CNS*2025 Florence: Program
The full program for CNS 2025 will be available on sched.com.
A preliminary summary version is provided below. Please note that exact timings may still be subject to change.
Saturday July 5th
| 08:00-19:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-17:20 |
Tutorials |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Coffee Break |
| 12:10-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:20-18:30 |
Keynote 1 |
| 18:30-19:30 |
Welcome Reception
(Free entry for all registrants)
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Sunday July 6th
| 08:30-19:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-10:10 |
Keynote 2 |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:40-12:30 |
Oral session 1 |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:30 |
Oral session 2 |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:20 |
Oral Session 3 |
| 17:20-19:20 |
Poster Session 1 |
Monday July 7th
| 08:30-18:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-10:10 |
Keynote 3 |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:40-12:30 |
Oral session 4 |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00-16:10 |
Oral session 5 |
| 16:10-16:40 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:40-18:40 |
Poster Session 2 |
| 19:10 |
Conference Dinner |
Tuesday July 8th
| 08:30-18:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-12:30 |
Workshops |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:20 |
Keynote 4 |
| 15:20 |
Conference Photo |
| 15:20-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:50-16:50 |
Members Meeting |
| 16:50-18:50 |
Poster Session 3 |
| 20:10 |
CNS Party |
Wednesday July 9th
| 08:30-17:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-17:30 |
Workshops |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
Accepted Tutorials
Fariba Karimi
Computational Life Science in the Cloud: Neurostimulation and Bioelectronic Medicine with o²S²PARC & Sim4Life
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Marco Abrate
Modelling Hippocampal Neurons of Animals Navigating in VR with Recurrent Neural Newtorks
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Lida Kanari
Hands-on with the Open Brain Platform
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Subhasis Ray
Multiscale Modelling with MOOSE |
Cosimo Lupo
Getting Started with Cobrawap |
Roman Makarov
Building Intuitive and Efficient Biophysical Models with Jaxley and DendroTweaks |
Charles Lissen
From Single-cell Modelling to Large-scale Network Dynamics with NEST Simulator |
Josè Villamar
Efficient Simulations of Spiking Neural Networks Using NEST GPU |
Filippo Marchetti
The Brain Scaffold Builder - Reconstructions and Simulations: from Single Cells to Circuits at Different Levels of Detail |
Moein Khajehnejad, Forough Habibollahi
Graph-Based Insights into Neuronal Populations: From Traditional to Machine Learning Enhanced Causal Discovery |
Christopher Kim, Remy Yovanno
Training Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks to Generate Experimentally Recorded Neural Activities |
Robert McDougal
Building Mechanistic Multiscale Models with NEURON and NetPyNE |
Accepted Workshops
Zhe Sage Chen, Michael Halassa
BRAIN 2.0: Emerging Research Topics in NeuroAI |
Wilhelm Braun, Kayson Fakhar, Claus Hilgetag
Linking Structure, Dynamics, and Function in Neuronal Networks: Old Challenges and New Directions |
Thorsten Hater, Han Lu
Enabling Synaptic Plasticity, Structural Plasticity, and Mutil-scale Modeling with Morphologically Detailed Neurons using Arbor
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James Pang, Eli Müller
Cross-species Modelling of Brain Structure and Dynamics
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Carmen Canavier
Mechanisms for Oscillatory Neural Synchrony |
Yunliang Zang, Guozhang Chen
Brain-Inspired Computing |
Meysam Hahsemi, Matthieu Gilson
Inference Methods for Neuronal Models: from Network Activity to Cognition |
Marilyn Gatica, Joseph T. Lizier, Abdullah Makkeh, Pedro A.M. Mediano, Michael Wibral,
Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience |
Maksim Bazhenov, Thomas Nowotny, Vassilis Cutsuridis
Brains and AI |
Guillaume Girier, Isa Dallmer-Zerbe, Helmut Schmidt, Jaroslav Hlinka
Computational Strategies in Epilepsy Modelling and Seizure Control |
Sergio Solinas, Egidio D’Angelo, Rosanna Migliore, Paolo Massobrio, Alessia Bonafede
New Vistas in Multiscale Brain Modelling and Applications |
Dr. Nicolò Meneghetti, Dr. Eleonora Russo
Modelling Extracellular Potentials: Principles, Methods, and Applications |
Lorenzo Gaetano Amato, Prof. Alberto Mazzoni
Brain Digital Twins: from Multiscale Modeling to Precision Medicine |
Jie Mei, Nina Hubig, Subham Dey, Claudia Plant
NeuroXAI: Explainable AI for Understanding Biological Brains |
Ioannis Schizas, Dave Boothe, Piotr Franaszczuk, Brittany Story, Vasileios Maroulas
Advancing Mathematical Methods in Neuroscience Data Analysis |
Sara Aton, Michal Zochowski
Neuromodulation, Sleep-dependent Brain Dynamics and Information Processing |
Alberto Vergani, Claudia Casellato
Multiscale Modeling of Electromagnetic Field Perturbations on Neural Activity |
Aurelio Cortese, Abhishek Banerjee, Erin Rich, Silvia Maggi
Understanding the Computational Logic of Predictive Processing: A 25-year Perspective |
Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael Reimann
Bridging Complexity and Abstraction: Large-Scale Mechanistic Models of Brain Circuits from Biophysically Detailed to Simplified Representations |
Andre Peterson, Nima Dehghani
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches Towards Understanding Brain State Transitions |
Michele Giuliano, Simona Olmi, Alessandro Torcini
Population Activity: The Influence of Cell-class Identity, Synaptic Dynamics, Plasticity and Adaptation |
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