
Auch für 2019 hatte die NWG wieder zwei Wissenschaftspreise ausgelobt: den Schilling Forschungspreis der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2019 und den Thermo Fisher Scientific Technologiepreis 2019. Beide Preise honorieren herausragende Leistungen auf einem Gebiet der Hirnforschung, wobei der Schilling-Preis eher die gesamt Forschungsleistung würdigt, während der Thermo Fisher Preis vor allem neue methodische und technologische Forschungsansätze auszeichnet. Beide Preise sollen junge Wissenschaftler/innen bis zu einem Alter von 35 Jahren unterstützen. Der/die Bewerber/in sollte in einem deutschen Labor arbeiten oder als Deutsche/r im Ausland tätig sein. Die Bewerbung kann entweder direkt oder durch Vorschlag erfolgen. Eine Mitgliedschaft in der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft ist nicht Voraussetzung. Die Preisverleihung erfolgt auf der Göttinger Tagung der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft vom 20. – 23. März 2019, die Preisträger wurden zu einem Hauptvortrag dort eingeladen.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Technologiepreis
Der mit 2.500 Euro dotierte Thermo Fisher Scientific Technologiepreis der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2019 geht an Jonas Wietek, Arbeitsgruppe Experimentelle Biophysik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Der Preis wird von der Firma Thermo Fisher Scientific finanziert und ist ein persönlicher Preis.
Jonas Wietek hat die ersten Licht-aktivierten Anionen-leitenden Kanalrhodopsine (ACRs) konstruiert und damit das neue Feld der photoaktivierbaren inhibitorischen Ionenkanäle initiiert. In seiner Forschung nutzt er molekularbiologische und elektrophysiologische Methoden um ACRs mit vielfältigen biophysikalischen Eigenschaften zu erschaffen, und damit geeignete Werkzeuge zur neuronalen Inhibition bereitzustellen.
Die Entwicklung und Entdeckung neuartiger ACRs hat bereits heute eine substantielle Bedeutung für die Neurowissenschaften und die Optogenetik erlangt, da die Verwendung von ACRs zur neuronalen Inhibition effizient und in allen Modellorganismen anwendbar ist. Somit ist es bereits heute möglich, Hirnareale, Netzwerke von Nervenzellen oder auch einzelne Neuronen mit hoher Präzision zu deaktivieren und somit die Funktionsweise neuronaler Strukturen detailliert zu untersuchen.

Jonas Wietek gewann den TSF Technologie-Preis 2019
Jonas Wietek hat seit August 2018 eine Postdoc-Stelle in der Arbeitsgruppe Experimentelle Biophysik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin inne, wo er auch seine Masterarbeit und seine Promotion abgeschlossen hatte.
Schilling Forschungspreis
Der Schilling Forschungspreis der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2019 wird von der Hermann und Lilly Schilling-Stiftung gestiftet und ist mit 20.000 Euro dotiert. Er wird an Friederike Zunke vom Biochemischen Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel verliehen.
Die Parkinson Erkrankung ist eine neurodegenerative Erkrankung, die durch den progressiven Verlust von Nervenzellen charakterisiert ist. Dieses Absterben der Neurone wird durch die Akkumulation des synaptischen Proteins α-Synuclein hervorgerufen, dessen Aggregationsmechanismen lange unklar waren.
Friederike Zunke erhält den Schilling Forschungspreis der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2019 für ihren Beitrag zu einem besseren Verständnis der molekularen Ursachen der Parkinsonerkrankung. Dabei fokussiert sich ihre Arbeit insbesondere auf die Bildung der pathologischen und zelltoxischen α-Synuclein Aggregate. So konnte sie die fatalen Auswirkungen von lysosomalen Dysfunktionen und die damit verbundene Akkumulation von lysosomalen Lipiden auf die Aggregation des neurotoxischen α-Synucleins zeigen. Dieses bessere Verständnis der molekularen Krankheitsursachen ist essentiell für die Weiterentwicklung von Therapiemöglichkeiten in der Parkinson Erkrankung, die bisher unzureichend sind, da sie ein weiteres Voranschreiten der Krankheit nicht verhindern können.
Infolgedessen sind die Arbeiten von Friederike Zunke maßgeblich an der Etablierung von Therapeutika beteiligt, die zu einer Verminderung von lysosomalen Lipiden und somit zur Reduktion von pathologischen α-Synuclein Aggregationen führen.
Friederike Zunke promovierte in der Biochemie der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel und verbrachte währenddessen einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. Für ihren Postdoc ging sie an das Neurologische Institut der Northwestern University in Chicago, bevor sie als Arbeitsgruppenleiterin wieder zurück ans Biochemische Institut die Universität Kiel kehrte.

Friederike Zunke ist die Schilling-Forschungspreisträgerin 2019
Die Auswahl der Preis wird durch ein Preiskomitee bestehend aus dem Vorstand der NWG und den Sektionssprechern getroffen.
Programmübersicht Göttinger Jahrestagung der NWG 2019
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
12:00 – 13:00 Plenary Lecture, Opening Lecture
Ann McKee (Boston, USA): Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): an update including the problem with football (soccer)
13:00 – 14:30 Postersession I
14:30 – 16:30 Symposia I (S1-S6)
S1 Common principles of spatial and temporal sensory processing, Chairs: Jan Clemens (Göttingen), Carlotta Martelli (Konstanz), Marion Silies (Mainz)
Berthold Hedwig (Cambridge, UK): Unraveling a delay-line and coincidence detector circuit for auditory pattern recognition
Carlotta Martelli (Konstanz): Adaptive responses and population dynamics in the olfactory system of Drosophila
Karin Nordstrom (Adelaide, Australia): Hoverfly vision in naturalistic surrounds
Barani Raman (Saint Louis, USA): A computational logic for olfaction
Katja Sporar (Göttingen): Cellular and circuit mechanisms that separate luminance and contrast sensitivity in peripheral visual processing
Alexander S. Chockley (Köln): Subgroups of femoral chordotonal organ neurons differentially affect leg movements and coordination in Drosophila melanogaster
S2Optogenetics – tool development and application in neuroscience, Chair: Alexander Gottschalk (Frankfurt/M.)
Benjamin R. Rost (Berlin): Optogenetic tools for neuroscience beyond the classical application of microbial rhodopsins
Soojin Ryu (Mainz): Optogenetic manipulation of the stress response in larval zebrafish
Ofer Yizhar (Rehovot, Israel): Optogenetic dissection of prefrontal circuits for cognitive control
Alexander Dieter (Göttingen): Improved spectral resolution of optogenetic vs electric stimulation of the auditory nerve
Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada (Hamburg): Interrogation of neuronal circuit function using customized optogenetic actuators and silencers
S3Keeping neurons alive – erythropoietin, its variants and its receptors, Chairs: Nina Hahn (Göttingen), Ralf Heinrich (Göttingen)
Christel Bonnas (Göttingen): EV-3, an endogenous human erythropoietin isoform with distinct functional relevance
Daniela Ostrowski (Kirksville, USA): How erythropoietin mediates its neuroprotective effects
Edith Marianne Schneider Gasser (Zürich, Switzerland): Erythropoietin signaling in mouse angio-oligo-neurogenesis
Pardes Habib (Aachen): Erythropoietin regulates anti-apoptotic TMBIM family members after ischemic stroke
Nina Hahn (Göttingen): Epo-induced neuroprotection: crucial role for orthologues of the orphan cytokine receptor CRLF3
S4Neurological autoimmunity: the role of pathogenic autoantibodies against neuron and glia proteins, Chairs: Christian P. Moritz (Saint Etienne/Lyon, France), Claudia Sommer (Würzburg)
Dominik Jäger (Lübeck): Development of autoantibody test systems against neural proteins
Edgar Meinl (Martinsried): Autoantibodies against myelin oligodendrocytes glycoprotein (MOG)
Claudia Sommer (Würzburg): Autoantibodies in peripheral neuropathies
Brigitte Theresia Wildemann (Heidelberg): The clinical spectrum and diagnosis of AQP4-IgG-associated and MOG-IgG-associated disorders
Yara Nasser (Saint Etienne, France): Anti-FGFR3 antibody: a biomarker of sensory neuronopathies or an active player of neuron degeneration?
S5Serotonin and its developmental role in shaping brain plasticity and neuropsychological phenotypes, Chairs: Natalia Alenina (Berlin), Francesca Calabrese (Milan, Italy), Piotr Popik (Krakow, Poland)
Natalia Alenina (Berlin): Serotonin and development: the role of the peripheral serotonergic system
Judith Homberg (Nijmegen, Netherlands): Increased maternal extracellular serotonin levels beneficially influences offspring’s anxiety- and anhedonia-like behaviour
Agnieszka Nikiforuk (Kraków, Poland): High and low serotonin: implications for neuropsychiatric disorders
Sophie Scotto-Lomassese (Paris, France): Role of serotonin in maternal behavior
Franziska E. Müller (Hannover): The impact of serotonergic signaling in astrocytes
S6Novel insights into the regulation of hypothalamic neurocircuits and functions, Chairs: Henning Fenselau (Köln), Sophie Steculorum (Köln)
Cristina García Cáceres (Garching): UCP2 in astrocytes regulates the activation of NPY neurons to control feeding behavior
Rüdiger Klein (Martinsried): Central amygdala circuits controlling appetitive behavior
Alexey Ponomarenko (Düsseldorf): Temporal separation of neuronal ensembles in hypothalamus regulates innate behaviors
Jan Siemens (Berlin): t.b.a.
