Program

SPONT 2024

November 04-06, 2024

Altea, Alicante

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Monday, November 4th

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13:00 – 13:45

Registraion

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13:45 – 14:00

Welcome address:

Christian Lohmann & Guillermina López-Bendito

Session 1

Spontaneous activity in the visual system I

Chairperson: Kenichi Ohki

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14:00 – 14:30

The functional development of starburst amacrine cells and their role in generating propagation bias of retinal waves.

By Marla Feller

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14:30 – 15:00

The Influence of Experience on Thalamic Circuits.

By Chinfei Chen

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15:00 – 15:20

Short talk: Neonatal spontaneous activity shapes adult visual processing - A roadmap of functional development of identified pyramidal neurons in the mouse visual cortex.

By Susanne Falkner

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15:20 – 15:50

Coffee Break

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15:50 – 16:20

Emergence of functional retinal circuits during postnatal development.

By Keisuke Yonehara

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16:20 – 16:50

Self-organization in the developing nervous system: Learning to see with your eyes closed.

By Michael Crair

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16:50 – 17:05

Short Break

Session 2

Spontaneous activity in motor systems

Chairperson: Corette Wierenga

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17:05 – 17:25

Short Talk: Selective requirement for early Purkinje cell intrinsic activity in shaping cerebellar development and function.

By Catarina Osorio

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17:25 – 17:45

Short Talk: Perinatal shift in spontaneous activity patterns in the developing cerebellum.

By Martina Riva

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17:45 – 18:05

Short Talk: Divergent molecular signals for synapse and axon refinement.

By Sivapratha Nagappan Chettiar

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18:30

Bus to Altea

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19:00

Guided tour to Altea

Tuesday, November 5th

Session 3

Spontaneous activity in the somatosensory system

Chairperson: Simona Lodato

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09:00 – 09:30

Early cortical GABAergic interneurons determine the projection patterns of L4 excitatory neurons.

By Marta Nieto

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09:30 – 09:50

Short talk: Spontaneous excitatory and inhibitory dynamics in developing cortical sensory networks are reproduced in a novel model of network desynchronization.

By Michelle Wu

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09:50 – 10:20

Activity-dependent neuronal circuit refinement in the postnatal barrel cortex.

By Takuji Iwasato

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10:20 – 10:50

Coffee Break

Session 4

Spontaneous activity in the cortex

Chairperson: Juliana Martins da Rosa

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10:50 – 11:20

Longitudinal tracking of individual neuronal timelines in the developing cortex.

By Rosa Cossart

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11:20 – 11:40

Short Talk: Translaminar Synchronous Neuronal Activity is Required for Columnar Synaptic Strengthening in the Neocortex

By Alicia Che

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11:40 – 12:00

Short Talk: Dendritic compartment-specific development of excitatory synaptic inputs in the cortical layer 5 neurons

By Takeshi Imai

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12:00 – 12:30

Spontaneous activity induces correlated neuron and astrocyte activity in developing sensory domains.

By Dwight Bergles

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12:30 – 13:00

The crosstalk between spontaneous activity and genetic programs in sensory-modality acquisition

By Guillermina López-Bendito

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13:00 – 15:00

Lunch

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14:15 –

Business meeting (perspectives on future SPONT meetings)

Session 5

Spontaneous activity in the visual system II

Chairperson: Mark Blumberg

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15:00 – 15:30

Development of modular cortical networks: From patterns of spontaneous activity to reliable visual representations.

By David Fitzpatrick

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15:30 – 15:50

Short Talk: Increase in dimensionality and sparsification of spontaneous neural activity over development across diverse cortical areas.

By Matthias Kaschube

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15:50 – 16:20

Emergence of structured connectivity through activity-dependent synaptic plasticity.

By Julijana Gjorgjieva

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16:20 – 19:30

Poster Session + coffee

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20:00

Departure to Gala Dinner

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20:30

Gala Dinner at Bay Club Restaurant

Wednesday, November 6th

Session 6

Spontaneous activity in behavioral states and neuromodulation

Chairperson: Alexandre Tiriac

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09:30 – 10:00

Neuropeptide regulation of activity in the developing brain.

By Orkun Akin

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10:00 – 10:30

Endogenous acetylcholine shapes visual cortex spontaneous activity.

By Christian Lohmann

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10:30 – 11:00

Sleep-dependent spontaneous activity self-organizes sensorimotor circuits.

By Mark Blumberg

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11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

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11:30 – 12:00

Spontaneous activity in the neonatal human brain: source, metastability and implications for sensory processing.

By Lorenzo Fabrizi

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12:05

Concluding remarks

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12:10

Light lunch

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13:00

Departure

Speakers

Orkun Akin

David Geffen School of Medicine, UC Los Angeles, US

Dwight Bergles

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, US

Mark Blumberg

University of Iowa, US

Carlos Portera Cailliau

UC Los Angeles, US

Chinfei Chen

Harvard Medical School, Boston, US

Rosa Cossart

Institute of Mediterranean Neurobiology, Marseille, France

Michael Crair

Yale University, New Haven, US

Lorenzo Fabrizi

University College London, England

Marla Feller

University of California, Berkeley, US

David Fitzpatrick

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, USA

Julijana Gjorgjieva

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Takuji Iwasato

National Institute of Geneticsk, Mishima, Japan

Christian Lohmann

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Guillermina López-Bendito

Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, Alicante, Spain

Marta Nieto

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid

Keisuke Yonehara

Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Organized by

Guillermina López-Bendito

Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, Alicante, Spain

Christian Lohmann

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kenichi Ohki

Department of Physiology, University Tokyo, Japan

Marla Feller

University of California, Berkeley, US