Events
At the VIB‑KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience, our events bring the community together to exchange ideas, spark collaborations, and celebrate scientific discovery. From high‑level symposia and guest lectures to hands‑on workshops, networking moments, and community‑building activities, our calendar reflects the full breadth of our research and the people who drive it. Whether you’re a scientist, student, partner, or curious visitor, you’ll find opportunities here to learn, connect, and get inspired.
Alongside our scientific and community‑building mission, we run a lively calendar of recurring events that keep our center connected and engaged. Each week, PhDs and postdocs share their work in our Progress Seminars, while our Neuroscience Lectures bring internationally recognized scientists to Leuven for high‑profile talks. Throughout the year, we gather for our Center‑wide Science Day, host a major three‑day Neuroscience Conference, and unwind at our themed monthly Happy Hours. Our Community Agenda rounds it all out with movie nights, socials, lunches, and other activities organized by our committees and associations — ensuring there’s always something happening to bring people together.
For questions about events, please get in touch with our events coordinator at isabelle.lahouse@vib.be.
Events
Past Speakers
2025
2025
| Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Maria Antonietta Tosches | Evolution of the cerebral cortex: developmental programs, cell types, and tissue architecture | Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University |
| Isabelle Shatz | Head of Patient Affairs, AstraZeneca & EUCAN Government Affairs & Policy Assignment | |
| Ulrich Genzel | Head of Sector for Simplification in Horizon Europe, graduated in biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh | |
| Olav Michael Andersen | How variants in the SORL1 gene, encoding an endosome sorting receptor, can cause Alzheimer’s disease | Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University |
| Dmitry Kobak | All embeddings are wrong, but some are useful | Hertie AI institute at Tübingen University |
| Denis Schapiro | From oncology to cardiology: Spatial omics technologies for topographic biomarker discovery | Heidelberg University Hospital |
| Ginny G. Farías | The endoplasmic reticulum in the maintenance of the axonal proteome’ | Division of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Utrecht University |
| Laleh Haghverdi | Cell Fate Decisions: From Omics Dynamics to AI-Enhanced Control | Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin |
| Siewert Hugelier | Modern Strategies in Super-Resolution Microscopy to Bridge Technology and Biology | University of Pennsylvania |
| Camilla Bellone | Neuronal Circuits Underlying Social Motivation | Department of Basic Neuroscience, Geneva University Neurocenter |
| Robin Hiesinger | How Do Genomes Make Neural Networks? | Freie Univerität Berlin, Dep of Biology, Neurogenetics |
| Jonas Fleck | From in vitro to in silico reconstruction of neural development | Roche Institute of Human Biology |
| Hana Aliee | Causality-inspired generative modelling for disease study | Sanger Institute |
| Sebastian Jessberger | ‘Molecular and functional heterogeneity of neural stem cells across lifespan | Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich |
| Rajnika Hirani | Sustainable lab practices and how certifications such as LEAF can help implementing those | Sustainability Manager of the Francis Crick Institute |
| Jan Drugowitsch | Decisions and navigation in the face of uncertainty: algorithms, behavior, and neural mechanisms | Harvard Medical School |
| Jovan Tanevski | Creating the pillars for computational biomedical discovery from spatial omics data | Heidelberg University Hospital |
| Jonas Neher | Medin amyloid: A driver of vascular aging and disease? | DZNE |
| Hannah Haberkern | Neural mechanisms for robust navigation in dynamic visual environments | University of Würzburg, Biocenter |
| Vitalii Kleshchevnikov | Towards whole organism AI/ML models: from the DNA sequence code to tissue architecture of human embryogenesis | Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| Jacob Schreiber | Understanding and designing cis-regulatory elements using machine learning | Stanford University |
| Ke Zhang | A Multi-model System to Study ALS/FTD and Hereditary Neurodevelopmental Disorders | Institute of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory |
| Janelle Pakan | From sensation to action: shaping cell-type specific neuronal representations during learning | Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS) |
| Harmen J. Bussemaker | Accurate prediction of transcription factor binding specificity with biophysically interpretable machine learning | Columbia University |
| Stéphanie Baulac | Brain mosaicism in cortical malformations and epilepsy | Genetics & Physiopathology of epilepsy, Institut du Cerveau (ICM) |
| Celeste Karch | Defining molecular drivers of tauopathy using stem cell models | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Angele Parent | APP-mediated Signaling in Alzheimer's: Unraveling its influence on sleep, cognition and blood-brain barrier integrity | Morsani College of Medicine |
| Soyon Hong | Interglial crosstalk in synapse elimination: The role of Astrocytes as the orchestrator | UK Dementia Research Institute |
| Ilia Igashov | Generative AI for Structure-based Drug Design | EPFL |
| Lydia Finley | Metabolic control of normal and pathological cell states | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) |
| William Mobley | ‘Deciphering the Dysregulation of the Endolysosomal Network in Models of Alzheimer's Disease and Down Syndrome | UC San Diego School of Medicine |
| Rik van der Kant | Understanding the role of lipids in neurodegenerative diseases | Faculty of Science, Functional Genomics, & Amsterdam Neuroscience-Neurodegeneration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Sophie Morgan | How to publish with Nature Communications | Senior Editor of Nature Communications |
| Yi Rao | Hunting for New Neurotransmitters | PKU-IDG/Mc Govern Institute for Brain Research, University of Peking |
| Giulia Quattrocolo | Building the hippocampal circuit: from growth cones to place cells | Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience |
| Gioele La Manno | Spatiotemporal approaches to dissecting brain cell state emergence, dynamics, and modulation | EPFL |