Tim Gruber (Garching): Remodeling of the hypothalamic vasculature upon hypercaloric feeding depends on astroglial HIF1α and VEGF
Hanna Elin van den Munkhof (Köln): Applying unsupervised machine learning to study the lateral hypothalamic circuitry underlying motivated behaviour in freely moving mice
16:30 – 18:00 Postersession II
19:00 – 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Zülch Lecture
Giulio Tononi (Madison, USA): Consciousness: from theory to practice
Thursday, March 21, 2019
9:00 – 10:00 Awarding Plenary Lectures
Schilling Award Lecture
Friederike Zunke (Kiel): Molecular disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches in Parkinson’s disease
TFS Technology Award Lecture
Jonas Wietek (Berlin): Encounters in anion channelrhodopsin research – a personal perspective on the development of inhibitory optogenetic tools
10:00 – 11:30 Postersession III
11:30 – 13:30 Symposia II (S7-S12)
S7Short-term adaptation in early auditory processing: from synaptic depression to focal perception, Chairs: Andrea Lingner (Martinsried), Michael Pecka (Martinsried)
Andrea Lingner (Martinsried): Time course of stimulus-history dependent adaptation of auditory spatial perception
Israel Nelken (Jerusalem, Israel): Cortical mechanisms underlying stimulus-specific adaptation and deviance detection
Henrique von Gersdorff (Portland, USA): Building fast and resilient inhibitory synapses with Ca2+ nanodomains and microdomains
Matthew A. Xu-Friedman (Buffalo, USA): Regulation of auditory nerve synaptic function by activity
Elisa G. Krächan (Kaiserslautern): Novel form of synaptic plasticity: rebound effect at MNTB-LSO inputs
Jörg Encke (Garching): Adaptation to stimulus statistics enhances the separability between interaural level differences on a population basis.
S8From astrocytes to behaviors: searching the cellular and molecular roots of emotion dysfunctions, Chairs: Barbara Di Benedetto (Regensburg), Inga Neumann (Regensburg)
Oliver J. Bosch (Regensburg): Partner loss impairs brain oxytocin signalling: physiological and emotional consequences in monogamous prairie voles
Barbara Di Benedetto (Regensburg): Astrocytic EphrinA impacts the distribution of synaptic AMPA receptors in health and depression
Giovanni Marsicano (Bordeaux, France): CB1 receptor signaling in the brain: the where matters
Christine R. Rose (Düsseldorf): Astrocyte regulation of neuronal excitability
Celia Roman (Regensburg): Antidepressant drugs require astrocytes to prime an early synaptic pruning and remodelling in the prefrontal cortex
Carl Meinung (Regensburg): Oxytocin rapidly affects astrocytic morphology via a Sp1-Gem axis
S9Resolving the cognitive function of prefrontal circuits: from neurons to behavior, Chairs: Ilka Diester (Freiburg), Ileana Hanganu-Opatz (Hamburg)
Sarah Rachel Heilbronner (Minneapolis, USA): Connectivity reveals prefrontal cortical circuit homologies between rodents and primates
Christoph Kellendonk (New York, USA): Thalamo-prefrontal interactions in working memory
Thilo Womelsdorf (Nashville, USA): Prefrontal cortex circuits as a hub for flexible learning and attentional filtering of goal-irrelevant information
Marie Carlén (Stockholm, Sweden): Quantitative whole brain mapping of the monosynaptic input to four different cell types in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex
Mattia Chini (Hamburg): Microglia inhibition rescues developmental hypofrontality in a mouse model of cognitive impairment
Abhilash Dwarakanath (Tübingen): Low frequency oscillatory bursts in the macaque prefrontal cortex predict spontaneous transitions in the content of consciousness
S10Brain-machine-interface in paralysis, Chair: Niels Birbaumer (Tübingen)
Ramos-Murguialday, Ander (Tübingen): t.b.a.
