The FENS 2020 plenary lectures and special lectures will bring you the very latest neuroscience updates, from leading international experts.
All plenary and special lecture sessions will have a live Q&A section.
Take a look at the sessions and speakers below and start planning your Forum schedule.
For Speakers’ Bios and Pictures, please visit the Meet the Faculty page.
Plenary Lectures
| Saturday, 11 July | PL01 – Fred Kavli Opening Lecture (16:30-18:30)
Differential resilience to perturbation of circuits with similar performance. Eve Marder (USA) |
| Sunday, 12 July | PL02 – Plenary Lecture (08:30-09:30)
Local protein synthesis in neurons. Erin Schuman (DE) PL03 – Plenary Lecture (16:00-17:00) The amygdala and memory: recalling the past, imaging the future. Sheena Josselyn (CA) |
| Monday, 13 July | PL04 – Plenary Lecture (08:30-09:30)
How development scaffolds adult hippocampal dynamics.Rosa Cossart (FR) PL05 – Presidential Lecture (16:00-17:00) Neural mechanisms of environmental risk for psychiatric disorders. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (DE) |
| Tuesday, 14 July | PL07 – The ERA-NET Neuron Lecture (08:30-09:30)
Early cortical wiring and neuroimmune interactions. Sonia Garel (FR) PL06 – Plenary Lecture (16:00-17:00) Discovering, reinforcing and refining actions. Rui Costa (USA)
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| Wednesday, 15 July | PL08 – Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Lecture (08:30-09:30)
Sleep’s role in memory consolidation. Jan Born (DE) PL09 – Hertie Foundation Closing Lecture (15:00-16:00) New approaches to studying intact brain structure and function. Karl Deisseroth (USA) |
Special Lectures
| Saturday, 11 July | SL01 – EJN Special Feature (11:30-12:45)
Mammalian sleep, varying in space and time. Anita Luthi (CH) At a glance at a face: early visual processing in young and older adults. Guillaume Rousselet (UK) |
| Sunday, 12 July | SL02 – The Brain Prize Lecture 2019 (11:30-12:45)
CADASIL: a clinical model of ischemic small vessel disease. Hugues Chabriat (FR) Pathogenesis of small vessel diseases of the Brain: new insights from genetic models. Anne Joutel (FR) Inherited cerebral small vessel disease genomics. Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve (FR) SL03 – IBRO – Kemali Prize Lecture (12:00-12:45) From pecking order to Ketamine – Neural mechanisms of social and emotional behaviors. Hailan Hu (CN) |
| Monday, 13 July | SL04 – EBBS / Behavioural Brain Research Lecture (12:00-12:45)
Prefrontal circuits related to anhedonia and anxiety. Angela Roberts (UK) SL05 – EDAB / Max Cowan Special lecture (12:00-12:45) Synapses lost and found: developmental critical periods and Alzheimer’s Disease. Carla Shatz (USA) SL06 – Boehringer – Ingelheim / FENS Research Award (12:00-12:45) Epigenetic mechanisms in memory formation. Johannes Gräff (CH) |
| Tuesday, 14 July | SL07 – Eric Kandel Prize Lecture (12:00-12:45)
Computation in neuron-glia circuits for controlling behavioral state SL08 – Host Society Special Lecture (12:00-12:45) Neuron-Glia interactions in synapse degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease. Tara Spires-Jones (UK) View Q&A with speaker | Listen to the “In Conversation” with speaker SL09 – ERA-Net NEURON / Excellent Papers in Neuroscience Award Lecture (12:00-12:45). Autism-like phenotype and risk gene mRNA deadenylation by CPEB4 mis-splicing |
| Wednesday, 15 July | SL10 – FENS – EJN Awards Lectures (11:30-12:45)
The synaptome: an epic journey in time and space. Seth Grant (UK) Prefrontal circuits for decision making. Laurence Hunt (UK) SL11 – EDAB – Lecture on Neuroethics (12:00-12:45) Non-human primate models for neurobiology and biomedicine. Mu-Ming Poo (CN) |
