Neuroscience

Conference Series

The Neuroscience Conference Series(NCS), organised by the Institute of Neurosciences, is a great opportunity to meet international distinguished neuroscientists, who will present the latest advancements in their respective field of research. We keep updating this section regularly and adding more talks, so stay tuned!

3D QSAR and Pharmacophore Mapping: Advanced Add-ons to Current Drug Discovery

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr Deb Ranjan Banerjee, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, India

Day: February 20th
Place: Faculty of Pharmacy

Hosted by: Christian Griñán

The role of the nlrp3 inflammasome for the progression of alzheimer disease pathology

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS

Michael Heneka, MD

University of Luxemburg

Day: February 13th
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic (Aula Magna)

Hosted by: Hugo Peluffo and Albert Giralt

Development and application of genetically encoded sensors

Neuroscience Conference Series

Ricardo Mouro Pinto, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School. Associated Scientist, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard

Day: January 24th
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic (Aula Magna)

Hosted by: Verónica Inés Brito

Predictive processing in perception and action

Neuroscience Conference Series

Erich Schröger

Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany

Ana Pinheiro

Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Andrea Desantis

Département Traitement de l’Information et Systèmes, Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, France

Day: January 18th
Place: Faculty of Psychology, Campus Mundet (Sala de Graus)

Hosted by: Iria San Miguel

Stability and bioactivity of naked extracellular RNAs

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS

Juan Pablo Tosare

Universidad de la República, Institut Pasteur Montevideo

Day: January 15th
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic, “Alsina i Bofill” (Aula 10)

Hosted by: Hugo Peluffo and Albert Giralt

Development and application of genetically encoded sensors

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr. Ariel Valiente Gabioud

Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.

Day: December 1st
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic, “Alsina i Bofill” (Aula 10)

Hosted by: Albert Giralt
and Daniel del Toro

Cannabidiol as a potential therapeutic treatment for Leigh syndrome

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS

Dr. Emma Puighermanal

Ramon y Cajal Researcher

Day: October 10th
Time: 12:00h
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic, Aula Magna

Hosted by: Albert Giralt

Investigating abstract and concrete words in the brain

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr. Costanza Papagno

Researcher at CIMeC Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento

Day: October 6th
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Bellvitge, Sala de Graus (Aulari)

Hosted by: Ruth de Diego-Balaguer – Cognition and Brain Plasticity group

RE-IMAGINING THE GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE: from structure-function to neurological disease

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr. Derek Bowie

Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Day: October 6th
Time: 10:00h
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic, Aula 2

Hosted by: Xavier Altafaj

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pBAE polymers: a new nano delivery platform of nucleic
acids for targeted therapies applications

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS

Dr. Cristina Fornanguera

Principal investigator at IQS School of Engineering

Day: October 4th
Time: 15:00h
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic, Aula Magna

Hosted by: Albert Giralt

PERSISTENT PAIN: mechanisms and functions in nociceptor cell bodies

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr. Edgar T. Walters

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
McGovern Medical School
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology

Day: Tuesday, September 5th
Time: 12:00h
Place: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus Clinic, Aula Magna

Hosted by: Gasull Group

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THE SELF-PERCEPTION OF AGING

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr Serena Sabatini

Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham

Dr Fiona Rupprecht

Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Vienna

Day: Wednesday, July 12th
Time: 12:00h
Place: Campus Mundet, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology

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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL PRESENCE ON EMPATHY

Neuroscience Conference Series

Dr. Ulrike M. Krämer

University of Lübeck

Day: Thursday, June 22nd
Time: 15:30
Place: Faculty of Psychology, Campus Mundet, Saló de Graus

Hosted by: Macià Buades

Learning in a virtual world

Exploring the cognitive and neural mechanisms of contextual influences on memory

Dr Jesse Rissman

Dept of Psychology. University of California, Los Angeles

Day: 22 May
Time: 12:00
Place: Campus Mundet

EU funding for neurosciences

Support for researchers

PhD. Naomi de Haas

Senior Grant Consultant, Hezelburcht B.V

Day: 27-28 April
Time: 12:00-13:30
Place: Campus Mundet and Campus Clínic

MoNNets: An in vitro bioengineerable model of neuronal ensembles

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS

Ángeles Rabadán

Senior Associated Scientist and  Head of ZeNeuroid (ZeClinics)

Day: 22 Feb
Time: 12:00
Place: Aula Magna, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut i Institut de Neurociències UB (Campus Clínic)

NO PAIN NO GAIN: how does the brain decide what is the right price to pay to avoid pain?

Neuroscience Conference Series

Prof. Mathieu Roy

Associate Professor, dept. of Psychology, McGill

Day: Tuesday, 21 March
Time: 12:00
Place: Aula 11, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Campus Clínic

Hosted by: Antonio Alvarez Artigas

LEARNING TO PREDICT FUTURE REWARDS: Dissociating Learning ‘What’ Will Happen from ‘When’ It Will Happen

Neuroscience Conference Series

Andrew Delamater

Professor and Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition

Day: 30th March
Time: 15:00
Place: Saló de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, Campus Mundet

Hosted by: Antonio Alvarez Artigas

Paving the RHOadwith new molecular mechanisms of brain development

Seminaris FMiCS

Dr. Joaquim Egea

PhD, Professor and Groupleader del Institut de Recerca Biomédica de la Universitat de Lleida

Day: 13th April
Time: 12:00
Place: Aula 14, Dolors Aleu i Riera al Campus Clinic

Proprioceptive circuitry in Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA)

Dr. Jordi Magrané
Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, USA

Day: Thursday 15 Dec. 2022
Time: 12:00
Place: Aula 209 (Aulari Campus Bellvitge)
Campus Bellvitge
Hosted by Dr. Jordi Llorens (Dpt. de Ciències Fisiològiques, UB)

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NCS 2022 “ The Minds of Medieval Murderers: Reconstructing motivations and emotions involved in 14th century London homicides ”

Professor Manuel P. Eisner
University of Cambridge
Institute of Criminology

Day: Thursday 24 November 2022
Time: 16:00
Place: Sala Miquel Siguan (Graus)
Campus Mundet
Hosted by Dr. Noemí Pereda

Abstract

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NCS 2022 “Cognitive deficits and recovery for patients with brain tumours”

Professor John Suckling
University of Cambridge
Department of Psychiatry – Director of Research

Day: Friday 21 Oct. 2022
Time: 11:30
Place: Sala d’Actes (Pav. de Govern)
Campus Bellvitge
Hosted by Dr. Ruth De Diego Day: Friday 21 Oct. 2022
Time: 11:30
Place: Sala d’Actes (Pav. de Govern)
Campus Bellvitge
Hosted by Dr. Ruth De Diego

Abstract

NCS 2022 “Routine outcome monitoring of psychotherapeutic change as a strategy for generating practice-based evidence”

Dra. Clara Paz
PhD Personalidady Comportamiento
Universidad de Las Américas

Day: Tuesday 18 Oct. 2022
Time: 13:00
Place: Sala Miquel Siguan (Graus)
Campus Mundet
Hosted by Dr. Guillem Feixas

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Meeting ID: 980 7093 9909

Passcode: 497575

Abstract

“Predictive attenuation of self-generated touch in human somatosensory cortex and cerebellum”

CCCFMiC: Nanopore-derived epigenetic landscapes and reference free analysis of microbial evolution

NCS2022: Symposium on Brain Neuroimaging Topics in Neurodegenerative disorders

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in health and disease

NCS2022: “Mecanismos del condicionamiento inmunológico en la infiltración tumoral del Glioblastoma multiforme”

NCS2022: “A partnership between sensation and longevity”

NCS2022: The right hemisphere and calculation

NCS2022: The mith of aesthetic experience

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS: Reduced mitochondrial priming drives global resistance to leukemia therapy

NCS2022: “Hemispheric specialization for speech and music: acoustical cues for two human communication systems”

NCS2022: “Dance and Musical Groove in the Human Brain”

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS: Neuroengineering solutions for restoring neuronal communication

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS: Identifying and overcoming resistance to melanoma therapies

Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS: Brain mechanisms in physiological and pathological cognitive processes

NCS2022″Coordination of excitatory and inhibitory synapses within dendrites”

Barcelona Lecture Series 2019 -2021

Neuroscience Conference Series 2020

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 we have postponed all upcoming events until further notice.

NCS2020″Learning to Anticipate What is About to Happen and When:  Psychological and Neural Systems Approaches”

15/04/2020
12 pm – Sala de Graus, Mundet Campus

Andrew Delamater, PhD | Brooklyn College – CUNY

NCS2020″Pathology of the nervous system in ruminants intoxicated with Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin”

01/04/2020
12 pm – Sala d’actes, Campus de Bellvitge

Francisco A. Uzal, PhD | University of California Davis

NCS2020″Brain circuits encoding threats”

28/02/2020
12 pm – Aula 14 Campus Clínic

Manuel Mameli, PhD | Université de Lausane

NCS2020″Decoding the neural processing of speech”

06/02/2020
03:00 pm – Sala de Graus, Mundet Campus

Tobias Reichenbach, PhD | Imperial College London

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NCS2020 “Neuroimaging biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease and Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders”

24/01/2020
12:00 pm – Aula 11, Clinic Campus

Antonio Strafella | University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Thilo Van Eimeren | University of Cologne, Germany

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Neuroscience Conference Series 2019

NCS 2019 “Estimation of functional connectivity with fMRI”

