Program

Symposium program 

Day 1 (May 24)

time program speaker
14:00 OPENING Prof. Martin Korte
14:15 Session I: Brain Cell Homeostasis  
14:15 How the presynapse forms and functions Prof. Volker Haucke
15:15 Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFa) modulates synaptic plasticity Prof. Andreas Vlachos
16:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION  
16:45 Session II: Maladaptive Plasticity in Neurodegenerative Diseases  
16:45 Myelin in brain energy metabolism and neurodegenerative disease Prof. Klaus Armin Nave
17:30 Towards 3R in brain science – Establishment and coordination of a multicenter and multilab platform for physiological and pathophysiological functional studies in resected human brain tissue Dr. Pawel Fidzinski
18:15 Targeting citrate metabolism to influence metabolic homeostasis in brain disorders Prof. Thekla Cordes
18:30 DINNER: Coming together at a dinner organized by PhD students  

Day 2 (May 25)

time program speaker
09:00 Session III: Neuronal Autophagy in Homeostasis and Pathogenesis  
09:00 Endosomal-lysosomal dysfunction as a primary catalyst in Alzheimer’s Disease Prof. Ralph Nixon
10:00 Neuronal autophagy in the regulation of presynaptic neurotransmission Dr. Marijn Kuijpers
10:45 COFFEE BREAK  
11:00 Session IV: Enabling Methods and Technologies to Study Brain Cells  
11:00 Optogenetics and Polarization Microscopy of Living Neurons using MicroLED-arrays and Double Tagged Photoswitchable Fluorescence Proteins Prof. Jomo Walla
11:45 Chip-based microscopy: photonic integration for structured micro-illumination light engines Dr. Mayra Garcés-Schröder
12:30 LUNCH BREAK  
13:30 Session V: Live Cell Imaging in Microfluidic Devices  
13:30 Interrogating chemosensory behavior and brainwide neural representation: an optofluidic approach Prof. Ko Ho
14:30 Lab-on-Chips for Neurobehavioral Screening of Small Model Organisms Prof. Pouya Rezai
15:30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION  
16:00 Session VI: In Vivo Microfluidics and Light Sheet Imaging  
16:00 Fast and gentle light sheet microscopy with the modular and portable Flamingo framework Prof. Jan Huisken
16:45 Presentation of NeuroExaminer Prof. Köster & Prof. Dietzel
17:30 Multi-electrode arrays compatible with compartmented microfluidic chambers, patch-clamp electrophysiology, and high-resolution microscopy Victor Krajka
17:45 Quantum dots as a fluorescent tool for labelling zebrafish in vitro and in vivo Luiza Araujo Gusmão
18:00 CLOSING DAY 2  

Day 3 (May 26)

time program speaker
09:00 Session VII: Brains on Chips  
09:00 From Brain-on-Chip towards Modelling Brain in a Body Prof. Pasi Kallio
10:00 Enabling materials for Brains-on-Chips: from microfluidics to hydrogels Dr. Thomas Winkler
10:45 Functional 3D engineered modular network Dr. Rouhollah Habibey
11:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION  
11:30 Session VIII: iPCS – Translational Neuroscience  
11:30 iPSCs as model for analyzing neurodegenerative diseases Prof. Christine Klein
12:15 Cellular disease modelling for precision medicine in PD Prof. Rejko Krüger
13:00 FAREWELL & POSTER PRIZES