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Preliminary Scientific Programming
Plenary Lecture
Title: Space and time in the brain
Edvard Moser (2014 Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize)
Title: Neural circuits for anxious actions – The emerging role of mitochondria
Carmen Sandi (FENS President)
Title: TBD
Peter Hegemann (Humboldt Univ. Berlin Germany)
Symposium
Title: Epilepsy: From the cells and molecules to the clinical experience in humans
Speakers: Anna Maria Vezzani/Esper Cavalheiro/Lilia Morales Chacon/Silvia Kochen
Title: Susceptibility to psychiatric disorders in the developing Brain
Speakers: Kuei Y. Tseng/Anthony Grace/Felipe V. Gomes/Jose Fuentealba
Title: Paving the Way from Molecules to Diagnosis and Prevention for Neurodegenerative Diseases and related Dementias
Speakers: Cecilia Bouzat/William Klein/Carlos Alexandre Netto/Ricardo Allegri
Title: Next generation strategies for diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson`s Disease
Speakers: Juan Ferrario/Richard Wade-Martins/Paula A. Desplats/Claudio Hetz
Title: Molecular Physiology of the Synapse: New Actors, New Tools, New Visions
Speakers: Damian Refojo/Pablo Castillo/Chiayu Chiu/Juan Burrone
Title: Dysregulation of myelin plasticity: a critical contributor to neuropsychiatric disorders
Speakers: Cecilia Hedin-Pereira/Flavio Kapczinski/Babette Fuss/Laura Pasquini
Title: Novel insights into the mesocorticolimbic mechanisms controlling different aspects of reward-related behaviors
Speakers: Mario Perello/Luis Tellez/Stephanie Borgland/Marisela Morales
Title: Memory complexity: post-retrieval processes, systems consolidation and persistence
Speakers: Jorge Quillfeldt/Francisco Sotres-Bayon/Arturo Romano/Karim Nader
Title: Mechanisms underlyng brain damage
Speakers: Silvia Olivera/Giselle Prunell /Jeremy M Henley/Rui Prediger/Helena Cimarosti
Title: Translating research and drug discovery for neurodegenerative disorders: novel challenges
Speakers: Rosalinda Guevara-Guzmán/Luisa Rocha/Alberto Lazarowski/Antoni CaminsEspuny
Title: Synaptic plasticity and the role of glial cells in health and disease: learning from in vivo imaging and CNS injury
Speakers: Alberto Javier Ramos/Luciana Politti Cartarozzi/John Douglas Morrey/Frank Kirchhoff
Title: The Use of Female Subjects in Neurosciences
Speakers: Deborah Suchecki/Mohamed Kabbaj/Alessandra Mussi Ribeiro/Alonso Fernández-Guasti
Title: Fostering neurobiological approaches to psychopathologies
Speakers: Janaina Mourao-Miranda/Leticia de Oliveira/Caroline Blanchard/Fatima Erthal/Silvia Kochen
Title: Innovative concepts on the organization of defensive behavior and fear memory
Speakers: Avishek Adhikari/Philip Tovote/Victor Molina/Antonio de Padua Carobrez
Title: Gene regulation and cell signaling in nervous system development and evolution
Speakers: Rodrigo A. P. Martins/Anand Swaroop/Flavio Zolessi/Lucía Florencia Franchini
Title: Neurobiology of fear memory: brain mechanisms and clinical implications
Speakers: Lucas De Oliveira Alvares/Victor Molina/Fabricio Do Monte/Leandro Bertoglio
Title: Endocannabinoid system and cannabimimetic ligands in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric-related disorders: the road ahead!
