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Workshop: THE SOCIAL BRAIN
Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Suiza
Camilla Bellone, University of Geneve, Ginebra, Suiza
Félix Leroy, Alicante Neuroscience Institute - Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain / University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Desde: 01 Octubre 2024
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Hasta: 03 Octubre 2024
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Presencial
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Sede Antonio Machado de Baeza
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Investigadora
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Inglés
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20 horas
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400 euros
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35
We propose a workshop entitled “The social brain” focusing on the molecular and cellular mechanisms, neural circuits and neuronal computations that support social behaviors and social interactions. As we have been cruelly reminded during the pandemic, social interactions are an essential part of our lives. However, we still know very little of the underlying neuronal processes that support social behaviors. In addition, patients suffering from psychiatric diseases often experience impaired social cognition and have difficulties forming and maintaining social relationships. Importantly, several of these diseases are also worsened by social conditions such as isolation or bullying, and cases of mental illnesses involving social deficits are reported to be increasing each year.
Since social interactions are an essential feature of most species, social neurosciences utilize a wide-range of animal models, from insects to non-human primates with the majority of the investigation conducted in rodents. Thus, some studies have leveraged specific rodent species selected for their particular social features such as polygamous and monogamous mouse species or vole subspecies. Scientists interested in social neurosciences therefore have a large array of rodent animal models at their disposal to investigate the neural basis of specific social behaviors (social aggression, social dominance, mating, parenting) and social interactions in general (social exploration and recognition, pro-social / empathy behaviors). Modern social neurosciences are also leveraging the recent advances in computational neuroscience (deep-neural networks for multiple animal tracking, classifiers etc.). Several speakers in our program make extensive use of these tools. For all these reasons, we believe the subject of social neuroscience to be an increasingly important one with wide and different interests from complementary scientific audiences.
A workshop on social neurosciences would be a perfect place for researchers investigating different social behaviors using various techniques to compare and exchange ideas. In addition, rodent animal models of psychiatric diseases exhibiting deficits in social interactions are extensively used to investigate the causes behind diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or autism spectrum disorder (Lewis EM et al., Neuron 2020; Lee D et al., Nat. Neuro. 2021). A workshop on social behaviors would therefore also broach on translational research investigating diseases associated with impaired social interactions.
The overall goal of this workshop is to provide the most incisive and up-to-date overview of the current research in the fields of social neuroscience, with a particular focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms, neuronal circuits and neuronal computations controlling social behaviors in rodents. To do so, this workshop will bring together a unique combination of internationally recognized investigators, with different and multidisciplinary expertise. These experts have substantially contributed to our current understanding of the neural circuits and mechanisms regulating social behaviors as varied as prosocial/empathy behavior (Keysers, Papaleo), social fear (Charlet, Gross) social reward and motivation (Leroy, Lima, Gould), maternal behaviors (Kohl, Froemke), and social competition (Russo, Hu, Sandi). The workshop will also offer a translational research session looking at the dysregulation of social circuits during psychiatric disorders (Bellone).
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Plan de estudios
Monday, September 30th 2024
18:00 Registration
Tuesday, October 1st 2024
08:55 Welcome address from the organizersSession I: Social competition and aggression
Chair: Francesco Papaleo
09:00 Scott Russo, Mount Sinai Hospital: Neural circuit mechanisms shaping social encounters.
09:30 Arpita Konar, Presidency University: A blast from the past: Molecular memories…. of traumatic experiences and impact on aggression.
09:45 Tamás Láng, Eötvös Loránd University: A thalamo-preoptic pathway inhibits intermale aggression in rats.
10:00 Carmen Sandi, EPFL: Powering the social brain: Mitochondria and metabolism in social behavior.10:30 Coffee break
Session II: Dysregulation of neuronal circuits supporting social behaviors during psychiatric diseases
Chair: Susana Lima
11:00 Camilla Bellone, Geneva University: VTA dopamine neuron activity encodes social interaction and promotes reinforcement learning through social prediction error.
11:30 Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences: Ultrasonic vocalizations of pups in a neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia.
11:45 Lucas Pozzo-Miller, Michigan State University: Social hierarchies formed by male Mecp2 knockout mice have more submissive individuals, which have altered mPFC neuronal synchrony during social interactions.
12:00 Nuno Beltrão, University of Coimbra: Social deficits and cerebellar dysfunction in a mouse model carrying a human schizophrenia-associated mutation in the CACNG2 gene schizophrenia/
12:15 Freddie Jeanneteau, Institute of Functional Genomic: Correction of hypothalamo-septal dysfunction in the oxytocin and vasopressin circuits restores social deficits in a mouse model of autism.13:00-15:00 Lunch.
Session III: Social fear and social stress.
Chair: Guillaume Bouisset
16:00 Pegah Kassraian, Columbia University: Hippocampal circuits underlying social episodic memory.
16:15 Alexandre Charlet, CNRS: Fine-tuning of social fear by oxytocin-glial cells interplay.
16:45 Paula Gomez-Sotres, Bordeaux University: Olfactory bulb astrocytes link social transmission of stress to cognitive adaptation.
17:00 Daniel Dautan, Karolinska Institute: The corticoaccumbal pathway encodes social anxiety in a depression-like model.
17:15 Cornelius Gross, EMBL in Rome: Contextual and experience-dependent modulation of social threat responses17:45 Poster Session
20:30 Dinner
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024
Session IV: Social reward and social motivation.
Chair: Jonny Kohl
09:00 Aras Petrullis, Georgia State University: Regulation of male social interest by vasopressin system circuitry.
09:15 Felix Leroy, Neurosciences Institute in Alicante: Neuronal circuits regulating social preferences.
09:45 Anjaly Yadav, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology: The role of the prelimbic cortex in transition from out-group to in-group social interactions.
10:00 Susana Lima, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown: Hypothalamic circuits for female socio-sexual behavior.10:30 coffee break
11:00 Meenakshi Asokan, Princeton University: Hormone-mediated reorganization of cortical dynamics during female social choice.
11:15 Nancy Mack, Princeton University: Decoding the specificity of social drives.
11:45 TBD, Princeton University: Hippocampal CA2 area supports social preference for the mother in young pups.
12:00 Xiaoke Chen, Stanford University: neural mechanisms underlying social contagion.12:30 Guided Tour of Baeza
14:00 Lunch
Session V: Reproductive behaviors
Chair: Felix Leroy
15:30 Salvatore Lecca, Lausanne University: A neural substrate for negative affect dictates female parental behavior.
15:15 Gina Puska, Eötvös Loránd University: Calbindin neurons of the lateral septum regulate maternal care driven by their thalamic input.
16:30 Arpád Dobolyi, Eötvös Loránd University: The control of innate social behaviors by inputs to the medial preoptic area.
16:00 Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute: Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression.16:45 Coffee break
17:15 Stefano Zucca, University of Turin: Whole-brain representation of multimodal courtship cues.
17:30 Maria Clara Selles, New York University: Oxytocin signaling in astrocytes controls oxytocin expression.
17:45 Robert Froemke, New York University: Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behavior.20:00 Dinner
Thursday, October 3rd 2024
Session IV: Prosocial behaviors.
Chair: Scott Russo
9:00 Francesco Papaleo, Italian Technological Institute: Circuits of Emotion Recognition.
9:30 Moisés dos Santos Corrêa, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology: Emotional contagion and helping behavior: learning to be good recruits cell subpopulation in the dorsal hippocampus in mice.
9:45 Christian Keysers, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, KNAW: A cross-species approach to the neural bases of empathy and prosociality.
10:15 Weizhe Hong, UCLA: Neural basis of prosocial behavior.10:45 Concluding remarks from the organizers.
11:30 Bus departure to Madrid airport.
30 min talks
15 min talks
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Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Suiza
Camilla Bellone, University of Geneve, Ginebra, Suiza
Félix Leroy, Alicante Neuroscience Institute - Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain / University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Camilla Bellone, University of Geneva
Alexandre Charlet, University of Strasbourg - CNRS
Robert Froemke, New York University
Elizabeth Gould, Princeton University
Cornelius Gross, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Weizhe Hong, University of California, Los Angeles
Hailan Hu, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Christian Keysers, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam
Jonny Kohl, Crick Institute
Félx Leroy, Alicante Neuroscience Institute, Alicante
Susana Lima, Champalimaud institute
Dayu Lin, New-York University, Grossman School of Medecine
Francesco Papaleo, Italian Institute of Technology
Scott Russo, Mount Sinai Hospital
Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The Social Bain workshop will be of interest to neuroscientists studying the fundamental aspects of social interactions as well as neuroscientists investigating psychiatric diseases associated with deficits in social cognition and interested in translational applications. "See application guidelines".
