Program ABC Symposium

9:00 Registration and coffee

9:30 Welcome

9:40 Lecture by prof. dr. Michael Hausser (University College London) Illuminating causal links between neural circuit activity and behaviour

10:25 Lecture by prof. dr. Boudewijn Lelieveldt (Leiden University) How to standardize a brain: data visualization for the Human and Mammalian Brain Atlas project.

11:10 Coffee break

11:30 Entrepreneur session: from academia to the companies.
Patricija Burgar of Phosphoenix What does it take to develop a high-electrode-count brain implant, and what’s it like to do so in a neurotech startup?
Kambiz Nanbakhsh of Salvia Bioelectronics From Lab to Body: Long-Term Design Strategies for Small Bioelectronic Implants

12:00 Dutch Neurotechnology: INTENSE crossover session with researchers from the INTENSE Consortium

1) Samantha Wolff: Introduction to the INTENSE project
2) Maureen van der Grinten (VR simulator of the visual prosthesis (WP1/B)
3) Emily Mo Nipshagen (Decoding moving signals from the motor cortex/AI for paralysis (WP3/B)
4) TBA

13:00 Students poster session + lunch

14:30 Lecture by prof. dr. Gerben Meynen (Utrecht University) Do we need neurorights?

15:15 Lecture by dr. Anneke Alkemade (University of Amsterdam) Mixed methodology in brain imaging

16:00 Coffee break

16:20 Honorary Frijda Lecture by prof. dr. Stéphanie Lacour (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) Advances in Implantable Neurotech for Brain, Spinal Cord, and Peripheral Nerve Interfaces

17:20 Closing + poster award

17:30 Networking event including drinks