| Jared Rutter | Metabolism, Cellular Decisions and the Language That Unites Them | University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| Dragana Rogulja | Sleep and the gut | Harvard Medical School |
| Ana Pombo | Gene regulatory mechanisms of cellular memory upon a single cocaine exposure in dopaminergic neurons | Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin |
| René Frank | High-resolution cryo-electron tomography within tissues - seeing inside human Alzheimer’s disease brain | University of Leeds |
| Soraia Barão | Evolution of Neuronal Specification: From Neurogenesis to Neurological Dysfunction | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Nuo Li | Neuronal mechanisms of volitional movement | Duke University School of Medicine |
| Paul Shaw | Uncovering deep sleep through controlled sleep disruption | Washington University in St Louis |
2024
2024
| Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Rosa-Martinez-Corral | Making sense of thousands of molecules: modelling to understand animal transcription | CRG Barcelona |
| Sonia Garel & Michael T Heneka | Microglia in early brain wiring: from circuit assembly to structural integrity & Does innate immunity drive neurodegeneration? | Université de Paris, Institute de Biologie |
| Michael T Heneka | Does innate immunity drive neurodegeneration? | University of Luxembourg, Centre for Systems Biomedicine |
| Yongsoo Kim | High-resolution 3D mapping to unveil regional organization of cell types and angioarchitecture in the mouse brain | Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State University |
| Robert Fledrich | Glial adaptation in nerve repair | Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig |
| Gabriele Kaminski | The effect of amyloid proteins on intracellular organelle morphology and neuronal signaling | Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge |
| Stefan Lichtenthaler | Alzheimer research in the post-GWAS era: deorphanizing genetic risk factors | DZNE & Technical University of Munich |
| Soyon Hong | Neuro-glia-immune crosstalk regulating synaptic fate in neurodegeneration | UK Dementia Research Institute |
| Evan Macosko | Single cell and spatial for next-generation cellular neuroscience | Broad Institute Cambridge |
| Vera Moiseenkova-Bell | New insights into TRPV structural pharmacology and protein-protein interactions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Amit Zeisel | Single-cell approaches to studying connectivity and neuronal states during fear learning | Technion |
| Dmitry Kobak | Low-dimensional self-supervised learning and multimodal single-cell analysis | Tübingen University |
| Joana Pereira | Venturing into the unknowns of the natural protein universe in the age of artificial intelligence | Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| Jeffrey D. Rothstein | Nuclear Pores and Transport- A starting point and druggable target for ALS and FTD | Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine |
| Bianca Dumitrascu | Statistical machine learning for learning representations of embryonic development | Columbia University |
| Wouter Saelens | The multidimensional cell: how intersecting intrinsic and extrinsic cellular processes shape cellular function | VIB-Inflammation Research Center |
| Anna Poetsch | Using DNA language models to understand different layers of code in genomes | Technical University Dresden |
| Sami Barmada | Structural and functional origins of TDP43 pathology in ALS and FTD | Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Health System |
| Tunca Doğan | (Bio)molecular Representation, Property Prediction and Design with Artificial Intelligence-Driven Approaches | Hacettepe University |
| Katja Seeliger | In-silico modelling of visual information processing | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences |
| Sara Bizzotto | Brain mosaicism: a journey on a cell’s life | MSCA at Paris Brain Institute, ICM |
| David Owald | Network synchrony and calcium spikes: sensory filters and gates in Drosophila | Institute of Neurophysiology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| Patricia Bonnavion | The dark side of dopamine: the paradoxical influences of dopamine on striatal motor functions | F.R.S. - FNRS |
| Marion Silies | Heterogeneous synaptic connectivity in the visual system – causes and consequences | Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Universität Mainz |
| Samantha Zaunz & Toon Swings | VIB Tech Watch Core: Supporting your research with emerging technologies | VIB Tech Watch Core |
| Ana Luisa Carvalho | MicroRNA-mediated control of synaptic transmission and neuronal network activity in chronic stress | CNC – University of Coimbra |
| Fekrije Selimi | Synapse-specific rules control the development of neuronal networks | CIRB – Collège de France, Paris |
| Julijana Gjorgjieva | Synaptic plasticity shapes organization and computations during development and learning | Technical University of Munich |
| Marina Mikhaylova | Cytoskeletal makeup of the synapse: shaft vs. Spine | Humboldt University Berlin |
| Antonio Jose da Silva Santinha | In Vivo Functional Genomics Using Single-Cell CRISPR Screening | Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich |
| Christoffer Lagerholm | The challenge of managing microscopes in a light microscopy core facility: Minor details matter - Sample preparation, Chromatic shifts, Stability, Dispersion, and more | Turku Bioscience Cell Imaging and Cytometry Core, Åbo Akademi University |
| Hans-Jörg Ehni | The Ethics of Longevity | Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin Tübingen |
| Tabrez Siddiqui | Uncovering mechanisms of synaptic nano-organization | Max Rady College of Medicine |
| Mathieu Letellier | Molecular diversification of hippocampal synapses | IINS - Bordeaux |
| Boris Rogelj | RNA binding proteins and protein binding RNAs in ALS and FTD | Jožef Stefan Institute |
| Bassem Hassan | Developmental emergence of personality | Institut du Cerveau ICM & INSERM |
| Jiajun Zhang | Identification, Organization, and Connectomics of Monoaminergic Neurons in the Adult Drosophila Brain | Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne |
| Erin Schuman | The Local Landscape of mRNAs and Protein Synthesis in Neurons | Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany |
2023
2023
| Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Christine Vande Velde | Stress granules as a therapeutic target for ALS/FTD | Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal |
| Lars Borm | Illuminating tissue organization by imaging the spatial transcriptome | Linnarsson lab in Stockholm |
| Henne Holstege | The genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease and how to escape it | Department of Human Genetics Amsterdam UMC & Department of Intelligent Systems, Technical University Delft |
| Huda Y. Zoghbi | Molecular and neurobiological studies in Rett syndrome and other MECP2 disorders | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute Texas |
| Judith Zaugg | How do cells integrate extrinsic signals and intrinsic state? A systems epigenetics approach | EMBL Heidelberg |
| Axel Montagne | Cerebrovascular and inflamm-ageing link to dementia | University of Edinburgh Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences |
| Tommas Ellender | Embryonic neural progenitor pools and the generation of fine-scale neural circuits | University of Antwerp |
| Joshua Sanes | Neuronal injury and evolution – a transcriptomic perspective | Harvard University, USA |
| Sjors Scheres | Cryo-EM structures of amyloids from human brains | Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) Cambridge |
| Lucas Pelkmans | Multimodal perception links cellular state to decision making in single cells | University of Zurich |
| Beatriz Rico | Molecular Programs orchestrating the synaptic specificity of cortical circuitries | King’s College London |
| Antoine Adamantidis | All-optical dissection of sleep circuits and functions in the brain | University of Edinburgh Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences |
| Dame Pamela Shaw | MND: a neurodegenerative disorder poised for successful therapy development | University of Sheffield |
| Don Cleveland | ALS research: past, present and future | UC San Diego |
| Mortiz Helmstaedter | Cerebral Cortex Connectomics | Department of Connectomics, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
| Andrew Lin | Sparse coding for odour-specific memories through homeostatic plasticity | School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield |
| Aaron D. Gitler | Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative disease | Department of Genetics, Stanford University |
| Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou | The complex life of brain autophagic vesicles | Université de Lausanne |
| Stephan Sigrist | The presynaptic active zone as a central signaling hub | Department of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Julien Gagneur | Regulatory genomics: From sequence-based modeling to applications in rare disease diagnostics | Department of Computational Molecular Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TUM) |
| Alexander Stark | Decoding Transcriptional Regulation | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) |
| Detlev Arendt | Building bilaterian brains: innovations in molecular machinery, cell types, and nervous system architecture | EMBL Heidelberg |
| Della David | Strategies to mitigate age-dependent protein aggregation | Babraham Institute Cambridge |
| Ralf Stanewsky | Drosophila circadian rhythms: Adaptation and persistence to different environments | University of Munster |
| Jason Rihel | Sleep pressure modulates single-neuron synapse dynamics in zebrafish | University College London |
| Ali Shariati | Self-organization of pluripotent stem cells into early embryonic developmental patterns through minimal epigenome editing | University of California |
| Taisuke Tomita | Novel Strategies for Enhanced Amyloid Clearance in the Alzheimer Disease Brain | University of Tokyo |
| Wiep Schepers | Keeping the balance: Neuron-specific proteostatic stress responses and neurodegeneration | Department of Functional Genomics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU Amsterdam |
| Erika Holzbaur | Organelle quality control: lysophagy, mitophagy, and neurodegeneration | Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
| Sara Vieira-Silva | Quantitative approaches to microbiome ecology: towards personalized medicine | IMMH UMC Mainz, IMB Mainz |
| John Inglis | Preprints and the Scientific Media Landscape | BioRxiv |
| Anthony Holtmaat | Structural and functional features of higher-order thalamocortical feedback circuits | Geneva University, Neurocenter, Department of Basic Neurosciences |
| Eline Jammaers | Disability and neurodiversity as sources of advantage in science careers | Hasselt University |
| Patrizia Zanoni | ‘Diversity, equality and inclusion in science: Moving research and innovation beyond the myth of meritocracy | Hasselt University |
| Giovanni Monaco | Publishing at Cell reports Medicine | Editor Cell Reports Medicine |
| Blanca Diaz-Castro | Brain Endothelial Cell – Astrocyte Signaling in a Model of Peripherally Induced Inflammation | UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences |
| Matthew Holt | The Emerging Concept of Astrocyte Heterogeneity: Consequences for CNS Function | Instituto de Investigação em Saúde (i3S) |
| Henrietta Nielsen | Chasing Peripheral APOE Signatures | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University |
| Alexander Van Oudenaarden | Novel sequencing tools to explore replication, transcription and translation in single cells | Director of Hubrecht Institute, Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht |
| Shigeki Watanabe | Ultrafast synaptic vesicle recycling | Johns Hopkins University USA |
| Jan Huisken | Flamingo: Modular and Portable Light Sheet Microscopy Framework for Novel Biological Experiments Inside and Outside the Optics Lab | Morgridge Institute & University of Göttingen, DE |
| Judith Steen | Proteomics reveals the many lives of Tau | Ass Prof of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Neuroproteomics Laboratory, Kirby Center, Boston Children's Hospital |
2022
2022
| Speaker | Title | Position and/or Affiliation |
| Suresh Poovathingal | New Possibilities & Opportunities @ CBD Single cell & Microfludics Expertise Unit | PhD, Unit Lead, Single cell & Microfluidics Expertise Unit CBD |
| Gaia Novarino | Studying cortical development through the lens of human disorders | Professor and group leader at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
| Rosa Cossart | How development sculpts hippocampal circuits | Director of the Institute of Mediterranean Neurobiology (INMED), affiliated to INSERM and Aix-Marseille University |
| Sten Linnarsson | Development and cellular architecture of the human nervous system | Chair of the department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Professor of Molecular systems Biology, Karolinska Institutet |
