Detailed program
8:00-8:30: Registration
8:30-8:45: Opening and Welcome Speech
8:45-9:45: Plenary Lecture
Dr. Karolina Pircs (Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University):
- Direct Neural Reprogramming as a Cellular Model of Human Brain Aging and Rejuvenation
9:45-10:15: Coffee break I.
10:15-12:00: Short presentations (7 min talk + 3 min Q&A)
- Anna Padányi (Grastyán E. Translational Research Centre, University of Pécs): Transcranial magnetic stimulation based cortical excitability measure in awake non-human primates
- Ildikó-Beáta Márton (Faculty of Physics, Babeș-Bolyai University): Comparing graph properties of axon and dendrite trees in the Drosophila connectome
- Lilla Radvan (Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Eötvös Loránd University): Histological and chemogenetic characterization of a thalamic input to the medial preoptic area underlying maternal function
- Roland Zsoldos (HCEMM-SU Neurobiology and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group, Semmelweis University): Studying neuronal autophagy in human ageing using induced neurons directly reprogrammed from adult human dermal fibroblasts
- Máté Egyed (Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Eötvös Loránd University): Medial preoptic oxytocin receptor-expressing neurons regulate affiliative social behaviors in rats
- Orsolya Farkas (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences): High-density spatiotemporal single-unit activity profiling and cell-type identification in the human neocortex
- Sára Vida (Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine): Selective neuronal and microglial changes in SORL1-dependent Alzheimer's disease in human and mouse brain tissue
- Ádám Szentes (George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureș): Region-specific changes in NECAB2 and calbindin positive interneurons acrossbrain regions involved in the epileptic circuitry in a kainic acid model of temporal lobe epilepsy
- Adél Papp (Department of Physiology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School,University of Szeged): Comparative Analysis of Cortical Electrical Activity in Migraine Patients and Healthy Adults During an Associative Learning Task
- Éva Zsuzsanna Nagy (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Szeged): Changes in sleep patterns and circadian clock gene expression in a Drosophila Alzheimer's disease model
12:00-13:00: Lunch break and informal networking
13:00-14:30: PARALLEL SESSIONS
Mini-poster presentation for presenters:
- For participants who submitted abstracts
- Groups will be sorted on site
Student Forum with HuNDoC Organizing Committee:
- Starting out as BSc and MSc students
- Educational backgrounds
- How we chose our labs
- What to consider when joining a lab
- Open discussion & Q&A
14:30-15:00: Coffee break II
15:00-16:00: WORKSHOP I.
Career Roundtable
- András Ecker (Research Manager at Cytocast)
- Eszter Papp (Postdoctoral Researcher at Eötvös Loránd University and Science Communicator)
- Gergely Márton (Co-Founder & CEO of MindRove and Senior Researcher at HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences)
- Rebeka Fekete (Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Medicine)
- Viktor Kis (Application Manager and Product Owner for micro-CT at 3DHISTECHLtd.)
16:00-17:00: WORKSHOP II.
Grants Roundtable
- Ágnes Kandrács (Postdoctoral Researcher at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology)
- Klaudia Csikós (Research Assistant at HUN-REN Research Centre for NaturalSciences and PhD Student at Semmelweis University)
- Nóra Jeney (Chief EU Research Funding Advisor at Faculty of Science, EötvösLoránd University)
- Tamás Zsoldos (Medical Student at Semmelweis University and Undergraduate Researcher at HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine)