Wrocław, Poland, 2-5.09.2025
17th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society
Where
Centrum Kongresowe Politechniki Wrocławskiej
ul. Janiszewskiego 8
50-372 Wrocław
When
2-5.09.2025
Flash Talks Winners
The Scientific Committee of the 17th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society has decided to honor selected Authors of submissions by offering them the…
Travel Grants Awarded!
The Scientific Committee of the 17th PTBUN Congress decided to award the IBRO Travel Grant to following applicants: Prince Kumar Singh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,…
Arduino Workshop
We cordially invite you to take part in the free Arduino workshops conducted by the Nencki Open Lab team on September 2nd 2025, 9-14h. Arduino is…
Call for abstracts
Dear Colleagues, The 17th Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society will be held – for the first time – in Wrocław, Poland on September 2…
| From 8.00 | Registration Opens | |
| 10.00 – 13.30 | Satellite Symposium : European Networking for Brain Research | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | HE Twinning 'SAME-NeuroID’ Chair: Witold Konopka (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Agnieszka Krzyżosiak, Michał Ślęzak, Femke de Vrij, Mathias Schmidt | Hall 10 A/C |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | HE Pathways to Synergies 'PANERIS’ Chair: Jan Rodriguez Parkitna (Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland) Speakers: Toni Andreu, Osvaldas Rukšėnas | Hall 10 A/C |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Panel Discussion: European Brain Research Initiatives | Hall 10 A/C |
| 08.30 – 14.00 | Arduino Workshop | Room 115 |
| 13.30 – 14.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.15 – 17.00 | General Assembly of the Polish Neuroscience Society | Hall 10 D |
| 15.00 – 16.45 | Panel Discussion for General Audience | Hall 10 A/C |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 17.30 – 18.45 | Official Opening Ceremony Jerzy Konorski Memorial Lecture Molecular biology of synaptic plasticity Speaker: Leszek Kaczmarek (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 18.45 – 19.15 | Flashtalks – highlights of submitted abstracts | Hall 10 A/C |
| 19.30 | Welcome Reception | Main Hall |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture Gut feelings – Microbiome, Brain and Behaviour Across the Lifespan Speaker: John Cryan (University of Cork, Cork, Ireland) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Flatau Award Lecture | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.15 – 13.15 | Symposium 1 Advancing neuroscience with unbiased methods of automatization of behavioral studies Chair: Bartosz Zglinicki (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Aleksandra Badura „The cerebellum as a driver of cortical maturation and cognitive flexibility” 11.45 – 12.15 Adam Brosnan „Cage of Thrones: Automated Analysis of Social Behaviour and Power Dynamics in Mouse Hierarchies” 12.15 – 12.45 Bartosz Zglinicki „Establishing unified, automatic, unbiased platform for characterization of social behavior in mice” 12.45 – 13.15 Juan Pablo Lopez „The Behavioral Language of Stress and Treatment Response: From Complex Social Behaviors to Molecular Circuits” Symposium 2 Zinc and the Brain: Unlocking Neurobiological Secrets Chair: Bernadeta Szewczyk (Maj Institute of Pharmacology, PAS, Cracow, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Artur Krężel „Zinc in motion: The role of zinc ions in cellular regulation and dynamics of zinc proteins” 11.45 – 12.15 Jerome Ezan „Impact of Zinc (dys)homeostasis on the development of the axon and its initial segment” 12.15 – 12.45 Andreas M. Grabrucker „Zinc as a regulator of neuroinflammatory signalling in Autism Spectrum Disorders” 12.45 – 13.15 Bernadeta Szewczyk „Zinc Deficiency and Chronic Stress: Exploring Their Impact on Depression and Antidepressant Effectiveness” Symposium 3 Novel approaches for the PNS targeting and modulation Chair: Mateusz Kucharczyk (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Mateusz Kucharczyk „Somatosensation and Cancer Neuroscience” 11.45 – 12.15 Jimena Perez-Sanchez „Targeted chemogenetic inhibition of sensory afferents for pain relief in mice and humans” 12.15 – 12.45 George Goodwin „Assessment of spontaneous activity and the role of silent nociceptors in musculoskeletal pain” 12.45 – 13.15 Sara Jager „Using 3D imaging and spatial brain transcriptomics to analyze peripheral relief of neuropathic pain” | Hall 10 A/C Hall 10 B Hall 10 D |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Poster session I | Main Hall |
| 15.00 – 17.00 | Symposium 4 Neurobiology of Early Life Adversity Across the Lifespan and Across Generations Chair: Ali Jawaid (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) 15.00 – 15.30 Mathias Schmidt „Sex-specific consequences of early life adversity: From transcriptome to complex behavior” 15.30 – 16.00 Aniko Korosi „Long-term effects of early-life stress on cognition and emotional functions: a synergistic action of stress, inflammation and nutrition” 16.00 – 16.30 Ali Jawaid „Towards the biological plausibility and biomarkers of intergenerational trauma in humans” 16.30 – 17.00 Weronika Tomaszewska „Interplay of serum lipids and microglia in the susceptibility to the long-term behavioral effects of adverse childhood experiences” Symposium 5 On the way to Parkinson’s disease: molecular, cellular and clinical aspects of prodromal synucleinopathies Chair: Michał Węgrzynowicz (Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland) 15.00 – 15.30 Nathalie Van Den Berge „Prodromal subtypes of synucleinopathies – knowledge from animal models” 15.30 – 16.00 Grzegorz Kreiner „Prodromal model of Parkinson’s disease based on targeting noradrenergic system” 16.00 – 16.30 Ambra Stefani „Relevance of isolated REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder as prodromal synucleinopathy” 16.30 – 17.00 Giorgio Vivacqua „Salivary biomarkers in prodromal synucleinopathies and Parkinson’s Disease” Symposium 6 Copper in the brain Chair: Anna Członkowska (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland) and Susan Gaskin (Civil Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) 15.00 – 15.30 Anna Członkowska „Wilson Disease – genetics, clinic, diagnosis and treatment” 15.30 – 16.00 Susan Gaskin „Copper toxicity in the brain – exposure, mechanisms and manifestations” 16.00 – 16.30 Tomasz Litwin „Copper and other neurological disorders” 16.30 – 17.00 Petr Dusek „Neuroimaging of copper disorders” | Hall 10 A/C Hall 10 B Hall 10 D |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 17.30 – 18.30 | Keynote lecture A neuroscientists’ journey into environmental neuroscience. What large-scale scale human neuroimaging can tell us about the impact of environment and society on brain and behavior Speaker: Marcin Szwed (Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture Time and Punishment: neural circuits shaping the encoding of adversity Speaker: Andrew Holmes (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, USA) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Konorski Award Lecture talks for best publication 2024 | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.15 – 13.15 | Symposium 7 Human Brain Development Chair: Bogna Badyra (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Simona Lodato „3D Human Organoids to Explore the Development of the Cerebral Cortex and Its Barrier” 11.45 – 12.15 Antonela Bonafina „Cortical interneuron migration in the forebrain – An evo-devo perspective” 12.15 – 12.45 Aleksandra Pękowska „Human astrocytes – evolution and link to neurodevelopmental diseases” 12.45 – 13.15 Maciej Figiel „Modelling neurodevelopmental pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease with human iPSC lines and brain organoids” Symposium 8 EEG/ECoG based functional connectivity neuroimaging in the rat – towards standardization and translation in neuropsychopharmacology Chair: Daniel Wójcik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Ivana Chrtkova „Exploring Brain Activity Modulated by Psychoactive Substances in Rats and Humans” 11.45 – 12.15 Theodor Doll „Clinical perspective on Anti-IgLON5 Disease: Bridging Autoimmunity and Neurodegeneration in a Novel Neurological Disorder” 12.15 – 12.45 Jaroslav Láčík „Assessing Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity and Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease Using Mass Cytometry” 12.45 – 13.15 Marian Dovgialo „Effects of geometry and conductivity on current source density estimation in realistic scenarios” Symposium 9 Brain and metabolism Chair: Joanna H. Śliwowska (University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland) and Monika Kaczmarek (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Olsztyn, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Silvia Giatti „Diabetic encephalopathy in preclinical models of diabetes mellitus: which role for neuroactive steroids?” 11.45 – 12.15 Monika M. Kaczmarek „Lactocrine-based mechanisms responsible for reprogramming of reproductive fitness over generations” 12.15 – 12.45 Paloma Collado „Hormonal modulation during development of the effects of malnutrition” 12.45 – 13.15 Joanna H. Śliwowska „How prenatal exposure to cafeteria diet, which leads to obesity affect the reproduction?” | Hall 10 A/C Hall 10 B Hall 10 D |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Poster session II | Main Hall |
| 15.00 – 17.00 | Symposium 10 Unraveling the Social Brain: how hierarchies and partners, exogenous substances and hormones shape rodents behavior Chair: Hanna Trebesova (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) 15.00 – 15.30 Hanna Hörnberg „Molecular mechanisms of social heterogeneity” 15.30 – 16.00 Hanna Trebesova „The Maintenance of the social behavior: the role of central amygdala” 16.00 – 16.30 Marzena Stefaniuk „Sociability and Addiction-like Traits in Mice” 16.30 – 17.00 Alan Kania „Oxytocin facilitates social behavior through interneurons in the rat prefrontal cortex” Symposium 11 Presentation of Sponsors Bruker’s multiphoton and light-sheet microscopes for neuroscience Speaker: Jaroslav Icha (Bruker) Wearable Telemetry for Rodents: Supporting Stress-Free Physiological Monitoring in Neuroscience Experiments Speaker: Corinne Simon (Etisense) Inscopix nVista 2P: A Turnkey Solution for Miniaturized Two-Photon Imaging Speaker: Nicolas Bonneau (Inscopix) Symposium 12 Intersecting Pathways: Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease Chair: Natalia Małek (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland) 15.00 – 15.30 Nico Melzer „Role of B Cells and CD8+ T Cells in GABAA Receptor Autoimmune Encephalitis Pathogenesis” 15.30 – 16.00 Lidia Sabater „Clinical perspective on Anti-IgLON5 Disease: Bridging Autoimmunity and Neurodegeneration in a Novel Neurological Disorder” 16.00 – 16.30 Natalia Małek „Application of Activity-Based Probes for Visualizing Alterations in Proteasome and Immunoproteasome Function in Neuroinflammation” 16.30 – 17.00 akub Frydrych „Regulation of Inflammation Resolution in Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Neurodegenerative Pathology” | Hall 10 A/C Hall 10 B Hall 10 D |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 17.30 – 18.30 | Keynote lecture Oscillatory Brain Activity and the Deployment of Selective Attention Speaker: John J. Foxe (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 19.00 – 21.00 | IBRO 'Meet-Up and Move-Up’ networking reception at the Wrocław Town Hall (co-supported by the Mayor of Wrocław) | Town Hall |
| 21.00 | IBRO 'Meet-Up and Move-Up’ networking reception at Schody Donikąd |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture New insights into the brain control of food choice and obesity Speaker: Lora Heisler (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Young Investigator Award talks | Hall 10 A/C |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.15 – 13.15 | Symposium 13 Plasticity and encoding at synapses and neuronal networks and beyond Chair: Jerzy Mozrzymas (Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Sebastiano Curreli „Spatial information encoding in the brain: beyond neural cells” 11.45 – 12.15 Andrea Barberis „Mapping spatial organization of functional inputs in valence-related amygdalo-hippocampal circuits” 12.15 – 12.45 Katarzyna Radwańska „Contribution of synaptic plasticity in thalamic projections to the hippocampus to memory processes” 12.45 – 13.15 Grzegorz Wiera „The molecular mechanisms of intersynaptic co-plasticity: How excitatory and different inhibitory synapses shape each other” Symposium 14 Bridging Autoimmunity and Neurodegeneration: Immune Cells in Action Chair: Natalia Małek (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Bart Eggen „The Shapes and States of CNS Macrophages in the Healthy and Diseased Human Brain” 11.45 – 12.15 Maarten Titulaer „Integrating Single-Cell Sequencing and OLINK Proteomics in Understanding IgLON5 Disease” 12.15 – 12.45 Marta Kamińska „Assessing Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity and Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease Using Mass Cytometry” 12.45 – 13.15 Agnieszka Zabłocka „Discovery of Yolkin Peptide Complex: A New Frontier in Brain Health and Immune Modulation” Symposium 15 Time for flies – an alternative model for research on brain diseases Chair: Milena Damulewicz (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland) 11.15 – 11.45 Milena Damulewicz „Clock and brain health – important lesson from flies” 11.45 – 12.15 Aron Szabo „Glia-neuron interactions mediated by vesicular degradation pathways after traumatic nervous system injury in Drosophila” 12.15 – 12.45 Aaron Voigt „TRMT2A inhibition, a causative treatment of polyglutamine diseases? The path from basic fly science towards drug development” 12.45 – 13.15 Sergio Casas-Tinto „Stress shapes brain fitness in the progeny through epigenetic modifications” | Hall 10 A/C Hall 10 B Hall 10 D |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Poster session III | Main Hall |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Keynote lecture Drosophila as a model for human neurodegenerative disease: A focus on the brain through age & disease Speaker: Nancy Bonini (University of Pennsylvania, USA) | Hall 10 A/C |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Official closing + Best Presentation Awards | Hall 10 A/C |
