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Programme

Sunday, 6 April

16:30-17:30	Arrival and registration
17:30	Welcome ceremony Introduction to the school, general information, and assignment of students to debate teams
18:30	Welcome drinks followed by dinner

Monday, 7 April

9:00–9:45	Douglas Fields Introduction to glial cells
9:45-10:30	Richard Robitaille Excitability of astrocytes: calcium signalling
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Andrea Volterra Gliotransmission
11:45-12:30	Alfonso Araque Specific tools for astrocyte stimulation
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:45	Christian Steinhäuser Methods to study astrocyte heterogeneity
14:45-15:30	Marc Freeman Molecular, cellular, and genetic analyses of Drosophila glial subtypes
15:30-16:20	Student presentations (1-5)
16:20-16:40	Coffee break
16:40-18:30	Student presentations (6-16)
18:30-19:00	Debate preparation 1 Introduction
20:00	Dinner

Tuesday, 8 April

9:00-9:45	Thomas Nevian Imaging astrocytes in the brain with 3D-Ultramicroscopy
9:45-10:30	Frank Kirchhoff Transgenic mouse models for astrocyte and NG2 glia research
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-13:00	Student presentations (17-28)
13:00-14:30	Lunch break
14:30-15:15	Andrea Volterra Anatomical-functional organization of astrocyte-synapse communications
15:15-16:00	Hajime Hirase Methods to study calcium signalling in the brain network in vivo
16:00-16:40	Student presentations (29-32)
16:40-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-17:40	Student presentations (33-36)
17:40-19:15	Debate preparation 2
20:00	Dinner

Wednesday, 9 April

9:00-9:45	Giorgio Carmignoto GABAergic signalling to astrocytes
9:45-10:30	Thomas Nevian Mechanisms of astrocyte mediated synaptic plasticity
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Alfonso Araque Astrocyte modulation of hippocampal plasticity
11:45-12:30	Hajime Hirase Contribution of astrocytic calcium elevation to in vivo synaptic plasticity in the cortex
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00	Departure to Ravenna Return to Bertinoro after dinner

Thursday, 10 April

9:00-9:45	Christian Steinhäuser Distinct astrocytic network communication in the thalamus
9:45-10:30	Marc Freeman Astrocyte morphogenesis and neuron-astrocyte interactions during neural circuit assembly in Drosophila
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Douglas Fields White matter astrocytes
11:45-12:30	Christophe Mulle Functional diversity of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:45	Richard Robitaille Plasticity of Glial Cells and their regulation of synaptic transmission at the NMJ
14:45-15:30	Paola Bezzi Peculiar features of prefrontal cortex astrocytes
15:30-16:00	Maria Marosvölgyi / Product Marketing Engineer FEI Company (formerly TILL Photonics) New solutions to Combine Light and Electron Microscopy efficiently (CLEM)
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-19:00	Debate preparation 3
20:00	Dinner

Friday, 11 April

9:00-9:45	Min Cho (Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience) Publishing 101 in Nature Neuroscience
9:45-10:30	The EMBO Lecture Magdalena Götz Astrocyte heterogeneity in the forebrain - subpopulations with neural stem cell hallmarks within and between regions
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Frank Kirchhoff Properties of astroglial calcium signals: lessons from transmitter receptor-knockout mice
11:45-12:30	Giorgio Carmignoto Exploring the role of astrocytes in brain disorders: the epilepsy case
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-16:00	Debate 1
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-18:30	Debate 2
18:30-19:00	General discussion, Concluding Remarks, Questionnaires
20:00	Farewell dinner

Saturday, 12 April

Departure

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