9:00-9:40 - PI, Cornelius Gross, “Neural substrates of experience-dependent social fear”
9:40-10:20 - PI, Ewelina Knapska, “Ability to share emotions of others as a foundation of social learning”
10:20-10:40 - PhD, (from Chen group), Tomasso Biagini, “Modeling post-traumatic stress disorder in a social context”
10:40-11:10 - Coffee Break
11:10-11:30 - PhD, (from Bosch group), Alice Sanson, “Adding new pieces to the maternal neglect puzzle: neuropeptides’ manipulations in the nucleus accumbens shell impair maternal behavior in lactating rats”
11:30-12:10 - PI, Camilla Bellone, “The neurobiological mechanisms underlying social motivation”
12:10-14:00 - Lunch
Afternoon chairperson: PI, Lucie Pellissier
14:00-14:40 - PI, Keysers/Gazzola joint, “A cross-species approach to the neural bases of empathy and prosociality”
14:40-15:10 - Post Doc, (from Dobolyi group), Gina Puska, “The role of posterior thalamic projections to the preoptic area and the septum in the control of maternal behaviors”
15:10-15:40 - Post Doc, (from Leroy group), Noelia de Leon Reyes, “Lateral septum regulation of social interactions”
15:40-16:10 - Coffee Break
16:10-17:15 - Business meeting, open discussion on the (European) Social Club, future perspective, suggestions. All participants are welcome to actively participate.
17:15-17:55 - PI,Rene Hurlemann, “Chronic loneliness: neurocognitive mechanisms and interventions”
17:55-19:30 - Poster session
Monday September 11th
Morning chairperson: PI, Diego Scheggia
9:00-9:40 - PI, Shlomo Wagner, “Theta coherence in the social brain: what does it encode?”
9:40-10:10 - Post Doc, (from Lamm group), Alexandrina Guran, “Social cognition in the canine brain”
10:10-10:50 - PI, Valery Grinevich, “Central mechanisms of social touch”
10:50-11:20 - Coffee Break
11:20-12:00 - PI, Hanna Hoernberg, “Translational control of social recognition”
12:00-12:20 - PhD, (from Pellissier group), Caroline Gora, “Impact of different social environment on oxytocin-vasopressin and plasticity in mouse model of autism”
12:30-14:15 - Lunch
Afternoon chairperson: PI, Elena Dreosti
14:15-14:55 - PI, Pier Francesco Ferrari, “The social brain in action in freely moving monkeys”
14:55-15:25 - Post Doc, (from Westberg group), Soaleha Shams, “Development of social behaviour in zebrafish”
15:25-15:55 - Post Doc, (from Neumann group), Rohit Menon, “Epigenetic regulation of social trauma”
15:55-16:30 - Coffee Break
16:30-17:00 - Post Doc, (from Oliveira group), Susana Varela, “The genetic architecture of social learning in fruit flies”.
17:00-17:40 - PI, Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, “The neurobiology of empathy and prosocial behavior”
17:40-19:30 - Poster session
Tuesday September 12th
8:30 - Excursions to visit archaeological sites
Wednesday September 13th
Morning chairperson: PI, Rui Oliveira
09:00-09:30 - Post Doc (from Bagni group) Valentina Mercaldo, “Decoding social stimuli in Autism Spectrum Disorder”
09:30-10:10 - PI, Francesco Papaleo, “Circuits of Emotion Recognition”
10:10-10:40 - Coffee Break
10:40-11:10 - Post Doc, (from Scheggia group), Filippo La Greca, “Learning decision-making from others: dissecting the neural bases underlying observational learning of prosocial and selfish behaviors”
11:10-11:30 - PhD, (from Mikulovic group), Charitha Omprakash, “Neural mechanisms and environmental modifiers underlying helping behaviour in mice”
11:30-12:00 - Post Doc, (from Kimchi group), Noga Zilkha, “Sex-dependent control of pheromones on social organization within groups of wild house mice”
12:00-12:20 - PhD, (from Yizhar group), Asaf Benjamin, “Prefrontal processing of social information and control of complex group dynamics”
12:20-14:00 - Lunch
Afternoon chairperson: PI, Ofer Yizhar
14:40 - PI, Simone Shamay-Tsoory, “Brain-to-brain coupling and social behavior”
14:40-15:10 - Post Doc, (from Leknes group), Guro Løseth, “Stress, relief and social support: the role of endogenous opioids”
15:10-15:40 - Leonie Welberg, (Nature Neuroscience (Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature)), "Behind the scenes at Nature Neuroscience"
15:40-16:10 - Coffee Break
16:10-16:50 - PI, Cristina Marquez Vega, “Social decision making in rodents”