10:00 – 18:00
PhD Symposium
Registration required. For details, click here.
12:00 – 14:00
Check-In & Badge Pick-Up (Hörsaalzentrum)
Light refreshments will be available at the workshop venue (Seminarhaus).
14:00 – 18:30
Satellite Workshops (Seminarhaus)
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8:30 – 12:30
Satellite Workshops (Seminarhaus)
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12:30 – 14:00
Check-In for Main Conference (Hörsaalzentrum)
14:00 – 14:15
Conference Opening
14:15 – 15:00
Invited Talk
Roshan Cools | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands
Dopamine and the adaptive tuning of behavioral strategy
15:00 – 16:15
Valentin Braitenberg Award Ceremony
Presentation of the Valentin Braitenberg Award 2026
Followed by a lecture by the award winner
Xiao-Jing Wang | New York University, USA
16:30 – 18:00
Poster Session I
You will find a link to the poster abstracts here shortly before the conference starts.
18:00 – 19:30
Poster Session II
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Dinner will be served during both poster sessions.
20:00 – 21:00
Special Evening Event
Science fiction in the service of science: Readings from Valentin Braitenberg’s Vehicles
by Stefan Rotter (Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany) & Abigail Morrison (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
To mark the 100th anniversary of Valentin Braitenberg’s birth, we invite you to an evening featuring readings from his 1984 book Vehicles – Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, as well as reflections on how such thought experiments continue to inspire computational neuroscience to this day.
19:45 – 21:00
Postdoc Meeting
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9:00 – 9:45
Invited Talk
Bence Ölveczky | Harvard University, USA
Using neuro-biomechanical simulations to probe neural control of learned skills
9:45 – 10:30
Invited Talk
Andreas Herz | LMU Munich, Germany
How zebrafish compute head direction
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45
Invited Talk
Richard Naud | University of Ottawa, Canada
Interrogating the role of bursting in the coordination of learning
11:45 – 12:00
Contributed Talk
Surbhit Wagle | Imperial College London, UK
Transient excitability and synaptic consolidation support stable memory despite neural drift
12:00 – 12:15
Contributed Talk
Matthijs Pals | University of Tübingen, Germany
Attractor dynamics underlie sequence working memory in data-constrained recurrent neural networks
12:30 – 14:00
Poster Session III
You will find a link to the poster abstracts here shortly before the conference starts.
14:00 – 15:30
Poster Session IV
You will find a link to the poster abstracts here shortly before the conference starts.
Lunch will be served during both poster sessions.
15:30 – 16:15
Invited Talk
Jeehyun Kwag | Seoul National University, Korea
Neural computation of egocentric space: From circuits to memory
16:15 – 16:30
Contributed Talk
Rares A. Dorcioman | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Human working memory is supported by distributed, not localized, NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic interactions
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:45
Invited Talk
John Krakauer | Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
Lessons at the Cognitive-Motor interface
17:45 – 18:00
Contributed Talk
Salar Nouri | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Emergent animal-like foraging and functional circuits in neural networks trained with homeostatic reinforcement learning
18:00 – 18:15
Contributed Talk
Shuqi Wang | EPFL, Switzerland
High-precision detection of monosynaptic connections unveils the wiring logic of the mouse visual cortex
19:30 – midnight
Conference Dinner
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9:00 – 9:45
Invited Talk
Benjamin Grewe | Institute of Neuroinformatics of the ETH and UZH, Switzerland
Target learning: Rethinking credit assignment in neural systems
9:45 – 10:00
Contributed Talk
Marieke L. Schölvinck | Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Germany
Using high-dimensional behavior to infer internal states across species
10:00 – 10:45
Invited Talk
Ewelina Knapska | Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland
From the lab to the field: Decoding social behavior in mice
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:15
Contributed Talk
Sara Varetti | SISSA, Italy
Timescale hierarchy and long-lasting working memory emerge from the dynamics of hierarchical neural assemblies
12:15 – 13:00
Invited Talk
Sandro Romani | Janelia Research Campus, USA
Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity: How hippocampal circuits learn, store, and generalize
13:00 – 13:15
Closing Remarks
