Program

Poster Session

You will find the list of poster presenters here.

Monday – Odd numbers
Tuesday – Even numbers

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


Agenda

Please note, that the schedule is subject to change.

Monday, September 8, 2025

TimeProgramLocation
7:45Free shuttle bus from Westbahnhof, Vienna to ISTA
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg at ~8:15-8:30)
8:00Free shuttle bus from Schwedenplatz, Vienna to ISTA
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg at ~8:30-8:45)
9:00Welcome coffee & RegistrationLecture Hall Foyer
9:00 – 12:00ANA Board Meeting
(Board only, not public)
Ballroom
9:00 – 12:00Special EJN Workshop
Scientific Publishing and Public Outreach
Moonstone,
room G
10:00 – 12:00Symposium
How do we explain our results and what does this tell us about our understanding of neuroscience?
Lecture Hall
11:00Free shuttle bus from Westbahnhof, Vienna to ISTA
(bus stops at Schwedenplatz, Vienna at ~11:20-11:35 and
at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg at ~11:45-12:00)
12:00 – 13:00Welcome coffee & RegistrationLecture Hall Foyer
13:00 – 13:30Opening CeremonyLecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
13:30 – 14:30Keynote
Gero Miesenböck
“Mitochondrial Origins of the Pressure to Sleep”
Lecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
14:30 – 16:00Symposium A
Cutting-edge glia cell research in Austria

Vered Kellner (Medical University of Vienna)
Kerstin Lenk (Graz University of Technology)
Sandra Siegert (ISTA)
Lecture Hall
14:30 – 16:00Symposium B
NeuroAI: Building two-way bridges between experiments and theories

Fleur Zeldenrust (Radboud University)
Guillaume Lajoie (Université de Montréal & Mila)
Jie Mei (Interdisciplinary Transformation University)
Moonstone,
room G
16:00 – 16:30Coffee breakLecture Hall Foyer
16:30 – 17:30Keynote
Petrine Wellendorph
“CaMKIIa as a novel brain target for GHB – from discovery to neuroprotection”
Lecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
17:30Group photo
17:30 – 19:00Poster session I. (ODD NUMBERS) & finger foodMoonstone Seminar Center
19:15Free shuttle bus from ISTA to Westbahnhof, Vienna
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg)

-These shuttle buses will take the participants to the Young ANA night-
19:20Free shuttle bus from ISTA to Schwedenplatz, Vienna
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg)
20:00 – 23:00Young ANA nightJo&Joe, Vienna
(next to Westbahnhof)

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

TimeProgramLocation
8:15Free shuttle bus from Schwedenplatz, Vienna to ISTA
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg at ~8:30-8:45)
9:00 – 10:00Keynote
Frank Kirchhoff
“The role of glial transmitter receptors in shaping brain functions”
Lecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
10:00 – 10:30Coffee breakLecture Hall Foyer
10:30 – 12:00Symposium A
Calcium channelopathies: beyond the ion-conducting pore

Nadine Ortner (University of Innsbruck)
Stefanie Geisler (University of Innsbruck)
Gerald Obermair (Karl Landsteiner University)
Lecture Hall
10:30 – 12:00Symposium B
Multimodal Brain Data Integration

Sophia Ulonska (VRVis GmbH)
Roxane Licandro (Medical University of Vienna)
Lukas Piszczek (Medical University of Vienna)
Moonstone,
room G
12:00 – 13:00Oral presentations A – “Development”

12:00 | Flavia Millesi
“Unraveling Myelin Composition Disparities and its Effect on Glia Cells”

12:15 | Maria Peteinarelli
“A microRNA promoting neuronal repair after peripheral nerve injury”

12:30 | Stavros Papadopoulos
“Development and evolution of rostrocaudal spinal networks for limb control”

12:45 | Oona Jung
CargoSCItes – Cargocytes as a novel delivery platform for therapeutic proteins after spinal cord injury
Lecture Hall
12:00 – 13:00Oral presentations B – “Disease”

12:00 | Anna Tröscher-Böhm
“The role of miR-10b-5p/Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Axis Deregulation in Poststroke Epileptogenesis”

12:15 | Johannes Berger
“Subclass-specific impact of ether lipid deficiency on behavioral, structural and neurochemical correlates of brain function”

12:30 | Nicole Amberg
“Understanding the pathological underpinnings of neurodevelopmental diseases in the human brain”

12:45 | Olena Kim
Human-specific interneurons in health and tuberous sclerosis complex”
Moonstone,
room G
13:00 – 14:30Lunch breakMoonstone Seminar Center
14:30 – 16:00Poster session II. (EVEN NUMBERS) & coffee breakMoonstone Seminar Center
16:00 – 17:00Keynote
Otto Loewi Lecture
awardee to be announced
Lecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
17:00 – 18:00ANA general assemblyLecture Hall
18:00 – 21:30Dinner at Redlingerhütte
(20-minute walk up to the restaurant and back to ISTA)
22:00Free shuttle bus from ISTA to Schwedenplatz, Vienna
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg)

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

TimeProgramLocation
8:15Free shuttle bus from Schwedenplatz, Vienna to ISTA
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg at ~8:30-8:45)
9:00 – 10:00Beyond Academia: Career Insights Panel

(Three experts share their career path, followed by an interactive Q&A with the audience).
Sunstone,
Seminar room
9:00 – 10:00Keynote
Werner Sieghart
α6-containing GABAA receptors – novel targets for the treatment of schizophrenia and multiple other neuropsychiatric disorders
Lecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
10:00 – 11:00Oral presentations A – “Metabolism”

10:00 | Hakan Kucukdereli
“Stress triggers seeking of a starvation-like state in anxiety-prone female mice”

10:15 | Amir Pasokh
“Short-chain fatty acids attenuate neuroinflammation in an in vitro model of hemorrhagic stroke”

10:30 | Stephanie zur Nedden
“Glucose-1,6-Bisphosphate: A Novel Regulatory Metabolite Modulating Mitochondrial Substrate Uptake in Neurons”

10:45 | Csenge Böröczky
Developmental expression of the endocannabinoid system in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Lecture Hall
10:00 – 11:00Oral presentations B – Computational/Network

10:00 | Andrea Navas-Olive
“Theoretical constraints on memory storage in models of hippocampal CA3”

10:15 | Florian Reichmann
“A zebrafish orthologue of the LRRTM4 gene is an important regulator of aggression, anxiety and social behaviour”

10:30 | Predrag Živadinović
“Critical scaling exponents of hippocampal activity predict spatial memory performance”

10:45 | Charles Fieseler
Neuronal principles underlying the hierarchical organization of animal behavior”
Moonstone,
room G
11:00 – 11:30Coffee breakLecture Hall Foyer
11:30 – 13:00Symposium A
Circuit mechanisms of CNS disorders

Marc Aurel Busche (UCL London)
Doris Kaltenecker (Helmholtz Center, München)
Sabine Liebscher (Medical University of Innsbruck)
Lecture Hall
11:30 – 13:00Symposium B
Wired for Motion: Advances in Peripheral Nervous System Development, Neuromuscular Interactions, and Regeneration

Ruth Herbst (Medical University of Vienna)
Bernhard Flucher (Medical University of Innsbruck)
Tamara Weiss (Medical University of Vienna)
Moonstone,
room G
13:00 – 14:30Lunch breakMoonstone Seminar Center
14:30 – 15:30Keynote
Elly Tanaka
“Regenerative capacity of the central nervous system”
Lecture Hall &
Moonstone, room G (live streaming)
15:30 – 16:00Closing ceremonyLecture Hall &
Moonstone,
room G (live streaming)
16:15Free shuttle bus from ISTA to Schwedenplatz, Vienna
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg)
16:15Free shuttle bus from ISTA to Westbahnhof, Vienna
(bus stops at Stadtplatz, Klosterneuburg)