DATE: 01 – 04 October 2023

Location: Landhotel Am Rothenberg, Volpriehausen

This meeting follows the tradition of the Channelrhopsin and SPP1926 Optogenetics meetings and strives to gather the optogenetics community and facilitate collaborations. It has been made possible by funding contributed by Göttingen CRCs and MBExC. We are very excited about the list of already confirmed speakers (see below) and will cover the whole spectrum of tool development to control and image cellular behaviour and their applications in bacteria, eukaryotic cells, organs like the heart and brain to the translation of optogenetic approaches into clinics.

If you want to apply for posters, please send an email to: ed.cxebm@3202scitenegotpo

Confirmed speakers:
Edward Boyden, Lukasz Bugaj, Deniz Dalkara, Sevil Duvarci, Emilia Entcheva, Alexander Gottschalk, Werner Hemmert, Sonja Kleinlogel, Stéphanie Lacour, Emilie Macé, Thomas Oertner, Botond Roska, Leonardo Sacconi, Jeffrey Tabor, Wilfried Weber

The hotel is fully booked, but participants can still join on a daily basis but have to find accommodation on their own.

To register for the meeting, please send an email to: ed.cxebm@3202scitenegotpo.

For further information please visit the meeting website: http://optogenetics2023.uni-goettingen.de

Here you find the PDF of the tentative program:
and the announcement poster:

We are looking forward to welcome you in Volpriehausen in fall 2023!

On behalf of the entire organizing team,

Tobias Brügmann, Andreas Möglich and Tobias Moser

The MBExC Line of Research 2 “Multiscale approaches to heart and brain” will meet monthly every last Thursday.

Moderators: Jan Huisken and Sarah Köster

Location: SR15, (F.00.121) Physics Department, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen
Link: https://www.geodata.uni-goettingen.de/lageplan/?ident=1440_1_EG_F.00.121

Prof. Dr. Johannes Letzkus from the Institute for Physiology I, University of Freiburg will talk about “Top-down control of neocortical threat memory”

Abstract
Accurate perception of the environment is a constructive process that requires integration of external bottom-up sensory signals with internally-generated top-down information reflecting past experiences and current aims. Decades of work have elucidated how sensory neocortex processes physical stimulus features. In contrast, examining how memory-related top-down information is encoded and integrated with bottom-up signals has long been challenging. Here, I will discuss our recent work identifying the outermost layer 1 of neocortex as a central hotspot for processing of experience-dependent top-down information during threat perception, one of the most fundamentally important forms of sensory perception.

Chairs: Tobias Moser and Thomas Mager

The MBExC Line of Research 2 “Multiscale approaches to heart and brain” will meet monthly every last Thursday in the lecture hall of the MPI-NAT City Campus.

LoR2 Moderators: Jan Huisken and Sarah Köster

The MBExC Research Alliance 3.1, 3.2 and 3.2 will meet in the lecture hall of the MPI-NAT City Campus.

Moderators: Stephan Lehnart, Tobias Moser and Silvio Rizzoli