2022 Annual Meeting of the SSN

June 11, 2022

University of Fribourg, Building PER21
Boulevard de Pérolles 90
Fribourg 1700
Switzerland

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The 2022 Annual Meeting of the SSN is co-organized by the Università della Svizzera italiana and the University of Fribourg and is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 11th 2022 at the University of Fribourg. Despite the great challenges imposed by Covid-19, more than 400 researchers and clinicians from Switzerland are expected to attend this meeting, which is the major Swiss venue for exchange of current scientific informations in the area of brain research. The meeting has a wide focus that includes molecular and systems neuroscience, as well as clinical research and neural computation / bioinformatics.

The first keynote lecturer Prof. Wolfram Schultz from the University of Cambridge, a world-wide leader in Neuroscience will speak about reward processing in the brain.

There will be four symposia chaired by prominent investigators in Switzerland and abroad on the specific topics of novel tools and topics in systems neuroscience, neuroinflammation, the interaction of brain and body for consciousness and on motor disorders. There will also be a large poster session in person, fostering interaction and exchange of scientific ideas among the participants.

The second keynote speaker, Prof. Antonio Pisani from the University of Pavia in Italia is a clinician-scientist with a long standing interest in  basic and clinical aspects of basal ganglia dysfunction, with a specific interest in the characterization of pre-clinical models of Dystonia and Parkinson’s disease.

Friday, June 10th 2022 (the day before the meeting) will see a day of presentations on career development and scientific exchange organised by ySSN. The event will conclude with featuring the documentary by Jean-Stéphane Bron about the brain. The viewing will be followed by a discussion between neuroscientists and teachers about education, didactic methods and knowledge acquisition. 

Program of the 2022 Meeting

In case you decide to withdraw abstract/registration you submitted for the January deadline, please write a mail to secretary@swissneuroscience.ch

Registration closes on 11/06/2022 (the day of the meeting)

Abstract submission for SSN2022 is now Closed.

The final Abstract Booklet for SSN2022 can be downloaded here.

 

Print your personalized registration confirmation email. To obtain entry to the Meeting you must present your confirmation email at the conference admission desk. 

Information on poster preparation (A0 portrait) and presentation can be found here. You must be logged-in as an SSN member in order to submit an abstract, as well as to see the poster format instructions.

 

Registration fees:

Members

There is no registration fee for paid up members of the SSN. However, you must neverthess register to obtain entrance to the Congress.

To obtain this free registration, you must logged in as a Member. Please do NOT register at this PUBLIC page if you are a member of  SSN. You should instead login as a member, and then register for SSN2022, so that you will not be charged for this SSN event.

Non-Members

A registration fee applies (see the registration page for details). You will be required to pay on registration. Payment is by on-line credit card only.

Payment here as a Public registrant for SSN2022 (CHF150) will not be considered retrospectively as payment for SSN Membership! 

If you are not yet a Member of SSN, you may first apply and pay (CHF 100 regular members, CHF 40 students) for Membership, and thereafter register at no charge for SSN2022.

 

The meeting is accredited by The Swiss Association of Cantonal Veterinaries for 1/2 day of continuing education.

 


Featured Speakers

Speaker: Prof. Wolfram Schultz
Speaker Prof. Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz is a German-British neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, UK. Schultz discovered biological foundations for key assumptions of the psychological learning theory of reward. He used insights from learning and economic decision theory to find reward and risk signals in cells of the dopaminergic system and other parts …

Wolfram Schultz is a German-British neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, UK.


Schultz discovered biological foundations for key assumptions of the psychological learning theory of reward. He used insights from learning and economic decision theory to find reward and risk signals in cells of the dopaminergic system and other parts of the reward system (striatum, frontal brain, amygdala). He works with behavioural, neurophysiological and brain imaging methods.


Schultz studied medicine, mathematics and philosophy in Hamburg and Heidelberg. As a postdoctoral researcher he worked with Otto Creutzfeldt at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, with John Carew Eccles at the University at Buffalo and with Urban Ungerstedt at the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm. From 1977 to 2001, Schultz was at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where he habilitated in physiology in 1981 and was most recently Professor of Neurophysiology. Since 2001 he has been at the University of Cambridge, where he holds a professorship in neuroscience. Schultz as received numerous awards, including most recently the Gruber prize for Neuroscience and the Lashley award. He is a fellow of the Royal Society.


 

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Speaker: Prof. Antonio Pisani
Speaker Prof. Antonio Pisani
Antonio Pisani is a clinician scientist with a long standing interest in the basic and clinical aspects of basal ganglia dysfunction, with a specific interest in dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. By means of electrophysiology and optogenetics record basal ganglia neurons from acute slices. Models utilized: rodent models of dystonia and Parkinson …

Antonio Pisani is a clinician scientist with a long standing interest in the basic and clinical aspects of basal ganglia dysfunction, with a specific interest in dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. By means of electrophysiology and optogenetics record basal ganglia neurons from acute slices. Models utilized: rodent models of dystonia and Parkinson disease

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Speaker: Jean-Stéphane Bron
Speaker Jean-Stéphane Bron
Jean-Stéphane Bron is a Swiss film director, graduated from the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). After Connu de nos services and La Bonne Conduite, nominated for the Europa Prize and distinguished by the Original Vision prize of the New York Times, he directed in 2003 Mais im Bundeshuus / …

Jean-Stéphane Bron is a Swiss film director, graduated from the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). After Connu de nos services and La Bonne Conduite, nominated for the Europa Prize and distinguished by the Original Vision prize of the New York Times, he directed in 2003 Mais im Bundeshuus / Le Génie helvétique. This feature-length documentary, which follows the work of a parliamentary committee in charge of a law on genetic engineering at the Federal Palace, remains one of the major successes of Swiss cinema. My Brother Gets Married, his first fiction film, largely autobiographical, is the subject of a Hollywood remake with Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton. In 2010, Cleveland vs. Wall Street, a fictitious trial of the subprime crisis – presented at Cannes as part of the Directors' Fortnight – was nominated in France for the César for best documentary. Screened in 2013 in Piazza Grande during the Locarno Festival, L'Expérience Blocher, a portrait of the national-populist leader Christoph Blocher, sparked a lively controversy. Shot for a season behind the scenes of the Paris Opera, L'Opéra is released in more than 20 countries and brings together nearly 200,000 spectators in the cinemas. With this film, he won in 2018, for the third time, the Swiss Film Award in the best documentary category.
The film The Brain, which deals with contemporary research in the field of the brain and artificial intelligence, will soon be released in theaters.


In the documentary, I look for fiction. The real is just the starting point, not the end point. I have often filmed power in action, whether political or economic, but from a very intimate perspective. My films feature characters whose inner movements I try to tell.

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Organizer

Prof. Michael Schmid & Prof. Salvatore Galati




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Date and Time

Sat, June 11, 2022

9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
(GMT+0100) Europe/Zurich

Location

University of Fribourg, Building PER21

Boulevard de Pérolles 90
Fribourg 1700
Switzerland

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University of Fribourg, Building PER21

Boulevard de Pérolles 90
Fribourg 1700
Switzerland