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)

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
Marco Abrate
Modelling Hippocampal Neurons of Animals Navigating in VR with Recurrent Neural Newtorks
Lida Kanari
Hands-on with the Open Brain Platform
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
Foruough Habibollah
Graph-Based Insights into Neuronal Populations: From Traditional to Machine LearningEnhanced Causal Discovery
Christopher Kim
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
James Pang, Eli Müller
Cross-species Modelling of Brain Structure and Dynamics
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
Neuromodulation, sleep-dependent brain dynamics and information processing
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
Jonathan Touboul, Charlotte Piette
Towards Naturalistic Synaptic Plasticity Rules
Michele Giuliano, Simona Olmi, Alessandro Torcini
Population Activity: The Influence of Cell-class Identity, Synaptic Dynamics, Plasticity and Adaptation

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