09:00-13:00

Registration

10:00-13:30

Satellite Event

14:30-15:00

Opening ceremony

15:00-16:00

Plenary Session

Keynote Lecture

Inbal Goshen (Jerusalem, Israel)

Astrocytes in high brain function

16:00-17:30

Parallel Symposia

Astrocytic control of emotion and cognition
Chairs: Paula Gomez Sotres (Bordeaux, France) & Giada Pacinelli (Genoa, Italy)

Paula Gomez Sotres (Bordeaux, France)

Astrocytic mitochondrial CB1 receptors link social transmission of stress to cognitive adaptations

Giada Pacinelli (Genoa, Italy)

Cortical astrocytes modulate emotion discrimination

Alexandre Charlet (Strasbourg, France)

Astrocytes in mice central amygdala mediates oxytocin-dependent behavioral adaptation

Andrew Holmes (Rockville, MD, USA)

Astrocytic contributions to neural representation to amygdala-mediated memory

Thinking (too much) about food: understanding the neurobiology of eating disorders
Chair: Maria-Beatrice Passani (Florence, Italy)

Suzanne Dickson (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Delving into the brain’s orexigenic systems

Roger Adan (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

A new mouse model for food anxiety in anorexia nervosa

Gustavo Provensi (Florence, Italy)

Does neuronal histamine play a role in binge eating disorder?

Aniko Korosi (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Combatting early-life stress through nutrition: focus on neuroinflammation

Neurobiology of sex differences in drug addiction
Chair: Céline Nicolas (Bordeaux, France)

Liana Fattore (Cagliari, Italy)

Serotoninergic mechanisms in methamphetamine addiction and related behavioral effects: the modulating role of sex

Anna Li (College Park, MD, USA)

Role of mitochondrial dynamics in incubation of oxycodone craving in male and female rats

Claudia Fornari (Bordeaux, France)

Sex differences in insular cortex function in persistent alcohol drinking despite aversion in mice

Jennifer Murray (Guelph, Canada)

Hormonal influence on cocaine relapse circuitry

17:30-18:00

Coffee Break

18:00-19:00

Plenary Session

Young investigators Awards
Blitz presentations

19:00

Welcome reception - Wine & Cheese

09:00-10:00

Plenary Session

Keynote Lecture

Hailan  Hu (Hangzhou, China)

Neural mechanism of psychedelics as rapid antidepressants

10:00-11:30

Poster Session - Sponsors Time - Coffee

11:30-13:00

Parallel Symposia

The immune mind: how immunity shapes mood and behavior
Chairs: Arnau Busquets Garcia (Barcelona, Spain) & Silvia Castany Quintana (Linköping, Sweden)

Ciaran Murphy Royal (Montréal, Canada)

Sex-specific behavioural responses to stress are mediated by astrocytic glucocorticoid receptors

Agnes Nadjar (Bordeaux, France)

Nutrient-driven microglial metabolic reprogramming and its impact on mouse behavior

Caroline Menard (Quebec City, Canada)

Pericytes modulate brain vascular integrity in social stress and depression

Silvia Castany Quintana (Linköping, Sweden)

Neuronal modulation of inflammation during negative mood

Ventral hippocampal circuits in reward motivated behavior
Chair: Maithe Arruda-Carvalho (Toronto, Canada)

Maithe Arruda-Carvalho (Toronto, Canada)

Maturation of hippocampal projections defines a pathway specific sensitive period for cognitive flexibility

Stéphane Ciocchi (Bern, Switzerland)

Hippocampal contextualization of social rewards

Rosemary Bagot (Montreal, Canada)

Ventral-hippocampal inputs to nucleus accumbens integrate reward to modulate behavioural engagement

Robin Piquet (Oxford, United Kingdom)

A hippocampo-cortical pathway detects changes in the validity of an action as a predictor of reward

Serve yourself: adaptive regulation of behavior across physiological states
Chairs: Suzanne Dickson (Gothenburg, Sweden) & Anna Schröder (Munich, Germany)

Linda Engström-Ruud (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Neural substrates of semaglutide-induced weight loss

Amelia Douglass (Vienna, Austria)

The circadian control of hunger

Nicolas Gutierrez-Castellanos (Valencia, Spain)

Not in the mood: neural mechanisms for the cyclical control of female sexual rejection

Anne Petzold (Göttingen, Germany)

Beyond feeding: how gut hormones drive social and sexual behavior

13:00-14:30

Break for lunch (on your own)

14:30-16:00

Parallel Symposia

Sex-specific hormonal and genomic mechanisms in stress responses
Chair: Carmen Sandi (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Jordan Marrocco (New York, NY, USA)

Implication of glucocorticoids and serotonergic agonists in the hippocampal genomic response to stress of male and female mice

Marija Kundakovic (New York, NY, USA)

Single-cell multiome insights into ventral hippocampal dynamics: sex and estrous cycle effects on emotion and anxiety

Francesca Cirulli (Rome, Italy)

Psychological and metabolic stressors share common mechanisms but exert sex-dependent effects in male and female mice

Dogukan Ulgen (Lausanne, Switzerland)

The impact of sex-related hormones on anxiety and motivation: mechanisms in the nucleus accumbens

Precision meets nature: rising automation for the continuous behavioral testing of rodents
Chairs: Jaime de la Rocha (Barcelona, Spain) & Alicja Puścian (Warsaw, Poland)

Alicja Puścian (Warsaw, Poland)

Modelling collective behavior in groups of mice housed under semi-naturalistic conditions

Balma Serrano (Barcelona, Spain)

Continuous testing of decision making in the fully automated Training Village

Julija Krupic (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Lifelong continuous and fully-automated phenotyping of mouse cognition and behaviour.

Tali Kimchi (Rehovot, Israel)

Social organization in groups of wild house mice

Learning and memory consolidation across brain states: wakefulness and sleep
Chair: Marion Inostroza (Tübingen, Germany)

Anuck Sawangjit (Tübingen, Germany)

Memory consolidation during sleep and wakefulness

David Dupret (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Diversity of hippocampal network events for memory consolidation

Flavio Schmidig (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Formation and retrieval of episodic memory beyond awareness

Mélanie Strauss (Brussel, Belgium)

Characterization of the state of vigilance/consciousness during sleep onset and its clinical applications

16:00-17:30

Poster Session - Sponsors Time - Coffee

17:30-18:00

Plenary Session

Mid career Award

18:00-18:30

Plenary Session

Diversity Award

18:30-19:30

Plenary Session

Keynote Lecture

Mark Walton (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Connecting dopamine across time and space with adaptive decision making

20:00

Young Researchers Party

09:00-10:00

Plenary Session

Keynote Lecture

Cyril Herry (Bordeaux, France)

Neuronal representations of defensive behaviors

10:00-11:30

Poster Session - Sponsors Time - Coffee

11:30-13:00

Parallel Symposia

Epigenetic mechanisms in stress sensitivity and adaptation: from early life to adulthood
Chair: Elad Lax (Ariel, Israel)

Natalia Schilder (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Methyl donor supplementation impacts early-life stress induced emotional dysregulation: focus on hypothalamic DNA methylation

Elad Lax (Ariel, Israel)

DNA methylation contributes to prenatal maternal stress- associated pain hyper-sensitivity in adulthood

Johannes Bohacek (Zurich, Switzerland)

Mechanisms of stress habituation in the mouse hippocampus

Catherine Peña (Princeton, NJ, USA)

Epigenetic priming of stress sensitivity across the lifespan

Neuronal plasticity of the social brain: understanding individual differences in sociability
Chairs: Diego Scheggia (Milan, Italy) & Hanna Hoernberg (Berlin, Germany)

Sanja Bauer Mikulovic (Magdeburg, Germany)

Dorsal hippocampal circuits govern helping behavior in mice

Salvatore Lecca (Lausanne, Switzerland)

A neural substrate for negative affect supports parenting

Hanna Hoernberg (Berlin, Germany)

Molecular mechanisms of social heterogeneity

Diego Scheggia (Milan, Italy)

Individual differences in prosocial learning are represented in the hippocampus

Novel cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying adaptive behavioral states
Chairs: Andrew Holmes (Rockville, MD, USA) & Nicolas Singewald (Innsbruck, Austria)

Helena Janickova (Prague, Czech Republic)

Nicotinic receptors in different regions and neuronal types control social behavior

Thibault Bittar (Bordeaux, France)

Impact of early life and adult stress on anterior insula activity during anxiety- related behaviors in mice

Anna Beroun (Warsaw, Poland)

Activity of dopamine-sensitive neurons in the central amygdala in processing rewarding and aversive behaviors

Luisa Pinto (Braga, Portugal)

Targeting adult hippocampal cytogenesis in depression: the therapeutic potential of psilocybin

13:00-14:30

Break for lunch (on your own)

14:30-16:00

Parallel Symposia

Tracking dynamics of emotion in the brain, indication of psychiatric diseases
Chair: Simon Chang (Regensburg, Germany)

Cornelius Gross (Rome, Italy)

How experience and context shape escape from innate threats

Sabine Krabbe (Bonn, Germany)

Functional diversity of inhibitory amygdala microcircuits

Francesco Papaleo (Genoa, Italy)

Circuits of emotion recognition

Federica Fermani (Regensburg, Germany)

Signatures of behavioural integration in the extended-amygdala

Sex differences and convergences in threat processing and avoidance behavior across species
Chair: Joanna Dabrowska (North Chicago, IL, USA)

Joanna Dabrowska (North Chicago, IL, USA)

CRF-BNST neurons modulate anxiety-potentiated startle in a sex- and estrous phase-dependent manner

Raul Andero (Barcelona, Spain)

Sex differences in neural projections of fear memory processing in mice and humans

Sydney Trask (West Lafayette, IN, USA)

Prior stress exacerbates avoidance learning in female, but not male, rats

Laura Luyten (Leuven, Belgium)

