15th Meeting of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience

Registration and coffee

Introduction by Julie Duqué, chair of the BSN

New BSN Logo Award

Keynote Speaker – Pierre Vanderhaeghen (VIB-KU Leuven)

Mechanisms linking neuronal development with human brain evolution and diseases
https://pvdhlab.org/

A. Oral Presentations Cognitive/Clinical Neuroscience:

Chair: Goldy Yadav

• Daniele Bertoglio: In vivo imaging of mutant huntingtin using [11C]CHDI-180R PET in a nonhuman primate model of Huntington’s disease
• Frank Van Overwalle: The role of the cerebellum in social sequencing, and a new hypothesis on predictive coding theories of autism
• Stefania Mattioni: Categorical coding in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) following transient early blindness
• Melina Hehl: Want to know about current directions in TMS coils? I’ll keep you in the loop.

B. Poster Tour Molecular/Systems Neuroscience :

• Nicolas Halloin: Exacerbation of tauopathy following mild and repeated spinal contusions in the tauP301S mouse model
• Olaya Lara, Pauline Janssen: Systemic deletion of xCT in mice attenuates peripheral inflammation and inflammation-related mood
• Nuria Ruiz Reig: Deciphering the physiological roles of KIF2A in mature neurons and the relation between KIF2A-dysfunction and neurodegeneration
• Caroline Zandecki: Unraveling the cell diversity of the short lived African turquoise killifish telencephalon
• Elle Scheijen: Role of DNA Damage and Repair Responses in Spinal Cord Injury Pathogenesis in Mice
• Isabeau De Bie: A novel treatment strategy to mitigate cognitive decline after radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumor survivors
• Chloe Trippaers: Preclinical and clinical evidence for IL-6 and CCL2 as potential mediators in the pathophysiology of psychosis
• Valerie Mariën: Retroviral vectors as a tool to study newborn neuron maturation and integration in the adult killifish telencephalon following injury

A. Oral Presentations Molecular/Systems Neuroscience:

Chair: Nuria Ruiz Reig

• Gamze Ates: System xc- inhibition to preserve mitochondrial health in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
• Sara Gilissen: Maturation of mouse higher order visual areas: An adolescent critical period
• Mohit H. Adhikari/Monica van den Berg: Altered information flow from the forebrain in the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease at pre- and early-plaque stages
• Verónica Alejandra Cáceres Chávez: Cognitive flexibility in the dorsomedial striatum: neuronal representations

B. Poster Tour Cognitive/Clinical Neuroscience:

• Tom Bylemans: Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction
• Jeromy Hrabovecky: Multiple Sclerosis and Cognitive Fatigue: A Behavioral, Subjective and Physiological Account
• Naem Haihambo: How exciting: Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation enhances cerebellar activation during social action prediction based on personality trait information
• Shanti Van Malderen: Task-related modulation of cerebellar brain inhibition is maintained in older adults
• Goldy Yadav: Memory Reactivation modulates Retention and Generalization of a Novel Motor Skill
• Iqra Shahzad: Aligned motion-direction information for touch and vision in the human brain
• Tasha Poppa: Thermal representations in the insular cortex of the awake macaque: a high-resolution fMRI study
• Gaia Corlazzoli: How we consider each other’s subjective experiences when choosing a task

Introduction by Julie Duqué & Flavio Donato, chair of the FKNE

Keynote Speaker – Olivier Collignon (UCLouvain)

Brain adaptation to sensory deprivation
https://cpplab.be/

FKNE/BSN session chaired by Athena Demertzi: “Unreportable awareness”

• Athena Demertzi (ULiège): Mind blanking as the frontier case of mental state reporting
• Martin Dresler (Radboud University): Cognitive neuroscience of dreaming
• Sami El-Boustani (Geneva University): The Role of Motivation in Learning and Decision-Making

FKNE/BSN session chaired by Renzo Mancuso: “Neuronal and glial mechanisms regulating brain homeostasis and disease”

• Renzo Mancuso (VIB-UAntwerp): Humanised models to study human microglia ontogeny and their role in disease
• Inbal Goshen (Hebrew University): Astrocytes in high brain function
• Thomas McWilliams (University of Helsinki): Deciphering physiological autophagy in neural space and time

Closure by Robrecht Raedt, vice-chair of BSN

Best Poster/Oral presentation Award