BCCN Retreat, 2-3 July 2026 in Tutzing

Foto: EA Tutzing

14:00 Welcome by Andreas Herz
14:05 Lorenz Fenk - Connecting Circuits for Vision and Sleep
14:25 Elizabeth Herbert (Gjorgjieva lab) - An inhibitory interneuron handoff drives regime transitions in spontaneous activity in the developing cortex
14:20 Siyuan Mei (Herz lab) - A multi-ring shifter network computes head direction in zebrafish

15:15 Poster Session

16:50 Lukas Hiendlmeier (Wolfrum lab) - 3D-Printed Self-folding Nerve Cuff Electrodes for Chronic Electrophysiology in Small Animals
17:10 Julius Kraut (Hemmert lab) - Hair-bundle adaptation supplies phase alignment for mammalian outer hair cell mo- tion amplification
17:30 Janie Ondracek - Unraveling the mysteries of sleep-related vocal deterioration in songbirds

 

Friday, July 3

09:00 Steffen Schneider - Towards Identifiable World Models
09:20 Felix Waitzmann (Gjorgjieva lab) - An Elephant never forgets: how Elfn1-dependent short-term plasticity shapes SST fear response in PTSD
09:40 Franziska Knolle - When predictions go wrong: Altered predictive language processing across stages of psychosis and its neurobiological basis

10:10 Poster Session

11:45 Eric Schulz - tba

 

Posters

Telemetry reveals rapid duel-driven canary song plasticity in a competitive social environment

Pepe Alcami, Shouwen Ma, and Manfred Gahr

Generation of Gamma Oscillations in E/I Network: Beyond mean-field and steady-state approximations

Michael Alznauer, Abdallah Alashqar, Anton Sirota, and Caroline Geisler

How much information fits in your gaze?

Simon Appoltshauser, Bastian Wiederhold, and Kay Thurley

EEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding

Maryam Bajool and Bernhard U. Seeber

Auditory chunk learning: neuronal mechanisms in human frontoparietal cortex and mouse models

Sàlem Ayasreh Fierro, Xuanyu Wang, and Simon Jacob

Synaptic sub-cellular organisation in pyramidal neurons follows passive dendritic coupling structure supporting branch-specific inhibitory shunting

Ingo Fritz, Na Lu, and Julijana Gjorgjieva

Anticipatory modulation as a unifying principle of sensory coding during locomotion

Jonathan Gant and Wiktor Młynarski

Population-level reorganization during learning amid single-neuron volatility in mouse pre- frontal cortex

Yu-Yang Huang, Leonie S. Mehrke, Tobias W. Bernklau, Laura Busse, and Simon N. Jacob

Geometrical Control of Spontaneous Unidirectional Cardiac Excitation

Ryuya Kida, Mrinalini Gupta, Yuta Tanimura, Bernhard Wolfrum, and Tetsuhiko F. Teshima

Inferring neuronal codes for movement from natural behavior statistics

Vishal Kannan, Tomás Masson, Maximilian Jösch, and Wiktor Młynarski

ISSS-GLM: A toolbox for the first level analysis of non-uniform fMRI data

Viola Matten, Thomas Stephan, Thomas Eggert, and Virginia L. Flanagin

Dual pathway architecture in songbirds enables robust sensorimotor learning

Remya Sankar, Atharv Suryawanshi, Nicolas P. Rougier, and Arthur Leblois

Consistent Representation Learning for Modelling Neuro-Behavioral State Dynamics

Tobias Schmidt, Roridgo González Laiz, Krisztián Szuppinger, and Steffen Schneider

Self-Folding Cuff Electrodes for Vagus Nerve Stimulation in a Canine Model

Defne Tüzün, Lukas Hiendlmeier, George Al Boustani, Tetsuhiko Teshima, and Bernhard Wolfrum

The lattice scales of grid-cell activity Arseniy Veselov*, Anian Kerscher*, Mart

Arseniy Veselov*, Anian Kerscher*, Martin Stemmler, and Andreas V. M. Herz (* equal contribution)

Interplay between Egocentric and Allocentric Navigation During Rapid Spatial Memory Formation in Darkness

Miao Wang, Fabian Stocek, and Anton Sirota

Mental calculation speeds surpass known limits for high-level cognition

Bastian Wiederhold, Martin Stemmler, and Andreas V. M. Herz

Reproducing temporal response properties of the electrically stimulated auditory nerve fiber with a modified LIF model

Julian Wittmann and Bernhard Seeber

Nonstationary dynamics of sensory population codes during active behavior

Augustine Yuan, Hongyu Li, Steffen Katzner, Laura Busse, and Wiktor Mlynarski