Program
SPONT 2024
November 04-06, 2024
Altea, Alicante
Program and schedule
Monday, November 4th
13:00 – 13:45
Registraion
13:45 – 14:00
Welcome address:
Christian Lohmann & Guillermina López-Bendito
Session 1
Spontaneous activity in the visual system I
Chairperson: Kenichi Ohki
14:00 – 14:30
The functional development of starburst amacrine cells and their role in generating propagation bias of retinal waves.
By Marla Feller
14:30 – 15:00
The Influence of Experience on Thalamic Circuits.
By Chinfei Chen
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
15:20 – 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 – 16:20
Emergence of functional retinal circuits during postnatal development.
By Keisuke Yonehara
16:20 – 16:50
Self-organization in the developing nervous system: Learning to see with your eyes closed.
By Michael Crair
16:50 – 17:05
Short Break
Session 2
Spontaneous activity in motor systems
Chairperson: Corette Wierenga
17:05 – 17:25
Short Talk: Selective requirement for early Purkinje cell intrinsic activity in shaping cerebellar development and function.
By Catarina Osorio
17:25 – 17:45
Short Talk: Perinatal shift in spontaneous activity patterns in the developing cerebellum.
By Martina Riva
17:45 – 18:05
Short Talk: Divergent molecular signals for synapse and axon refinement.
By Sivapratha Nagappan Chettiar
18:30
Bus to Altea
19:00
Guided tour to Altea
Tuesday, November 5th
Session 3
Spontaneous activity in the somatosensory system
Chairperson: Simona Lodato
09:00 – 09:30
Early cortical GABAergic interneurons determine the projection patterns of L4 excitatory neurons.
By Marta Nieto
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
09:50 – 10:20
Activity-dependent neuronal circuit refinement in the postnatal barrel cortex.
By Takuji Iwasato
10:20 – 10:50
Coffee Break
Session 4
Spontaneous activity in the cortex
Chairperson: Juliana Martins da Rosa
10:50 – 11:20
Longitudinal tracking of individual neuronal timelines in the developing cortex.
By Rosa Cossart
11:20 – 11:40
Short Talk: Translaminar Synchronous Neuronal Activity is Required for Columnar Synaptic Strengthening in the Neocortex
By Alicia Che
11:40 – 12:00
Short Talk: Dendritic compartment-specific development of excitatory synaptic inputs in the cortical layer 5 neurons
By Takeshi Imai
12:00 – 12:30
Spontaneous activity induces correlated neuron and astrocyte activity in developing sensory domains.
By Dwight Bergles
12:30 – 13:00
The crosstalk between spontaneous activity and genetic programs in sensory-modality acquisition
By Guillermina López-Bendito
13:00 – 15:00
Lunch
14:15 –
Business meeting (perspectives on future SPONT meetings)
Session 5
Spontaneous activity in the visual system II
Chairperson: Mark Blumberg
15:00 – 15:30
Development of modular cortical networks: From patterns of spontaneous activity to reliable visual representations.
By David Fitzpatrick
15:30 – 15:50
Short Talk: Increase in dimensionality and sparsification of spontaneous neural activity over development across diverse cortical areas.
By Matthias Kaschube
15:50 – 16:20
Emergence of structured connectivity through activity-dependent synaptic plasticity.
By Julijana Gjorgjieva
16:20 – 19:30
Poster Session + coffee
20:00
Departure to Gala Dinner
20:30
Gala Dinner at Bay Club Restaurant
Wednesday, November 6th
Session 6
Spontaneous activity in behavioral states and neuromodulation
Chairperson: Alexandre Tiriac
09:30 – 10:00
Neuropeptide regulation of activity in the developing brain.
By Orkun Akin
10:00 – 10:30
Endogenous acetylcholine shapes visual cortex spontaneous activity.
By Christian Lohmann
10:30 – 11:00
Sleep-dependent spontaneous activity self-organizes sensorimotor circuits.
By Mark Blumberg
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00
Spontaneous activity in the neonatal human brain: source, metastability and implications for sensory processing.
By Lorenzo Fabrizi
12:05
Concluding remarks
12:10
Light lunch
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
Sponsors
CIAORG Program, Project CIAORG/2023/30
Funded by Generalitat Valenciana, Consellería de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo