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Workshop: THE SOCIAL BRAIN

Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Suiza

Camilla Bellone, University of Geneve, Ginebra, Suiza

Félix Leroy, Alicante Neuroscience Institute - Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain / University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • finalizado
  • Desde: 01 Octubre 2024
  • Hasta: 03 Octubre 2024
  • Presencial
  • Sede Antonio Machado de Baeza
  • Investigadora
  • Inglés
  • 20 horas
  • 400 euros
  • 35

We propose a workshop entitled “The social brain” focusing on the molecular and cellular mechanisms, neural circuits and neuronal computations that support social behaviors and social interactions. As we have been cruelly reminded during the pandemic, social interactions are an essential part of our lives. However, we still know very little of the underlying neuronal processes that support social behaviors. In addition, patients suffering from psychiatric diseases often experience impaired social cognition and have difficulties forming and maintaining social relationships. Importantly, several of these diseases are also worsened by social conditions such as isolation or bullying, and cases of mental illnesses involving social deficits are reported to be increasing each year.

Since social interactions are an essential feature of most species, social neurosciences utilize a wide-range of animal models, from insects to non-human primates with the majority of the investigation conducted in rodents. Thus, some studies have leveraged specific rodent species selected for their particular social features such as polygamous and monogamous mouse species or vole subspecies. Scientists interested in social neurosciences therefore have a large array of rodent animal models at their disposal to investigate the neural basis of specific social behaviors (social aggression, social dominance, mating, parenting) and social interactions in general (social exploration and recognition, pro-social / empathy behaviors). Modern social neurosciences are also leveraging the recent advances in computational neuroscience (deep-neural networks for multiple animal tracking, classifiers etc.). Several speakers in our program make extensive use of these tools. For all these reasons, we believe the subject of social neuroscience to be an increasingly important one with wide and different interests from complementary scientific audiences.

A workshop on social neurosciences would be a perfect place for researchers investigating different social behaviors using various techniques to compare and exchange ideas. In addition, rodent animal models of psychiatric diseases exhibiting deficits in social interactions are extensively used to investigate the causes behind diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or autism spectrum disorder (Lewis EM et al., Neuron 2020; Lee D et al., Nat. Neuro. 2021). A workshop on social behaviors would therefore also broach on translational research investigating diseases associated with impaired social interactions.

The overall goal of this workshop is to provide the most incisive and up-to-date overview of the current research in the fields of social neuroscience, with a particular focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms, neuronal circuits and neuronal computations controlling social behaviors in rodents. To do so, this workshop will bring together a unique combination of internationally recognized investigators, with different and multidisciplinary expertise. These experts have substantially contributed to our current understanding of the neural circuits and mechanisms regulating social behaviors as varied as prosocial/empathy behavior (Keysers, Papaleo), social fear (Charlet, Gross) social reward and motivation (Leroy, Lima, Gould), maternal behaviors (Kohl, Froemke), and social competition (Russo, Hu, Sandi). The workshop will also offer a translational research session looking at the dysregulation of social circuits during psychiatric disorders (Bellone).

WORKSHOP THE SOCIAL BRAIN 03

  • Plan de estudios

     

    Monday, September 30 th 2024
    18:00 Registration

    Tuesday, October 1 st 2024

    08:55 Welcome address from the organizers

    Session I: Social competition and aggression
    Chair: Francesco Papaleo
    09:00 Scott Russo, Mount Sinai Hospital: Neural circuit mechanisms shaping social encounters.
    09:30 Arpita Konar, Presidency University: A blast from the past: Molecular memories…. of traumatic
    experiences and impact on aggression.
    09:45 Tamás Láng, Eötvös Loránd University: A thalamo-preoptic pathway inhibits intermale
    aggression in rats.
    10:00 Carmen Sandi, EPFL: Powering the social brain: Mitochondria and metabolism in social
    behavior.

    10:30 Coffee break

    Session II: Dysregulation of neuronal circuits supporting social behaviors during psychiatric
    diseases
    Chair: Susana Lima
    11:00 Camilla Bellone, Geneva University: VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social
    interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error.
    11:30 Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences: Ultrasonic vocalizations of pups in a
    neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia.
    11:45 Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Michigan State University: Social hierarchies formed by male Mecp2
    knockout mice have more submissive individuals, which have altered mPFC neuronal synchrony
    during social interactions.
    12:00 Nuno Beltrão, University of Coimbra: Social deficits and cerebellar dysfunction in a mouse
    model carrying a human schizophrenia-associated mutation in the CACNG2 gene schizophrenia.
    12:15 Freddie Jeanneteau, Institute of Functional Genomic: Correction of hypothalamo-septal
    dysfunction in the oxytocin and vasopressin circuits restores social deficits in a mouse model of
    autism.

    13:00-15:00 Lunch.

    Session III: Social fear and social stress.
    Chair: Guillaume Bouisset
    16:00 Pegah Kassraian, Columbia University: Hippocampal circuits underlying social episodic
    memory.
    16:15 Alexandre Charlet, CNRS: Fine-tuning of social fear by oxytocin-glial cells interplay.
    16:45 Paula Gomez-Sotres, Bordeaux University: Olfactory bulb astrocytes link social transmission of
    stress to cognitive adaptation.
    17:00 Daniel Dautan, Karolinska Institute: The cortico-accumbal pathway encodes social anxiety in a
    depression-like model.
    17:15 Cornelius Gross, EMBL in Rome: Contextual and experience-dependent modulation of social
    threat responses.

    Program

    17:45 Poster Session

    20:30 Dinner

    Wednesday, October 2 nd 2024

    Session IV: Social reward and social motivation.
    Chair: Jonny Kohl
    09:00 Aras Petrullis, Georgia State University: Regulation of male social interest by vasopressin
    system circuitry.
    09:15 Felix Leroy, Neurosciences Institute in Alicante: Neuronal circuits regulating social
    preferences.
    09:45 Anjaly Yadav, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology: The role of the prelimbic cortex in
    transition from out-group to in-group social interactions.
    10:00 Susana Lima, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown: Hypothalamic circuits for female
    socio-sexual behavior.

    10:30 coffee break

    11:00 Meenakshi Asokan, Princeton University: Hormone-mediated reorganization of cortical
    dynamics during female social choice.
    11:15 Nancy Mack, Princeton University: Decoding the specificity of social drives.
    11:30 Sung-Yon Kim, Seoul National University: A main olfactory-to-limbic circuit for social novelty
    preference
    11:45 Xiaoke Chen, Stanford University: Neural mechanisms underlying social contagion.
    12:30 Guided Tour of Baeza

    14:00 Lunch

    Session V: Reproductive behaviors
    Chair: Felix Leroy
    15:30 Salvatore Lecca, Lausanne University: A neural substrate for negative affect dictates female
    parental behavior.
    15:15 Gina Puska, Eötvös Loránd University: Calbindin neurons of the lateral septum regulate
    maternal care driven by their thalamic input.
    16:30 Arpád Dobolyi, Eötvös Loránd University: The control of innate social behaviors by inputs to the
    medial preoptic area.
    16:00 Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute: Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates
    infant-directed aggression.
    16:45 Coffee break
    17:15 Stefano Zucca, University of Turin: Whole-brain representation of multimodal courtship cues.
    17:30 Maria Clara Selles, New York University: Oxytocin signaling in astrocytes controls oxytocin
    expression.

    20:00 Dinner

    Thursday, October 3rd 2024

    Session IV: Prosocial behaviors.
    Chair: Daniel Dautan

    9:00 Francesco Papaleo, Italian Technological Institute: Circuits of Emotion Recognition.
    9:30 Moisés dos Santos Corrêa, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology: Emotional contagion and helping
    behavior: learning to be good recruits cell subpopulation in the dorsal hippocampus in mice.
    9:45 Christian Keysers, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, KNAW: A cross-species approach to
    the neural bases of empathy and prosociality.
    10:15 Weizhe Hong, UCLA: Neural basis of prosocial behavior.
    10:45 Concluding remarks from the organizers.


    11:30 Bus departure to Madrid airport.
    30 min talks
    15 min talks

     


  • Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Suiza

    Camilla Bellone, University of Geneve, Ginebra, Suiza

    Félix Leroy, Alicante Neuroscience Institute - Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain / University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Camilla Bellone, University of Geneva
    Alexandre Charlet, University of Strasbourg - CNRS
    Robert Froemke, New York University
    Elizabeth Gould, Princeton University
    Cornelius Gross, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
    Weizhe Hong, University of California, Los Angeles
    Hailan Hu, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
    Christian Keysers, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam
    Jonny Kohl, Crick Institute
    Félx Leroy, Alicante Neuroscience Institute, Alicante
    Susana Lima, Champalimaud institute
    Dayu Lin, New-York University, Grossman School of Medecine
    Francesco Papaleo, Italian Institute of Technology
    Scott Russo, Mount Sinai Hospital
    Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne


Criterios de admisión

The Social Bain workshop will be of interest to neuroscientists studying the fundamental aspects of social interactions as well as neuroscientists investigating psychiatric diseases associated with deficits in social cognition and interested in translational applications. "See application guidelines".

GENERAL INFORMATION

 FORMATE OF THE WORKSHOP:

The workshop will bring together 15 speakers and a maximum of 35 participants. The scientific programme will start on Tuesday 1rd October in the morning and will end on Thursday 3rd October in the morning. Ample time for informal discussion will be reserved. Participants are welcomed to present a poster. If you would like to be considered for a short 15 min talk, please send your CV and abstract to Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo. before 15th  June.

VENUE OF THE WORKSHOP: The workshop will be held in Baeza, at the “Antonio Machado Headquarters”, a XVII century building turned into a Conference Centre of the International University of Andalusia (UNIA). A complex made up of two historic buildings: the Jabalquinto Palace (XV/XVI centuries) and the old Seminary (XVII century) located in the heart of the historic complex, among the old University, church of Santa Cruz, the cathedral and the Upper Town Halls.
This site includes a recently restored residence, where speakers and participants will be accommodated. This same space is where the meetings will be held, which facilitates social interaction and informal discussions.
Baeza is a world historic heritage town, renowned for its Renaissance and Gothic buildings.

 

ACCOMMODATION

ACCOMMODATION:

We recommend all participants to stay in the University Residence, which is located in the same space where the Meetings will take place, to facilitate social interaction and informal discussions.

The accommodation in the University Residence is in shared double rooms, as there are not single rooms: €20/day. To make the reservation and the corresponding payment you must be previously registered for the workshop and then contact: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo..

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION:

A) Applicants must complete an application form and submit it, along with:

  • A brief C.V.
  • A summary of the current research work of the candidate.

In case of presenting a poster, a summary of the poster of no more than one page, with the title, authorship, research center/institution/university, address and a summary of the communication.

See section "presentation of panels and posters”.

SEE LINK TO:
Application form (odt)
Application form (doc)*:

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B) Send the completed Application Form (doc/odt) and the attached documents as separate text files and in a single email message, to Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo., no later than 19 August 2024.

Selected applicants (with or without poster) will be notified directly. From that moment on, they must pay the corresponding registration fees*.

WORKSHOP FEES 2024:

Registration: 400,00 € (breakfast, lunch, coffe-breaks and dinner included)
Payment method: bank transfer to ‘La Caixa’
IBAN (international bank account number): ES78 21009166752200074348
SWIFT (BIC): CAIXESBBXXX

Registration fees deadline 13 September 2024
Selected applicants must indicate their full name and code number (it will appear in the webpage) in the bank transfer. After completing your payment by bank transfer, a proof of payment must be sent to: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo..

The bank charges generated by the bank transfer will be paid by the applicants/attendees.

WORKSHOP panels/posters guidelines:

The scheduled dates for the presentation of panels/posters are:

A. Deadline to present the complete panels in digital format 19 AUGUST 2024.

Presentation of the proposal: through the registration form in the Worhshop.

Shipping address for panels/posters: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.

o For the oral presentation of posters it is essential to have formalized registration and payment of the Workshop.
o The co-director of the Workshop will indicate and assign the session in which to present the work.
o The organization will certify the effective presentation of each panel/poster during the Workshop.
o Each author individually or collectively may present a maximum of 2 panels.
o Researchers may display their panel in the campus facilities. To do this, they must bring their work printed in DIN A0 vertical format (84.1 x 118.9 cm) and arrange it in the provided fastening systems.

Panel/poster contents:

• Title: Arial bold 14 points.
• Subtitle (if applicable).
• Authorship (individual or collective).
• Keywords: maximum 4.
• Presentation / Summary of content: 120 words.
• Methodology: 100 words.
• Description and contents: through text and graphics.
• Conclusions: maximum 100 words
• Sources and essential bibliography.
• Format: to transfer digitally DIN A4; PDF. Type: Arial. Body: minimum 9 and maximum 12 points.

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