BCCN Retreat, 25-26 June 2025 in Tutzing

Foto: EA Tutzing

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Hang up posters

13:25 Welcome by Andreas Herz
13:30 Herwig Baier - Connectomic and transcriptomic analysis of the tectum, a visuomotor hub in the zebrafish brain
14:00 Claudia Cusseddu (Gjorgjieva lab) - ...
14:20 Miao Wang (Sirota lab) - Behavioral modulation of the head direction representation in postsubiculum
14:40 Pablo Oteiza - A comparative approach to teleost rheotaxis

15:10 Poster Session and Coffee Break

16:50 Siwei Bai (Hemmert lab) - High-resolution models of human cochlea for studying neural activation
17:10 Viola Matten (Flanagin lab) - Neural processing of spatial acoustics – Brain activity in recorded and simulated binaural room auralizations
17:30 Anna-Sophia Wahl - Principles of neuronal repair after stroke

18:00 Dinner

19:00 David Franklin - Computational mechanisms of human sensorimotor adaptation
19:30 Bastian Wiederhold (Herz lab) - The limits of human information processing – what we can learn from the world record holders in memory and mental calculation

 

Thursday, June 26

08:00 Breakfast

09:00 Tjalda Falt (Fenk lab) - Investigating motor-sensory signaling during Drosophila retinal movements
09:20 Lukas Meyerolbersleben (Busse lab) - Anatomically resolved oscillatory bursts reveal dynamic motifs of thalamocortical activity during naturalistic stimulus viewing
09:40 Berkutay Mert (Nestvogel lab) - State-related neural dynamics in the visual thalamus of freely moving mice

10:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break

11:00 Jonathan Gant (Młynarski lab) - Anticipatory modulation as a unifying principle of sensory coding during locomotion
11:20 Fabio Veneto (Gjorgjieva lab) - Top-down modulation shapes cortical dynamics timescales
11:40 Yuyang Huang (Jacob lab) - Dynamic prefrontal neuronal representations in association learning
12:00 David Keays - Cells and Circuits in Magnetosensation

12:30 Lunch

 

Posters

Natreshka - Neuropixels 2.0 implant

Evgeniia Bukina, Andrey Sobolev, and Anton Sirota

A family of synaptic plasticity rules shapes triplet motifs in recurrent networks

Claudia Cusseddu, Dylan Festa, Christoph Miehl, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

Emergence of modular activity and surround suppression through inhibitory structured stabilization

Dylan Festa, Claudia Cusseddu, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

Microglia-neuron interactions modulate learning in health and disease through a hyper- homeostatic shift

Ingo Fritz, Andreas Vlachos, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

Temporal loudness integration in cochlear implant users

Carmen Marie Castañeda González, Linda Hu, Deyang Jiang, Sonja Karg, Anna Dietze, Daniela Schwanda, Miguel Obando Leitón, and Werner Hemmert

Systematic Analysis of Meta-Learned synaptic plasticity rules reveal degeneracy and fragility

Jan-Erik Hühne, Nikos Malakasis, Dylan Festa, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

Identifying parameters of a time estimation model using machine learning

Zhiming Jia and Kay Thurley

Neural representation of color in the pigeon visual Wulst

Ann H. Kotkat, Simon Nimpf, Andreas Genewsky, David Keays, and Laura Busse

Self-supervised contrastive learning performs non-linear system identification

Rodrigo Gonzalez Laiz, Tobias Schmidt, and Steffen Schneider

The impact of auditory cues on human spatial memory and navigation

Aleksandr Markov, Viola Matten, Rüdiger Stirnberg, Stefan Fichna, Stephan D. Ewert, Steven van de Par, and Virginia Flanagin

Distinguishing human hexadirectional fMRI signals using movement velocities and travel pauses

Siyuan Mei, Martin Stemmler, and Andreas Herz

Relative connectivity improves effective pattern separation in Drosophila larvae’s Mushroom Body

Ricardo Chirif Molina, André Ferreira-Castro, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

Phasic Acetylcholine Release Modulates Theta Rhythmicity and High Frequency Oscillations During NREM Sleep

Ricardo M. Santos and Anton Sirota

Quantitative analysis of activity in the medial entorhinal cortex

Arseniy Veselov, Martin Stemmler, and Andreas Herz

Complementary contributions of mouse prefrontal and thalamic neuronal populations to cognitive set shifting

Xuanyu Wang, Daniel Hähnke, Ajit Ranganath, Salem Ayasreh Fierro, and Simon N. Jacob

State-dependent modulation of sensory populations by cortical feedback

Augustine Yuan, Laura Busse, and Wiktor Młynarski