Conference program
| Final Conference Program | |
| 5.09, Thursday | |
| 14:00 | Conference opening |
| Session I Chair – Marian Lewandowski, Krzysztof Wędzony Keynote lecture: | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Peter Somogyi, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Behaviour-dependent GABA release to hippocampal pyramidal cells | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jerzy Mozrzymas, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland |
| Synaptic agonist transient and binding-gating cross-talk – powerful determinants of GABAergic synapse function | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Malgorzata Skup, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland |
| GABAergic contribution to inhibitory deficits after spinal cord injury: the effects of BDNF treatment on GABAergic signaling | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Session II Chair – Marian Lewandowski, Krzysztof Wędzony Keynote lecture: | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany |
| The changing face of inhibition: From gain control to the backbone of dynamic coordination | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Jan Konopacki, University of Lodz, Poland |
| Gap junctions and rhythmic oscillations in the limbic cortex | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Karri Lamsa, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Long-term plasticity in excitatory connections onto hippocampal GABAergic interneurons in acute brain slices and in urethane anesthetized rat | |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception (Collegium Maius) |
| 6.09, Friday | |
| Session III Chair – Jolanta Skangiel-Kramska, Grzegorz Hess | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Michael Stryker, University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Mechanisms of plasticity of visual cortex after transplantation of embryonic inhibitory neurons | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Istvan Katona, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary |
| Endocannabinoid-mediated regulation of synaptic plasticity | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Malgorzata Kossut, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland |
| GABAergic contribution to learning-dependent brain plasticity | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Lamberto Maffei, Accademia Nazionale del Lincei, Rome, Italy |
| Plasticity, environment and endogenous pharmacology | |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Monika Liguz-Lecznar, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland |
| GABA-dependent plasticity in the aging brain | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Poster session, Coffee break |
| Session IV Chair – Elżbieta Pyza, Leszek Kaczmarek Bioimaging session: imaging brain plasticity | |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Elly Nedivi, MIT, USA |
| In vivo imaging of coordinated excitatory and inhibitory synaptic dynamics in the visual cortex | |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Antoine Triller, INSERM, Paris, France |
| Plasticity of inhibitory synapses: quantitative nanoscopy and physical chemistry of receptor scaffold interactions | |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Carl Petersen, Brain Mind Institute Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Gating of sensory perception by neocortical GABAergic neurons | |
| 07.09, Saturday | |
| Session V Chair – Irena Nalepa, Władysław Lasoń | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Jean Marc Fritschy, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| GABAA receptors regulating adult neurogenesis | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Takao Hensh, Harvard University, USA |
| Lifting brakes on adult brain plasticity | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Kai Kaila, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Ionic plasticity of GABAergic signaling | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Adam Plaznik, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland |
| Why do rats differ in the strength and persistence of learned fear? | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Enrico Cherubini, SISSA, Trieste, Italy |
| GABAergic signaling at immature mossy fibers-CA3 synapses: regulation by endocannabinoids | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Short communications - selected from the abstracts |
| Abstract 13 Klaus Funke, Neurophysiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany | |
| Modulation of inhibition in cortical processing of sensory activity by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | |
| Abstract 34 Thomas Mittmann, , Institute of Physiology, UMC of the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany | |
| Homeostatic regulation of GABAergic synaptic transmission following focal cortical lesions | |
| Abstract 11 Laura Cancedda, , Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy | |
| Early depolarizing GABA controls critical period plasticity in the rat visual cortex | |
| Abstract 25 Alice Polenghi, , Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy | |
| Excitatory activity-dependent regulation of synaptic GABAA receptor lateral mobility probed with optogenetic tools. | |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Round table discussion Chairs: Jerzy Vetulani, Enrico Cherubini, Elly Nedivi |