Invited speakers list

Alberto Bacci (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris, France)
Inhibitory control of cortical microcircuits

Barbara Bardoni (IPMC, Valbonne, France)
Role of interneurons in the pathophysiology of Fragile X Syndrome

Paola Bovolenta (Center for Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain)
Developmental visual disorders

Ana Luisa Carvalho (Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra, Portugal)
AMPA receptor dysfunction in cognitive disorders

Maria Vincenta Catania (Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB) - National Research Council (CNR), Catania, Italie)
mGlu Receptor Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Harnessing Plasticity in the Atypical Developing Brain using Neurostimulation

John Cryan (University College of Cork, Cork, Ireland)
A Gut Feeling About Neurodevelopment: Microbiome & Critical Windows

Mara Dierssen (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain)
Down syndrome

Victor Faundez (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
Synaptic Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Barbara Franke (Donders Institute for Brain, Nijmejen, Netherlands)
From genes to clinical phenotype in ADHD across the lifespan

Jozef Gecz (The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia)
PCDH19 Girls Clustering Epilepsy, a complex neurodevelopmental disorder of cellular mosaics

Rocco Gogliotti (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA)
Pharmacological targeting of muscarinic acetylcholine and metabotropic glutamate receptors in neurodevelopmental disorders

Pierre Gressens (Inserm-Paris University, Paris, France)
Developmental background of neurodevelopmental disorders; potential clinical targets

Yann Herault (CSI /IGBMC, Illkirch, France)
Dyrk1a in neurodevelopment disorders

Brigitte Kieffer (Hôpital Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France)
Opioid receptors and brain function

Nathan E. Lewis (Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, USA)
Unraveling the molecular bases of perturbed neurodevelopment in autism through systems biology

Christophe Mulle (Institut interdisciplinaire de Neurosciences, Bordeaux, France)
Presynaptic plasticity as a component of synaptopathies

Valentin Nägerl (Institut Interdisciplinaire de NeuroSciences, Bordeaux, France)
Super-Resolution Imaging of Brain Plasticity Mechanisms

Maria Passafaro (CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Milano, Italy)
Contribution of GABAergic transmission to synaptic phenotype in PCDH19 Female limited epilepsy

Julie Perroy (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France)
Impaired Molecular Dynamics at synapses in ASD mouse models

Alessandra Pierani (Institute Imagine, Paris, France)
Life and death of transient neurons in the maturation of functional and dysfunctional cortical circuits

Marie-Claude Potier (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris, France)
GABAergic over-inhibition, a promising hypothesis for cognitive deficits in Down syndrome

Orly Reiner (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
Brain Organoids-A Bottom-Up Approach for Studying Human Neurodevelopment

Michèle Studer (Institute of Biology Valrose, Nice, France)
Cortical circuits and synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of a recently-described neurodevelopmental disease

Gabor Tamas (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
What makes us human - specialized and conserved features of the human microcircuit

Peter Todd (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Nucleotide repeats in neuronal function and neurologic disease