The seminar is followed by a lunch (kindly provided by the department) in order to allow everybody to interact and promote collaboration between labs.

Agenda:

12:00 - "Pharmacological characterization of the spinal α2-adrenoceptors subtypes which modulates the nociception" - Gustavo López-Córdoba (Neuropharmacology group)

Abstract

The intrathecal administration of clonidine induces analgesia through the activation of spinal α2-adrenoceptors. These receptors are classified into three subtypes, α2A-, α2B- and α2C-adrenoceptors, without establishing the subtype or subtypes that could be mediating this antinociception. Through a behavioral and electrophysiological approach, the present study elucidated the pharmacological profile of the α2-adrenoceptor subtypes involved in clonidine-induced antinociception.

Male Wistar rats divided into two experimental groups were used. In the first experimental group, the antinociceptive effect of clonidine (0.1, 1, and 10 nmol/10 μl, intrathecal) and/or pretreatment with α2-antagonists was evaluated in a behavioral nociception model (1% formalin): (i) BRL 44408 (α2A- antagonist), (ii) imiloxan (α2B- antagonist) or (iii) JP-1302 (α2C- antagonist). In the second experimental group, unitary extracellular responses of wide dynamic range (WDR) neurons evoked by the stimulation of their peripheral receptive field (20 stimuli, 0.2 Hz, 1-msec duration, 0.1-3 mA) before and after spinal administration of clonidine (1-10 nmol/10 μL) and pretreatment with antagonist BRL 44408, or JP-1302.

The behavioral and neuronal nociception was inhibited by clonidine (0.1-10 nmol), this antinociception was only blocked by antagonist BRL 44408. In the case of behavioral nociception, intrathecal administration of JP-1302 inhibited nociception; this effect was blocked in animals pretreated with bicuculline (GABAA receptor antagonist).

This study suggests that clonidine exerts its antinociceptive effect through the activation of α2A-adrenoceptors. On the other hand, it is shown that blocking α2C-adrenoceptors exerts a behavioral antinociceptive effect, probably mediated by the participation of GABAergic mechanisms.

Gustavo López-Córdoba¹, Guadalupe Martínez-Lorenzana¹, Miguel Condés-Lara¹, Abimael González-Hernández¹.

¹Department of Developmental Neurobiology and Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma of México, Campus UNAM Juriquilla, Querétaro, QRO, 76230, Mexico

12:45 - Q&A session

13:00 - Lunch

The seminar is followed by a lunch (kindly provided by the department) in order to allow everybody to interact and promote collaboration between labs.

Agenda:

12:00 - “Overexpression of human wild-tape APP alters GABAergic transmission” - Anna Kreis (FYCL lab)

Abstract

Mutations, overexpression or altered processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) are involved in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), characterized by irreversible loss of cognition and memory due to formation of extracellular amyloid plaques (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). Synaptic dysfunction leading to atypical neuronal synchronicity and oscillations appear in AD brain long before the characteristic Aβ and NFT deposits. APP and its cleavage products are reported to interact with receptors involved in synaptic release machinery therefore suggesting direct involvement in neurotransmission. Previous observations showed a downregulation of the K⁺-Cl^- co-transporter (KCC2) in post-mortem AD brains and that overexpression of APP in neuronal culture induces a decrease of the chloride extruder KCC1. Therefore suggesting a possible change in a chloride transmembrane gradient disrupting GABAergic inhibitory transmission. Using a rarely utilized mouse model overexpressing human wild-type APP without the presence of amyloid plaques, we aim to unravel the importance and influence of APP on inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmission.

The seminar is followed by a lunch (kindly provided by the department) in order to allow everybody to interact and promote collaboration between labs.

Agenda:

12:00 - “Role of AMP-activated protein kinase in astrocytes and astrocytoma cells” - Ines Belo de Nascimento Osorio de Castro (NFAR lab)

Abstract

Coming soon...

The seminar is followed by a lunch (kindly provided by the department) in order to allow everybody to interact and promote collaboration between labs.

Agenda:

12:00 - “RhoA GTPase in late Embryonic Apical Neural Stem Cells in the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex” - Alexia Cossard (MACE lab)

Abstract

Excitatory neurons, the major type of neurons in the cerebral cortex, are produced by Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) located in a region called the ventricular zone (VZ). Initially, NSCs mainly self-renew, resulting in an expansion of their number. They then progressively switch into another type of proliferative cells called radial glia cells or apical NSCs (aNSCs) and start producing basal progenitors and neurons. The maintenance of the balance between proliferation, self-renew, and differentiation is crucial to the formation of a normal cortex. Disruption of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate these processes can lead to severe cortical malformations (neuronal heterotopy, microcephaly...).

The small GTPase RhoA plays key roles in fundamental functions such as regulation of actin cytoskeleton, microtubule movement, and regulation of gene expression. It is highly expressed in the VZ of the developing cerebral cortex and its conditional deletion in early NSCs of the cerebral cortex induces a loss of adherens junctions associated with massive disorganization of the tissue and overproliferation of NSCs. However, nothing is known about its function in the later stage. Since early NSCs mostly self-renew while late aNSCs divide asymmetrically to produce postmitotic cells, we hypothesized that RhoA function might not be the same at different developmental stages.

In this project, we investigate RhoA functions during late neurogenesis utilizing an alternative approach that only affects a subset of cells in a cell-autonomous manner. Using in utero electroporation and molecular techniques, we found that RhoA positively regulates proliferation and controls differentiation into basal progenitors or postmitotic neurons in the cerebral cortex before and therefore independently to the occurrence of tissue disorganization.

The seminar is followed by a lunch (kindly provided by the department) in order to allow everybody to interact and promote collaboration between labs.

Agenda:

12:00 - “MicroRNA dysregulation in Multiple Sclerosis and other neuro-inflammatory diseases: multi-compartment patterns of expression and pathway analysis.” - Oceane Perdaens ( Neuroimmunology and CFS Neurochemistry group)

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common cause of non-traumatic neurological disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) affecting young adults, characterized by multifocal inflammatory demyelinating lesions, axonal loss and neurodegeneration. While T cells invasion through an abnormal permeable blood brain barrier is a fact, MS pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. Thus, the study of novel bioactive molecules, involved in neuroinflammation, is of increasing interest. In this field, microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs circulating in all body fluids and regulating gene expression post-transcriptionally, including immune-related genes. Therefore, we screened for a panel of miRNAs in cerebrospinal fluid, serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with relapsing-remitting MS and other neurological disorders versus symptomatic and healthy controls. 21 miRNAs are differentially regulated according to disease activity in one of these compartments in MS, they are mainly upregulated in relapsing MS. We identified a partially common miRNA expression profile between relapsing MS, inflammatory and infectious CNS disorders. Hereby, we confirm dysregulation of miRNAs already studied by other groups, e.g. miR-146a-5p, miR-150-5p and miR-155-5p. Interestingly we have also found seven miRNAs that have not been described in MS so far, to our best knowledge. By principle component analysis we demonstrated that these miRNAs can segregate MS according to disease activity but also from controls. In silico analysis of Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways confirms the involvement of these miRNAs in cell cycle and survival, cancer, immunoregulation, neurogenesis and lipidic metabolism.

PERDAENS O^1,2 (MD), DANG HA¹, D’AURIA L¹ (PhD), VAN PESCH V^1,2 (MD, PhD)

¹Neurochemistry Group, Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), avenue Emmanuel Mounier 53/B1.53.03, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
²Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium

12:45 - Q&A session

13:00 - Lunch

The seminar is followed by a lunch (kindly provided by the department) in order to allow everybody to interact and promote collaboration between labs.

Agenda:

12:00 - "Understanding the formation and toxicity of β-amyloid hexamers produced in cellular models" - Celine Vranckx ( Alzheimer - Kienlen-Campard lab)

Abstract

Coming soon...

Pr. Yakeel QUIROZ, Harvard Medical School, USA

"Brain changes and biomarkers in cognitively unimpaired individuals with autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease."

Program

4:30pm - 5:30pm: « meet the scientist » (Auditoire 40 salle 13, Passage de la Vecquée 17, 1200 WSL)

6:00pm: conference (Cliniques universitaires St Luc, 3rd floor)

Registration requested to the following address:

veronique.lambrechts@uclouvain.be

« Bilingualism and linguistic changes in aging & Alzheimer’s disease »

Program

1:45-2:45pm

Pr. Yakeel QUIROZ, Harvard Medical School, USA

"Can bilingualism delay or prevent Alzheimer’s disease?"

2:45-3:15pm

Ana Sofia Costa, PhD, Aachen University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Germany

"Bilingualism in primary progressive aphasia"

3:15-4:00pm COFFEE BREAK

4:00-4:30pm

Pr. Arnaud Szmalec, Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY), UCLouvain, Belgium

"Understanding bilingual aphasia: Behavioral and Brain correlates"

4:30-5:30pm

Pr. Wouter DUYCK, Ghent University, Belgium

“Cognition throughout the lifespan: the power of the bilingual experience”

Registration requested to the following address:

veronique.lambrechts@uclouvain.be

Behavioural and Clinical neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK

"THE ROLE OF INHIBITORY CONTROL AND REWARD SENSITIVITY IN IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOURS; RELEVANCE FOR ALCOHOL ABUSE"

Dr Manuel VARLET

MARCS Institute (Western Sydney University)

"Neurophysiological processes underlying sensorimotor synchronization"

Humans synchronize every day their movements with visual and auditory rhythms in their environment, including those produced by other people. Such movement synchronization occurs intentionally but also often unintentionally. Here I will present a series of experiments that combined motion capture and electroencephalographic techniques to explore the perceptual-motor processes underlying the occurrence and stability of such movement synchronization. More specifically, I will discuss how differences in movement synchronization occurring across task constraints and individuals can be explained by differences in the sensory processing of the environmental rhythms.

