Inhibitory Neurons

From Synapses and Microcircuits to Behavior

08/10/2026

09/10/2026

Join us in Freiburg for the Symposium “Inhibitory Neurons: From Synapses and Microcircuits to Behavior,” hosted by IN-CODE (SFB/TRR384) in collaboration with the Austrian Cluster of Excellence “Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease.”

Over two intensive days, leading international researchers will explore how diverse inhibitory interneuron types regulate synaptic integration, shape microcircuit dynamics, and coordinate population activity to enable perception, cognition, and behavior.

The symposium aims to provide an engaging forum for exchanging ideas, building new collaborations, and presenting state-of-the-art approaches to dissecting inhibitory circuits from molecules and synapses to complex behaviors, with scientists at all career stages warmly invited to participate and to present their work during the poster session or short talk.

 


Symposium places are limited, so please register soon; early registration is preferred to help us with planning and setup.

Location

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Address

Hörsaal Physiologie
Herrmann-Herder-Str.7
Freiburg, Germany

Access from the back of the building (see map)

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Programm

Thursday · 8 Oct 2026

08:30–08:45

Welcome coffee

08:45–09:00

Opening remarks

Bartos / Geiger / Harkany

Topic 1 – Dynamics of inhibition during learning

Johannes Letzkus · Freiburg, Germany

09:00–09:30

Ivan Soltesz · Stanford, US

09:30–10:00

Marlene Bartos · Freiburg, Germany

10:00–10:30

Lisa Topolnik · Laval, Canada

10:30–11:00

Two student talks

10 min each

11:00–11:30

Coffee

Topic 2 – Inhibitory circuits for dendritic processing

Matthew Larkum · Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

11:30–12:00

Jeff Magee · Baylor College of Medicine, US

12:00–12:30

Judit Makara · HUN-REN, Budapest, Hungary

12:30–14:00

Lunch and posters

Topic 3 - Cross-area signaling

Silvia da Silva · DZNE, Berlin, Germany

14:00–14:30

Andreas Lüthi · FMI Basel, Switzerland

14:30–15:00

Liset Menendez de la Prida · Madrid, Spain

15:00–15:30

Amar Sahay · Harvard, US

15:30–16:00

Macarico da Costa · Allen Brain Institute, US

16:00–16:30

Coffee

Topic 4 - Functional Connectomics

Imre Vida · Charité Berlin, Germany

16:30–17:00

Peter Jonas · IST Austria

17:00–17:30

Zhihao Zheng · Princeton, US

17:30–18:00

Zoltán Nusser · HUN-REN, Budapest, Hungary

18:00–18:30

Renata Batista-Brito · Albert Einstein College, US

Friday · 9 Oct 2026

08:00–08:30

Coffee

Topic 5 - Human systems and inhibition

Jonas Sauer · Homburg, Germany

08:30–09:00

Rodrigo Quiroga · Leicester, UK

09:00–09:30

Chris McBain · NIH, US

09:30–10:00

Two student talks

10 min each

10:00–10:30

Coffee

Topic 6 - Structure and connectivity of inhibitory synapses

Tibor Harkany · Medical University of Vienna, Austria

10:30–11:00

Shigeki Watanabe · Johns Hopkins, US

11:00–11:30

Ryuichi Shigemoto · IST Austria

11:30–13:00

Lunch and posters

Topic 7 - Interneuron development

Simon Hippenmeyer · IST Austria

13:00–13:30

Laurent Nguyen · University of Liège, Belgium

13:30–14:00

Lynette Lim · VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium

14:00–14:30

Christian Mayer · MPI Biological Intelligence, Germany

14:30–15:00

Gordon Fishell · Harvard, US

15:00–15:30

Coffee and picture

Topic 8 - Population coding

Hannah Monyer · Heidelberg, Germany

15:30–16:00

Attila Losonczy · Dallas, US

16:00–16:30

Henning Sprekeler · TU Berlin, Germany

16:30–17:00

Julijana Gjorgjieva · TU Munich, Germany

17:00–17:30

Coffee

Topic 9 - Plasticity and neurological disorders

Marlene Bartos · Freiburg, Germany

17:30–18:00

Eero Castrén · Helsinki, Finland

18:00–18:30

Magdalena Götz · TU Munich, Germany

18:30–19:00

Gaia Novarino · IST Austria

Location

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Address

Hörsaal Physiologie
Herrmann-Herder-Str.7
Freiburg, Germany

Access from the back of the building (see map)

openstreetmap.org