Gabriel Curio (Berlin): Non-invasive single-trial EEG detection of evoked human neocortical population spikes
Eilon Vaadia (Jerusalem, Israel): Volitional Control of spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal synchrony via brain-machine interface
John Donoghue (Geneva, Switzerland): Potential challenges for implantable brain computer interfaces
Daniel G. Schmidt (Ulm): Executive eye movement impairment in presymptomatic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mutation carriers
S11The 4Rs in animal-based neuroscience research: Refinement, Reduction, Replacement, Responsibility, Chairs: Roman Stilling (Münster), Stefan Treue (Göttingen)
Ulrich Dirnagl (Berlin): Navigating ethics and evidence in preclinical neuroscience research
Michael Heide (Dresden): Brain organoids as ideal replacements of animal models in neuroscience? – Chances and limitations of a brain in a dish
Malcolm R. Macleod (Edinburgh, UK): The Reproducibility Opportunity
Stefan Treue (Göttingen): Responsibility includes communication and transparency about animal research
S12 Breaking News I, Chair: Marc Spehr (Aachen)
Felix Clotten (Köln): Descending control of two coupled locomotor systems
Andreea Constantinescu (Wien, Austria): Multiplexing motor functions and impulsive traits is molecularly dissociated by subthalamic metabotropic glutamate receptor 4
Jennifer Heck (Magdeburg): C-terminal splicing of presynaptic calcium channels contributes to the variability of neurotransmitter release
Madhura Ketkar (Mainz): A luminance-sensitive cell type in Drosophila facilitates visual contrast computation
Özge Demet Özcete (Göttingen): Sound encoding at individual inner hair cell synapses
Aarti Sehdev (Konstanz): Olfactory object recognition based on fine-scale stimulus timing in Drosophila
Ahmed Shaaban (Göttingen): Dissecting key mechanisms of gut-to-brain signalling
Sonja Sivcev (Praha, Czech Republic): Testosterone derivatives increase sensitivity of P2X receptors to ATP and antagonize the effect of ivermectin on deactivation
Thede Witschel (Tübingen): Finite element simulations of active electroception
Sebastian Mauricio Molina-Obando (Göttingen): A combination of GABA- and glutamate-gated chloride channels mediates ON selectivity in the Drosophila visual system
14:30 – 16:30 Symposia III (S13-S18)
S13 Breaking News II, Chair: Marc Spehr (Aachen)
Margarita Anisimova (Hamburg): Optogenetic spike-timing-dependent plasticity (oSTDP)
Marcel Brosch (Magdeburg): A flexible and transparent electrode array for closed-loop optogenetic stimulation
Oana Constantin (Hamburg): Manipulation of intracellular cAMP and membrane potential using light activated adenylyl cyclases and CNG channels
Sofia Elizarova (Göttingen): Nanosensor-based Imaging of Presynaptic Dopamine Release
Raziye Karapinar (Bochum): Design of an ultra-fast switching mouse melanopsin variant with a narrow action spectrum
Golan Karvat (Freiburg): Real-time neurofeedback in freely behaving rats: training a network to study a network
Mauro Pulin (Hamburg): Chemogenetic silencing: synaptic mechanisms and long-term effects at Schaffer collateral synapses
Meike Marie Rogalla (Bremen): Hearing colors: evaluation of frequency representation in optogenetic midbrain implants
Michael Schweigmann (Homburg): Exploring cortical brain networks with flexible LCP microelectrode arrays in parallel to two-photon imaging of anaesthetized and awake mice
Yixin Tong (Freiburg i.Br.): Optogenetic stimulation of VTA dopaminergic neurons in a rodent model of depression
S14Adaptivity and inhomogeneity in neuronal networks – two sides of the same coin?, Chairs: Ulrich Egert (Freiburg), Stefan Rotter (Freiburg)
Júlia V Gallinaro (Freiburg): Cell assembly formation and non-random connectivity in networks subject to homeostatic structural plasticity
Anna Levina (Tübingen): Self-organization of neuronal dynamics by plasticity and adaptation
Samora Okujeni (Freiburg): Self-organized mesoscale inhomogeneity promotes rich activity dynamics
Christos Galanis (Freiburg): Dopamine blocks homeostatic excitatory synaptic plasticity in immature dentate granule cells of entorhino-hippocampal tissue cultures
S15The brain oxytocin system – its complex impact on autism, social behavior, and stress, Chairs: Benjamin Jurek (Regensburg), Adam Steven Smith (Lawrence, USA)
Marta Busnelli (Milano, Italy): Oxytocin: its signaling of action and receptor signalling in the brain
Benjamin Jurek (Regensburg): The brain oxytocin system and its complex impact on stress and anxiety
Martin Schulte-Rüther (Aachen): Social reinforcement learning and its neural modulation by oxytocin in autism spectrum disorder
Adam Steven Smith (Lawrence, USA): Oxytocin and social contact reduce anxiety
Magdalena Meyer (Regensburg): Oxytocin alters the morphology of hypothalamic neurons via the transcription factor myocyte enhancer factor 2A (MEF-2A)
Dominik Fiedler (Münster): Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor modulates synaptic properties of ovBNST neurons via TrkB receptors
S16Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration, Chairs: Ira Milosevic (Göttingen), Nuno Raimundo (Göttingen)
Thomas Langer (Köln): Proteolytic control of mitochondrial dynamics and neurodegeneration
Elena Rugarli (Köln): CLUH is a post-transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial function
Nektarios Tarernarakis (Heraklion, Greece): Mitochondrial turnover and homeostasis in ageing and neurodegeneration
Patrik Verstreken (Leuven, Belgium): The origin of sleep defects in Parkinson disease
Sindhuja Gowrisankaran (Göttingen): Rabconnectin-3a regulates vesicle acidification at the neuronal synapse
King Faisal Yambire (Göttingen): Lysosomal and mitochondrial crosstalk: a case for neurodegeneration in LSDs?
S17Dissection of a central brain circuit: structure, plasticity and functions of the drosophila mushroom body, Chairs: André Fiala (Göttingen), Bertram Gerber (Magdeburg)
Yoshinori Aso (Ashburn, USA): Mechanisms to diversify learning rules in parallel memory circuits
Stephan Sigrist (Berlin): Mechanisms underlying age-induced memory impairment in relation to mushroom body function
Lisa Scheunemann (Paris, France): Serotonergic Modulation of Memory Circuits
Barbara Webb (Edinburgh, UK): Modelling the mechanisms of learning in the mushroom body
Nino Mancini (Magdeburg): Function of the anterior paired lateral (APL) neuron in associative olfactory learning in larval Drosophila
Radostina Lyutova (Würzburg): Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and Kenyon cells in the Drosophila larva
S18 From normal brain development to pathology: what role does the environment play?, Chairs: Cristiana Cruceanu (München), Simone Mayer (Tübingen)
Claudia Buss (Berlin): Maternal inflammation during pregnancy and fetal brain development
Cristiana Cruceanu (München): Stress hormones during pregnancy and fetal brain development: what we can learn from perinatal tissues and in vitro models
Simone Mayer (Tübingen): Early active intercellular signaling networks in the developing human brain
Freda Diane Miller (Toronto, Canada): Stem cells and growth factors: building and repairing the murine forebrain
Paola Brivio (Milano, Italy): Alteration of serotoninergic system alters neuroplastic mechanisms from postnatal development until adulthood.
Rebecca Winter (Dresden): Prevention of schizophrenia deficits via non-invasive adolescent frontal cortex stimulation in rats
16:30 – 18:00 Postersession IV
19:00 – 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Hertie Foundation Lecture
Onur Güntürkün (Bochum): Cognition without a cortex
Friday, March 22, 2019
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture, Norbert Elsner Lecture
Nachum Ulanovsky (Rehovot, Israel) Neural codes for natural navigation in the hippocampal formation of bats
10:00 – 11:30 Postersession V
11:30 – 13:30 Symposia IV (S19-S24)
S19 From clinical symptoms to motoneuron pathobiology: most recent insights into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Chairs: Jochen Weishaupt (Ulm), Albert C. Ludolph (Ulm)
Karin Danzer (Ulm): TDP-43 aggregation – implications for ALS
Dorothee Dormann (Planegg-Martinsried): Molecular mechanisms of ALS – from nuclear transport defects to protein aggregation
Jochen H. Weishaupt (Ulm): From ALS genes to pathogenic principles and targets for individualized therapies
Albert C. Ludolph (Ulm): t.b.a.
Alexander Nikolaevich Trofimov (Maastricht, Netherlands): Neuroinflammation in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with FUS gene mutation and effects of standard and new therapies
Diane Penndorf (Jena): Replicative reprogramming in the context of physiological CNS aging and age-related neurodegeneration
S20Subcortico-cortical loops and their role in sensory processing and perception, Chairs: Livia de Hoz (Berlin), Julio Hechavarria (Frankfurt/M.)