Dr Mathieu BOURGUIGNON

Center of Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (ULB)

"Developmental trajectory of speech tracking in noise and link with literacy"

During connected speech listening, oscillatory activity within auditory cortices tracks speech rhythmicity at syllable (4–8 Hz) and phrasal (below 1 Hz) rates. In adults, such speech brain tracking (SBT) is also observed in speech-in-noise (SiN) conditions, and in that context, oscillatory brain activity aligns more to the attended speech than to the heard sound. This talk will present recent studies relying on SBT to better understand 1) the neuronal basis of the well-described difficulty of children to perceive SiN, 2) the impact of noise properties and audiovisual integration on SiN perception, and 3) the relation between SiN perception and reading abilities.

This research shows that tracking of SiN at phrasal and syllable rates parallels well documented behavioral effects: SBT and SiN perception (i) are more compromised by informational than non-informational masking, (ii) are enhanced when seeing lip movements, and (iii) increase from age 6 to 12. Our results also revealed substantial differences between SBT at phrasal and syllable rates: both maturation and seeing lip movements boosted syllable tracking globally and phrasal tracking selectively in informational noise conditions. Finally, these effects are behaviorally relevant since the ability to maintain SBT at phrasal rate in SiN conditions and to leverage visual speech information to boost it directly relate to reading abilities.

The talks will be followed by an afternoon coffee (please bring your cup!), for those who would like to discuss further with Manuel and Mathieu.

Une occasion unique pour les étudiants des écoles secondaires de rencontrer des chercheurs en neurosciences, découvrir leur quotidien, comprendre leurs motivations, visiter leurs laboratoires et tester les outils qu’ils utilisent pour explorer le fonctionnement du cerveau.

Illustration: Dominika Sulcova

Programme

Que sont les neurosciences?

Comment devient-on chercheur en neurosciences?

Témoignages de professeurs de l’institut de neurosciences de l’UCLouvain

Partage d’expérience du Professeur Yakeel Quiroz (Harvard Medical School, Etats-Unis)

Tables rondes : rencontrez et discutez avec des jeunes chercheurs en neurosciences

Visite des laboratoires de l’institut: une expérience au cœur de l’activité de recherche

Cette conférence est organisée dans le cadre de la semaine du cerveau

Venez célébrer les 10 ans de l’Institut de Neuroscience (IoNS) de l’UCLouvain

09h00 - 09h45

Introduction et présentation de l’institut IoNS

Prof. André Mouraux, président de l’institut

En présence de Madame la Ministre Valérie Glatigny

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09h45 – 10h15

Pause café + moment d’échanges

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10h15 – 13h00

Présentation du pôle Cellulaire et Moléculaire

« Pharmacomodulation of chronic pain at the spinal level »

Prof. Emmanuel Hermans

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Présentation du pôle Système et Cognition

« Loosing and recovering a sense: How should we gamble on brain plasticity ? »

Prof. Olivier Collignon

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Présentation du pôle Neurosciences Cliniques

« Alcoholism, a brain under the influence of the gut? »

Prof. Philippe de Timary

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13h00 – 14h30

Walking lunch et célébration des 10 ans pour les membres de l’IoNS

"Danger in the dark! The role of visual experience in the spatial mapping of nociception: neuropsychological studies in congenitally blind and normally sighted
individuals."

Thèse présentée en vue de l’obtention du grade de :

Docteure en sciences psychologiques et de l’éducation

Promoteur

Prof. Valéry Legrain, UCLouvain

Co-promotrice

Prof. Anne De Volder, UCLouvain

Membres du jury

Prof. Martin Edwards, Président, UCLouvain
Prof. Olivier Collignon, UClouvain
Prof. Virginie Crollen, UCLouvain
Prof. Elena Azanon (University of Magdeburg)
Prof. Irene Ronga, (University of Turin)

"WHAT’S BEHIND NEUROPATHIC PAIN? NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTS INVESTIGATING MECHANISMS UNDERLYING NEUROPATHIC PAIN.”

Abstract :

Neuropathic pain typically manifests with continuous pain (burning, squeezing, pressure) or paroxysmal pain (electric shock-like sensations, stabbing pain), and provoked (brush- evoked, pressure-evoked, cold-evoked), or paraesthetic and dysesthesic (tingling, pins and needles) sensations. Although in some etiologic categories of neuropathic pain specific types of pain may predominate, none of them are etiologic specific. Clinical examination, questionnaires dedicated to neuropathic pain and laboratory tools should aim to define specific sensory profiles.

The sensory profile theory relies on the evidence that neuropathic pain manifests with different combinations of pain-related sensory abnormalities. Sensory abnormalities of neuropathic pain can arise through various pathophysiological mechanisms. This has implications for diagnosis and treatment. Diagnostic tests, providing information on somatosensory afferent pathways, can be used to seek information on the mechanisms underlying the different types of neuropathic pain. In our studies we combine neurophysiological testing and skin biopsy variables with the different clinical symptoms of neuropathic pain.

By presenting studies in patients and healthy subjects, I will focus on my work in disclosing the mechanisms behind paroxysmal pain and cold-evoked allodynia.

"Unhealthy body, unhealthy mind? Exploring body and space representation following Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and experimental limb immobilization"

Thèse présentée en vue de l’obtention du grade de :

Docteure en sciences psychologiques et de l’éducation

Promoteur

Prof. Valéry Legrain, UCLouvain

Membres du jury

Prof. Martin Edwards, Président, UCLouvain

Prof. Michael Andres, UCLouvain

Prof. Anne Berquin, UCLouvain

Prof. Janet Bultitude (University of Bath)

Prof. Philippe Lefèvre, UCLouvain

Prof. Angelo Maravita (Université de Milan)

Prof. Gilles Vannuscorps, UCLouvain

La présentation sera suivie d'un drink.

MR spectroscopic imaging & White Matter microstructure using diffusion MRI

Keynote speakers:

Fahmeed Hyder, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, US

Javier deFelipe, Cajal Institute, Madrid, ES

Dennis Klomp, Dept. Radiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht University, NL

Charlotte Stagg, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK

Yanniv Assaf, Dept. Neurobiochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, IL

Tim Dyrby, Danish Research Center for MR, Copenhagen University, DK

Steven Laureys, COMA Science Group, University of Liège, BE

Program:

8:15- 8:50 Registration and coffee

8:50-8:55 Welcome address - Prof. André Mouraux, president of IoNS, UCLouvain

8:55-9:00 Introduction to the program - Dr. Laurence Dricot, IoNS, UCLouvain

Morning session. MR Spectroscopy for neuroscience, cognition and beyond – chair: Ron Kupers

9:00-9:30 Basic principles of in vivo NMR Spectroscopy - Prof. Dennis Klomp, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

9:35-10:05 Brain pH imaging using H-MRS - Assoc. Prof. Daniel Coman, Yale University, New Haven, US

10:10-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:00 Metabolic nuances of activated and deactivated brain network nodes - Prof. Fahmeed Hyder, Yale University, New Haven, US

11:05-11:35 H-MRS as a tool to study the role of GABA in brain plasticity and learning - Prof. Charlotte Stagg, Oxford University, UK

11:40-12:10 H-MRS as a tool in cognitive brain research - Assoc. Prof. Gerard Dwyer, University of Bergen, Norway

12:10-12:30 General Discussion

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Afternoon session. Microstructure imaging using Diffusion MRI – chair: Philippe de Timary

13:30-14:00 Connectomics of the human brain - Prof. Javier deFelipe – Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

14:05-14:35 Microstructure-informed tractography - Prof. Yanniv Assaf, Tel Aviv University, Israel

14:40-15:10 Advanced MRI for WM microstructure characterization in pathology: diffusion MRI and beyond - Dr. Gaetan Rensonnet, UCL, Belgium & Assoc. prof. Elda Fischi, EPLF, Lausanne, Switzerland

15:10-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:00 Validation strategies for the interpretation of microstructure imaging using diffusion MRI - Assoc. prof. Tim Dyrby, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark

16:05-16:45 Multimodal analysis of brain microstructure in alcohol use disorder - Prof. Santiago Canals Gamoneda, University of Alicante, Spain & Prof. Wolfgang Sommer, University of Mannheim (Germany)

16:45-17:00 General Discussion

17:00-17:45 Closing Lecture: Imaging the brain & mind: lessons from coma & related states - Prof. Steven Laureys, University of Liège

Registration is free but required (send an email to veronique.lambrechts@uclouvain.be)

Deadline registration: March 25th, 2020

Cave: limited number of places for workshop !

(based on a first come first served principle)

The talk will last 40’ max, and will be followed by a time for discussion.

