University of Helsinki
You can find the final programme of the Symposium below. You can also see the introductions of all our speakers and the poster abstracts in the Symposium Booklet.
The times shown below are in Helsinki time (EEST, UTC +3).
Thursday October 14th, 2021
09.45 – 10.00 Opening words by Lauri Parkkonen (Aalto University)
10.00 – 12.00 Symposium: Learning and Memory
- Gisella Vetere: “Decoding memory formation and stabilization in mice”
- Athena Akrami: “The lingering past in working memory — from sensory history to optimal learning of temporal regularities”
13.00 – 14.00 Poster presentations
14.15 – 16.15 Symposium: Pain and nociception
- Ewan St. John Smith: “Naked Nociception: Tales From The Naked Mole-Rat”
- Katrin Schrenk-Siemens: “Human stem cell derived neurons: a step towards translational pain research?”
16.30 – 18.00 Newly established group leaders from Helsinki Area
- Teppo Särkämö (Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki)
- Henrike Hartung (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki)
- Coralie Di Scala (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki)
- Jonathan Levy (Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University)
- Olli Pietiläinen (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki)
- Teemu Aitta-aho (Department of Pharmacology, University of Helsinki)
- Tom McWilliams (Department of Anatomy, Research Programs Unit, University of Helsinki)
18.45 – 00.00 Dinner at Glo Hotel Art
Friday October 15th, 2021
9.45 – 12.45 Symposium: Regulation of motivation & emotions
- Ewelina Knapska: “Second-hand emotions. What can rodents learn about the world from other’s bliss and fear?”
- Angela Roberts: “Prefrontal regulation of positive and negative emotions in a primate”
- Roshan Cools: “Chemistry of the adaptive mind: lessons from dopamine”
13.45 – 14.45 Workshop: Climate and environment crisis in neuroscience
- Kate Jeffery
- Commentary by UH vice-rector Tom Böhling
15.00 – 16.00 Poster presentations
16.15 – 18.15 Symposium: Glial cells
- David Attwell: “The role of glia and pericytes in regulating brain blood flow in health and disease”
- Benedikt Berninger: “Engineering new interneurons in the cerebral cortex in vivo”
18.15 Closing words by Iiris Hovatta
Posters
The posters are presented on Slack platform. The link there has been sent to all the registered participant.
Information for the poster presenters
The Symposium has two sessions focusing on the poster presentations, one on each day. You can see the list of presenters and their presentation day on the list below, and the poster titles and the abstracts on the Symposium Booklet.
| No | Name | Day |
| 1 | Adrien Gigliotta | Thursday |
| 2 | Amirreza Asayesh | Friday |
| 3 | Cecilia Cannarozzo | Friday |
| 4 | Marta Saez Garcia | Friday |
| 5 | Nikhil Singh | Thursday |
| 6 | Milo Grotell | Thursday |
| 7 | Saeed Montazeri Moghadam | Friday |
| 8 | Pushpa Khanal | Thursday |
| 9 | Alessia Gallucci | Thursday |
| 10 | Emmi Pentikäinen | Friday |
| 11 | Ying Chieh Wu | Thursday |
| 12 | Anna Ptukha | Friday |
| 13 | Julius Rönkkö | Thursday |
| 14 | Jussi Tiihonen | Thursday |
| 15 | Ceren Pajanoja | Friday |
| 16 | Pilar Cerveró | Friday |
| 17 | Raquel Flores | Thursday |
| 18 | Andrea Álvarez Vázquez | Thursday |
| 19 | Adriana Della Pietra | Friday |
| 20 | Alex Subias Gusils | Friday |
| 21 | Ilja Salakka | Thursday |
| 22 | Adam Alvarez | Thursday |
| 23 | Daniel Garton | Friday |
| 24 | Tommi Aho | Friday |
| 25 | Viola Helaakoski | Thursday |
| 26 | Jonatan Panula | Friday |
| 27 | Carla Filipa Simões Henriques | Thursday |