| Kuang Jing Huang & Anu Tyagi | Seeing is Believing: Exploring the Lilliputian World through Electron Microscopy’ & ‘2D cellular EM and 3D cryo-EM structure determination of macromolecules | Chang Gung University, Microscopy Center, (Taiwan) & Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Division of Structural Biology and Biochemistry. (Singapore) |
| Benedikt Berninger | Engineering new interneurons for the cerebral cortex via lineage reprogramming | Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London |
| Philip De Jager | TBA | Division of Neuroimmunology & Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Medical Center, US |
| Gero Miesenböck | Biophysical Mechanisms for Balancing Sleep Need and Sleep | Director Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, University of Oxford, UK |
| Prof. Daniel Schraivogel | Genome-scale functional genomics screens with complex readouts of single cells | Research Staff Scientist EMBL Heidelberg |
| Xitong Liang | Neural mechanism of cephalopod camouflage | Gilles Laurent department, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany |
| Samantha Morris | New single-cell genomic technologies to track and perturb cell identity | Ass Prof Developmental Biology and Genetics,Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |
| Michael Ward | Uncovering mechanisms of neurodegeneration through ‘omics and iPSCs | National Institutes of Health Bethesda, USA |
| Michael Greenberg | How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Control Brain Development and Function | Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Małgorzata Śliwińska | What, where, how many…? 3D Electron microscopy as a tool that can answer various biological questions | Laboratory of Imaging Tissue Structure and Function, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Warsaw, Poland |
| Axel Montagne | Cerebrovascular and inflamm-ageing link to dementia | Chancellor's fellow at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences |
| Fatima AlZahraa Alatraktchi | Biosensors – in sickness and in health | Assistant Professor, PhD, MSc, Research group leader @ the Roskilde Universitet, Denmark |
| Selina Wray | Human stem cell models of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UK |
| Tancredi Pentimalli | Modeling herpes simplex virus 1 infection in cerebral organoids reveals new potential therapeutic approaches for viral encephalitis | Nikolaus Rajewsky Lab, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center (BIMBS-MDC), Berlin |
| Anna M. Krichevsky, Ph.D., | Non-Coding RNA regulators of brain pathologies, from brain tumors to Alzheimer’s disease | Ass Prof. of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
| Christophe Leterrier | The functional nano-architecture of axonal actin | Neuropathophysiology Institute (INP), University of Marseille |
| Marco Morsch | In vivo investigation of protein aggregation mechanisms and microglia-neuron Interactions in neurodegeneration | Macquairie University, Sydney |
| Jaewon Ko | Trans-synaptic inhibition mechanism orchestrated by synaptic CAMs | Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea |
| Jelle Jacobs | Uncovering regulatory specificities between transcriptional repressors and enhancers | IMP Vienna |
2021
2021
| Speaker | Title | Position and/or Affiliation |
| Alon Chen | Stress-induced psychiatric disorders: A symphony of molecular and cellular mechanisms’ | President of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Robin Hiesinger | How does a neuron decide when and where to make a synapse? | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Karen E. Duff | Pathogenic mechanisms in the tauopathies’ | Centre Director, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL and Professor Emerita, Columbia University Medical Center, New York |
| Fiona Doetsch | Stem Cells in the Adult Brain: Regulation and Diversity | Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Peter Mc Naughton | HCN2: a key ion channel driving pain, migraine and tinnitus | Professor of Pharmacology, King’s College London |
| Guiseppe Testa | The time of chromatin: emerging insights from longitudinal modelling of neurodevelopmental disorders | Dep of Oncology and Haemato-oncology, University of Milan and Head of the Neurogenomics Research Center of the Human Technopole, Milan, Italy |
| Valina L. Dawson | Finding New Therapeutic Opportunities in Parkinson’s disease | Director, Neuroregeneration & Stem Cell Programs, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, US |
| Nara Muraro | The Ih channel shapes circadian rhythms and sleep through the control of neuronal bursting frequency | Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires |
| Guillermina López-Bendito | A thalamus that speaks to the cortex: Spontaneous activity in development and plasticity of sensory circuits | Group Leader, Lab of Development, Plasticity and Regeneration of Thalamocortical Circuits AND Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, Alicante |
| Ed Lein (keynote speaker) | Creating a comprehensive understanding of human cortical cell types and circuits using quantitative single cell transcriptomic, anatomical and functional methods | Director of the Human Cell Types Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science |
| Cagla Eroglu | How do Astrocytes Sculpt Synaptic Circuits? | Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology Co-Director, Regeneration Next Initiative, Duke University |
| Magdalena Götz | Novel Mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair | Helmholtz Center Munich and Biomedical Center University of Munich |
| Michal Schwartz | Empowering the immune system helps defeat dementia: The key role of monocyte-derived macrophages | Dep of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Yukiko Goda | Rules for distributing synaptic weights in hippocampal neurons | Team leader and deputy director, Center for Brain Science, RIKEN, Japan |
| Dr. Alex Neumann & Dr. Balkan Canher & Dr. Joy Ismail | The X-chromosome and Alzheimer's disease: a potential contributor to sex differences?' & 'Rocks in the morphogen stream: cell death and regeneration in plant meristems' & 'Fly with me: A journey into gene regulation in the Drosophila brain' |
VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology & VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology & VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research |
| Henne Holstege | Cognitively healthy centenarians: what can we learn from them? | Assistant Professor, Dep. Clinical Genetics and Amsterdam Alzheimer center, University and Medical Center (UMC) Amsterdam |
