NEURONUS 2022 Neuroscience Forum

Speakers

OUR SPEAKERS

Who was speaking?

Neuronus Neuroscience Forum 2022 hosted 7 Keynote Speakers from well-established research centres from around the world.

Keynote speakers

Lauri Nummenmaa

Human Emotion Systems Laboratory at Turku PET Centre, Finland

Florian Engert

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, USA

Marina Bedny

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Mathias V. Schmidt

Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Department of Psychology and Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, USA

Charles Hillman

Department of Psychology, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement, And Rehabilitation Sciences, Northeastern University, USA

Valery Grinevich

Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Alexej Verkhratsky

Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK

Dmitri Rusakov

UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK

Mykhailo Batiuk

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Olena Bukalo

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, USA

Alessandro Prigione

University Clinic Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Germany

Aleksandra Pękowska

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Flavio Donato

Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland

Frank Julius Meye

Translational Neuroscience Department, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Milene Bonte

Maastricht Brain Imaging Center, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Urszula Wojda

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Richárd Fiáth

Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Ali Jawaid

BRAINCITY: Center of Excellence for Neural Plasticity and Brain Disorders, Poland

Jessy Lauer

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland & Harvard University, USA

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Awards

TRAVEL GRANT AWARDS:

Kerli Tulva (Department of Neurobiology, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany)
Chitaranjan Mahapatra (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Ahmed Soliman (Neurobiology Department, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany)
Marcelina Węzik (Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Portugal)

COGNITIVE ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD:

Jan K. Argasiński (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland): "Modelling (affective) behaviors in virtual environments"

COGNITIVE POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD:

Maria Zimmermann (Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland): "Silent movies synchronizes secondary auditory cortices more in early deaf than hearing individuals"

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE COGNITIVE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN PRESENTED AT NEURONUS:

Alicja M. Olszewska (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland): "Unlocking the musical brain: an ecological approach to playing the piano in an MRI scanner"

BIOLOGICAL ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD:

Kirti Sharma (Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany): "Compact optrode for in vivo opsin delivery, optical stimulation and electrophysiological recordings in freely behaving animals"

BIOLOGICAL POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD:

Martyna Gorkowska (Department of Neurophysiology and Chronobiology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland): "Real-time imaging of dopamine release and neuronal populations dynamics in the motor cortex of awake mice –decoding of reward-related signals and movement parameters"

SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE MOST EXCITING NEUROBIOLOGICAL DISCOVERY PRESENTED AT NEURONUS:

Marek Brodzki (Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden): "Cellular and molecular foundations of hair follicle nociception"

MEDICAL ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD:

Fernando Gonzalez-Ortiz (Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden): "Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease-type neurodegeneration"

MEDICAL POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD:

Agnieszka Kostrzewska-Księżyk (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland): "Pharmacological inhibition of MMP-9 enzyme activity improves animal recovery after ischemic stroke"

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD:

Anna Grabowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland): "Machine learning reveals generalised brain-behavior associations: a dimensional investigation of error-related brain activity and psychopathological symptoms"

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD:

Debadeep Chaudhury (Dioscuri Center for Chromatin Biology and Epigenomics, Nencki Institute of Experimenatal Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland): "Evolutionary changes in the genetic landscape of astrocytes from primate species: a transcriptomic overview"