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Program

Program

BERNSTEIN CONFERENCE

BERNSTEIN CONFERENCE

10:00 – 18:00

PhD Symposium – “Consensus”
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12:00 – 14:00

Check-In & Badge Pick-Up (Casino building)
Light refreshments will be available at the workshop venue (Seminarhaus)

14:00 – 18:30

Satellite Workshops
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8:30 – 12:30

Satellite Workshops
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12:30 – 14:00

Check-In for Main Conference

14:00 – 14:15

Conference Opening

Ulrich Schielein | CIO Goethe University Frankfurt
Jochen Triesch | Conference chair
Susanne Schreiber | Chair Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience
Tatiana Engel | Program chair



14:15 – 15:00

Invited Talk
Panayiota Poirazi | Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece
How dendrites empower learning in biological and artificial brains (abstract)

15:00 – 16:15

Valentin Braitenberg Award Ceremony
Presentation of the Valentin Braitenberg Award 2025
Followed by a lecture by the Award winner
Sara A. Solla | Northwestern University, USA

16:30 – 18:00

Poster Session I
You will find all poster abstracts for this session here.

18:00 – 19:30

Poster Session II
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19:30 – 21:00

Postdoc Meeting
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9:00 – 9:45

Invited Talk
Tirin Moore | Stanford University, USA
Short-term coding of remembered stimuli: Lessons from large-scale electrophysiology in the primate brain (abstract)

9:45 – 10:30

Invited Talk
Albert Compte | Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain
Prefrontal attractor dynamics of dual task learning (abstract)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:45

Invited Talk
Katherine Nagel | NYU School of Medicine, USA
A circuit and synaptic architecture for working memory during olfactory navigation (abstract)

11:45 – 12:00

Contributed Talk
Haleigh Mulholland | University of Minnesota, USA
Large-scale recurrent networks selectively stabilize neural activity in visual cortex (abstract)

12:00 – 12:15

Contributed Talk
Lorenzo Posani | Columbia University, USA
Rarely categorical, always high-dimensional: How the neural code changes along the cortical hierarchy (abstract)

12:30 – 14:00

Poster Session III
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14:00 – 15:30

Poster Session IV
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15:30 – 16:15

Invited Talk
Upinder S. Bhalla | National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Mismatch detection through molecules-to-network computations (abstract)

16:15 – 16:30

Contributed Talk
Ben von Hünerbein | University of Bern, Switzerland
ELiSe: Efficient Learning of Sequences in Structured Recurrent Networks (abstract)

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 – 17:45

Invited Talk
Edvard Moser | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Network coding in grid cells and place cells: From space to memory (abstract)

17:45 – 18:00

Contributed Talk
Denis Alevi | Technical University Berlin / Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany
Representational drift as a correlate of memory consolidation (abstract)

18:00 – 18:15

Contributed Talk
Daniel Levenstein | Yale University, USA
Sequential predictive learning is a unifying theory for hippocampal representation and replay (abstract)

19:30 – midnight

Conference Dinner
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9:00 – 9:45

Invited Talk
Andreas Tolias | Stanford University, USA
Foundation models and digital twins of the brain (abstract)

9:45 – 10:00

Contributed Talk
Lynn K. A. Sörensen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Hierarchical optimization predicts plasticity in the macaque inferior temporal cortex following object training (abstract)

10:00 – 10:45

Invited Talk
Viola Priesemann | Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany
Dendritic balance, synaptic design and emergence of information processing (abstract)

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00

Invited Talk
Luca Mazzucato | University of Oregon, USA
Control of population activity in prefrontal cortex via microstimulations (abstract)

12:00 – 12:15

Contributed Talk
Deyue Kong | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Single-cell optogenetic perturbations reveal stimulus-dependent network interactions in ferret V1 (abstract)

12:15 – 12:30

Contributed Talk
Jure Majnik | Aix-Marseille University / Inserm / INMED / Turing Center for Living Systems, France
Tracking and perturbing developmental trajectories in postnatal mouse neocortex (abstract)

12:30 – 13:15

Invited Talk
Alison Barker | Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Dynamics of social systems: Communication and cooperation in the naked mole-rat (abstract)

13:15 – 13:30

Closing Remarks