51st Meeting
European Brain and Behaviour Society
Bordeaux, France | 28 June - 1 July 2025
51st Meeting
European Brain and Behaviour Society
Bordeaux, France | 28 June - 1 July 2025
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 51st Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), which will be held from 28 June to 1 July 2025 in Bordeaux, France.
With this meeting, we are assembling scientists interested in bridging brain and behavior, in health and disease, and using the most innovative theoretical and technical approaches in the neuroscience field. We have a wonderful line up of Plenary speakers and invite you to enrich the programme with excellent Parallel Symposia. Submit your proposal now.
EBBS will provide travel awards to attend the meeting on a competitive basis, and there will be an exciting social programme.
Please visit this website and check back regularly for updates on this exciting meeting.
With a fantastic venue in the heart of historical Bordeaux we very much look forward to a fantastic meeting and your participation!
On behalf of the Organising Committee
Muriel Koehl
EBBS 2025 Chair
Ewelina Knapska
EBBS President
Ewelina Knapska
EBBS President
Muriel Koehl
EBBS 2025 Chair
I started my research training during the first week of my undergraduate studies and was immediately drawn to experimental neuroscience. I then pursued a double doctorate in neurobiology and psychology at the Hebrew University, followed by a postdoc in bioengineering at Stanford University with Karl Deisseroth.
In the fall of 2012, I joined the Hebrew University as a PI, established my independent research group, and started working on the non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes, that were traditionally studied in the context of their 'housekeeping' functions. My lab looks at astrocytes from a novel angle, as local neuromodulators, signaling reward (Doron... Goshen, Nature, 2022), affecting neuronal plasticity and memory (Adamsky... Goshen, Cell, 2018; Kol... Goshen, Nature Neuroscience, 2020), and memory ensemble allocation (Refaeli... Goshen, Current Biology, 2023).
Professor Hamilton is the leader of the Social Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL). Since her PhD (UCL, 2002), she has published over 150 papers on human social cognition and social interaction, combining innovative methods with the development of new theories. The Hamilton lab conducts cutting-edge research into real-world human social interaction, employing new technologies to address questions that will improve mental health and social connectedness. Key achievements include providing a rigorous test of the controversial ‘broken mirror theory’ of autism, setting out a theoretical framework for understanding brain mechanisms of imitation, and demonstrating the applicability of fNIRS methods for the study of real-world social interaction. This work has been funded by the ERC, Leverhulme Trust and ESRC among others, and has been recognised with the 2013 Experimental Psychology Society prize lectureship and a 2021 Lundbeck visiting Professor position at the University of Copenhagen.
Cyril Herry is an INSERM Research Director at the Neurocenter Magendie (NCM) in Bordeaux. He is leading a team investigating the neuronal circuits of defensive behaviors. He obtained his PhD from the university of Bordeaux and performed post-doctoral training at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel, where he studied the role of the amygdala in the acquisition of fear extinction behavior. Dr. C. Herry’s major goal is to investigate the circuit mechanisms underlying defensive states using a combination of behavioral, physiological recordings, computational and optogenetic approaches. His long-term project is to identify, label and manipulate the neuronal circuits underlying fear and anxiety behavior to ultimately develop new therapeutic strategies for pathologies involving abnormal associative encoding such as post-traumatic stress disorders and related psychiatric conditions.
Hailan Hu is Professor and Director of School of Brain Science and Brain Medicine at Zhejiang University. She received a BA in Biochemistry from Beijing University and a PhD in neuroscience (with Corey Goodman) from UC Berkeley. After a postdoc training with Roberto Malinow at CSHL, she joined the faculty of Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2015, she has been professor at Zhejiang University. Her laboratory seeks to understand how emotional and social behaviors are encoded and regulated in the brain, with a main focus on the neural circuitry underlying depression and social dominance. Her team has identified the neural mechanism underlying the winner effect, by which individuals increase their chance of winning after previous victories. Her recent work has uncovered a new model to explain the etiology of depression and the rapid antidepressant actions of ketamine, involving NMDA receptor-dependent burst activity of lateral habenular neurons. Her work has led to the identification of several molecular targets for developing new antidepressant drugs. She is a recipient of the IBRO-Kemali International Prize and the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International award.
Mark Walton is a Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and also serves as the current British Neuroscience Association Trustee for Preclinical Neuroscience. His research programme investigates the neural mechanisms underpinning motivation and adaptive decision making, with a particular focus on how neurochemicals such as dopamine regulate these processes on a moment-by-moment timescale in rodents. His lab employs a multidisciplinary approach with a strong emphasis on behaviour, drawing inspiration from behavioural ecology, animal learning theory, neuroeconomics, and psychology, to unravel complex brain-behaviour relationships. His studies are particularly known for pioneering the use of cutting-edge methods for recording and manipulating dopamine release in rodents during novel decision making paradigms. This work is helping to show how dopamine, in tandem with wider cortical-basal ganglia circuits, regulates when to act, when to persist, and when to switch to something new.
Steve Maren is a behavioral neuroscientist who specializes in the neurobiology of emotional learning and memory in animal models. He has made several key discoveries to uncover the neurobiological basis of memories for fearful experiences. Each of these contributions has driven new empirical and theoretical work in the field and has been foundational to understanding the basic synaptic and circuit mechanisms underlying both normal and pathological fear memories. His primary research interests are neural systems for emotion, learning, and memory; contextual regulation of memory encoding and retrieval; and fear, anxiety, and PTSD. Research in his Emotion and Memory Systems Laboratory seeks to understand the brain circuits and cellular mechanisms underlying the encoding, storage, retrieval, and extinction of aversive memories, and how dysfunction in these circuits and processes contributes to anxiety disorders. We focus on the neurobiology of fear conditioning and extinction in rats and mice. The hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex, a triad of interconnected brain areas with essential roles in memory and emotion, are critical for these processes. The lab uses both behavioral and systems neuroscience methods to understand the brain mechanisms of fear and anxiety. These approaches include calcium imaging, in vivo electrophysiology, and chemo- and optogenetics. Maren is a recipient of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2001) and the D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (2017). He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science, Past-President of the Pavlovian Society, and a member of the scientific council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, He has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1995 and is a recipient of the 2015 McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders award. He started his research career as an undergraduate honors student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He went on to receive his doctorate in neurobiology from the University of Southern California in 1993 working with Dr. Richard F. Thompson. He then held faculty positions at the University of Michigan (1996-2012) and Texas A&M University (2012-2024), where he recently served as a University Distinguished Professor and Charles H. Gregory Chair of Liberal Arts in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neuroscience program. In 2024, he returned to the University of Illinois as a Professor in Psychology and Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
