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Hungarian Neuroscience Society · Austrian Neuroscience Association

Joint Meeting of the Hungarian Neuroscience Society and the Austrian Neuroscience Association

1–3 February 2023 · Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Széchenyi István tér 9, Budapest

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Days
3
Plenary lectures
6
Symposia
6
Award lectures
2

Invitation

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite all neuroscientists to participate in the Joint Meeting of the Hungarian Neuroscience Society (MITT) and the Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA) that will take place on 1st–3rd February, 2023 at the main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. We have set up an outstanding and topically balanced event in which novel and ground breaking results will be presented in the forms of Plenary lectures, Symposia, and Poster sessions. We feel honoured that renowned international scientists will present their latest results, further emphasizing the importance of Hungarian and Austrian neuroscience research within the international neuroscience community.

The program committee draws on long-standing collaborations between Austrian and Hungarian neuroscientists and invites all members of the Hungarian and Austrian neuroscience community to contribute to a successful conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, the venue of the most prestigious learned society of Hungary.

We are looking forward to a fruitful and successful meeting!

Isabella Sarto-Jackson and Zoltan Nusser
Co-Chairs of the Conference

General information

Everything you need before you arrive

Important deadlines

The registration and abstract submission deadline is extended until 15th of December 2022.

  1. 01 November 2022

    Registration commence date

  2. 01 December 2022

    Deadline for early registration

  3. 15 December 2022

    Deadline for abstract submission

  4. 31 December 2022

    Deadline for cancelling registration and hotel booking

  5. 20 January 2023

    Deadline for registration

    On-site registration is not possible. You have to register in advance.

Venue of the conference

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Széchenyi István tér 9, Budapest, 1051

Exhibitors and posters will be placed on the 2nd floor, while Plenary and Symposia lectures will be presented in the Conference Room on the 1st floor. Coffee breaks and sandwich lunch will be in the „Akadémia Klub” on the ground floor and the „Kodály” and „Vörösmarty” rooms and foyer on the -1st floor.

Approaching the venue

Public transportation

  • Tram 2B, 2M: stop „Széchenyi István tér”
  • Bus 16, 105, 178, 216: stop „Széchenyi István tér”
  • Nearby metro stations: „Deák tér” (Metro 1, 2, 3) or „Vörösmarty tér” (Metro 1)

Parking garages

Meals

Coffee breaks
During the coffee breaks coffee, tea, refreshments and snacks will be served. Sandwich lunch for each day will also be provided. The cost of these meals is included in the registration fee. Tickets will be provided in the registration package.
Conference dinner · Budapest Marriott Hotel
Apáczai Csere János u. 4, Budapest 1052 · 1st floor, Ballroom. The conference dinner will start at 20:00 on Thursday, 2 February 2023. Registration does not include the cost of the Conference dinner (20 000 HUF), which needs to be paid separately during the registration. The gala dinner voucher, assuming you ordered it in advance, is included in the name badge.
Getting to the dinner
On foot: the hotel is 800 m from the conference venue, approx. 8–10 min walk. By car: indoor parking (BOE Parking) is available for 900 HUF/hour with direct access to the hotel; entrance from Apáczai Csere János street. By public transport: take tram no. 2 from „Széchenyi tér” towards „Közvágóhíd”; the hotel is at the 2nd stop, „Vigadó tér”.

Accommodation

The prices include buffet breakfast and VAT (tourist tax excluded).

★★★

Corvin Hotel Budapest SISI

1094 Budapest, Angyal u. 31. · corvinhotelbudapest.hu

  • Single room with breakfast 22 000 HUF/night
  • Double room with breakfast 12 650 HUF/person/night
  • Triple beds room with breakfast 9 533 HUF/person/night
  • Parking: 5 000 HUF / day / car

Distance to the conference venue is 3,5 km.

★★★

Hotel Oktogon

1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 52. · hoteloktogon.hu

  • Single room with breakfast 34 000 HUF/night
  • Double room with breakfast 20 000 HUF/person/night
  • No parking places in the hotel; parking garage 240 m away (Oktogon Ház)

Distance to the conference venue is 2,3 km.

★★★★

Corvin Hotel Budapest

1094 Budapest, Angyal u. 31. · corvinhotelbudapest.hu

  • Single room with breakfast 25 300 HUF/night
  • Double room with breakfast 14 300 HUF/person/night
  • Triple beds room with breakfast 10 633 HUF/person/night
  • Parking: 5 000 HUF / day / car

Distance to the conference venue is 3,5 km.

★★★★

Courtyard by Marriott Budapest City Center

1088 Budapest, József krt. 5. · marriott.com

  • Single delux room with breakfast 39 010 HUF/night
  • Double delux standard room with breakfast 22 825 HUF/person/night
  • Parking: 6 500 HUF / day / car

Distance to the conference venue is 3 km.

★★★★

Mercure Korona

1053 Budapest, Kecskeméti utca 14. · all.accor.com

  • Single superior room with breakfast 28 635 HUF/night
  • Double superior room with breakfast 16 393 HUF/person/night
  • Parking: 6 500 HUF / day / car

Distance to the conference venue is 2 km.

★★★★

Mercure City Center

1052 Budapest, Váci utca 20. · all.accor.com

  • Single superior room with breakfast 32 785 HUF/night
  • Double superior room with breakfast 18 468 HUF/person/night
  • No parking places in the hotel; see the parking garages near the venue

Distance to the conference venue is 1 km.

★★★★

Emerald Hotel & Suites

1052 Budapest, Városháza u. 20. · emeraldhotel.hu

  • Single superior room with breakfast 52 000 HUF/night
  • Double superior room with breakfast 29 000 HUF/person/night
  • No parking places in the hotel; see the parking garages near the venue

Distance to the conference venue is 1 km.

Organizers & contact

Organizing committee

Prof. Zoltán Nusser

Laboratory of Cellular Neurophysiology
Institute of Experimental Medicine
H-1083 Budapest, Szigony street 43.
Phone: +36-1-210 9983 · Fax: +36-1-210 9984
E-mail: nusser.zoltan@koki.hu
www.nusserlab.hu

Organizing committee

Isabella Sarto-Jackson, PhD

KLI Klosterneuburg
Martinstraße 12
3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
E-mail: isabella.sarto-jackson@kli.ac.at
kli.ac.at · sarto-jackson.com

Organizing agency

Ms. Mónika Iván · Remedicon Kft.

H-1027 Budapest, Ganz u. 16.
Tel: +36 1 2250188 · Fax: +36 1 2250189
E-mail: info@remedicon.hu
www.remedicon.hu

Programme

Scientific programme

Six plenary lectures — including the Buzsáki lecture and the Otto Loewi Award lecture — six symposia and daily poster sessions over three days at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The conference book and the abstract book were distributed as PDF downloads on the original site.

WedWednesday, 1 February 2023

  1. 09:15 – 09:30Opening ceremony (Isabella Sarto-Jackson and Zoltán Nusser)
  2. 09:30 – 10:30Plenary lecture I
    Dentate gyrus circuits for encoding, retrieval and discrimination of episodic memories
    Marlene Bartos (Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Institute for Physiology, Department of Physiology, Freiburg, Germany)
  3. 10:30 – 11:10Coffee break
  4. 11:10 – 12:55
    Symposium I
    Neural control of social behavior
    Chair: Árpád Dobolyi (Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
    • Neural correlates of social decision making in mice
      Shlomo Wagner (Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa, Israel)
    • The control of social behaviours by thalamo-preoptic projections
      Árpád Dobolyi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
    • Early life oxytocin imprinting shapes the normal and pathological social brain
      Françoise Muscatelli (INMED–INSERM, Marseille, France)
    • Sleeping mothers – sleep and wakefulness during the reproductive cycle in female rats
      Attila Tóth (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
    • Functional alterations of cortical networks in a rat model of autism
      Petra Varró (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
  5. 12:55 – 13:55Lunch
  6. 13:55 – 15:40
    Symposium II
    Neuromodulation of neuronal networks in cognition and behavior
    Chairs: Balázs Hangya (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest) & Sarah Melzer (Medical University Vienna, Center for Brain Research)
    • Dopaminergic circuits for perceptual decisions
      Armin Lak (Oxford University, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, UK)
    • Decoding the neuropeptidergic connectome and modulation of learning in C. elegans
      Isabel Beets (KU Leuven, Animal Physiology and Neurobiology, Belgium)
    • Neuropeptidergic modulation of cortical circuits for fear memory
      Sarah Melzer (Medical University Vienna, Center for Brain Research, Austria)
    • A next-generation optical toolkit to study neuromodulatory functions and signaling
      Tommaso Patriarchi (University of Zürich, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Switzerland)
  7. 15:40 – 18:00Posters and coffee (coffee available 15:40 – 16:40)
  8. 18:00 – 19:00Buzsáki lecture
    Mistuned brain circuits and broken mental algorithms: a cross-species approach to psychiatry
    Adam Kepecs (Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, USA)

