Program

Motor Control Across Scales

The 2nd FENS Satellite Symposium for Early Career Researchers on Neuronal Motor Circuits

The program includes 20 min talks (15 min talk +5 minutes questions) and poster session.

Poster Session

Don’t forget to print your poster before your trip. Please bring your posters in landscape format A0 (118,9 cm x 84,1 cm or 46.8 inches x 33.1 inches).

Agenda

TimeProgram
7:30Special Shuttle Bus from Messe, Vienna to ISTA

(meeting point: behind the Bassena Hotel, Perspektivstraße
8:15-9:00Registration & Welcome Coffee (Moonstone Building)
9:00-9:30Introduction
Session I. | Chair: Graziana Gatto (University Hospital Cologne)
9:30-9:50Dimitri Ryczko,
Recovery of locomotion after complete spinal cord injury in salamanders
9:50-10:10David Vijatovic,
Dissecting swim-to-walk transition and its neural basis during Xenopus frog metamorphosis
10:10-10:30Alexandra Trevisan,
The transcriptomic landscape of spinal V1 interneurons implicates a specific molecular subset in the control of locomotor speed
10:30-11:30Poster session (odd numbers) and coffee break
Session II. | Chair: Maarten Zwart (Centre of Biophotonics St Andrews)
11:30-11:50Mahalakshmi Dhanasekar,
Investigation of noradrenaline-mediated glial calcium wave dependent motor arrest
11:50-12:10Andrea Giorgi,
Rostro-caudal control of locomotor steering strategies by V2a reticulospinal modules
12:10-12:30Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty,
Closed-loop Control of Quadrupedal Mouse Locomotion Over Uneven Terrain:  A Neuromechanical Modeling Study
12:30-14:00Lunch break at ISTA Cafeteria
Session III. | Chair: Julien Bouvier (CNRS Paris)
14:00-14:20Alice Mosberger,
Reaching for reward
14:20-14:40Salif Komi,
Pauses in movement unveil a spinal continuous attractor that generates locomotion
14:40-15:00Takashi Kawashima,
Dualistic serotonergic control of brain-wide motor command and reafference sensing mediates natural motor adaptation
15:00-15:05Group photo in front of the Moonstone Building
15:05-16:30Poster session (even numbers) and coffee break
Session IV. | Chair: Rune Berg (University of Copenhagen)
16:30-16:50Elisa Toscano,
Anatomical and functional characterization of two novel subtypes of long-ascending spinal neurons
16:50-17:10Pierce Mullen,
Sensorimotor Integration in the Zebrafish Inferior Olive During Motor Adaptation
17:10-17:30Tihana Jovanic,
Neural circuit mechanisms of flexible sensorimotor decisions
17:30-18:30Poster session (even and odd)
18:29Regular ISTA Shuttle Bus to Heiligenstadt (U4), Vienna
18:30Walk up to the Redlingerhütte
19:00-21:30Dinner at Redlingerhütte
21:30Walk back from the Redlingerhütte to ISTA
22:00Special Shuttle Bus from ISTA to Messe, Vienna
Departure from ISTA!