exhibition hall
  11:00-11:30	COFFEE BREAK Exhibition hall
  12:30-13:30	PLENARY LECTURE THE FEMALE BUTTERFLIES OF THE SOUL: A JOURNEY FROM SEX CHROMOSOMES TO WOMEN’S BRAINS SANTIAGO MAIN ROOM Chair: Amanda Sierra IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao-Bizkaia, Spain. Vice-president of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience, SENC SPEAKER: LUIS MIGUEL GARCÍA SEGURA Research Professor in the Cajal Institute of the CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Sponsored by
  13:30-15:00	LUNCH BREAK
  13:30-15:00	SATELLITE EVENT OBRADOIRO ROOM 1
  13:30-15:00	SATELLITE EVENT ROOM 2
  15:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM 9 PHYSIOLOGICAL, PATHOLOGICAL AND REPROGRAMMED GLIO/NEUROGENESIS IN THE ADULT BRAIN Santiago Main Room Chairs: Juan Manuel Encinas Pérez Ikerbasque Research Professor, Group Leader. Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science and Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain. María Llorens Martín Group Leader, Dept. de Neuropatología Molecular Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM), Madrid, Spain. Speakers: Glia-to-neuron reprograming via unfolding of a neural stem cell program Benedikt Berninger Professor, Group Leader. Centre for Developmental Neurobiology Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King's College London, United Kingdom. Functional heterogeneity and dynamic of astrocytes in the adult mouse hippocampus Ruth Beckervordersandforth Group Leader,  Friederich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Medizinische Fakultät, Institut Für Biochemie, Erlangen, Germany. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and Alzheimer´s disease María Llorens Martín Group Leader, Dept. de Neuropatología Molecular Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM), Madrid, Spain. Proinflammatory profile and mechanisms of indiction of reactive neural stem cells Juan Manuel Encinas Pérez Ikerbasque Research Professor, Group Leader. Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science and Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
  15:00-17:30	SYMPOSIUM 10 CELL TYPE DIVERSITY IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS AND ITS ROLE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE Obradoiro Room 1 Chair: Albert Giralt Torroella Department of Biomedicine. Faculty of Medicine. University of Barcelona, Spain. Speakers: Specification of a CA1-pyramidal neuronal subtype and evaluation of its role during chronic stress Albert Giralt Torroella Department of Biomedicine. Faculty of Medicine. University of Barcelona, Spain. Novel method to study memory formation and recall at the neuronal population level Pablo Esteban Jercog Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain. Interneuron diversity in hippocampal memory circuits Pablo Méndez Laboratorio de Microcircuitos Inhibitorios. Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. A sublayer specific network of interacting cell types underlying hippocampal sclerosis in CA1 Jose P. López-Atalaya Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC), Alicante, Spain.
  15:00-19:00	POSTER SESSION V Exhibition hall
  17:30-18:00	COFFEE BREAK Exhibition hall
  19:00-20:30	SENC ASSEMBLY Santiago Main Room
  21:30	GALA DINNER