08/10/2019
04:00 pm – Sala de Graus, Mundet Campus

Dra. Caterina Pedersini

Universitá di Verona

NCS 2019 “Physical activities and exercise for healthy cognitive aging “

16/09/2019
03:00 pm – Sala de Graus, Mundet Campus

Louis Bherer, PhD

University of Montréal

NCS 2019 “Las células de cajal-retzius y el desarrollo de la fisura del hipocampo humano”

20/06/2019
12:00 pm – Aula M6 Edifici Margalef, Biology Faculty

Miriam González Gómez, PhD

Universidad de La Laguna

NCS2019 “Pain at its Source: Encoding of Pain-Related Information by Peripheral Nociceptive Terminals in vivo”

11/06/2019
11:00 am – Aula 14 Medicine Faculty, Campus Clinic

Alexander Binshtok, PhD

The Hebrew University Medical School Department of Medical Neurobiology

NCS 2019 “Itch Neurons and their Receptors”

10/05/2019
12:00 pm – Aula Magna, Medicine Faculty, Clinic Campus

Mark A. Hoon, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

NCS 2019 “The Importance of Signaling Pathway Downregulation for Central Nervous System Development and Homeostasis”

09/05/2019
12:00 pm – Aula M6, Edifici Margalef, Biology Faculty

Sergi Simó, PhD University California Davis

 

NCS 2019 “Citizenship and Mental Health”

25/4/2019
12:00 pm – Antoni Caparrós  (Teatre), Faculty of Psychology, Mundet Campus

Michael Rowe, PhD

Yale Department of Psychiatry

NCS 2019 “Person-environment transactions”

01/03/2019
12:00 pm – Sala de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, Mundet Campus

Jaap Denissen, PhD

Tilburg University

NCS 2019 “Environmental enrichment modifies growth signals to promote axon regeneration in the young and aged”

30/01/2019
12:00 pm – Aula de Graus, Biology Faculty

Simone di Giovanni, PhD

Imperial College London

Neuroscience Conference Series 2018

Last year’s edition included speakers such as Salvador Martínez, MD, PhD, (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, UMH-CSIC), Jose A. Esteban, PhD, (Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa- CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid),  Konstantina Kilteni, PhD (Karolinska Institutet), Jaap Denissen, PhD (Tilburg University), Santiago Rivera, PhD (CNRS – Aix-Marseille Univ), Simone Di Giovanni, PhD (Imperial Collegue London).

See the full programme below.

NCS 2018 “Cellular therapy in ALS: what’s next after phase I and II clinical trials?”

06/06/2018
1:00 pm – Aula Magna, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine Campus (Hospital Clínic)

Salvador Martínez, MD, PhD
Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH
Abstract

NCS 2018 “Astrocyte-neuron communication for synaptic plasticity and memory”

04/07/2018
1:00 pm – Aula Graus, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine Campus

Jose A. Esteban, PhD
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa- CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Abstract

NCS 2018 “Using Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Study Within-Person Processes”

10/07/2018
11:00 am – Aula Master, Faculty of Psychology, Mundet Campus

Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Ph.D.
University of Delaware
Abstract

NCS 2018 “Computational principles of the attenuation of self-generated touch”

18/09/2018
3:00 pm – Sala de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, Mundet Campus

Konstantina Kilteni, PhD
Karolinska Institutet
Abstract

NCS 2018 “The use of Gas1 as an experiemental approach for glioblastoma treatment”

27/09/2018
12:00 pm – Aula 11, Medicine Campus

Jose Segovia, PhD
CINVESTAV, México

Abstract

NCS 2018 “How long would that take? Sensory compensation and adaptation”

05/10/2018
12:00 am – Sala d’Actes del Pavelló de Govern, Bellvitge Health Sciences Campus

Mathieu Beraneck, PhD
Centre Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie, CNRS, France

Abstract

NCS 2018 “Relating Age, Brain and Cognition: results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing & Neuroscience (CamCAN)”

24/10/2018
13:00 pm – Aula 16, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine Campus

Rik Henson, PhD
University of Cambridge

Abstract

NCS 2018 “Membrane type-matrix metalloproteinases are newcomers to the Alzheimer’s field”

20/11/2018
12:30 pm – Aula 5, Edifici A, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences

Santiago Rivera, PhD
Research Director CNRS, France

Abstract

NCS 2018 “Artificial Intelligence: New Questions for Legislation and Applied Ethics”

23/11/2018
12:00 pm – Sala de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, Mundet Campus

Thomas Metzinger, PhD
University of Mainz, Germany

Abstract

NCS 2018 “Experience, gender and cultural modulation of the risk of Alzheimer’s disease”

12/12 /2018

3:30 pm – Sala de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, Mundet Campus

Veronique Bohbot, Ph.D,

McGill University

Abstract