Program

8:30 Registrations, Upper Promenade Deck - Smoking Room

9:30 Welcome words, Grand Ballroom

9:45 Gilles Laurent- From insect to human: functional, molecular and mechanistic principles of brain evolution

10:15 Jean-Louis Bessereau - Specification of synapse identity by extracellular synaptic scaffolders

10:45 Avihu Klar - Stepping, flying and swimming - evolution of patterned locomotion in tetrapods

11:05 Coffee break

11:35 Claire Wyart - Shedding light on brainstem circuits for navigation in vertebrates

12:05 Rob Meijers - Reagent antibody panels for neuronal receptor–ligand families

12:25 Blitz presentations

• Ezgi Daskin - Exploring synaptic mRNA isoform diversity across brain regions
  
• Coralie Fouquet - Unraveling the role of Netrin1 in the development of the corticospinal tract at the cerebral peduncle choice point
  
• Nik Heijmink - Unraveling neuronal complexity of mesotriatal projecting midbrain DA neurons along their developmental trajectory using single neuron labeling
  
• Andrea Meulenberg - Investigating cellular pathways involved in axon regeneration
  
• Stephanie Hoekstra, Cilian Ross - Miltenyi Biotec
  
• Silvia Oldani - MaxWell Biosystems
  
• Jarno Voortman - Zeiss
  
• Cassandra Ho, Rebecca Sadler - Vector Builder
  
• William Amoyal - Vizgen

13:00 Lunch

13:30 Postersession I

15:30 Keynote Maria Tosches - The evolution of cell types and neural circuits in the cerebral cortex

16:30 Nael Nadif Kasri - Looking at neurodevelopmental disorders through the lens of evolution: a role for the autolysosomal pathway

17:00 Coffee break

17:30 Simon Hippenmeyer - Principles of Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression

18:00 Eljo van Battum - Role for Semaphorin-6A reverse signaling in novel neuron-radial glia cell crosstalk during neuron migration and positioning

9:00 Grand Ballroom

Guillermina López-Bendito - Spontaneous activity meets genetic programs: orchestrating sensory circuit development

9:30 Nathalie Rouach - A neuroglial circuit for maternal behavior

10:00 Kevin Sangster - Teneurin-3 and Latrophilin-2 are required for somatotopic map formation in the dorsal horn

10:20 Peter Scheiffele - Molecular Mechanisms of Cortical Wiring and Plasticity 10:40 Coffee break

11:10 Joris de Wit - Cell-surface interactions in the maintenance of synaptic plasticity and neuronal homeostasis

11:40 Keynote Rüdiger Klein - Cell-cell communication in neural circuit development

12:40 Blitz presentations

• Osvaldo Miranda - Pten is cell-autonomously required during cortical neurogenic and gliogenic developmental programs
  
• Patricia Ordoño - Retinal spontaneous activity and optic nerve myelination
  
• Sung Soon Park - Human mutations in EPHB2 reveal its novel role in the outgrowth of callosal axons
  
• Alisson Pinto de Almeida - Dissecting semaphorin-mediated neural wiring of the central amygdala and its impact on reward processing
  
• Quentin Rappeneau - Development and regeneration of corneal innervation
  
• Anna Wiersema - Elevated SLITRK2 levels drive axonal defects and NMJ dysfunction in FUS-ALS iNMJ-on-a-chip model
  

13:00 Lunch

13:30 Postersession II

15:30 Lukas Neukomm - Hijacked NAD+ metabolism in axon- and neurodegeneration in Drosophila

16:00 Franck Polleux - Most axonal mitochondria in neurons of the mammalian central nervous system lack mitochondrial DNA and consume ATP

16:30 Dunham Clark - Activity-dependent intra- and intercellular mitochondrial transport in glia drives motor function

16:50 Coffee break

17:20 Sergiu Pașca - From stem cells to assembloids and toward buildings: Human circuits in living systems to study disease

17:50 Dimphna Meijer - Alternative splicing of Teneurin dimers for neuronal circuit wiring

18:15 Grand Tour of ss Rotterdam

19:30 Welcome drinks in Grand Ballroom

20:00 Dinner in Grand Ballroom

22:00 Party in Ambassador Lounge

9:00 Grand Ballroom

Eloísa Herrera - Repurposing developmental axon guidance mechanisms to restore the injured adult visual system

9:30 Antonella Riccio - Decoding the language of RNA metabolism in developing axons

10:00 Debra Silver - Post-transcriptional control of brain development: It’s all in the feet

10:30 Julia Schaeffer - An issue of translation: gene regulation mechanisms to unlock axon regeneration

10:50 Coffee break

11:20 Max Koppers - The (axonal) endoplasmic reticulum controls local mRNA translation

11:50 Jenea Bin - From growth to speed: Regulation of axon diameter during CNS development

12:10 Alexandre Dumoulin - Cytoneme signaling is required for commissural axon guidance at an intermediate target

12:30 Kevin Mitchell - Variability in neural circuit formation

13:00 Closing words, blitz- and poster awards

13:15 Grab-and-Go lunch