ThuThursday, 2 February 2023

  1. 09:30 – 10:30Plenary lecture III
    A cross-species approach to the neural basis of empathy and prosociality
    Christian Keysers (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (KNAW) and University of Amsterdam)
  2. 10:30 – 11:10Coffee break
  3. 11:10 – 12:55
    Symposium III
    Computational principles of neural circuits
    Chairs: Wiktor Młynarski (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) & Balázs B. Ujfalussy (Laboratory of Biological Computation, Institute of Experimental Medicine, ELRN, Budapest)
    • Shared computational principles of sensory adaptation and attentional modulation
      Wiktor Młynarski (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg)
    • Geometry of task-representation in the visual cortex
      Gergő Orbán (Computational Systems Neuroscience Lab, Wigner Research Centre, Budapest)
    • Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle for synaptic plasticity
      Jean-Pascal Pfister (Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich; University of Bern, Switzerland)
    • Hierarchical variable representation in the hippocampus supports complex task learning
      Heloisa Chiossi (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg)
    • Neural networks that learn to plan explain human behavior and hippocampal replay
      Guillaume Hennequin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, University of Cambridge, UK)
  4. 12:55 – 13:55Lunch
  5. 13:55 – 15:40
    Symposium IV
    Timing is not everything: medial septum functions beyond theta generation
    Chairs: Viktor Varga (Subcortical Modulation Research Group, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest) & Sanja Mikulovic (Cognition and Emotion Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg)
    • What does medial septum and the song "I like to move it" have in common?
      Sanja Mikulovic (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany)
    • How the brain navigates in space and time: roles and mechanisms of the theta rhythm
      Peter Petersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
    • The medial septum modulates hippocampal oscillations beyond the theta rhythm
      Balázs Hangya (Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest)
    • Novel therapeutic targets for electrical stimulation in epilepsy – the medial septum and beyond
      Antal Berényi (Lendület Oscillatory Neuronal Networks Research Group, University of Szeged, Hungary)
  6. 15:40 – 18:00Posters and coffee (coffee available 15:40 – 16:40)
  7. 18:00 – 19:00
    Plenary lecture IV · Otto Loewi Award Lecture
    Local and systemic regulation of adult neurogenesis
    Noelia Urbán (IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

    Pioneer in Austrian Neuroscience Award 2023
    Alois Saria (Medical University Innsbruck, Austria)

  8. 20:00 – 24:00Gala dinner · Budapest Marriott Hotel

FriFriday, 3 February 2023

  1. 09:30 – 10:30Plenary lecture V
    Immunoception: neuronal representation and regulation of immunity
    Asya Rolls (Rappaport Institute for Medical Research, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa)
  2. 10:30 – 11:10Coffee break
  3. 11:10 – 12:55
    Symposium V
    Oral presentations selected from abstracts
    Chair: Sébastien Couillard-Després (Paracelsus Medical University, Institute of Experimental Neuroregeneration, Salzburg)
    • Transparent, thiol-ene/acrylate-based electrode array for long-term multimodal neuroimaging (Poster ID 159)
      Ágnes Szabó (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest)
    • Rapid retinotopy mapping using functional ultrasound imaging of deep visual cortex in cats (Poster ID 178)
      Ábel Petik (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest)
    • Sculpting adulthood in the brain networks: a novel map of dormant precursor maturation in cortical and subcortical areas (Poster ID 266)
      Marie-Theres Hochwartner (Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg)
    • Functional hemispheric asymmetry of medial habenula is associated with fear expression via modulation of GABAB receptor signaling in mice (Poster ID 306)
      Cihan Önal (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg)
    • Microglia monitor, protect and nurture neurons via somatic purinergic junctions (Poster ID 208)
      Csaba Cserép (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest)
    • Ultrastructural analysis of synapses in the hippocampus of patients suffering from major depressive disorder (Poster ID 334)
      Dávid Csabai (University of Pécs, Szentágothai János Research Centre)
    • Functionally active transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 ion channel is downregulated in the centrally projecting Edinger-Westphal nucleus upon acute alcohol exposure (Poster ID 158)
      Viktória Kormos (University of Pécs, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy)
    • Human cortical cultures and artificial models: understanding individuals with epilepsy (Poster ID 172)
      Christopher Currin (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg)
  4. 12:55 – 13:55Lunch
  5. 13:55 – 15:40
    Symposium VI
    Neural circuits supporting network operations
    Chairs: Bálint Lasztóczi (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna) & Judit Makara (Laboratory of Neuronal Signaling, Institute of Experimental Medicine, ELRN, Budapest)
    • Dendritic Ca2+ spikes support diverse computations by hippocampal pyramidal cells
      Judit Makara (Institute of Experimental Medicine, ELRN, Budapest)
    • Temporal disparity of action potentials triggered in axon initial segments and distal axons in the neocortex
      Márton Rózsa (MTA-SZTE Research Group for Cortical Microcircuits, University of Szeged)
    • Cell-specific wiring routes information flow through hippocampal CA3
      Jake Watson (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg)
    • Pathway specific regulation of information transfer by hippocampal neurogliaform cells
      Bálint Lasztóczi (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
  6. 15:40 – 18:00Posters and coffee (coffee available 15:40 – 16:40)
  7. 18:00 – 19:00Plenary lecture VI
    Neurobiological consequences of early-life stress: from mechanisms to novel approaches for the developmental programming of lifelong health
    Christine Heim (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie)
  8. 19:00 –Closing remarks, announcement of poster prize winners

Plenary speakers

MB

Marlene Bartos

University of Freiburg

Dentate gyrus circuits for encoding, retrieval and discrimination of episodic memories

AK

Adam Kepecs

Washington University · Buzsáki lecture

Mistuned brain circuits and broken mental algorithms: a cross-species approach to psychiatry

CK

Christian Keysers

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

A cross-species approach to the neural basis of empathy and prosociality

NU

Noelia Urbán

IMBA, Austrian Academy of Sciences · Otto Loewi Award lecture

Local and systemic regulation of adult neurogenesis

AR

Asya Rolls

Technion, Haifa

Immunoception: neuronal representation and regulation of immunity

CH

Christine Heim

Charité, Berlin

Neurobiological consequences of early-life stress: from mechanisms to novel approaches for the developmental programming of lifelong health

Symposia

Symposium titleOrganizer(s)
Neural control of social behaviourÁrpád Dobolyi
Neuromodulation of neuronal networks in cognition and behaviorBalázs Hangya & Sarah Melzer
Computational principles of neural circuitsWiktor Młynarski & Balázs Ujfalussy
Timing is not everything: medial septum functions beyond theta generationViktor Varga & Sanja Mikulovic
Oral presentations selected from abstractsSébastien Couillard-Després
Neuronal circuits supporting network operationsBálint Lasztóczi & Judit Makara

Posters

Posters are expected to be mounted on the day of the presentation, before the scientific sessions. Poster sessions run daily from 15:40 to 18:00 on the 2nd floor of the Academy.

Stands are 100 × 200 cm in portrait format and will be numbered in advance. Tools necessary for mounting the posters will be provided on spot by the organizers.

The abstract book was distributed as a PDF download on the original site.

Events

Satellite meeting

HuNDoC 2023

The Hungarian Neuroscience Meeting for Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students and young Post-Docs (HuNDoC) was held as the satellite event of the MITT–ANA 2023 Joint Meeting. It is organized by and for young Hungarian neuroscientists, with its own programme and registration.

Registration

Registration fees

Categoryuntil 1 December 20221 December 2022 – 20 January 2023
MITT / ANA members65 000 HUF75 000 HUF
Non members75 000 HUF85 000 HUF
Students45 000 HUF50 000 HUF
Conference dinner20 000 HUF20 000 HUF
(all including VAT)

Registration fee includes 44 000 HUF (gross) meal cost as well.

Registration fees for active participants include the entry to scientific programs, conference materials, coffee breaks. Students are kindly asked to email a copy of their student's card or a letter signed officially by the Dean's Office to prove their student status to the organizer: info@remedicon.hu

On-line registration closed on 20 January 2023. On-site registration is not possible.

Sponsors / Exhibitors

Thank you to our partners

Silver sponsor

Sable Systems Europe

Bronze sponsor

Femtonics

Exhibitors

Auro-Science
NIT
AM-ST
Unicam
ZEISS

Exhibitors' stands are on the 2nd floor of the Academy, next to the poster area.