| Liqun Luo | Wiring specificity of neural circuits | Prof. of Biology at Stanford University , Prof of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Chris Shaw | Gene therapy for ALS and FTD; Are we there yet? | Prof of Neurology and Neurogenetics, Dir. Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Ass Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and King's Health Partners |
| Dr. Armando Azua-Bustos | The Atacama Desert, the Most Martian place on Earth | Research Scientist, Dep of Planetology and Habitability, Center of Astrobiology (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain |
| Eva Hedlund | Elucidating mechanisms of neuronal resilience, vulnerability and regeneration in motor neuron diseases | Associate professor of Neurochemistry, Stockholm University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, ass prof. of Neurobiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
2020
2020
| Speaker | Title | Position and/or Affiliation |
| Fumio Matsuzaki | Structural plasticity of neural stem cells underlies brain size expansion in mammals | Director, Riken Center of Developmental biology, Kobe, Japan |
| Julie Williams | The Multiplex Model of Alzheimer’s Disease | Director–UK Dementia Research Institute, School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK |
| Fekrije Selimi | Deciphering the molecular code controlling synapse identity in the mammalian brain | Group Leader CIRB, Collège de France, Paris Research Director–CNRS Paris, France |
| Linda Van Aelst | Shedding Light on Chandelier Cell Connectivity in the Neocortex | Harold and Florence & Ethel McNeill Professor of Cancer, Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Division of Neuroscience Research, New York |
| Adriano Aguzzi | Mechanisms of prion neurotoxicity | University Hospital Zurich |
| Henne Holstege | What can we learn from those who escape cognitive decline until extreme ages? Findings from the 100-plus Study of cognitively healthy centenarians | Assistant Professor, Dep. Clinical Genetics and Amsterdam Alzheimer center, University Medical Center Amsterdam (UMC) |
| Beatriz Rico | Molecular Programs orchestrating the wiring of inhibitory circuitries | Professor, MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London |
| Barak Cohen | Integration of Local and Regional cis-Regulatory Information in the Genome | Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| Rosa Rademakers | A decade of TMEM106B research | VIB-U Antwerp |
| Peter Vangheluwe | Lysosomal transport deficiencies in Parkinson’s disease’ | Head of the Laboratory of Cellular Transport Systems at KU Leuven |
| Marc Van Ranst | Director of the clinical and epidemiological virology unit at the Rega Institute for Medical Research and member of the COVID-19 expert advisory board in Belgium and abroad | |
| Juan Burrone | The emergence and plasticity of synapses along different subcellular compartments | Prof of Development Neurophysiology, King’s College UK |
| Heidi Mc Bride | Mitochondrial vesicle transport and the stress response in Parkinsons models | McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery |
| Nadav Ahituv | Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of gene regulatory elements | Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG) graduate program, Dep of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Instit for Human Genetics, UCSF, San Francisco |
| Li-Huei Tsai | Uncovering the role of Alzheimer’s disease risk genes using stem cells, yeast, and human brains | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT |
| Dr. Maria S. Ioannou | Lipid transport from neurons to glia in health and disease | PI at the University of Alberta, Canada |
2019
2019
| Speaker | Title | Affiliation |
| Frank Polleux | Development, maintenance & evolution of cortical circuits | Visiting Professor |
| Sarah J. Tabrizi | Meeting the therapeutic challenge of Huntington’s disease-from genetic modifiers to the first trial of antisense therapy in a neurodegenerative disease‘ | Director of the Huntington’s Disease Centre, Joint Head of the Dep of Neurodegenerative Disease at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK |
| Jeroen Pasterkamp & Jean-Louis Bessereau | Semaphorins in control of cortical development and adult hippocampal neurogenesis & Ce-punctin sets GABA receptor synaptic content by dual control of extra-and intra-cellular scaffolds | Brain Center Rudolf Magnus Utrecht University, The Netherlands & NeuroMyoGène Institute University Claude Bernard Lyon, France |
| Ghazaleh Ashrafi, Cordelia Imig | Powering the synapse on demand’ & Presynaptic ultrastructure-function relationships resolved by electron tomography | Weill-Cornell Medical College & Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine |
| Luisa Cochella | Transcriptional and post-transcriptional strategies for neuronal diversification’ | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria |
| Lynette Lim & Georgia Rapti | Early neuronal diversity shapes cortical circuit assembly’ & Weaving a brain: glia-neuron crosstalk paves the way to circuit assembly | King’s College London, UK & Rockefeller University, NY, USA |
| Chister S. Ejsing | Functional lipidomics: technology and applications for systems-level analysis of lipid metabolism | Associate Professor, Dep. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark |
| Inna Slutsky | Firing Homeostasis in Neural Circuits: From Basic Principles to Malfunctions | Associate Prof., Dep of Physiology & Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University |
| Giovanna Mallucci | Neurodegeneration: mechanisms to medicines | Associate Director UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK |
| Alison Goate | Rare and common variation implicate microglial function in Alzheimer's risk | Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Neurogenetics, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology, Professor of Genetics & Genomic Sciences, ISMMS, New York & Director, Ronald Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease, Associate Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research |
| Pavan Ramdya | Reverse-engineering Drosophila behavior | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne |
| Keith K. Murai | Neuron-Astrocyte Communication and Brain Circuit Microenvironments | Director of the Centre for Research in Neuroscience, Prof Dep. Of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Leader of the Brain Repair & Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada |
| Alain Prochiantz | Regulation of cerebral cortex plasticity by Otx2 transfer from choroid plexus to PV-interneurons | Collège de France, Paris |
