Bernstein Conference 2025

Location

Frankfurt am Main

Date

Sep 29 – Oct 2

Abstracts

Photographic retrospective

Invited Talks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contributed Talks

Denis Alevi | Yale University, USA
Representational drift as a correlate of memory consolidation (abstract)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Satellite Workshops

Confirmed speakers:

  • Susanne Falkner
  • Elizabeth Herbert
  • Sadra Sadeh
  • Ruben Tikidji-Hamburyan
  • Irina Pochinok
  • Matthew Colonnese
  • Matthias Kaschube
  • Tuan Nguyen

Confirmed speakers:

  • Gianmarco Tiddia
  • Melissa Lober
  • Johanna Senk
  • Viktoria Zemliak
  • Luca Sergi
  • Lucas Rudelt
  • Spyridon Chavlis
  • Willem Wybo

Confirmed speakers:

  • Dennis Nestvogel
  • Mehran Ahmadlou
  • Virginia Ruetten
  • Memming Park
  • Justus Kautz
  • Maryam Shanechi
  • Cole Hurwitz
  • Tatiana Engel
  • Agostina Palmigiano
  • Andrea Navas-Olive
  • Arman Behrad

Confirmed speakers:

  • Natalie Schaworonkow
  • Andrea Navas-Olive
  • Roxana Zeraati
  • Peter Petersen
  • Lauren Ross
  • Michael Denker
  • Daniele Marinazzo
  • Juan Alvaro Gallego
  • Kayson Fakhar
  • Alessio Buccino
  • Irina Pochinok

Confirmed speakers:

  • Alon Rubin
  • Felipe Kalle Kossio
  • Jens-Bastian Eppler
  • Charles Micou
  • Luca Mazzucato
  • Simon Rumpel
  • Benjamin R. Kanter
  • Marlene Bartos

Confirmed speakers:

  • Susanne Schreiber
  • Nicholas Tolley
  • Gaute Einevoll
  • Guillaume Bellec
  • Joao Barbosa
  • Trang Anh Nghiem
  • Richard Gao
  • Justus Kautz
  • Manuel Brenner
  • Hamidreza Jamalabadi
  • Christopher Versteeg
  • Daniel Durstewitz

Confirmed speakers:

  • Thomas Oertner
  • Corette Wierenga
  • Willem Wybo
  • Elena Pastorelli
  • Yiota Poirazi
  • Hermann Cuntz
  • Tobias Bock
  • Albert Gidon
  • Marlene Bartos
  • Walter Senn
  • Viola Priesemann
  • Julijana Gjiorgjieva

Confirmed speakers:

  • Anandita De
  • Amy Orsborn
  • Fabrizio de Vico Fallani
  • Alfonso Renart
  • Alberto Mazzoni
  • Maryam Shanechi
  • Elisa Tentori
  • Constantin Rothkopf
  • Jane Wang
  • Ábel Ságodi

Confirmed speakers:

  • Tatiana Engel
  • Joao Barbosa
  • Georgia Gregoriou
  • Valentin Dragoi
  • Serena di Santo
  • Fabio Veneto
  • Andrew B. K. Lehr
  • Georgia Bastos
  • Katharina Wilmes
  • Toshitake Asabuki
  • Mashbayar Tugsbayar
  • Caroline Haimerl
  • Hauke Ole Wernecke

Confirmed speakers:

  • Stephanie Nelli
  • Kenneth Kay
  • Stefano Ferraina
  • Sofia Raglio
  • Yukun Yang
  • Valeria Fascianelli
  • Roberto Bottini
  • Will Dorrell

Confirmed speakers:

  • Giacomo Indiveri
  • Yiota Poirazi
  • Melika Payvand
  • Elisa Donati
  • Johannes Schemmel
  • Sunny Bains
  • Amir Zjajo
  • Dan Goodman
  • Catherine Schuman