Abstract

Covert shifts of attention and the programming of eye movements recruit in part the same neural networks. Attention can also be directed internally to representations stored in visual working memory. Interestingly, gaze movements or position reflect the content and the spatial properties of what is held in working memory. The orienting of covert and of internal attention are thus currently assumed to result from the neural mechanisms involved in the programming of saccades (e.g., premotor theory of attention). To test this claim, we assessed the ability to orient attention covertly and internally of individuals born with a congenital vertical or horizontal gaze paralysis, caused by oculomotor nerve dysplasia. We used a classical target detection task, assessed in the vertical and in the horizontal axis, with nonpredictive peripheral cues to investigate exogeneous orientating of covert attention and a retro-cueing task to investigate internal attentional shifts. The individuals with congenital gaze palsy showed a significant exogenous cueing effect and retro-cueing effect in the paralyzed orientation, similarly strong than the one observed in typically developed participants and similarly strong in both orientations. Our findings imply that exogenous covert orientation and shifts of internal attention do not result from the programming of oculomotor saccades. This clear dissociation between motor programming and both cueing effects undermines the currently dominant neurobiological models of exogenous covert spatial orienting centred on oculomotor processes.

Abstract

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain condition associating sensory, motor, trophic and autonomic symptoms in one limb. Cognitive impairments have also been reported, affecting the patients’ ability to mentally represent, perceive and use their painful limb. However, the nature of these deficits is still a matter of debate. Recent studies suggested that cognitive deficits might be limited to body-related information and body perception, while not extending to external space perception. Furthermore, body representation impairments (as for example measured with hand laterality judgment tasks [HLT]) might not be as consistently found as previously thought, with studies obtaining contradictory results. Here I will present several studies that were aimed at (re)examining and clarifying some of these questions and inconsistencies. These studies were performed with upper-limb CRPS patients and relied on sensitive tasks that allow assessing the presence of cognitive biases in body and external space perception, as well as disrupted mental body representations by focusing on the perception of the physical biomechanics of the body. The results suggest that CRPS can affect the perception of the space external to the body, as demonstrated by the presence of visuo-spatial biases. We furthermore show that CRPS patients might present with non-lateralized impairments of hand representation, partly related to difficulties in perceiving the physical biomechanics of their upper limbs. At the same time, the results also highlight the importance of verifying the mechanisms and strategies that underlie the performance on the HLT, which should lead to more cautious interpretations of future findings. Implications for the potential use of cognitive-based rehabilitation strategies for CRPS will be discussed.

Funded by the Fund for Scientific Research of the French-speaking Community of Belgium (F.R.S.-FNRS)

Here is the link to the talk by Lieve Filbrich on Teams.

"Intersegmental coordination in children with cerebral palsy"

Thèse présentée en vue de l’obtention du grade de :

Docteure en sciences de la motricité

Promoteurs

Prof. Jean-Louis Thonnard, UCLouvain
Prof. Yannick Bleyenheuft, UCLouvain

Membres du jury

Prof. Bénédicte Schepens, Présidente, UCLouvain
Prof. Philippe Lefèvre, UClouvain
Prof. Andrew M. Gordon, Columbia University (EEUU)
Prof. Katrijn Klingels (KUL - Hasselt University)

Lecture 1: Combining constraint-induced movement therapy with action-observation therapy in children with unilateral CP’

Katrijn Klingels, PhD

Professor at the Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty of the Hasselt University
Researcher at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Lecture 2: Grasp coordination in children with cerebral palsy

Andrew M. Gordon, PhD

Professor of Movement Science and Neuroscience and Education, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University

Estelle RENAUX (promoter Frédéric Clotman) - Expression et rôles des facteurs de transcription de la famille Arid3 au cours du développement de la moelle épinière (en français)

11:00 – 11:30

Thibaut TOUSSAINT (promoter Bénédicte Schepens) - Contrôle moteur et postural chez les enfants lors de la réception d'un saut et chez les personnes âgées lors de la descente d'escalier (en français)

11:30 – 12:00

Emilien BOYER (promoter Pascal Kienlen-Campard, co-promoter Bernard Hanseeuw) - ALZ-HEX : outils d'identification et de détection des hexamères d'Aβ pathogènes dans la maladie d'Alzheimer (en français)

12:30 – 13:00

Florence BLONDIAUX (promoter Frédéric Crevecoeur, co-promoter Bernard Hanseeuw) - Longitudinal study of the fingerprint of essential tremor in motor control and its links on cerebellum structure and connectivity (in English)

13:00 – 13:30

Anton KAVALDZHIEV (promoter Riëm El Tahry) - Characterization of Vagus Nerve Electroneurogram for Seizure Detection in Rats as Possible Marker for Vagus Nerve Responsive Stimulation (in English)

13:30 – 14:00

Anne HOFFMANN (promoter Frédéric Crevecoeur) - Multisensory Integration in Dynamical Environments (in English)

Margot BUYLE (promoter Virginie Crollen) - The mathematical lag in deaf individuals: why and when (in English)

11:00 – 11:30

Flora ROSENZWEIG (promoter Sylvie Nozaradan) - Exploring neural entrainment to musical rhythms and meter in cochlear implant users and their modulation by movement: a frequency-tagging approach (in English)

11:30 – 12:00

Jakub KUZMA (promoter Vincent Van Pesch) - The role of extracellular vesicle miRNAs in the immunopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (in English)

12:30 – 13:00

Amina SELLIMI (promoter Vincent Van Pesch) - Dissecting the pathological heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis and mimicking disorders (en français)

13:00 – 13:30

Marie DELSAUTE (promoter Yannick Bleyenheuft) - La thérapie intensive peut-elle diminuer l'inflammation cérébrale et, par conséquent, modifier la structure du cerveau d’enfants d’âge scolaire atteints de paralysie cérébrale ? (en français)

13:30 – 14:00

Farah ISSA (promoter Philippe Gailly) - Metabotropic glutamate receptors and TRP channels: role in synaptic plasticity (in English)

"From Locomotion to Dance and Back:
Exploring Rhythmic Sensorimotor Synchronization"

Thèse présentée en vue de l’obtention du grade de :

Docteur en sciences médicales

Promoteurs

Prof. André Mouraux, UCLouvain

Co-promotrice

Prof. Isabelle Peretz, Université de Montréal

Membres du jury

Prof. Pascal Kienlen-Campard, Président, UCLouvain
Prof. Sylvie Nozaradan, UClouvain
Prof. Michael Andres, UCLouvain
Prof. Simone Dalla Bella, Université de Montréal
Prof. Manon Grube, Aarhus University

Already next Wednesday 18/11 you will have the opportunity to enjoy directly from the comfort of your living room 9 talks and 13 blitz talks delivered by young researchers of our institute.

The new form brings some changes to the general structure of the event. Most importantly, we have decided to replace poster presentations with Blitz Talks. For those who are not familiar with the format, these are short oral presentations (5 mins) with maximum 5 slides. This way presenters will be able to communicate the key facts to all attendees and interested public can approach them to discuss the details of presented projects. For this purpose we will set up Breakout rooms for each Blitz Talk presenter that will be available during breaks. Longer Talks will keep the traditional format of 10 - 15 mins of presentations followed by time for questions, this time also in a written form. And as usual we will award amazing financial prizes to the best Talk and the best Blitz Talk based on YOUR vote.

On top of that, we have a couple of extras this time:

Dr. Remi Gau from the Cross-modal perception and plasticity lab will present CPP_BIDS, a MATLAB toolbox for behavioral experiments data management.

Prof. Gunter Kenis from Maastrich University will introduce the European Graduate School of Neuroscience - EURON - and all it has to offer (not only) to PhD students of partner universities.

Prof. Frederick Verbruggen from Ghent University will give the most anticipated keynote talk with the title 'Towards Open (Psychological) Science'.

We are also very proud to announce that this year YRD prizes are sponsored by Trinoma and Promega. Representatives of both companies will give a blitz talk during the event, so stay connected and check them out!

Preliminary agenda

9:00 - 10:10 - Welcome + First session of oral presentations

• Talk 1: Thibaut Toussaint - Control of energy dissipation when landing from a jump
• Talk 2: Mattia Ferraiolo - Treating Parkinson’s Disease: a matter of density?
• Talk 3: Julien Lambert - Transcranial focused ultrasonic stimulation to modulate the human primary somatosensory cortex

10:10 – 10:20 - Break

10:20 – 11:45 - Second session of oral presentations

• Talk 4: Lars Stumpp - Vagus nerve electroneurogram based detection of acute Pentylenetetrazol induced seizures in rats
• Talk 5: Elisa Calvo Jimenez - Reelin-Regulated Functions of FGFRs during the Development of the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex
• Talk 6: Dominika Šulcová - GABAergic neurotransmission in human brain characterized by single- and paired-pulse TMS with EEG co-registration and pharmacological GABAA activation

Special Talk Presentation EURON

11:45 – 11:50 - Break

11:50 - 12:35 - First Data Blitz session

• Blitz 1: Igor Iarrobino - Right and left inferior frontal opercula are involved in discriminating angry and sad facial expressions
• Blitz 2: Andrea Angla Navarro - Non-cell autonomous regulation of pre-motor interneuron development in the chicken embryonic spinal cord
• Blitz 3: Astrid Carton de Tournai - Sensitivity and responsiveness of the modified Jebsen-Taylor Test of Hand Function for children with unilateral cerebral palsy: an experimental retrospective study
• Blitz 4: Inci Cakiroglu - Case report of ipsilateral motor evoked potentials induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left hemisphere of a Parkinson Disease patient implanted with Deep Brain Stimulation
• Blitz 5: Georges Chehade - The fragile balance between proliferation and neoplasia in neural stem cells: Role of DIAPH3 in glioblastoma
• Blitz 6: Sophie van Doorslaer de ten Ryen - The regulation of satellite cells by resistance training in hypoxia