Laura Busse (Planegg-Martinsried): Visual processing of feedforward and feedback signals in mouse dLGN
Livia de Hoz (Berlin): Auditory midbrain coding of temporally sparse statistics
Max F. K. Happel (Magdeburg): Recurrent corticothalamic feedback in auditory cortex mediating salient auditory perception
Julio Hechavarria (Frankfurt/M.): Understanding the auditory hierarchy: modifications to auditory processing on the way to the cortex
Francisco Garcia-Rosales (Frankfurt/M.): Cortical oscillations aid the representation of natural vocalization streams at multiple timescales
Kim Chi Le (Aachen): Dual-color imaging for isolating olfactory bulb output streams in mice
S21Behavioral decisions based on multimodal information, Chairs: Basil el Jundi (Würzburg), Martin Strube-Bloss (Würzburg)
Marie Dacke (Lund, Sweden): As the craw flies and the beetle rolls: straight-line orientation from behaviour to neurons
Markus Knaden (Jena): Desert ant navigation by olfactory and visual cues
Simon Sponberg (Atlanta, USA): Timing, multimodal integration, and coordination in the neural control of agile flight in low light
Matthias Wittlinger (Freiburg): Multimodal odometry in navigating Cataglyphis desert ants
Robin Grob (Würzburg): Compass systems during ant learning walks: the role of celestial cues for initial compass calibration in cataglyphis ants
Arne Gollin (Bielefeld): Estimating body pitch from distributed proprioception: On the role of afferent number and distribution
S22The neuronal basis of tinnitus, Chair: Birgit Mazurek (Berlin), Holger Schulze (Erlangen)
Birgit Mazurek (Berlin): Tinnitus and comorbidities
Arnaud Jean Norena (Marseille, France): The pathophysiology of tinnitus
Holger Schulze (Erlangen): The fine-tuned brain: better hearing in tinnitus patients due to stochastic resonance?
Pim Van Dijk (Groningen, Netherlands): Characteristics of auditory processing associated with tinnitus
Elouise Alexandra Koops (Groningen, Netherlands): Cortical tonotopic maps in tinnitus and hearing loss
S23Early information selection for robust vision, Chair: Matthias Bethge (Tübingen)
Katrin Franke (Tübingen): Chromatic processing in the mouse retina
Ziad M. Hafed (Tübingen): A vision for orienting in primate superior colliculus
Matthias Bethge (Tübingen): t.b.a.
Li Zhaoping (Tübingen): Visual selection
S24Form follows function? Rules and consequences of structural synaptic plasticity, Chairs: Tobias Rose (Martinsried), J. Simon Wiegert (Hamburg)
Anthony Holtmaat (Geneva, Switzerland): Synaptic mechanisms for plasticity in the somatosensory cortex
Tara Keck (London, UK): Structural dynamics following sensory deprivation in mouse visual cortex
Simon Wiegert (Hamburg): The sequence of plasticity inducing events sets the lifetime of hippocampal synapses
Panayiota Poirazi (Heraklion, Greece): Memory linking through synapse clustering in active dendrites
Brenna C Fearey (Hamburg): Mapping action potential back propagation using SynTagMA
14:30 – 16:30: Symposia V (S25-S30)
S25Go with the flow? Processing of sensory flows across modalities, Chairs: Aristides Arrenberg (Tübingen), Jan Benda (Tübingen), Annette Denzinger (Tübingen), Hanspeter Mallot (Tübingen)
Karen Carleton (College Park, USA): Optimal visual sensitivities: what the cichlid eye needs to tell the cichlid brain
Eric Scott Fortune (Newark, USA): Close-loop control of active-sensing movements
Michaela Warnecke (Baltimore, USA): Echo flow patterns influence bat flight behavior and neural activity
Douglas R. Wylie (Edmonton, Canada): An eye towards hovering: species differences in the processing of optic flow in birds in relation to flight behavior
Dimokratis Karamanlis (Göttingen): Natural stimuli reveal a spectrum of spatial encoding across the output channels of the retina
Kun Wang (Tübingen): Binocular processing and receptive fields of motion-sensitive neurons in the zebrafish pretectum and tectum
S26Neural mechanisms of social decision-making(SFB 1158), Chairs: Igor Kagan (Göttingen), Arezoo Pooresmaeili (Göttingen)
Steve W. C. Chang (New Haven, USA): The coordinated interplay between prefrontal areas and amygdala in social gaze dynamics and decision-making
Tobias Kalenscher (Düsseldorf): Neural mechanisms of social preferences in rats
Alan G. Sanfey (Nijmegen, Netherlands): Reciprocity and punishment: insights from decision neuroscience
Anne Christin Saulin (Würzburg): How multiple motives affect the computation of social decisions in the human brain
Caedyn Lachlan Stinson (Berlin): The role of differential sensory input and attributional biases in social effort perception
S27Neurodegenerative diseases: shaping neuronal circuits by membrane trafficking, Chairs: Natalia Kononenko (Köln), Brunhilde Wirth (Köln)
Michael Alan Cousin (Edinburgh, UK): Loss of functional huntingtin causes activity-dependent presynaptic defects in Huntington’s disease
Natalia Kononenko (Köln): AP-2 prevents amyloidogenic processing of APP via endocytosis-independent regulation of BACE1 trafficking in neurons
Ira Milosevic (Göttingen): Endocytosis and autophagy dysfunction in neurodegeneration
Brunhilde Wirth (Köln): Protective modifiers unveiled impaired endocytosis in Spinal Muscular Atrophy and opened new therapeutic options
Ferdi Ridvan Kiral (Berlin): Decreased filopodial dynamics at autophagy-deficient photoreceptor axon terminals lead to ectopic synapse formation and neuronal miswiring
S28Modulatory circuits of central pain processing, Chairs: Valery Grinevich (Heidelberg), Alexander Groh (Heidelberg)
Alexandre Charlet (Strasbourg, France): Oxytocin acts on astrocytes in the central amygdala to promote comfort
Luis Garcia-Larrea (Lyon, France): The cortical construction of pain
Valery Grinevich (Heidelberg): Somatosensory modulation of oxytocin neurons drives social communication
Alexander Groh (Heidelberg): Cortical control of thalamic pain processing
Carla Norwig (Würzburg): Expression profile of tight junction proteins in a model of diabetic neuropathy
Livia Asan (Heidelberg): The cellular basis of volumetric brain changes during chronic pain – a novel approach to correlate voxel-based morphometry with in vivo microscopy
S29Orexin beyond sleep, Chairs: Markus Fendt (Magdeburg), Michael Koch (Bremen)
Fernando Berrendero (Madrid, Spain): Orexin regulation of fear learning and extinction
Marta Carus-Cadavieco (Köln): Hypothalamic network oscillations and regulation of feeding behaviour
Nadine Faesel (Magdeburg): Role of orexin deficiency in panic-like anxiety
Julia Sabine Schuller (Bremen): Neurochemical investigation of impulse control in a rat model of binge eating disorder
Archana Durairaja (Magdeburg): Role of orexin in cognitive flexibility
S30Inhibitory synapse diversity in health and disease, Chairs: Dilja Krueger-Burg (Göttingen), Theofilos Papadopoulos (Göttingen)
Matthias Kneussel (Hamburg): Neuronal GABAA receptor trafficking and turnover underlying synaptic transmission and cognitive function
Dilja Krueger-Burg (Göttingen): The cell adhesion molecule IgSF9b regulates inhibitory synapse function in the amygdala anxiety circuitry
Jonas-Frederic Sauer (Freiburg): Altered prefrontal pyramidal-GABAergic interneuron circuit architecture in a genetic mouse model of psychiatric illnesses
Scott Haydn Soderling (Durham, USA): Proteo-connectomics to discover novel mechanisms of inhibition in vivo
Martin Zeller (Tübingen): Amygdala intercalated neurons form an interconnected and functionally heterogeneous network
16:30 – 18:00 Postersession VI
19:00 – 20:00 Plenary Lecture, Schram Lecture
Volker Haucke (Berlin): Mechanisms of presynapse function and assembly
Saturday, March 23, 2019
8:30 – 10:30 Symposia VI (S31-S36)
S31The tripartite synapse in health and disease, Chairs: Gabor Petzold (Bonn), Christine R. Rose (Düsseldorf)
Niklas J. Gerkau (Düsseldorf): Sodium loading in metabolically compromised cortex
Christian Henneberger (Bonn): Perisynaptic astrocyte structure dynamically shapes hippocampal glutamate signalling
Gabor Petzold (Bonn): Role of astroglial calcium changes in Alzheimer’s disease and stroke
Verena Untiet (Copenhagen, Denmark): Astroglial chloride-homeostasis in health and disease
Zhou Wu (Bonn): Unravelling potential mechanisms causing astrocytic death during early epileptogensis
Mico Bozic (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Astroglial MHC class II molecules are associated with fusion of larger vesicles
S32Hearing system adaptation for diverse lifestyles across the animal kingdom, Chairs: Manuela Nowotny (Frankfurt/M.), Stefan Schöneich (Leipzig)
Jan Clemens (Göttingen): Acoustic communication in the wild – a shared song feature detector drives male and female responses to song in Drosophila
Manuela Nowotny (Frankfurt/M.): Talk to me darling – neuronal adaptations for intraspecific communication in the bushcricket ear
Hannah ter Hofstede (Hanover, USA): Auditory adaptations for detecting echolocating predators in moths and katydids
Christine Köppl (Oldenburg): Death on silent wings – adaptations for sound localization in the barn owl
Lina Maria Jaime Tobon (Göttingen): Understanding sound encoding: correlation of response properties of afferent inner hair cell synapses at near physiological conditions
Ajayrama Kumaraswamy (Planegg-Martinsried): Adaptations in an identified honeybee auditory interneuron responsive to waggle dance vibration signals
S33Pro-survival versus toxic NMDA receptor signaling and the fight against neurodegenerative disorders, Chairs: Hilmar Bading (Heidelberg)
Hilmar Bading (Heidelberg): The NMDA receptor paradox: pro-survival versus death signaling
Giles E. Hardingham (Edinburgh, UK): Probing the roles of GluN2 C-terminal domain signalling in health and disease
Stuart A. Lipton (La Jolla, USA): The novel NMDAR antagonist NitroSynapsin as therapy for hiPSC- and mouse-models of human autism spectrum disorder
Lynn A Raymond (Vancouver, Canada): Role for extrasynaptic NMDA receptors in prodromal Huntington disease: mechanisms and therapeutic implications
Liliana Rojas-Charry (Hamburg): Specific mutations in presenilin 1 have a differential role on mitochondrial phenotype and function
S34The dentate gyrus – from microcircuit function to control of behavior, Chairs: Marlene Bartos (Freiburg)
Marlene Bartos (Freiburg): In vivo imaging of stable and dynamic memory engrams in the rodent hippocampus
Fritjof Helmchen (Zürich, Switzerland): Two-photon imaging of dentate granule cells and CA3 pyramidal cells in mouse hippocampus
Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (Paris, France): Probing cellular mechanisms of pattern separation in the dentate gyrus
Heinz Beck (Bonn): Mechanisms of sparse coding in the dentate gyrus
Thomas Hainmueller (Freiburg i. Br.): Imaging the dentate gyrus circuitry during virtual navigation.