| Sandrine Da Cruz | Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration: from the motor neuron cell body to the neuromuscular junction | Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research University of California, San Diego |
| Rickie Patani | The molecular pathogenesis of ALS using human stem cells | Medical Research Council (MRC), Senior Clinician Scientist, Group Leader, UCL Queen Square ION & The Francis Crick Institute, UK |
| Ella Preger-Ben-Noon | How to shave a baby: evolved repression overcomes enhancer robustness | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine |
| Fred Meunier | Tracking synaptic vesicles in living nerve terminals | Single Molecule Neuroscience Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Brock Grill | Molecular Exploration of Neuron Development: Insights into Synapse Maintenance and Autophagy | The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Florida |
| Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas | Can neurons regulate immunity? | Head of Neuroinflammation Unit, BRIC, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Anthony Mathelier | Combining transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation to predict somatic mutations altering the gene regulatory program in cancer cells | Group Leader –Computational Biology & Gene Regulation Group, Oslo |
| Fred H. (Rusty) Gage | Modeling neurological and psychiatric diseases with human stem cells | President of the Salk Institute, Head of the laboratory of Genetics Salk Institute, Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurosciences, UCSD |
| Vanessa Morais | The Importance of Mitochondria Homeostasis for Brain Function | Group Leader at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular iMM, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Della David | Understanding age-dependent protein aggregation using C. elegans | DZNE, German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases Tübingen, Germany |
| Alain Prochiantz | Engrailed, a therapeutic homeoprotein in models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis? | Collège de France, Paris |
| Clothilde Lagier-Tourennes | Disruption of RNA metabolism in neurological diseases and emerging therapeutic interventions’ | Associate Professor of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA, Healey Family ALS Endowed Chair for Research |
| Justin Mirus | The future of cloning and virus packaging | Senior Territory Manager VectorBuilder GmbH |
| Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir | Neuronal activity dependent myelination and remyelination | WellcomeTrust –Medical Research Council (MRC) Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Dep. of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK, |
| Carla Shatz | Synapses lost and found in brain development, disease and repair | Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Prof. of Biology and Neurobiology, David Starr Jordan Director, Stanford Bio-X James H. Clark Center |
| Monika Moscibrodzka | Seeing the unseeable: taking the first ever photo of a black hole | Assistant Prof. at the Dep. of Astrophysics, The Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics & Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegem |
| Cheng-Ying Ho | The role of skin-derived BDNF in the development of cutaneous sensory system and treatment of diabetic neuropathy | Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore |
| Corinne Houart | RNA regulation dynamics in developing and degenerating neurons | Deputy Head -Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, MRC Centre for NeuroDev Disorders, King's College London |
| Andrew Adey | Single-cell epigenomics with combinatorial indexing | Principle Investigator, Molecular & Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, OHSU |
| Sonia Garel | Microglia at the crossroads of cortical wiring and environmental signals | Head of Brain Development & Plasticity Institut de Biologiede l’Ecole Normale Superieure(IBENS), INSERM, Paris |
| Rita Sattler | Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in C9orf72 ALS/FTD | Associate professor, Neurobiology at Barrow Neurological Institute Arizona, USA |
| Margaret Sutherland + Katja Brose | New funding opportunities at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Program Manager Neurodegeneration Challenge Network, CZI + Science Program Officer, CZI |
| Anne Bertolotti | Selective inhibition of phosphatases to boost protein quality control : A possible treatment for degenerative diseases | Group Leader at MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge |
2018
2018
| Speaker | Title | Position and/or Affiliation |
| Frank Bradke | Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration | Senior Research Group Leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Full Prof Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn |
| Andreas Hermann | Modern concepts in the pathophysiology of ALS | Group Leader Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Germany |
| Detlev Arendt | Evolution of neural cell types and nervous systems | Group leader, senior scientist & academic mentor postdoctoral training, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
| Jacques Van Helden, Boris Lenhard and Hana Imrichova | 'Protein binds DNA makes RNA — did our regulatory switches melt away with high-throughput genomics?' & 'Conservation versus innovation in yeast promoter architectures , Identification of coding and non-coding cancer drivers using gene regulatory network analysis' | |
| Martin Guilliams | Home sweet home – eternal life in the Kupffer cell niche | Prof. Ghent University, Faculty of Science, Principal investigator, VIB Center for Inflammation Research |
| Carlos Dotti | About how changes in cerebral cholesterol metabolism determine the loss of cognitive abilities with age (and at the same time prevent neuronal loss?) | Profesor de Investigación, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC/UAM), Madrid. |
| Charlotte Sumner | SMA therapeutic development: bench to the bedside and back again | Professor, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US Co-director Charcot Marie Tooth Disease Clinic and Spinal Muscular Atrophy Center |
| Martin Rossor | The many faces of Dementia | Director of the Queens Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit & Prof of Clinical Neurology, UCL, London. NIHR National Director of Dementia Research |
