FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE 2026 (FS77705)
Welcome to the "From Bench to Bedside" Neuroscience Network Basel Symposium Webpage
The annual Bench to Bedside Symposium will be held on Friday, 6th February 2026, from 8.30h to 17.30., in the Biozentrum Lecture "Hall Maurice E. Müller", Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel.
Organisation committee:
Josef Bischofberger (DBM), Anne Eckert (UPK), Rainer Friedrich (FMI), Raphael Guzman (DBM, USB), Anne-Catherine Feutz (NNB coordinator).
Contact and information: neuro@unibas.ch
Ms. Anne-Catherine Feutz, Ph.D.
Registration is open until January 31, 2026: https://forms.gle/YhnVPqU3QCB6NZBJ9
Program PDF download
| 08:30 | Registration and Welcome |
| 09:00 | Opening by Josef Bischofberger (DBM, University of Basel) |
| Keynote Lecture 1 Chaired by: | Josef Bischofberger (DBM, University of Basel) |
| 09:05 – 09:50 | Marc Aurel Busche (DBM and Demenz Diseases Felix Platter Spital, Basel) "Selective vulnerability of cells and circuits in Alzheimer’s Disease” |
| Session 1: Chaired by: | “Neural Inhibitory Circuits” Rainer Friedrich (FMI, Basel) |
| 09:50 – 10:15 | Florian Studer (postdoc, T. Barkat group) (DBM, University of Basel) "Top-down inputs are controlled by somatostatin-expressing interneurons during associative learning" |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | Fiona Doetsch (Biozentrum, University of Basel) "Activation of neural stem cells for on-demand brain plasticity" |
| 10:40 – 11:05 | Mathias Mahn (FMI; Ambizione fellow, A. Lüthi group) "Dynamic inhibition in amygdala circuits" |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 Chaired by: | “Alzheimer’s Disease: Circuits, Prevention, and Cures” Anne Eckert (UPK, Basel) |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | TBD |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Marc Aurel Busche (DBM and Demenz Diseases Felix Platter Spital, Basel) “Dementia at a turning point: what changes in diagnosis, treatment, and care” |
| 12:25 – 12:50 | Luka Kulic (Global Head of Early Development in Neuroscience & Rare Diseases, Roche pRED, Basel) "Amyloid-targeted therapies for Alzheimer's Disease - new frontiers" |
| 12:55 – 14:30 | Lunch Break in Restaurant Bacell's Biozentrum |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | NNB General Assembly (For NNB members only) |
| Session 3 Chaired by: | “Neural Circuits from Bench to Clinical Application” Raphael Guzman (DBM/USB) |
| 14:30 – 14:55 | Botond Roska (IOB, Basel) "From understanding visual circuits to optogenetic vision restoration in blind patients" |
| 15:00 – 15:25 | Indrit Bègue (University of Geneva & University Hospitals Geneva) "Cerebellum-ventral tegmental connectivity as a personalized biomarker for apathy in schizophrenia" |
| 15:30 – 15:55 | Raphaël Guzman (DBM-USB) and Alexandre Datta (UKBB, USB, UPK, KSA) “Network Instability in Pediatric Epilepsy: Principles, Plasticity, and Therapeutic Rewiring” |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| Keynote Lecture 2 Chaired by: | Josef Bischofberger (DBM, University of Basel) |
| 16:35 – 17:15 | Cristina Granziera (DBE, University of Basel) "Postmortem brain MRI and histopathology: new horizons" |
| 17:20 | 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 2026, 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@unibas.ch. Please mark in the Betreff (subject) of your mail: Report Bench to Bedside 2025.
Deadline for the report is 31st March 2026.