The board of StratNeuro at Umeå University invites all neuroscience researchers (from molecule to mind) to a full day symposium, including local and invited speakers, lunch, and a poster session.
Keynote speakers:
Marie Carlen, Karolinska Institute
Arvind Kumar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Programme:
8.30 registration & poster set up
9.00-9.20 Opening remarks by StratNeuro board
9.20-9.50 Anna Överby Wernstedt, Dep. of Clinical Microbiology & MIMS - "Understanding viral tropism using whole brain imaging and single nuclei RNA sequencing"
9.50-10.20 Silvia Remiseiro, Dep. of Medical and Translational Biology & WCMM - "Brain Cancer and Brain Cells: A toxic partnership written in the 3D (epi-)genome“
10.20-10.40 pause with coffee/tea
10.40-11.00 Per Zetterström, Dept. of Medical Biology, “ALS: from basic research to therapy”
11.00-11.20 Johan Eriksson, Dep. of Psychology - "Measuring neural activity in the human brainstem using fMRI"
11.20-11.40 Kristoffer Sahlholm, Dep. of Medical and Translational Biology - "Role of G protein and arrestin-dependent signaling in dopamine D3 receptor-mediated behaviour"
11.40-12.00 Poster blitz
12.00-13.10 light lunch + mingle and posters
13.10-14.00 Marie Carlen, Dep. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute - "High-density electrophysiology rewrites the maps of the brain - a tale of the prefrontal cortex"
14.00-14.50 Arvind Kumar, Computational Science & Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - "Power of random projections: from machine learning to neuroscience“
14.50-15.15 coffee break (and posters again)
15.15-16.30 Speed dating (PIs + postdoc/PhD students in parallel)
16.30-17.00 Open discussion (with moderators) and closing remarks