| Phyllis I Hanson | Expanding roles for the ESCRT machinery in endosomal trafficking and beyond | Gerty T. Cori Professor, Dep. of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, USA |
| Arnold R Kriegstein | A new understanding of human brain development in health and disease | Director, The Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF School of Medicine, Prof. in Stem Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, USA |
| Stephan Lawrence Zipursky | In Search of Cajal’s “unfathomable mystery of life” | Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry, Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, USA |
| Siddharthan Chandran | The role of cellular autonomy in neurodegenerative diseases |
Director, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Ryan J Watts | Charting New Territory in Neurodegeneration |
President and CEO of Denali Therapeutics, USA |
| Thomas Voets | TRP channels as molecular sensors in the somatosensory system | head of the Laboratory of Ion Channel Research |
| Karin Borges | Alternative fuels to treat ALS | Assistant professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
| Tara Spires-Jones | Losing connections - the role of synapses in Alzheimer's disease |
Prof of Neurodegeneration, Deputy Director of the Centre for Brain Sciences, and a UK Dementia Research Institute Programme Lead at the University of Edinburgh |
| Trese Leinders-Zufall | Neuronal mechanism of olfactory sensing: a TRiP into hormonal regulation | Sensory and Neuroendocrine Physiology, Saarland University, School of Medicine, Homburg, Germany |
| Christian Klämbt | Glial barriers and the behavior of Drosophila larvae |
Professor Institute of Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, University of Münster, Germany |
| Rosa Rademakers | Unraveling the genetic factors associated with disease risk and disease presentation in frontotemporal dementia and related disorders |
Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, USA |
| Simone Mayer | Neurotransmitters in cortical development and evolution | PhD, Regeneration Medicine University of California, San Francisco, US |
| Giorgio F. Gilestro | Most sleep does not serve a vital function. Evidence from Drosophila | Lecturer at Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, London UK |
| Isabel Beets | Neuropeptidergic networks and control of C. elegans circuit plasticity | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
| Benoit Vanhollebeke | Neurovascular development via Gpr124/Reck-dependent Wnt7/β-catenin signaling | Associate Prof and Welbio Investigator, President of the Dep of Molecular Biology Lab of Neurovascular Signaling, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| Matthijs Verhage | Neurotalk: how CNS neurons regulate the secretion of many chemical signals | Full Professor and head of Functional Genomics at the VU University Medical Center and Faculty of Life Sciences, Amsterdam Chairman of the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam |
| Stef Lhermitte | What happens in Antarctica, does not stay in Antarctica | Assistant professor Geoscience & Remote Sensing at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
| Mara Dierssen Sotos | Rethinking cognitive enhancement intellectual disability: the role of neuronal plasticity | , President Trisomy 21 Research Society, Systems Biology Program, CRG-Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain. |
| James Shorter | Countering aberrant phase transitions connected to ALS/FTD | Seminar organized by CEBE (Científicos Españoles en Bélgica) |
| Sarah Teichmann | Reconstructing Tissue Architecture by Single Cell Genomics | Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom |
| Rob Meijers | Structures of human DSCAM may reveal it is an adhesion sensor | , Group leader, Structural Biology of Cell Surface Receptors, EMBL Hamburg, Germany |
| Natalia Rodriguez Muela | Resistance versus vulnerability: unraveling the fate of neuronal subtypes in neuropathologies’ | Research Associate at Biological Research Center Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain; Associate at Harvard University, Boston, USA |
| Geert Van Loo | A20 critically controls microglia activation and neuroinflammation | Principal investigator Unit Cellular and Molecular (Patho)physiology -VIB Inflammation Research Center, Faculty of Sciences, UGent |
| Sheena Radford | Seeing amyloid: Beautiful structures and toxic mechanisms | Astbury Prof of Biophysics, The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
| Avital Rodal | Routing and remodeling membranes at the synapse | Brandeis University |
| Silvia Cappello | Mechanisms regulating human neurogenesis | Research group leader Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany |
| Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux & Robert Haase | Computer vision methods for multidimensional correlative microscopies: optimizing acquisitions using maths’ & Content aware smart microscopy - Let the microscope decide what to look at’ | CNRS Nantes & MPI Dresden |
| Iris Salecker | Connections for vision | The Francis Crick Institute, Visual Circuit Assembly Laboratory, London |
2017
2017
| Speaker | Title | Position and/or Affiliation |
| Vincent Bonin | How movement and touch entrain the sense of vision | Principal Investigator, NERF, VIB and Assistant Professor, Dept. Biology, KU Leuven |
| Michael Pankratz | Functional connectomics of a central feeding network | University of Bonn Life & MedicalSciences Institute (LIMES) Molecular Brain Physiology and Behavior |
| Simon Hippenmeyer | Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression | Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria |
| David Rowitch | Development of functionally heterogeneous astrocytes in mammalian CNS | Prof & head of the department of Paediatrics at University of Cambridge, England |
| Jeroen Pasterkamp | Non-coding RNAs in neural circuit development and disease | Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Director MIND Facility, Chair Brain (Center Rudolf Magnus) |
| Juan Larraín | Cellular and molecular mechanism of spinal cord regeneration in Xenopus | Associate Prof. , Lab of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Center for Aging and Regeneration, School of Biological Sciences, P. Universidad Católica de Chile |
| Thomas Biederer | Dynamic trans-synaptic interactions shape synapses and drive synaptogenesis | Associate Professor, Director Neuroscience Graduate Program, Dep of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA. |
| Robert Baloh | The role of C9orf72 in neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation | Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Director of Neuromuscular Medicine, Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA |
| Nils Brose | On the role of neurotransmitter signaling in the establishment of neuronal synaptic connectivity | Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany |
| Erik Jorgensen | Ultrafast endocytosis at synapses | Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Prof, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA |
| Xinnan Wang | A converging mitochondrial pathway destructed in Parkinson’s disease | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA |
| Jonathan Kipnis | Draining old concepts: meningeal lymphatics and immunity in brain function | Harrison Distinguished Teaching professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience Director, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia(BIG) University of Virginia, USA |
| Anthony Mathelier | Better predict transcription factor binding sites and highlight cis-regulatorysomatic mutations altering gene expression Draining old concepts: meningeal lymphatics and immunity in brain function | Group Leader Anthony Mathelier Group, Computational Biology & Gene Regulation, Oslo, NO |
| Fred Meunier | Munc18 (STXBP1) function and possible link to synucleopathies under the nanoscope | Prof. of Neurobiology, Head of Single Molecule Neuroscience laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute, Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research at the University of Queensland, Australia |
| Silvio Rizzoli | Synaptic vesicle functional turnover | Full Prof and Dep. Chair, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany |
| Jeff Lichtman | Prof of Molecular & Cellular Biology and the Ramón y Cajal Prof of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, USA | |
| Anja Capell | Loss of progranulin differentially affects lysosomal activity in brain cells of a mouse for FTD and NCL | Senior scientist Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany |
| Silvio Rizzoli | The relation between gene sequences and cell biology parameters | Full Prof and Dep. Chair, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany |
| Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh | What mice are telling us. Rodent model in behavioral research | PhD, Coordinator animal behavior core facility mINT, Faculty of Psychology, Laboratory Biological Psychology, Leuven |
| Elly Hol | Glia in Alzheimer’s disease – molecular changes and functional consequences | Prof of “Glia Biology of Brain diseases”, Dept. Translational Neuroscience, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht |
| Jose Bras & Rita Guerreiro | 'Genetics of neurological diseases: focus on movement’ & 'Genetics of neurological diseases: focus on dementia' | PhD, UK Dementia Research Institute & UCL Institute of Neurology, London |
| Aya Takeoka | Where are my legs?: Spatial and temporal requirements of proprioception in locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury | PhD, Principal Investigator at NERF/VIB, Assistant Professor in Faculty of Biomedicine, Department of Neurosciences @ KU Leuven |
| Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke | The choroid plexus epithelium: a small brain barrier with big therapeutic potential | Associate Professor, Ghent University-VIB, Center for Inflammation Research |
2016
2016
| Speaker | Title | Position and/or Affiliation |
| Sha Liu | Circadian and Homeostatic Control of Sleep | Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA |
| Virginia Lee | Transmission of Misfolded alpha-synuclein in synucleinopathiees | Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia |
| John Trojanowski | Seeded Transmission of Glial And Neuronal Tau Pathology: New Models of Tauopathies | Institute of Aging, Penn University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| Gianmarco Rinaldi (Sarah-Maria Fendt) & Saar Vandekeere (Peter Carmeliet) | 'Crosstalk between mTORC1 signaling and serine biosynthesis pathway in breast cancer' & 'Unexpected role for phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in mitochondrial homeostasis in endothelial cells' | |
| Adrian Liston | The Genetic Basis of Inflammation | |
| Ramin Shiekhattar | Targeting Integrator in Cancer | Director Cancer Epigenetics Research Program, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Chris Walsh | Genes and mechanisms of autism spectruum disorders | Harvard Medical School, US |
| Daniel Peeper | Systematic genetic perturbations to reveal novel cancer vulnerabilities | Division of Molecular Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Axel Nimmerjahn | How do glial cells control CNS homeostasis? | Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| Courtney Anderson, Advanced Cell Diagnostics | The Visualization of Gene Expression & Genetic Variations in situ | Advanced Cell Diagnostics |
| Chris de Zeeuw | It takes two to Tango: Cerebellar Modules and Learning Rules | Chair Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam Vice-Director Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Anirvan Ghosh | The battle to defeat neurological disease: from risk genetics to drug development | Chief scientific officer, E-scape Bio, San Francisco, USA |
| Bart Swinnen (Ludo Van Den Bosch) & Evgenia Salta (Bart De Strooper) | 'Direct RNA toxicity in an transient zebrafish model of C9orf ALS/FTD is abrogated by Pur-alpha' & 'miR-132 loss aggravates pathology in Alzheimer’s brain: A possible therapeutic target?' | |
| Emily Sylwestrak | Tools for mapping gene expression and neural activity in intact brain circuits | Deisseroth lab, Stanford University, USA |
| Carll Herrmann | Modelling the epigenetic landscape in cancer | German Cancer Research Center, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Bernice Morrow | What is new about the genetics of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome | Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York |
| Lawrence Rajendran | ScienceMatters - the next-gen science publishing platform for reproducibility, honesty and efficiency in publishing | ETH Neuroscience Center Zürich, Switzerland |
| Wiebke Niebel -Griet Den Herder -Floor Stam (VIB HQ) | Valorization of your research via VIB Tech transfer: patentability, economical and societal impact | VIB HQ, Tech Transfer |
| Anders Nykjaer | Sortilins as regulators of tyrosine kinase receptor activity: implications in mental disorders and diabetes | Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark |