FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE 2025
Welcome to the "From Bench to Bedside" Neuroscience Network Basel Symposium Webpage
The annual Bench to Bedside Symposium will be held on Friday, 14th February 2025, from 8.30h to 17.30., in the Biozentrum Lecture "Hall Maurice E. Müller", Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel.
Organisation committee:
Josef Bischofberger (DBM), Raphael Guzman (DBM, USB), Andreas Keller (DBM), Peter Scheiffele (Biozentrum), Anne-Catherine Feutz (NNB coordinator).
Contact and information: neuro@clutterunibas.ch
Ms. Anne-Catherine Feutz, Ph.D., Phone +41 61 207 02 20
Registration closed
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| 08:30 | Registration |
09:00 | Welcome and opening: Josef Bischofberger (Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel) |
| Keynote Lecture 1 Chaired by: | Josef Bischofberger (DBM, University of Basel) |
| 09:05 – 09:50 | Andreas Keller (DBM, University of Basel) "Performance predicts the substitution of feedforward by feedback drive" |
| Session 1: Chaired by: | “Memory Mechanisms” Peter Scheiffele (Biozentrum) |
| 09:55 – 10:20 | Friedemann Zenke (FMI) " Learning and memory in neural network models " |
| 10:25 – 10:50 | Marlene Bartos (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) "Slow emergence and high stability of contextual representations in the hippocampus" |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Flavio Donato (Biozentrum) "The reinstatement of a forgotten infant memory" |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Coffee Break |
| Keynote Lecture 2 Chaired by: | in collaboration with the Biozentrum Discovery Seminar Series Flavio Donato (Biozentrum) |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Asya Rolls (Technion, Israel Institue of Technology, Haifa, Israel) "A neuroimmunological take on the mind-body problem" |
| 12:45 – 14:30 | Lunch Break in Restaurant Bacell's Biozentrum |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | NNB General Assembly (For NNB members only) |
| Session 2: Chaired by: | “Neural Mechanisms of Movement” Andreas Keller (DBM, University of Basel) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Antonio Falasconi and Harsh Kanodia (FMI and Biozentrum) "Dynamic Basal Ganglia output signals license and suppress forelimb movements" |
| 15:05 – 15:30 | Alexander Mathis (EPFL) "How do mammals move?" |
| 15:35 – 16:00 | Speaker TBA |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Coffee Break |
| Keynote lecture 3 chaired by | Josef Bischofberger (DBM, University of Basel) |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Alexandre N. Datta (University Children’s Hospital Basel) "Beyond seizures: The interplay between epilepsy, sleep, and cognition in childhood" |
| 17:30 | Closing remarks: Josef Bischofberger (DBM, University of Basel) |
Credits: For students (Master- and Ph.D.-level)
In addition to your registration to the symposium, you must register on MOnA/Online Services, spring semester FS 2025, for the symposium to apply for the credit point; To obtain 1 CP, you must write an extended report of one complete session (max 3 pages). For each talk you need to present: the research question, the methology, the main results, and conclude by explaining to what extend the results are supporting or not the working hypothesis.
Send the report per e-mail to neuro@clutterunibas.ch. Please mark in the Betreff (subject) of your mail: Report Bench to Bedside 2025.
Deadline for the report is 31st March 2025.
Credits for training in animal experimentation:
The application for recognition of the symposium by all authorities responsible for animal experimentation is being submitted to the Federation of Swiss Cantonal Veterinary Officers.
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