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!
Testing language learning in the lab in order to detect oral language impairments in bilingual children: the promise of dynamic assessment
Neuroscience Conference Series
Katrin Skoruppa
Neurocognitive signatures of psychopathic traits
Neuroscience Conference Series
Tiago De Oliveira Paiva
The psycholinguistics of sign language production
Neuroscience Conference Series
Cristina Baus
Improving Neuroimaging Methods
Neuroscience Conference Series
Chris Rorden
Improving Neuroimaging Methods
Neuroscience Conference Series
Else Johanna Schneider
Taking the cerebellum seriously: exploring the new frontier with on-scalp magnetoencephalography
Neuroscience Conference Series
Lau Andersen
The opportunities and challenges of incorporating 7-Tesla MRI into neuroimaging research
Neuroscience Conference Series
Trevor Steward
From following dots to understanding scenes
Neuroscience Conference Series
Alexander Goettker
Exploring the developing Human Connectome Project: functional brain dynamics in the early developing brain
Neuroscience Conference Series
Dafnis Batallé
CHALLENGING THE DOGMA OF UNIDIRECTIONALITY IN Development: Applying Partial Reprogramming to Reverse Aging Hallmarks in the Brain
Neuroscience Conference Series
Aida Platero
How Voluntary and Involuntary Attention Differentially Shape Perception
Neuroscience Conference Series
Marisa Carrasco
Focusing visual working memory for action, through action, and during action
Neuroscience Conference Series
Freek Van Ede
ORAL BILINGUALISM AND HEARING LOSS IN CHILDREN
Neuroscience Conference Series
Dra. Beatriz De Diego Lázaro
A cognitively grounded approach to emergent phenomena in social networks
Neuroscience Conference Series
ALIN I. COMAN, PhD
Genetics and the biological underpinnings of human musicality and language
Neuroscience Conference Series
Reyna L. Gordon, Ph.D
Mechanisms of neuronal diversification and evolution
Cicle Continuat de Conferències de la FMiCS
Núria Flames Bonilla
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
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
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
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)
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