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Symposium ‘Inhibition’ Programm 2026 – IN-CODE_allJoin 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 as a short talk.
Registration is now closed, as the maximum number of participants has been reached.
Location
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Address
Hörsaal Physiologie
Herrmann-Herder-Str.7
Freiburg, Germany
Access from the back of the building (see map)
Programm
Opening remarks
Topic 1 – Dynamics of inhibition during learning
Regulatory mechanisms of perisomatic inhibition
The many facets of dendritid and perisomatic inhibition in the dentate gyrus of behaving mice
Neuromodulatory control of hippocampal VIP interneurons during novel experience
10 min each
Topic 2 – Inhibitory circuits for dendritic processing
Dendritic mechanisms shaping activity of CA3 pyramidal neurons during navigation
Cell-type-resolved microcircuit dissection of hippocampal activity
Lunch and posters
Topic 3 - Cross-area signaling
State-dependent inhibition in amygdala circuits
Procognitive restoration of experience-dependent PV IN plasticity in neurodevelopmental disorders
TBA
10 min each
Coffee
Topic 4 - Functional Connectomics
Synaptic transmission in the hippocampal autoassociative CA3 network: From mice to humans, and from experiments to models
Dense, large-scale electron microscopy reconstruction of regions in the hippocampal formation
Molecular mechanisms underlying functional synaptic diversity
TBA
Topic 5 - Human systems and inhibition
A unique coding of memory in the human hippocampus
TBA
10 min each
Coffee
Topic 6 - Structure and connectivity of inhibitory synapses
Direct measurements of coupling distance in the presynaptic active zone
Long- and short-range action of GABAergic cells
Topic 7 - Interneuron development
Evolution shapes cortical interneuron migration
Cortical inhibitory neurons exhibit expanding and contracting modes of diversification
Lunch and posters
Transcription factor stoichiometry as a code for GABAergic neuron fate
Prox1 directs the migration and specification of superficial cortical interneurons
Coffee and picture
Topic 8 - Population coding
Dynamics and plasticity of inhibition from circuits to dendrites in the hippocampus
TBA
Assembly-based computations through contextual dendritic gating of plasticity
Topic 9 - Plasticity and neurological disorders
Interneuron Plasticity in the Recovery from Mood Disorders
TBA
Location
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Address
Hörsaal Physiologie
Herrmann-Herder-Str.7
Freiburg, Germany
Access from the back of the building (see map)