Speakers: Rafael Cypriano Dutra/Juan A. Orellana/Rafael Mariano de Bitencourt/Raffaele Capasso
Title: How Artificial Intelligence is boosting Neuroscience Research
Speakers: Guillermo A. Cecchi/Sidarta Ribeiro/Diego Peluffo/Jaime A. Riascos Salas
Title: Schizophrenia: In vitro and in vivo evidences for neuroprogression and neuroprotection
Speakers: Cristiane Salum/Gonzalo Flores/Daniel Martins-de-Souza/Vanessa Costhek Abílio
Title: Precise gears for temporal and spatial control of calcium signaling in neurons
Speakers: Jesica Raingo/Eduardo Javier Lopez Soto/Juan Diego Goutman/Henrique Prado von Gersdorff
Title: Neurotransmitters role in development: from neurulation to circuitry formation
Speakers: Eduardo Bouth Sequerra/Laura Borodinsky/Cecilia Hedin-Pereira/Alejandro Schinder
Title: Neuroplasticity, functional recovering and neuronal reserve
Speakers: Maria Robinson Agramonte/William Almaguer/Alejandro José Diaz Jimenez/Diego Moncada
Title: Novel insights into acid sensing ion channels (ASICs): implication for synaptic function, plasticity and neurodegenerative diseases
Speakers: Carina Weismann/Enrique Soto/Rebecca Taugher/Timothy Lynagh
Title: Current perspectives in Sleep Research
Speakers: Mario Vaderrama/Michel Le Van Quyen/Felipe Beijamini/Daniela Noain/Lisa Genzel
Title: From synaptic and network plasticity to behavior
Speakers: Roberto De Pasquale/Ricardo M. Xavier Leão/Antonia Marín-Burgin/José Fernando Maya-Vetencourt
Title: Physical Exercise and Brain Health: Neural Adaptations
Speakers: Carlos Cristi Montero/Carmen Vivar/Ricardo Mario Arida
Title: Intrinsic and acquired causes of neurodevelopmental disorders
Speakers: Gaia Novarino/Amaicha Depino/Mariano Soiza-Reilly/Patricia Garcez
Title: Molecular and cellular approaches to study stress, depression and antidepressants
Speakers: Julio Cesar Morales Medina/Mary Kay Lobo/Argel Aguilar Valles/Leandro Bertoglio
Title: Understanding Schizophrenia: New Tools for Basic and Clinical Research
Speakers: Elisa C. Dias/Natália Mota/Pedro E. Maldonado/Rogério Panizzutti
Title: The role of neuropeptides in healthy and pathological behavior
Speakers: Rosana Camarini/Pablo Torterolo/Teresa Morales/Luciana Benedetto
Title: Cannabinoid signalling: from physiology to disease
Speakers: Isis Trevenzoli/Edgard Soria/Paola Cubillos/Alline Campos
Title: Neuropharmacology meets ethnopharmacology: Medicinal plants as starting points for anxiolytic and antidepressant actions
Speakers: Juan Francisco Rodríguez-Landa/Monica Lima-Maximino/Blandina Bernal-Morales
Title: Excitability Disorders and Human Neurological Diseases: Neuron-glia interplay and the corresponding experimental models
Speakers: Rubem C. A. Guedes/José G. Ortiz/Márcia Kronka Sosthenes/George E.S. Barreto
Title: Pain, an old puzzle with new challenges
Speakers: Thiago Mattar Cunha/Edgar Alfonso Romero Sandoval/Pablo Rodolfo Brumovsky/Hernán Allegrotti
Title: Glial cells as mechanisms of disease and therapeutic targets for the diseased nervous system
Speakers: Rommy von Bernhardi/Silvia Olivera-Bravo/Carina Ferrari/Silvia Lima Costa
Title: Nerve regeneration: peripheral strategies play a central role
Speakers: Pablo H. H. López/Ahmet Hoke/Felipe Court Gosdsmith/Alejandra Kun
SPECIAL LECTURES
Title: Retinal disease modeling and therapies using organoids
Speaker: Anand Swaroop (Chair Rodrigo AP Martins)
Title: Exercise: A Path to Improved Brain Health
Spearker: Kirk I. Erickson (Chair Joao Bento Torres Neto)
Title: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Perspective for the Depressed Brain
Speaker: Andre Russowsky Brunoni
Title: Dynamic regulation of presynaptic efficacy in health and disease
Spearker: Nils Brose (Chair Osvaldo Uchitel)
Title: Mitochondrial modulation in glia as a strategy to reduce neuronal death in ALS
Speaker: Patricia Cassina (Chair Daniel O. SNU)
Title: Aging and neuroinflammation in the genesis of neurodegenerative diseases
Spearker: Rommy Von Bernhardi (Chair Christian E. Gonzalez-Billault)
Title: Mechanisms underlying the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease: studies in animal models
Speaker: Mario Gustavo Murer (Chair Liliana Cancela)
Title: Resilience and Vulnerability Systems in a Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Spearker: Gal Richter-Levin (Chair Deborah Suchecki)
Title: Embryonic alcohol exposure in zebrafish: towards the development of a model of human fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Speaker: Robert Gerlai (Chair Rosa Almeida)
Title: New perspectives for natural cannabinoids on pain treatment
Spearker: Rafael Maldonado (Chair Joao Ricardo Lacerda de Menezes)
Title: Dominant versus subordinate brains
Speaker: Ana Silva (Chair Francesco Rossi)
Title: Borders of bioacoustics and Neurosciences
Spearker: Maria Luisa da Silva
Title: Diversity and Specificity of Astrocyte-neuron Communication
Speaker: Alfonso Araque (Chair Elaine Del Bel)
Title: Protons and acid sensing ion channels role in synaptic transmission, plasticity and pain
Spearker: Osvaldo D. Uchitel (Chair Elaine Del Bel)
Title: TRT channels: molecular machines in charge of temperature sensing
Speaker: Ramon Latorre (Chair Christian E. Gonzalez-Billault)
Title: Post-translational arginylation defines the fate of proteins beyond degradation
Spearker: Marta Hallak (Chair Liliana Cancela)
Title: Cannabinoids and sleep modulation
Speaker: Eric Murillo-Rodriguez
Title: The effects of maternal serotonin levels on regulatory mechanisms controlling development and behavioural outcome in the offspring
Spearker: Jocelien Olivier (Chair Deborah Suchecki)
