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

John J. Foxe (University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry & Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Neuroscience)
Sigrid März (Freelance Science Journalist, Münster)
Moonstone,
room G
10:00 – 12:00Symposium
How do we explain our results and what does this tell us about our understanding of neuroscience?

Isabella Sarto-Jackson (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg) 
Marie Kaiser (Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University)
Irena Dajic (Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna)
Jie Mei (Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Linz)
Markus Kunze (Department of Pathobiology of the Nervous System, Medical University of Vienna)
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)