Symposia
Chair:
Alba Ferrara, Lucía
Asymmetries in the human brain: Insights from structural and functional anatomy, and its relation to behavior
“Anatomical substrates of functional hemisphere asymmetries” Mariana Bendersky, (UBA-CONICET).
“The translingual lexical decision task: a measure of language lateralization” Markus Hausmann
“Lateralization of lexical processing in refractory temporal epilepsy” Lucia Alba-Ferrara
Chair:
Bisig, Gaston
Cytoskeleton, its alterations, and neuronal defects
“Tau, a key molecule in neurodegeneration from cytoskeleton to microtubule-non related functions” Alejandra Alonso, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, NY, USA
“Implication of α-tubulin tyrosination/detyrosination cycle in synaptic activity and degeneration” Leticia Peris, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, Grenoble, France
“In situ organization of the actin/spectrin membrane-associated periodic skeleton of axons with nanometer resolution” Nicolas Unsain, Instituto de Investigación Médica Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra, INIMEC-CONICET-UNC, Córdoba, Argentina
“α-tubulin c-terminal modification: the importance of being tyrosinated” Gaston Bisig, Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba- Dpto. Química Biológica Ranwel Caputto, CIQUIBIC-DQBRC-UNC, Córdoba, Argentina
Chairs:
Manresa, José
Coronel, Florencia
Neuroscience and Translational Pain Research
“Antinociceptive effect of intra-articular histamine in rats” Eduardo Souza-Silva, Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brasil
“Human surrogate models of pain” José Biurrun Manresa, Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Bioingeniería y Bioinformática (IBB), CONICET-UNER, Argentina
“Painful small fiber neuropathy and skin damage” Margarita Calvo Bascuñan, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
“IMT504 and chronic pain: A “bench to bedside” tale” Pablo R. Brumovsky, Instituto de Investigaciones en Medicina Traslacional (IIMT), CONICET-Universidad Austral, Facultad de Ciencias Biomédicas, Argentina
Chairs:
Durand, Daniela
Caruso, Carla
Glia-driven neurodegeneration and neurorepair in age-related dementias
“Single cell approaches to explore microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease” Suman Jayadev, UW Department of Neurology
“Age-related changes on the activation of microglia promotes neuroinflammation and neuron damage” Rommy von Bernhardi, Department of Neurology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Medicine; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad San Sebastián
“Late Neurological consequences of early life infections: the role of microglia” Julia Clarke, School of Pharmacy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
“Modulating glial cells response in the aging brain: use of IGF1 gene therapy as a therapeutic tool” María José Bellini, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata, CONICET
Chairs:
Echeveste, Rodrigo
Samengo, Inés
How does the brain represent what we know (and don't know) about the world?
“Neural coding of sound envelope structure in songbirds” Ana Amador
“A bridge between physiological and perceptual views of autism by means of sampling-based Bayesian inference” Rodrigo Echeveste
“The geometry of color space” Inés Samengo
“Network architecture shapes spatial representations in the medial entorhinal cortex … Does it?” Emilio Kropff
Chair:
Kaczer, Laura
Neurocognitive perspectives on language research
“Neural bases and cognitive implications of auditory-motor synchronization of speech” María Florencia Assaneo, Instituto de Neurobiología, UNAM, México
“Beyond the 0.001%: linguistic diversity, cognitive neuroscience, and the foundations of
the language sciences” Damián Blasi, Harvard University, USA, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
“Beyond the lonely word: Discourse-level approaches to basic and translational
neurolinguistics” Adolfo García, CONICET, Centro de Neurociencias Cognitivas, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
“Role of intrinsic reward on language learning” Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Universidad de Barcelona, España
Chairs:
Monteleone, Melisa
Brocco, Marcela
Towards a molecular diagnosis of stress-related disorders. Fact or fiction?
“Evaluation of mental health during the pandemic in different samples of the Argentine population” Juan Carlos Godoy, Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPsi), Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
“Searching for novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of depression and metabolic risk: Biomarkers for early life stress and intestinal dysbiosis” Naima Lajud, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Michoacán- Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Morelia, México
“Contribution of Inflammatory mediators and Innate Immunity in the pathophysiology
of Major Depressive Disorders” Eugenio Antonio Carrera Silva, Laboratorio de Trombosis Experimental, Instituto de Medicina Experimental (IMEX), CONICET, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Beyond astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles as stress biomarkers: role in
intestinal pathologies” Ursula Wyneken, Centro de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica (CiiB), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
Chair:
Pallarés, María Eugenia
Infant-caregiver interactions shape brain development and have lifelong consequences for mental health
“Mothers neglect their young when peripartum adaptations of the CRF system fail” Oliver Bosch, Department of Behavioural and Molecular Neurobiology, University of Regensburg, Germany
“Early life stress and the programming of motivated behaviors and cognition”
Carla Dalmaz, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“A translational approach to investigate mechanisms underlying intergenerational inheritance of depression” Chris Murgatroyd, Department of Life Sciences at Manchester
Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
“Developmental transitions in brain networks of attachment and fear: a rodent model of human development”. Regina Sullivan, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine, and The Nathan Kline Institute an NIH MERIT awardee
Chair:
Rela, Lorena
In vivo selective manipulation of microglia
“The use of CSF1R inhibitors to manipulate microglia in the healthy and diseased brain” Kim Green, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
“Neurovascular Interactions: Unlocking drivers of neurodegeneration”, Katerina Akassoglou, Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
“Microglial activation influences the affective state”, David Engblom, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN), Linköpking University, Sweden
“Effect of microglial depletion on neurodegeneration in a multiple sclerosis model” Laura Andrea Pasquini, CONICET, Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas (IQUIFIB), Universidad de Buenos Aires
Chairs:
Wilson, Carlos
Moyano, Ana Lis
Bridging the epigenetic landscape with axonal dynamics: transcriptional and translational concepts for development and repair
“Epigenetic regulation of neuronal polarization and axon growth by the histone
methyltransferase G9a and the H3K9me2 label” Carlos Wilson, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba, CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina
“A new Ring in the chain: circular RNAs localize in the axon” Marie Laure Baudet, Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Axonal Neurobiology, Center for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Trento, Italy
“Targeting the CBP/p300 acetyltransferase with a small-molecule activator to enhance
axon regeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord injury” Thomas H. Hutson, Center for Neuroprosthetics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
“Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Promote Regeneration During Demyelination
ex vivo” Ana Lis Moyano, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Biomédicas de Córdoba
CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina