Speaker articles

Take a look at what some of our Biology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders speakers have published recently and chat with them about their work in Sitges, Spain.

Keynote Speaker

Thomas Südhof, Stanford University, USA
Engineered synaptic tools reveal localized cAMP signaling in synapse assembly

Speakers

Claudia Bagni, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Absence of RNA-binding protein FXR2P prevents prolonged phase of kainate-induced seizures

Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge, UK
Bridging brain and cognition: A multilayer network analysis of brain structural covariance and general intelligence in a developmental sample of struggling learners

Pico Caroni, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
Long-Lasting Rescue of Network and Cognitive Dysfunction in a Genetic Schizophrenia Model

Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA
Structural basis for channel conduction in the pump-like channelrhodopsin ChRmine

Ray Dolan, University College London, UK
Impaired neural replay of inferred relationships in schizophrenia

Kafui Dzirasa, Duke University, USA
Regulation of sensorimotor gating via Disc1/Huntingtin-mediated Bdnf transport in the cortico-striatal circuit

Damien Fair, University of Minnesota, USA
Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

Guoping Feng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Efficient embryonic homozygous gene conversion via RAD51-enhanced interhomolog repair

Jonathan Flint, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Analysis of independent cohorts of outbred CFW mice reveals novel loci for behavioral and physiological traits and identifies factors determining reproducibility

Daniel Geschwind, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Oxytocin normalizes altered circuit connectivity for social rescue of the Cntnap2 knockout mouse

Hailan Hu, Zhejiang University, China
Dynamics of a disinhibitory prefrontal microcircuit in controlling social competition

Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Synaptic mechanism underlying serotonin modulation of transition to cocaine addiction

Sergiu Pasca, Stanford University, USA
Dissecting the molecular basis of human interneuron migration in forebrain assembloids from Timothy syndrome

Danielle Posthuma, VU University, Netherlands
A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease

Angela Roberts, University of Cambridge, UK
Differential Contribution of Anterior and Posterior Midcingulate Subregions to Distal and Proximal Threat Reactivity in Marmosets

Bryan Roth, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Synthon-based ligand discovery in virtual libraries of over 11 billion compounds

Alcino Silva, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Postnatal immune activation causes social deficits in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis: Role of microglia and clinical implications