SPECIAL BLITZ Sponsor PROMEGA

12:35 – 13:30 - Break + private discussion Data Blitz Session 1

13:30 – 14:55 - Third session of oral presentations

• Talk 7: Rémi Gau - CPP_BIDS: a lightweight toolbox for behavioral experiments to help you with good data management practices
• Talk 8: Pegdwendé Kabore - False beliefs of patients and management of chronic low back pain in Burkina Faso’s Health services
• Talk 9: Estelle Balan - Endurance training status reduced inflammation and TERRA expression without influencing senescence in skeletal muscle of older individuals
• Talk 10: Ghady El Khoury - Development of a hand activities monitoring device

14:55 – 15:00 - Break

15:00 – 15:45 - Second Data Blitz session

• Blitz 7: Anne Hoffmann - Combined influence of visual and proprioceptive feedback on motor control and adaptation
• Blitz 8: Lars Stumpp - Electro Neurogram Recording and Single Unit Activity detection in the Vagus nerve for seizure detection
• Blitz 9: Geoffrey Warnier - Effects of sprint interval training at different altitudes on cycling performance at sea-level
• Blitz 10: Fanny Fievez - Post-error adjustments reflect the joint impact of strategic and automatic processes
• Blitz 11: Charlotte Baudouin - Generation and characterization of tamoxifen-inducible Vsx1-CreERT2 reporter mice line
• Blitz 1:2 Seyma Kilcioglu – From selective motor control to motor skill learning in cerebral palsy
• Blitz 13: Florence Blondiaux - Saccadic adaptation of Essential Tremor patients

15:45 - 16:15 - Vote + private discussion Data Blitz Session 2

16:15 - 16:20 - Sponsor Presentation TRINOMA

16:20 - 16:30 - Word of the IoNS President + Prizes

16:30 - 17:45 - Keynote talk : Prof. Frederick Verbruggen from the Ghent University (Department of Experimental psychology).

Abstract: Towards Open (Psychological) Science

In the last couple of years, there have been calls from governments, research funders, publishers, as well as grassroots activists, for science to be more open. To some extent, this has to do with recent cases of scientific misconduct or bad research practice that have troubled many disciplines. However, a much more positive case can be madefor Open Science as well. In this presentation, I will discuss why Open Science is important for psychology and why we should embrace it (even though it undeniably comes with certain challenges). I will also discuss how we implement certain principles in my research group (including a 'co-pilot' system).

Download here the Program & Abstract book

Don't forget to brush up you cocktail making skills, so we can share a virtual drink or two.

The lectures are co-organised by Olivier Collignon and André Mouraux in the context of the European ITN project MULTITOUCH (https://multitouch-itn.eu).

Thank you to the 14 speakers from UCLouvain and the two external speakers (Marc Ernst, Ulm University and Michael Hove Fitchburg University) that agreed to contribute to this “advanced training course”.

Agenda:

Direct links to each Zoom webinar are provided in the attached PDF (click on the titles).

PhD students in health sciences (local committee for neurosciences) can receive 1 ECTS credit for conference attendance if they attend at least 8 of the proposed 1 hour lectures.

PhD students in psychological sciences (CDPE) can also receive 1 ECTS credit for conference attendance if they attend the two international lectures given by Marc Ernst and Michael Hove and at least 6 of the other proposed lectures.

Please register using the following link if you want to receive a certificate of attendance to claim this credit: https://forms.office.com/r/Pk0S2vgRu2

"Investigations of spatial and temporal aspects of visuo-nociceptive interactions"

Thèse est présentée en vue de l'obtention du grade de:

Docteure en sciences psychologiques et de l’éducation.

Promoteur :

Professeur Valéry Legrain, UCLouvain/IoNS/IPSY, Secrétaire

Membres du Jury :

Prof. André Mouraux, UCLouvain/IoNS/IPSY

Prof. Anne Berquin, UCLouvain/IoNS/IPSY

Prof. Olivier Collignon, UCLouvain/PSP/IPSY - Président

Prof. Alessandro Farnè, Université Lyon 1, France

Dr Flavia Mancini, University of Cambridge, UK

La défense sera également accessible via Teams: Lien vers la réunion Teams

Le Professeur Bernard Hanseeuw, neurologue aux Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc et chercheur à l’Institut de Neuroscience de l’UCLouvain, vient d’être récompensé par la Fondation René De Cooman pour ses travaux de recherche sur les processus du vieillissement et des pathologies associées.

Le prix René De Cooman est attribué tous les deux ans à un chercheur belge ayant apporté une contribution marquante à la science médicale par un travail de recherche fondamentale ou appliquée au service des malades, en rapport avec le vieillissement.

La séance académique de remise du Prix aura lieu le 20 avril 2022 à l’Hôpital André Vésale, Salle Vésale, 706 rue de Gozée, 6110 Montigny-le-Tilleul.

Pour vous inscrire et en savoir plus sur le programme de la séance académique, veuillez cliquer ici.

L'UCLouvain décernera sa plus grande distinction à :

Menno P. Witter, Université norvégienne des sciences et de technologie (NTNU), Trondheim, Norvège
En savoir plus

Programme - Jeudi 5 mai 2022

15h30 : Accueil du public
16h00 : Conférence de Menno P. Witter - Translational relevance of the structural neurobiology of entorhinal cortex circuitry
17h15 : Formation du cortège
17h30 : Cérémonie de remise des insignes de Docteur honoris causa
18h30-19h30 : Réception

Adresses du jour:
Conférence et cérémonie:Auditoire Central 51B, avenue E. Mounier, 51, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Réception:Salle Adrienne Gommers, Louvain Learning Center, avenue Hippocrate, 50, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Parking: Faculté Sud

Les professeurs sont invités à porter leur toge.
Le cortège partira à 17h15 de la Salle des Toges située avenue E. Mounier, 51, 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert.

Inscription obligatoire avant le 12 avril 2022 via ce formulaire ou par courrier électronique à CAI-IONS@uclouvain.be

"A novel approach to seizures in neonates: From acute provoked seizures to ultra-rare epilepsies"

Thèse présentée en vue de l'obtention du grade de Docteur en sciences médicales

Promoteur: Prof. Maria Roberta Cilio, MD, PhD
Co-promoteur: Prof. Susana Ferrao-Santos, MD, PhD

La présentation sera précédée d'un séminaire en neurologie néonatale à partir de 12h (mêmes auditoires) - voir programme

Lunch et coffee break seront servis

Inscriptions obligatoires au plus tard le 28 avril 2022 via ce formulaire

Contact: veronique.lambrechts@uclouvain.be

PROGRAMME PROVISOIRE

14h00
Marc Francaux, UCLouvain
Introduction

14h10
Franck Brocherie, INSEP, Paris
Améliorer la résistance à la fatigue dans les sports collectifs : de la compréhension des mécanismes de la répétition de sprints au développement de méthodes d’entraînement innovantes

14h40
Laurent Malisoux, Luxembourg Institute of Health
Comprendre la passion de Thierry Marique pour la chaussure de course à pied

15h00
Benoît Vercruyse, UCLouvain
Enseigner l’éducation physique et sportive : avec ou sans moufles ?

15h20 Pause

15h40
Adrien Sedaud, INSEP, Paris
De la détection vers l’estimation de performance

16h10
Louise Deldicque, UCLouvain
La place de Thierry Marique dans le sport féminin

16h30
Martin Buchheit, Sport Performance Consulting & Research
Du handball au football, il n'y a que 3 pas

17h00 Pause

17h30
Hommage au Pr Thierry Marique
Catherine Behets-Wydemans – Nicolas Benoit

18h00 Réception

20h00 Soirée avec walking dinner

ADRESSE
Hall d’athlétisme indoor, Boulevard de Lauzelle, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE avant le 10 mai
► Inscription au symposium et/ou à l’hommage

La participation au symposium, à l’hommage et à la réception est gratuite

► Inscription à la soirée

La soirée est accessible en échange d’un don de minimum 50€/personne à la Fondation Louvain. Ce don donne accès à une déduction fiscale et au walking dinner (hors boisson) qui sera offert.
L’argent récolté servira à soutenir les projets d’aide à la réussite de la FSM.

► ACCES-PARKING
 

Six PIs des pôles CEMO, COSY et NEUR profiteront de cette occasion pour présenter leurs recherches à tous les membres de l'institut. Cet après-midi scientifique sera suivi de l'Assemblée Générale de l'institut.

Programme:

12h30-13h00: Accueil et lunch
13h00-14h45: Trois exposés scientifiques
14h45-15h00: Pause
15h00-16h45: Trois exposés scientifiques
16h45-17h00: Pause
17h00-18h00: Assemblée générale
18h00: Drink de clôture

Les orateurs pour les exposés scientifiques: Louise Deldicque (CEMO), Fadel Tissir (CEMO), Giulia Liberati (COSY),  Robert Hardwick (COSY), Riem El Tahry (NEUR), Philippe de Timary (NEUR).

Inscription obligatoire avant le 1 mai 2022 via ce formulaire ou par courrier électronique à CAI-IONS@uclouvain.be

A cette occasion, deux post-docs et deux étudiants PhD présenteront leurs travaux à Menno Witter.

Programme de la matinée :
10h00 : Accueil et café
10h30-11h00 : Lisa Quenon
11h00-11h30 : Nuria Suelves
11h30-11h45 : pause café
11h45-12h15 : Lise Colmant
12h15-12h45 : Émilien Boyer
12h45-13h30 : Light lunch

Les inscriptions sont obligatoires via ce formulaire et seront limitées à 30 personnes maximum.

Lieu: Salle Adrienne Gommers, Louvain Learning Center Hippocrate, Avenue Hippocrate, 50 - 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

The EURON network can be a strong back-bone for various grant applications at the regional and EU level. A primary objective of this PI-meeting is to highlight these opportunities for all PI's of EURON.

Further, we have experienced that an initial level of collaboration between EURON researchers would benefit grant applications. Therefore, a second objective of this meeting is to stimulate collaborative initiatives within the EURON framework.
Specifically, we would like to prepare for the 2023 COFUND call (deadline 9 Feb, 2023). COFUND will co-finance collaborative projects, provided some mutual investment of collaborators is available. During the PI meeting, we will in detail explore these possibilities.

Finally, in general, we hope that connecting EURON researchers will benefit PhD students, for example by increasing the opportunities to use the EURON Mobility grant, or to find partners for Marie Curie Individual post-doc Fellowships.
In the first session, experts in European grant policy (advisors of MHeNs) will explain the different funding possibilities, their background, and strengths of the EURON network for these grants.

Main objectives:

• to facilitate EURON researchers to connect, and to encourage collaborations between EURON PI's;
• to define strategies for preparing European grant applications with EURON partners.

Registration is requested.

Please find here the link for the programme and registration

July 4th| 11:00 CET

Location: Avenue E. Mounier, 51 B -1200 Bruxelles Maisin Room, Auditoires centraux

See how Simoa technology is changing the world of research. Connect with researchers interested in using Simoa technology. Learn how to find reference labs with access to Simoa. Hear from Quanterix scientists and Simoa users. Tour a lab to see our instruments in a lab setting.

11:00 – 11:15: Introduction to the Simoa technology.
Eva Ramos, PhD, Quanterix

11:15 – 11:45: Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: from amyloid to CNS derived extracellular vesicles.
Dr. Emilien Boyer, UCLouvain

11:45 – 12:15: Serum SARS-CoV-2 Antigens for the Determination of COVID-19 Severity.
Dr. Jonathan Douxfils, Qualiblood

11:45 – 12:15: Optimization of a Simoa assay.
Dr. Rose Njemini, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

12:15 – 13:15: Lab tour, Simoa platform

13:00 – 13:30: Lunch (included upon registration and confirmation of interest)

Register here to attend remotely or in person

Programme provisoire:

15h30 : Symposium

Accueil par le Prof. Marc Francaux

Prof. Pietro Enrico di Prampero (Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Udine - Italie)

Human Power centrifuges on the Moon or Mars

The lecture will be based on the mechanics and energetics of cycling. The first part will consist in a brief presentation on how to maintain cardiovascular and muscular function in microgravity. The second part will discuss briefly the possible construction of a "Temple" for the maximal absolute speeds on human power vehicles.

Dr. Yuri Ivanenko (Research Director - Department of Neuromotor Physiology - Fondazione Santa Lucia - Rome - Italie)

Development of human locomotion

This presentation will outline recent advances in understanding maturation of the sensorimotor networks in early infancy and how motor commands are expressed during human locomotion. Both biomechanical and neural aspects will be considered for discussing the precursor of the mature locomotor pattern and its functional reorganization during development.

Prof. Arthur Dewolf (Laboratory of Physiology and Biomechanics of Locomotion - Institute of NeuroScience - UCLouvain - Belgium)

Neuromechanics in movement: an integrative approach for understanding motor control

Coordinated movement emerges from the interplay among descending output from the central nervous system, sensory input from body and environment, muscle dynamics, and the emergent dynamics of the whole body. The inevitable coupling between neural information processing and the emergent mechanical behavior is the central theme of neuromechanics. Applications of neuromechanics are numerous and include ameliorating human health problems.

17h00 : Hommage au Pr Patrick Willems

18h00 : Réception

Merci de confirmer votre présence via ce sondage si possible avant le 30 août 2022

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Liens :
Accès FSM : https://uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/fsm/contact-et-acces.html
Lien sondage présence : https://framadate.org/wLY5dsEf712ugIoF

"Vagus nerve electroneurogram for seizure detection in the acute pentylenetetrazol model in rats"

Thèse présentée en vue de l'obtention du grade de Docteur en sciences médicales

Promoteurs:
Pr. Riem El Tahry, UCLouvain
Pr. Antoine Nonclercq, ULB

Jury:
Pr. Susana Ferrao Santos, UCLouvain
Pr. Robrecht Raedt, Ghent University
Pr. Anne Vanhoestenberghe, Kings College London
Pr Cristian Sevcencu, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies

Contact: Lars_stumpp@web.de

"Catching cold: exploration of the human perception of innocuous cold using chemical sensitization, EEG and psychophysics"

Thèse présentée en vue de l'obtention du grade de Docteur en sciences biomédicales et pharmaceutiques

Jury:
Professeur Nicolas Tajeddine, UCLouvain, Président
Professeur Philippe Gailly, UCLouvain, Secrétaire
Professeur André Mouraux, UCLouvain, Promoteur
Professeur Jan Buitenweg, University of Twente (Pays-Bas)
Dr Michèle Hubli, University of Zurich (Suisse)
Dr Emmanuel van den Broeke, UCLouvain
Professeure Samar Hatem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - UCLouvain (Belgium)

Contact: arthur.courtin@uclouvain.be

"Neurophysiological biomarkers for Vagus Nerve Stimulation in epilepsy"

Thèse présentée en vue de l'obtention du grade de Docteur en sciences biomédicales et pharmaceutiques

Promoteurs:
Pr. Riem El Tahry, UCLouvain, Promoteur
Pr. Pieter Van Mierlo, UGent, Co-promoteur

Jury:
Pr. André Mouraux, UCLouvain, Président
Pr. Susana Ferrao Santos, UCLouvain, Secrétaire
Pr. Fabrice Bartolomei, Aix-Marseille Université
Pr. Jean Delbeke, UCLouvain
Pr. Kristl Vonck, UGent

Contact: simone.vespa@uclouvain.be

You can register here. By registering, you will have access to pre-event and on-site matchmaking advantages, a Welcome Reception and Dinner on 11 October, the 2nd Brain Innovation Days Pitch Competition, an Innovation Corner, inspiring sessions and much more. To universities and research institutes, we offer a special group (> 6 attendees) discount of 10 %! If you are interested in this offer, do not hesitate to contact us at info@braininnovationdays.eu .

We also kindly invite the members in your innovation network to apply for :

• A poster or innovation showcases in the innovation hall: https://www.braininnovationdays.eu/innovation-hall/
• The pitch competition: https://www.braininnovationdays.eu/pitch-competition-2022/

Lastly, we would be grateful for any support you can provide in spreading the word about the Brain Innovation Days and the application process for the Poster Presentations and Pitch Competition! All new information is communicated through our dedicated Twitter and LinkedIn channels, as well as on the BIDs Website, where the preliminary programme is already available.

If you have any questions meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to contact the BIDs Team (info@braininnovationdays.eu).

We are looking forward to welcoming you in October!

Abstract:
The effects of transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) stimulation of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) and its thalamic projection (i.e., ventral posterolateral nucleus; VPL) on off-line changes in resting-state functional connectivity (FC) were evaluated in healthy human volunteers. tFUS stimulation of the unilateral somatosensory circuits associated with the non-dominant hand elicited electroencephalogram (EEG) evoked potentials (EP) across all participants. FUS-induced EP (FEP), sharing similarities with somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) from median nerve stimulation, were observed from both brain hemispheres. Use of a 0.5-ms pulse duration (PD) sonication parameter, compared to the use of 1- and 2-ms PD, elicited more distinct EP peak features from the hemisphere ipsilateral to sonication. Several participants also reported hearing tones associated with tFUS stimulation, and a separate measurement of auditory evoked potentials (AEP) elicited by tonal stimulation (mimicking the same repetition frequency as the FUS stimulation), revealed that observed FEP were not likely to be confounded by the auditory sensation. The presence of off-line changes in FC associated with tFUS stimulation was assessed from acquiring multiple sessions of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) before and after the sonication. Brain-wide FC analyses with respect to the sonicated brain regions showed that the effects of tFUS lasted for at least more than an hour, enhancing connectivity in the sensorimotor and network of sensory integration areas. Clinical neurological evaluations, EEG, and neuroanatomical MRI did not reveal any adverse or unintended effects of sonication. These results suggest the utility of tFUS stimulation in inducing long-term neuroplasticity.

Please find below the preliminary programme:

• Introduction by a representative of the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation
• Presentation of the winning project (Dr. Sophie Leclercq and Pr. André Mouraux)
• Motivation of the decision by a member of the jury
• Handover of the Grant

The speeches will be followed by a snack and a drink

You are cordially invited to the BeNe Brain Stimulation Symposium, hosted by UHasselt, in collaboration with Stichting Hersenstimulatie, KULeuven, UGent and VUB.

The conference will take place on the 9th of November 2022 in Hasselt, Belgium.

Programme

Registration:

You can register via this link.

• Early bird registration fee will be 70€. After 15 september, registration fee will be 100€.
• PhD students can participate for 30€. After 15 september, registration fee will be 50€.

Practical:

• Date: November 9th 2022
• Hours: 09.00 - 18.00 (CEST)
• Location: Campus Hasselt, Aula Louis Verhaegen, Oude Gevangenis, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt

Le forum Addiction et Société revient pour une nouvelle édition le 28 et 29 septembre 2022 !

Vous trouverez ci-dessous le lien qui vous permettra d’accéder au programme et à la page d’inscription:

https://www.addictionetsociete.com

The sessions will be followed by a luncheon.

The organizing committee,
Venethia Danthine, Chiara Leu & Farah Issa

Le séminaire sera suivi d'un lunch (salle Harvey 1)

Programme :

• V. Joris: “The use of rsfMRI and micro-fingerprinting in identifying epileptic networks”
• V. Onofrj : “Relation entre l'analyse structurelle par VBM et la connectivité IRMf au repos chez les sujets épileptiques avec IRM structurelle négative”

See registration and programme

We hope to see you there!

« GPCR signaling bias: contribution of genetic receptor variants and signaling from intracellular receptors »

Friday October, 28th 2022 at 12:30 - Meeting room: Couvreur 73+0 (LEW)

Dr Ralf JOCKERS

Hôpital Cochin (INSERM), Paris, France

Groupe de recherche en Pharmacologie fonctionnelle

 et physiopathologie des récepteurs membranaires

Nous vous prions de bien vouloir confirmer votre présence par courriel (CAI-IONS@uclouvain.be) ou via ce formulaire au plus tard le 4 novembre.

Nous espérons vous y voir nombreux!

The speaker will be Nathalie Kyalu Ngoie Zola from Louvain Aging Brain Lab (IoNS) and Protein Phosphorylation unit (DDUV).

The title of her talk is:

"Specific post-translational modifications of the soluble tau protein distinguish between Alzheimer’s disease, 3R-, and 4R-tauopathies"

The talk will be followed by a lunch.

Program:

3:00  pm: Spontaneous EEG microstates: current understanding and future directions. Prof. Thomas Koenig (University of Bern, Switzerland)

4:00 pm: TMS-evoked potentials: a unique window on human cortical circuits. Prof. Mario Rosanova (University of Milan, Italy)

This seminar will take place on January, 25th at 12:00 in the Gerty Cori room (LEW- Laennec Tower)

Speaker: Mr Georges Chehade (Developmental neurobiology lab)

Symposium submissions will open on February 01 and close on March 01, 2023.
Submissions for regular abstracts (Posters and/or Talks- max. 250 words) will open on February 01 and close on March 29, 2023.

For more information, see the IMRF-23 Website which will be updated continuously.

We are looking forward to see you all in Brussels!

Le Lundi 6 février 2023 à 17h00 :

Flashing Brain Networks : from Functions to Future Therapeutics in and out of the Brain ?

Par le Professeur Serge Schiffmann, de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles en qualité de titulaire de la Chaire Collen-Francqui au titre belge.

Auditoire Maisin – Av. Mounier 51 à 1200 Bruxelles

La leçon inaugurale sera suivie d’une réception.

Inscription obligatoire

What is Young Researchers Day?

This internal conference gives the young researchers in the Institue an opportunity to present their planned, ongoing, or completed work to their peers and colleagues in a friendly environment, gain constructive feedback, practice before presenting at larger scientific conferences, and receive recognition for the best presentations.

In particular PhD students are encouraged to present their projects. Master students interested in pursuing a PhD in the future are also very welcome to present.

We further welcome the PIs to attend this meeting to provide valuable feedback and support their students.

The day of young researchers' presentations in form of talks, blitz talks, and posters, will be complemented by an invited keynote lecture, and many opportunities to socialise over coffee, delicious lunch, and post-conference drinks.

Registration

Please register your interest in attending and presenting at the Young Researchers Day using this form: https://forms.gle/pv6PguSnkR6GtPgx9

Registration for passive attendance will remain open until the 27^th of March.

Abstract submission

Those who wish to present should submit the abstracts of their presentations before the 20^th of March, using this form: https://forms.gle/ZgYYzP56x495RNCt8

The possible presentation formats include:

• Oral presentation (10 min talk + 5 min questions)
• Poster presentation
• Blitz talk (3 min talk before the poster session) + Poster

All abstracts and presentations should be prepared in English. Abstracts are limited to 250 words.

Note that if there are more oral presentation submissions than we can accommodate, these will be chosen on first come first serve basis. We will confirm your presentation format at least three weeks before the event. For oral presentations, you will also receive a suggested PowerPoint template

We look forward to seeing you in April!

The Young Researchers Day Organizing Committee

The COSY Division is pleased to invite you to the public defence of Mr Julien LAMBERT, entitled:

“Transcranial focused ultrasonic stimulation to modulate cortical activity in humans. Development and application.”

This defence will take place on Friday February, 10th at 6:00 PM in the Maisin auditorium (LEW), in order to obtain the final qualification of Doctor of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical sciences.

Promotor:
Prof. André Mouraux, UCLouvain

Co-promotor :
Prof. Christophe CRAEYE, UCLouvain

Jury members:
Prof. Marcus Missal, UCLouvain, President
Prof. Philippe Lefèvre, UCLouvain, Secretary
Prof. Michael Andres, UCLouvain
Prof. Mathieu Bourguignon, ULB
Ass. Prof. Seung-Schik Yoo, Harvard Medical School, USA
Prof. Alexandre Zenon, Université de Bordeaux, France

We are pleased to announce that the Belgian Society for Neuroscience is organising the 15^th Meeting of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience.
The meeting will be held in Brussels (Atelier des Tanneurs) on Tuesday 6 June 2023.

Registration is now open, deadline to register 15^th May.

This meeting is a unique opportunity to meet neuroscientists across Belgium. We have two great keynote speakers (Pierre Vanderhaeghen and Olivier Collignon), various talks, poster tours and a joint meeting with the Kavli Network in the afternoon.

It’s going to be a great conferences with a lot of interactions.

Please don’t hesitate to share this email to colleagues that are not yet members but may be interested !

Please follow the following procedure to register:

1. If you are already a member (paid membership):

• You first need to set a new password for your account on the new website: https://belgianneuroscience.be/
• To do so, click on the “Membership” tab > Login, or directly on this link https://belgianneuroscience.be/login/
• Please then enter your email address on which you receive the BSN information usually, in the section Username or Email Address and click on Lost your password? This is going to allow you to receive an email to create a new password. Please check you spam folder because it is likely to arrive there!
• Once you have created your account with a new password, please go to any tab and click on the red banner:

• You can then Log in to register to the meeting. While registering, please indicate whether you will attend the social drink event.
• You should be all set!

Please contact Anthony Geselle (anthony@geselle.be) if you face any problem during the registration procedure.

If you are NOT yet a member (no paid membership):

• You first need to become a member on the new website: https://belgianneuroscience.be/
• To do so click on the “Membership” tab > Become a member, or directly on this link https://belgianneuroscience.be/Register/
• Please then fill in the details. Note that Junior Members need to be < 30 years old on January 1^st of current year. Older researchers (≥ 30 year old on January 1^st) should register as Full Members. Once you are a member, please follow the same procedure as described above in “1. If you are already a member (paid membership).”

The COSY Division is pleased to invite you to the public defence of Mr Pierre VASSILIADIS, entitled:

“Mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning of motor skills”

This defence will take place on Tuesday February, 7th at 5:00 PM in the Maisin auditorium, in order to obtain the final qualification of Doctor of Medical sciences.

Link videoconference : https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62494063126

Promotors:
Prof. Julie Duqué, UCLouvain
Prof. Friedhelm Hummel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Co-promotor :
Dr Gérard Derosière, INSERM, Lyon

Jury members:
Prof. Yves Vandermeeren, UCLouvain, President
Prof. Robert Hardwick, UCLouvain
Prof. Olaf Blanke, EPFL
Prof. Heidi Schambra, New York University

Members of the Steering Committee:
Prof. André Mouraux, UCLouvain
Prof. Michael Andres, UCLouvain

The public defence will be followed by a cocktail to which you are kindly invited.

This conference will take place on February, 7th at 3:00 pm in the Maisin Auditorium (LEW).

Guest speaker:
Pr Friedhelm Hummel
Director, Defitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, Neuro-X Institute (INX) and Brain Mind Institute (BMI) at Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Adjunct Professor, Clinical Neuroscience, University Hospital of Geneva (HUG)

La Faculté des Sciences de la Motricité, l’IoNS et le pôle COSY ont le plaisir de vous convier à la soutenance publique de Monsieur Félix NINDORERA, intitulée

“Physical activity intervention for chronic stroke rehabilitation in low-income settings”

Effectiveness of mixed, community and collective physical activity intervention

Celle-ci aura lieu le vendredi 10 Février 2023 à 16h30 à Auditoire Coubertin 12 (Place Pierre de Coubertin 1) ou via Teams.

Thèse présentée en vue de l’obtention du grade de Docteur (PhD) en Sciences de la Motricité

Promotrice: Prof. Yannick Bleyenheuft, UCLouvain

Co-promoteur: Prof. Jean-Louis Thonnard, UCLouvain

Membres du Jury:
Prof. Cécile DELENS, UCLouvain (Présidente)
Prof. Massimo PENTA, UCLouvain
Prof. Robert HARDWICK, UCLouvain
Dr CarlyneARNOULD, Haute Ecole Louvain en Hainaut
Prof. Geert VERHEYDEN, KULeuvenUniversity
Prof. Oyéné KOSSI, Université de Parakou

Lien Teams: https://vu.fr/EMwSou

Du 13 au 18 mars 2023, l’UCLouvain, UCLouvain Culture, Arte-Fac, l’Institute of NeuroScience (IoNS) et l’UDA s’unissent pour vous proposer une semaine d’activités gratuites pour découvrir, sur un mode ludique et scientifique, la biodiversité des intelligences. Que votre cerveau en profite !

The Next Generation in Pain Research
When: 22nd of April 2023
Where: Ghent University

Abstract Call

Calling all young researchers to submit an abstract to hold an oral/poster presentation
Awards for the best oral/poster presentation

Submission deadline: 1st of March 2023
Submission instructions and more information on: https://www.belgianpainsociety.org/bps-yrd

“TMS-evoked potentials as biomarkers of cortical excitability: from motor networks to the angular gyrus”

This defence will take place on Friday February, 17th at 5:00 PM in the Maisin auditorium, in order to obtain the final qualification of Doctor of Medical sciences.

Promotors:
Prof. André Mouraux, UCLouvain
Prof. Adrian Ivanoiu, UCLouvain

Jury members:
Prof. Valéry Legrain, UCLouvain, President
Prof. Bernard Hanseeuw, UCLouvain, Secretary
Prof. Julie Duqué, UCLouvain
Prof. Thomas Koenig, University of Bern
Prof. Mario Rosanova, University of Milan

Lundi 13/02/2023 à 17h - Auditoire Central E

« Décoder les fonctions des cellules et des réseaux en manipulant leur activité »

En espérant vous retrouver nombreuses et nombreux lundi prochain!

Pascal Kienlen-Campard
Parrain de la Chaire Francqui 2022

Emmanuel Hermans
Doyen de la Faculté FASB

As you know, Belgium plays a significant role in dementia research in the world.
The Young Belgian community is an important group, who will pave the way for Alzheimer research in the near future. However, they don’t get the floor very often. This will be an opportunity for young researchers to share their findings, increase scientific visibility and to set up potential collaborations.

The full program as well as the form to register can be found via the link below:
https://action.stopalzheimer.be/campaign/belgian-alzheimer-young-research/

Registration is now open for the annual Louvain Bionics symposium that will take place on Tuesday April 4^th in Brussels (see full program below)!

Researchers are encouraged to submit their abstracts here before March 28th 2022 for the poster sessions.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Programme:

14h-15h: Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA , FR) Medical AI: addressing the validation gap
15h-15h40: Sébastien Jodogne (UCLouvain, BE) The Orthanc ecosystem for medical imaging
15h40-16h10: Coffee break and Poster session
16h10-16h50: Bernard Hanseeuw (UCLouvain, BE) Amyloid and Tau imaging to predict the risk of future cognitive decline
16h50-17h30: Marie Van Reybroek (UCLouvain, BE) Title TBD
17h30-19h00: Drink and Poster session

Speaker: Pauline Beckers

Date: March, 14th from 12:00 to 2:pm

Place: Room Adrienne Gommers 50 (bibliothèque)

The seminar is followed by a lunch

Contact: roberta.gualdani@uclouvain.be and nuria.ruizreig@uclouvain.be

Please join us on March 16th at 10.30 in room E139 for the seminar by

Dr. Giacomo Handjaras (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca):

Modeling cross-modal correspondences through fMRI

The ability to combine signals across different sensory modalities is essential for an efficient interaction with the external world. To this end, the brain must detect information conveyed by different senses, coupling coherent events in space and time, and solving the correspondence problem. Evidence exists that basic multisensory processing is already present in newborns, while audiovisual experience appears to be critical for the development of more complex multisensory computations lifelong. Nonetheless, the extent to which audiovisual experience is a mandatory prerequisite for the brain to develop and become able to detect shared features between senses is still undefined. Here, we tested brain synchronization during the presentation of an audiovisual, audio-only or video-only version of the same narrative in distinct groups of sensory-deprived (congenitally blind and deaf) and typically developed individuals acquired through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). By taking advantage of computational modeling, we provided a fine-grained description of the naturalistic stimulation by extracting perceptual features from both the auditory and visual streams, and semantic properties of the narrative from large language models. Intersubject correlation analysis revealed that the superior temporal cortex was synchronized across auditory and visual conditions, even in sensory-deprived individuals who lack any audiovisual experience. This synchronization was primarily mediated by low-level perceptual features, and relied on a similar modality-independent topographical organization of slow temporal dynamics. This evidence suggests that the superior temporal cortex is endowed with a functional scaffolding to yield a common representation across multisensory events.

And on the same day March 16th at 14.30 in Salle du Conseil A224 for the seminar by

Dr. Luca Cecchetti (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca):

Decoding brain activity: classification, inference, and related issues

In the last two decades, decoding studies have become increasingly popular in the neuroimaging literature. The central tenets of decoding are: (1) that distinct classes of stimuli or tasks exist - e.g., animals versus tools, (2) that stimulus features defining a specific class are known and under experimental control - e.g., animals, but not tools, are living creatures and capable of social interactions, and (3) that the brain responds differentially to each class - e.g., animals evoke a response in lateral, rather than medial VOTC. Researchers operationalize the decoding of brain activity in terms of supervised learning, and - in case of above-chance accuracy - they infer that a specific region contains information about the feature-defining class. However, the complexity of stimuli employed in human neuroscience makes it impractical to control for all alternative categorizations not considered by researchers during study planning. This may have (at least) two detrimental effects. Firstly, there may be more than a single confusion matrix that describes the stimuli, and there is no reason to believe that stimuli are evenly distributed between all these alternative descriptions. One of the practical implications of imbalanced data is that accuracy no longer represents an adequate metric to assess classification performance. Most importantly, the successful decoding of brain activity is not sufficient to determine the information content of a specific region. Using neuroimaging data collected from twenty participants and a well-established language comprehension paradigm, I present empirical evidence that such issues occur in actual neuroimaging experiments. In the current data, classification accuracy is highly biased toward sensitivity, and brain regions classifying meaningful from non-meaningful speech extend beyond the canonical language network. Interestingly, maps representing other performance metrics (e.g., precision) are more useful for delineating language-selective regions, when compared with meta-analytic evidence. I discuss possible approaches to mitigate these issues and how decoding results should be interpreted in neuroimaging studies.

The COSY Division is pleased to invite you to the conference entitled:

“Initiation and inhibition of habitual actions: neural and clinical signatures”

This conference will take place on Friday April, 21^st at 3:00 PM in the room 42A (LEW).

Speaker : Professor Ignacio Obeso

Cristian Silviu Busoi MEP and Alex Agius Saliba MEP invite you to a panel discussion on

The Future of European Pain Research 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023 – 11:15-12:50 CET

European Parliament – JAN 6Q1 

Featuring experts from the European Pain Federation EFIC and IMI-PainCare consortium

 Pain science and pain management are of crucial societal importance, though our under-standing of pain is limited. This event will showcase the IMI-PainCare project, where significant breakthroughs are being made for the benefit of patients everywhere, as well as looking to the future of European pain research and where funding should be prioritised in 2023 and beyond.

View the full agenda here.

If you wish to attend, be sure to register via this form ASAP to be part of this event.

IMI-PainCare is a public-private partner­ship supported by the European Union to improve the care of patients with acute or chronic pain. EFIC is one of about 41 partners of this consortium (www.imi-paincare.eu). The consortium is working to inform key audiences, such as regulators, politicians, research-funders, patients and others, on how these results will benefit pain science and benefit patients. EFIC have supported these activities through the creation of information packs and outreach to various targets.

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Pour rappel, cette course est organisée par le kot à projets CSE au profit de CAP48.

Vous êtes cordialement invités à la conférence qui sera donnée par le Pr Marc Sindou le jeudi 22 juin 2023 à 18h00.

Leçons tirées au travers de 40 ans de neurochirurgie

Présentation par le Pr C. Raftopoulos

Adresse :
Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc
Av. Hippocrate 10, 1200 Bruxelles
Salle des conférences Kestens (-2 route 340)

IMRF 2023 satellite symposium

Brussels (Belgium), Monday 26^th of June 2023

Organizers: Valéry Legrain, Monika Halicka & Avgustina Kuzminova

Address: UCLouvain, Room Gery Cori (Laennec tower), Avenue Hippocrate 57, 1200 Brussels (G-map)

Web: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ions/evenements/imrf-2023-satellite-symposium.html

Registration: https://forms.gle/HAByWr5taAhiZ8ZC9

Contact: pain.vision.symposium.2023@gmail.com

Updates: https://www.facebook.com/nocions, https://twitter.com/ValeryLegrain

Summary: Protecting the body against stimuli that threaten its physical integrity is essential for adaptation and survival. Interactions between somatic and non-somatic stimuli are useful, among other things, to represent and perceive the expanded representation of the body that encompasses its immediate surroundings, namely the peripersonal space (PPS). PPS is thought to create a line of defense to protect the body against physical threats. However, PPS research has mostly focused on the interactions between visual and innocuous tactile stimuli, with very little attention given to the role of nociception and pain in multisensory interactions. Nociception constitutes the prototype of a defensive system because it characterizes the nervous processes specifically involved in the detection of potentially damaging sensory events usually perceived as painful. In addition, the tactile and nociceptive systems have different behavioral purposes since touch optimizes the actions of manipulating harmless objects while nociception facilitates defensive responses to protect the body against threats.