S35The presynaptic active zone: converging and diverging mechanisms across species, Chairs: Robert Kittel (Leipzig), Noa Lipstein (Göttingen)
Nadine Ehmann (Leipzig): Active zone physiology in the context of olfactory information processing in Drosophila
Pascal Kaeser (Boston, USA): Dissecting release site architecture for fast neurotransmitters and for neuromodulators
Joshua M. Kaplan (Boston, USA): From compost to the clinic: using C. elegans to study psychiatric disorders
Janet Elizabeth Richmond (Chicago, USA): Molecular machinery required for synaptic organization and release
Lydia S.B. Maus (Göttingen): Resolving the ultrastructural organization of synaptic vesicle pools at hippocampal mossy fiber and schaffer collateral synapses
Martin Baccino-Calace (Oberengstringen, Switzerland): thin promotes presynaptic homeostatic plasticity at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction
S36Beyond expression of fear: mechanisms and circuits of the extended amygdale, Chairs: Maren Denise Lange (Münster), Thomas Seidenbecher (Münster))
Ki Ann Goosens (New York, USA): Mechanisms underlying stress-enhanced fear
Maren Denise Lange (Münster): Endocannabinoids impact on responses to predictable and unpredictable threat via CRH neurons
Laura Luyten (Leuven, Belgium): Targeting the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to reduce anxiety in rats and patients
Stephen Maren (College Station, USA): The way forward is backward: BNST mediates fear to ambiguous threats
Julia Winter (Regensburg): The transcription factor MEF-2A mediates the anxiogenic effect of chronic oxytocin
Roman Kessler (Marburg): The watchdog won’t stop barking! Top-down control of the amygdala by medial prefrontal cortex in major depression: The role of medication, genetic liability and childhood maltreatment
10:30 – 12:00 Postersession VII
12:30 – 13:30 Plenary Lecture, Ernst Florey Lecture
Antoine Triller (Paris, France) The synapse: memory in a fluid membrane
13:30 – 15:00 Postersession VIII
15:00 – 16:00 Plenary Lecture, Otto Creutzfeldt Lecture
Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Vienna, Austria) The brain as a timer: day, season and moon phase coordination in the sea
Die Online-Registrierung ist noch bis zum 6. März 2019 möglich. Eine Registrierung vor Ort wird ebenfalls angeboten.
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Adzic, Marija (Serbia)
Anisimova, Margarita (Germany)
Božić, Mićo (Slovenia)
Brivio, Paola (Italy)
Clotten, Felix (Germany)
Daghsni, Marwa (Tunisia)
Ebrahimtabar, Forough (Iran)
Eckert, Philipp (Germany)
Eiffler, Ina (Germany)
Fleischmann, Pauline Nikola (Germany)
Guedes-Dias, Pedro (USA)
Keine, Christian (Germany)
Kugler, Christof (Germany)
Liedtke, Maik (Germany)
Paschen, Enya (Germany)
Pentimalli, Tancredi Massimo (Italy)
Pina, Eneko (Germany)
Rodriguez-Rozada, Silvia (Germany)
Sathyanarayanan, Ranganayaki (India)
Schlüter, Annabelle (Germany)
Schoof, Melanie (Germany)
Taylor, Stephanie (Germany)
Winter, Julia (Germany)
Wu, Zhou (Germany)
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Einladung zur Mitgliederversammlung auf der 13. Göttinger Tagung der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (20. – 23. März 2019)
Donnerstag, 21. März 2019, 13:30 – 14:30 Uhr
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