Neuroscience
The Brain Mosaic: Cellular heterogeneity in the CNS (3rd edition)
10-11 October 2024, Leuven, Belgium
The Brain Mosaic: Cellular heterogeneity in the CNS (3rd edition)
The Brain Mosaic: Cellular heterogeneity in the CNS (3rd edition)
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Bart De Strooper
Stein Aerts
Sten Linnarsson
Dietmar Thal
Valeriya Malysheva
Lynette Lim
Evy Vierstraete
At the first edition in 2016, we began to see how single-cell and spatial multi-omics were going to revolutionize the field. Today, an avalanche of new techniques and data sets are probing broader and deeper into the brain, bridging the omics layers and aiming to make the connection with the functional neuronal circuits that underlie complex behavior.
For the third edition of this meeting,19 internationally renowned experts confirmed to join and emphasize the multi-disciplinary nature of the field in several sessions:
- Neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration
- Computational analysis
- From Atlassing to therapy
- Evolution and cellular complexity of the brain
Travel grants
We offer 4 travel grants to international junior scientists, which will reimburse travel costs up to 400 Euros. The deadline to participate is 18 July 2024.
Host City: Leuven
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Confirmed speakers
Agnete Kirkeby
Agnete Kirkeby
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), University of Copenhagen, DK
Esther Klingler
Esther Klingler
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research; Leuven Brain Institute; Leuven Institute for Single-Cell Omics, BE
Program
Day 1 - Thursday, 10 October, 2024
08:00
08:50
Registration & welcome coffee
08:50
09:00
Welcome
09:00
09:45
Opening Keynote
09:00
09:45
Sten Linnarsson
Karolinska Institute, SE
09:45
13:00
Session 1: Neurodevelopment & neurodegeneration
09:45
10:15
Perinatal Cortical Development: The Dynamic Infant Brain.
Mercedes Paredes
University of California San Francisco UCSF, US
10:15
10:45
Building brain circuits: interplay between intrinsic programs and environment
Esther Klingler
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research; Leuven Brain Institute; Leuven Institute for Single-Cell Omics, BE
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:45
Human brain cell atlases and their application to disease
Ed Lein
Allen Institute for Brain Science, US
11:45
12:15
Philippe L. De Jager
Columbia University Medical Center, US
12:15
12:45
Naomi Habib
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL
12:45
13:00
Presenter TBA
Selected from abstracts
13:00
14:00
Lunch
14:00
15:00
Poster session 1
15:00
18:00
Session 2: Computational analysis
15:00
15:30
15:30
16:00
A connectomic census of mouse visual cortex
Casey Schneider-Mizell
Allen Institute for Brain Science, US
16:00
16:15
Presenter TBA
Selected from abstracts
16:15
16:30
Presenter TBA
Selected from abstracts
16:30
17:00
Coffee break
17:00
17:30
A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain
Zizhen Yao
Allen Institute for Brain Science, US
17:30
18:00
Sarah Marzi
King's College London, UK
18:00
19:00
Reception
Included in your registration.
19:00
22:00
Social activity + Conference dinner
Additional fee.
Day 2 - Friday, 11 October, 2024
08:45
09:15
Welcome coffee
09:15
12:30
Session 3: From Atlassing to therapy
09:15
09:45
Characterizing Diverse Cell Types in the Developing Human Brain and Brain Cancer
Aparna Bhaduri
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), US
09:45
10:15
Michelle Monje
Stanford University, US
10:15
10:45
Levi Boaz
Allen Institute, US
10:45
11:15
Coffee break
11:15
11:45
Spatially resolved single-cell genomics and cell atlas of the brain.
Xiaowei Zhuang
Harvard University, US
11:45
12:15
Modeling and repairing the human brain with stem cells.
Agnete Kirkeby
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), University of Copenhagen, DK
12:15
12:30
Presenter TBA
Selected from abstracts
12:30
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster session 2
14:30
17:30
Session 4 : Evolution and cellular complexity of the brain
14:30
15:00
Detlev Arendt
EMBL, DE
15:00
15:30
Stein Aerts
VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
15:30
15:45
Presenter TBA
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:00
Presenter TBA
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
17:00
Defining tetrapod motor circuits across frog metamorphosis and vertebrate evolution.
Lora Sweeney
Institute of Science and Technology (ISTA), AT
17:00
17:30
Clifford Kentros
Kavli Institute Trondheim, NO
17:30
17:40
Closing
Organizing committee
Bart De Strooper
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE & UK Dementia Research Institute, UK
Stein Aerts
VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
Sten Linnarsson
Karolinska Institute, SE
Dietmar Thal
KU Leuven, BE
Valeriya Malysheva
VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology, BE
Lynette Lim
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
Evy Vierstraete
VIB Headquarters, BE
Travel grant
Submission closing date
Abstracts
Poster information
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. All accepted poster submissions will have a chance to win the Poster Prize!
If you're not registered before 12 September 2024, your abstract will be excluded from the abstract list and you will not have the chance to present your work at the conference.
Submit your abstract for this event
You can submit an abstract for a poster and/or oral presentation. You do not have to register before submitting your abstract.
Abstract submission closing date:
Thursday, 08 August, 2024
Submit an abstract
The full list of abstracts will be available on 24-09-2024 until 10-01-2025
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 24-09-2024 until 10-01-2025
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