FORMATE OF THE WORKSHOP:
The workshop will bring together 15 speakers and a maximum of 35 participants. The scientific programme will start on Tuesday 1rd October in the morning and will end on Thursday 3rd October in the morning. Ample time for informal discussion will be reserved. Participants are welcomed to present a poster. If you would like to be considered for a short 15 min talk, please send your CV and abstract to
VENUE OF THE WORKSHOP: The workshop will be held in Baeza, at the “Antonio Machado Headquarters”, a XVII century building turned into a Conference Centre of the International University of Andalusia (UNIA). A complex made up of two historic buildings: the Jabalquinto Palace (XV/XVI centuries) and the old Seminary (XVII century) located in the heart of the historic complex, among the old University, church of Santa Cruz, the cathedral and the Upper Town Halls.
This site includes a recently restored residence, where speakers and participants will be accommodated. This same space is where the meetings will be held, which facilitates social interaction and informal discussions.
Baeza is a world historic heritage town, renowned for its Renaissance and Gothic buildings.
ACCOMMODATION:
We recommend all participants to stay in the University Residence, which is located in the same space where the Meetings will take place, to facilitate social interaction and informal discussions.
The accommodation in the University Residence is in shared double rooms, as there are not single rooms: €20/day. To make the reservation and the corresponding payment you must be previously registered for the workshop and then contact:
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION:
A) Applicants must complete an application form and submit it, along with:
- A brief C.V.
- A summary of the current research work of the candidate.
In case of presenting a poster, a summary of the poster of no more than one page, with the title, authorship, research center/institution/university, address and a summary of the communication.
See section "presentation of panels and posters”.
SEE LINK TO:
Application form (odt)
Application form (doc)*:
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B) Send the completed Application Form (doc/odt) and the attached documents as separate text files and in a single email message, to
Selected applicants (with or without poster) will be notified directly. From that moment on, they must pay the corresponding registration fees*.
WORKSHOP FEES 2024:
Registration: 400,00 € (breakfast, lunch, coffe-breaks and dinner included)
Payment method: bank transfer to ‘La Caixa’
IBAN (international bank account number): ES78 21009166752200074348
SWIFT (BIC): CAIXESBBXXX
Registration fees deadline 13 September 2024
Selected applicants must indicate their full name and code number (it will appear in the webpage) in the bank transfer. After completing your payment by bank transfer, a proof of payment must be sent to:
The bank charges generated by the bank transfer will be paid by the applicants/attendees.
WORKSHOP panels/posters guidelines:
The scheduled dates for the presentation of panels/posters are:
A. Deadline to present the complete panels in digital format 19 AUGUST 2024.
Presentation of the proposal: through the registration form in the Worhshop.
Shipping address for panels/posters:
o For the oral presentation of posters it is essential to have formalized registration and payment of the Workshop.
o The co-director of the Workshop will indicate and assign the session in which to present the work.
o The organization will certify the effective presentation of each panel/poster during the Workshop.
o Each author individually or collectively may present a maximum of 2 panels.
o Researchers may display their panel in the campus facilities. To do this, they must bring their work printed in DIN A0 vertical format (84.1 x 118.9 cm) and arrange it in the provided fastening systems.
Panel/poster contents:
• Title: Arial bold 14 points.
• Subtitle (if applicable).
• Authorship (individual or collective).
• Keywords: maximum 4.
• Presentation / Summary of content: 120 words.
• Methodology: 100 words.
• Description and contents: through text and graphics.
• Conclusions: maximum 100 words
• Sources and essential bibliography.
• Format: to transfer digitally DIN A4; PDF. Type: Arial. Body: minimum 9 and maximum 12 points.
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