The objective of the symposium is to present an overview of recent studies that investigated the cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying the interactions between stimuli specifically activating the nociceptive system and visual stimuli approaching or occurring near the body. We will also present studies on the impact of visual-nociceptive interactions on the representation of the body and the excitability of the motor system at spinal, subcortical and cortical levels. These studies use different approaches, from animal models to studies in humans, combining behavioral and neurophysiological methods. Finally, we will present clinical evidence to demonstrate the critical importance of multisensory interactions for both furthering understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic pain and developing treatments for pain relief.

Program:
(25 min talk + 5 min questions)

09:15 – 09:40        Welcome & Introduction

09:40 – 10:10        Caitlin Naylor (Department of Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom)
                               Seeing, feeling, and changing the limb: variability in manifestations of body perception disturbances and
                               desired changes to the affected limb in complex regional pain syndrome.

10:10 – 10:40         Sara Coppi (Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
                               Visual-nociceptive interaction during rubber hand illusion.

10:40 – 11:00         Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30         Avgustina Kuzminova (Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Belgium)
                               Multisensory interactions between nociception and vision through the looking glass.

11:30 – 12:00         Monika Halicka (Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Belgium)
                               Neurophysiological underpinnings of crossmodal interaction between nociception and vision.

12:00 – 12:30         Lieve Filbrich (Health Psychology Unit, KU Leuven, Belgium)
                               Effects of visuo-nociceptive interactions on motor excitability.

12:30 – 13:30         Lunch

13:30 – 14:00         Carlotta Fossataro (Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy)
                               Mapping the defensive peripersonal space: the role of vision and proprioception in
                               shaping defensive responses.

14:00 – 14:30         Valéry Legrain (Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain, Belgium)
                                Impact of congenital blindness on pain intensity perception and its spatial representation.

14:30 – 15:00         Sara Touj (CoBra Lab, Brain Imaging Center, McGill University, Canada)
                               Pain hypersensitivity and enhanced olfactory performance is associated with brain
                               plasticity in the blind mouse.

15:00 – 15:20         Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00         Lab visit & demonstration at the Pain Research Lab (Institute of Neuroscience, UCLouvain)

17:00 – …                Aperitif

The board of the RBSCDB would like to invite you to attend the upcoming BSCDB Spring Meeting 2023 on “Neural stem cells and cortex development”, which will be held at the University of Liège (Chateau de Colonster) on June 9, 2023.

We strongly encourage young scientists from your labs to register as several slots for short talks are still available.

For more information: https://bscdb.be/spring-meeting

The COSY Division is pleased to invite you to the seminar, delivered by Dr Anna LATORRE (MD, PhD), entitled:

“NON-INVASIVE NEUROMODULATION IN MOVEMENT DISORDERS: POSSIBLE TREATMENT AVENUES”

Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
University College London

This seminar will take place on Tuesday June, 13th at 5:00 PM in the auditorium 51C (LEW).

«Evidence-based practice en neurorehabilitation: intérêt de la rééducation intensive & de la réalité virtuelle»

Lundi 21 novembre 2022

Auditoire Coubertin, 12 - Louvain-la-Neuve

Programme :

16:00 Introduction

Prof. Yannick Bleyenheuft (UCLouvain–MSL-IN lab)

16:15 « Intégration des technologies interactives dans la réadaptation pédiatrique: état actuel, avantages et défis»

Prof. Danielle Levac (UMontreal–Inspire lab)

17:10 «Développement et implémentation d’un outil virtuel ciblant les principes d’apprentissage moteur: thérapies intensives et télérehabilitation»

Dr. Geoffroy Saussez (HELHa –FFH lab)

18:00 Drink

Sa thèse est intitulée :

“Unravelling central-pain mechanisms in patients with temporomandibular disorders”.

La défense sera également retransmise sur Teams.

Promoteurs: Pr Laurent Pitance & Pr Nathalie Roussel

Comme pour les séminaires précédents, l’accréditation en éthique et économie a été demandée. L’entrée est gratuite, mais une inscription préalable est souhaitée. Vous trouverez plus d’information sur le programme et ses objectifs sur le site Web de la faculté : https://uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/mede/teach-the-teacher.html

Et si vous n’avez pas pu assister aux séances précédentes, les enregistrements, dias et des ressources complémentaires sont disponibles sur UCLine : https://ucline.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=410

Sa thèse est intitulée:

“Implication of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the regulation of the adaptive properties of astrocytes in health and disease.”

Promoteur :

Pr Emmanuel Hermans, UCLouvain

Co-Promoteur :

Pre Riëm El Tahry, UCLouvain

Membres du Jury :

Pr Philippe Gailly, UCLouvain, Président

Pre Chantal Dessy, UCLouvain, Secrétaire

Pr Luc Bertrand, UCLouvain

Pr Ludo Van Den Bosch, KULeuven

Pr Marco Milanese, Università degli Studi di Genova

Sa thèse est intitulée:

“Investigating Corticospinal Dynamics Underlying Movement Preparation: Lessons From & For Parkinson's Disease”

Promoteurs :

Prof. J. DUQUE (UCLouvain)

Prof. A. JEANJEAN (†, UCLouvain), Prof. A. IVANOIU (UCLouvain)

Membres du Jury :

Prof. A. MOURAUX (Président, UCLouvain)

Prof. M. MISSAL (Secrétaire, UCLouvain)

Dr. A. ZENON (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Dr. A. LATORRE (University College London, UK)

Prof. I. OBESO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Renowned specialists will guide a limited number of students (maximum 30) through an introduction to the complexity of the human mind and brain, tackled through the study of sensation and perception.

The school is fully funded as there is no admittance fee and accommodation is covered. Extended Deadline: June 15th 2023.

Please see the school website for more information on the participating institutions and for a draft program:

https://www.unipi.it/index.php/health-sciences/item/25487-eu-sum-sch-sensory-neuroscience

Programme :

9h-10h: Max Ortiz Catalan (Chalmers University of Technology , SW) Neuromusculoskeletal prostheses, a new concept of bionic limbs

10h-10h40: Alain Loute (UCLouvain) What ethics for e-health ?

10h40-11h00: Coffee break

11h00-11h40: Cédric Lenoir (UCLouvain, BE) Rhythm and brains: a multi-level approach to understand how the human brain processes musical rhythm

11h40-12h20: John A. Lee (UCLouvain, BE) Weak artificial intelligence to make radiation oncology and proton therapy stronger

12h40-13h00: Presentation of Incentive grant project

13h00-14h30: Lunch and Poster session

La thèse de Ghady porte sur:

"Patient-centered outcomes in hand surgery".

Abstract:

"In hand surgery, given the variety of available surgical techniques, the choice of the treatment that gives the best results is complicated, even for experienced surgeons.

This thesis explores new tools the hand surgeon can use for the evaluation of treatment effects."

Sa thèse est intitulée:

Spinal and supraspinal pain-motor interactions and pain-related changes in brain connectivity explored by combining neuroimaging with non-invasive brain stimulation techniques.

Promoteur : Prof. André Mouraux

Membres du Jury :

Prof. Valéry Legrain, UCLouvain, Président

Prof. Julie Duqué, UCLouvain

Prof. Carsten Dahl Morch, Aalborg University

Prof. Patrice Forget, University of Aberdeen

Prof. Josep Valls Solé, Universitat de Barcelona

Sa thèse est intitulée :

Overexpression of human wild-type amyloid precursor protein alters GABAergic transmission.

Promoteur: Prof. Philippe GAILLY

Co-Promoteur: Prof. Jean-Noël OCTAVE

Jury members:

Prof. Emmanuel HERMANS, Président

Prof. Fadel TISSIR

Prof. Pascal KIENLEN-CAMPARD

Prof. Robrecht RAEDT, UGent

Prof. Ioanna SANDVIG, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

We have the pleasure to invite you to the FRIA rehearsal sessions of the academic year 2023-2024. They will take place on the 5th of October (13.00-16.00) and the 6th of October (10.00-15.00). The location and the schedule for each day will be sent to you soon.

Coffee and a small lunch will be provided on site on the 6th October. In order to have an estimation of the number of people having a sandwich, please do not forget to fill out the following survey (deadline 18th September): https://forms.office.com/e/L7tAewN0HR

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely yours,

The organizing committee,
Vladimir Aron, Avgustina Kuzminova, Debora Palomares & Yasmine Salman

We have the pleasure to invite you to the FRIA rehearsal sessions of the academic year 2023-2024. They will take place on the 5th of October (13.00-16.00) and the 6th of October (10.00-15.00). The location and the schedule for each day will be sent to you soon.

Coffee and a small lunch will be provided on site on the 6th October. In order to have an estimation of the number of people having a sandwich, please do not forget to fill out the following survey (deadline 18th September): https://forms.office.com/e/L7tAewN0HR

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely yours,

The organizing committee,
Vladimir Aron, Avgustina Kuzminova, Debora Palomares & Yasmine Salman

Sa thèse est intitulée:

“Glioma Genesis and Aggressiveness: Could DIAPH3 be a Game-Changer?”

Promoteur :

Prof. F. TISSIR (UCLouvain)

Co-Promoteur :

Prof. N. TAJEDDINE (UCLouvain)

Membres du Jury :

Prof. E. HERMANS (Président, UCLouvain)

Prof. G. BOMMER (Secrétaire, UCLouvain)

Prof. C. RAFTOPOULOS (UCLouvain)

Prof. A. IVANOIU (UCLouvain)

Prof. S. NICLOU (Université du Luxembourg)

Prof. B. ROGISTER (Université de Liège).