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!
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)
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
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://ub-edu.zoom.us/j/98086162956?pwd=MDNoSzdxNnBwaHpZUXhXZDJmQWdHQT09
ID de reunión: 980 8616 2956
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
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
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ub-edu.zoom.us/j/98070939909?pwd=aW45d0tWSGxUdnNVNUdQZ0pCbktRUT09
Meeting ID: 980 7093 9909
Passcode: 497575
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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