Subtle sex differences in costly avoidance

Insights on the effects of early life experiences: from childhood to adulthood
Chairs: Ermis Ryakiotakis (Warsaw, Poland) & Hanna Trebesova (Warsaw, Poland)

Sara Morley Fletcher (Lille, France)

Oxytocinergic interventions in lactating mothers: a promising approach to mitigate maternal distress and improve offspring outcomes

Esther Castillo Gómez (Castelló de la Plana, Spain)

The social brain after early-life stress. Medial amygdala somatostatin neurons in focus

Nicole Ferrara (Chicago, IL, USA)

Play period social deprivation alters maturing amygdala circuits supporting age-specific social behavior in adolescents and adults

Viviana Trezza (Rome, Italy)

Sex-dependent impact of adverse environmental factors during development: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic perspectives

16:00-17:00

ALBA network / Panel discussion

17:00-17:30

Coffee Break

17:30-19:00

Parallel Symposia

Decision-making in context: neural circuits of contextual regulation of motivated behaviors
Chair: Ronald Keiflin (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

Ronald Keiflin (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

Orbitofrontal circuits in the contextual hierarchical regulation of reward predictions

Andrew Macaskill (London, United Kingdom)

A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference

Shauna Parkes (Bordeaux, France)

Context-dependent value encoding across species

Damiano Terenzi (Marseille, France)

Social context and drug cues modulate inhibitory control in cocaine addiction: involvement of the STN evidenced through functional MRI

Stress and trauma across the lifespan
Chair: Bianca Silva (Valbonne, France)

Laura Cancedda (Genoa, Italy)

Traumatic life experiences during specific critical Periods in life lead to diverse developmental trajectories

Mathias Schmidt (Munich, Germany)

Sex differences in shaping resilience by genes and early experiences: mechanistic insights through deep phenotyping approaches

Yang Zhan (Shenzhen, China)

Social information processing and isolation stress on social recognition

Aline Desmedt (Bordeaux, France)

Multilevel hippocampal alterations specifically underlie PTSD-like memory

Impact of insular cortex neuromodulation on behaviors
Chairs: Mario Carta (bordeaux, France) & Anna Beyeler (Bordeaux, France)

Anna Beyeler (Bordeaux, France)

Dopamine transmission in the anterior insula shapes the neural coding of anxiety

Federico Bermúdez Rattoni (Mexico City, Mexico)

Enlightening dopaminergic cerebral circuits can improve cognitive dysfunction

Kobi Rosenblum (Haifa, Israel)

An anterior-posterior insula circuit mediates retrieval of conditioned immune response in mice

Sarah Stern (Jupiter, FL, USA)

Cell-type specificity in the insular cortex modulates distinct aspects of feeding behavior

20:00

Gala dinner

09:00-10:00

Plenary Session

Keynote Lecture

Antonia Hamilton (London, United Kingdom)

Tracking neural and behavioural synchrony to understand social interaction

10:00-10:30

EBBS Assembly General Meeting

10:00-11:30

Poster Session - Sponsors Time - Coffee

11:30-13:00

Parallel Symposia

Neurobiology of punishment
Chairs: Gavan McNally (Sydney, Australia) & Nathan Marchant (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Bita Moghaddam (Portland, OR, USA)

Reward and punishment conflict learning as a model of anxiety

Nathan Marchant (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Role of anterior insula cortex in conflict between reward and punishment

Caitlin Orsini (Austin, TX, USA)

The role of dopamine D2 receptors in the amygdala in punishment-based decision making

Gavan McNally (Sydney, Australia)

Amygdala mechanisms of punishment learning

Converging pathways: understanding hippocampal replay by bridging experimentation and modelling
Chairs: Eleonore Duvelle (Glasgow, United Kingdom) & John Widloski (Berkeley, CA, USA)

John Widloski (Berkeley, CA, USA)

A simple model of hippocampal sequences accounts for the temporal organization of theta sweeps and replay

Lisa Genzel (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Semantic memory consolidation and ripples

Jacob Bakermans (Geneva, Switzerland)

Building compositional maps in replay

Elisa Massi (Cergy, France)

Modelling the contribution of hippocampal replay activity in appetitive and aversive spatial learning

Neural mechanisms of food valuation: a cross-species perspective on nutrients
Chairs: Hui-Kuan Chung (Zurich, Switzerland) & Dana Small (Montreal, Canada)

Ivan De Araujo (Tübingen, Germany)

The role of the gut-brain axis in food acceptance and rejection

Fei-Yang Huang (Oxford, United Kingdom)

The role of primate amygdala in sensory and nutrient food decision

Hui-Kuan Chung (Zurich, Switzerland)

The neural basis of interactions between nutrients

Dana Small (Montreal, Canada)

Brain-body interactions as a driver of food choice in humans

13:00-14:30

Break for lunch (on your own)

14:30-15:00

Poster prizes

15:00-16:00

Plenary Session

Keynote Lecture

Stephen Maren (Champaign, IL, USA)

tba

16:00-16:30

Closing ceremony