Program

Venue: Sunstone Building, Big Seminar Room, ISTA

TimeProgramSpeaker
09:30Arrival & Registration
10:00Welcome AddressPeter Jonas (ISTA, Austria)
Katharina Lichter (ISTA, Austria)
10:10Symposium – Recent Advancements I
(Talks: 25 min + 5 min discussion)
Chairs: Peter Jonas (ISTA)
Katharina Lichter (ISTA, Austria)
10:10-10:40Evolutionary conservation of hippocampal 
mossy fiber synapse properties
Kenneth Pelkey (NICHD/NIH, USA)
10:40-11:10Information coding at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses by regulating presynaptic calcium dynamicsKatalin Toth (University of Ottawa, Canada)
11:10 – 11:40Coffee break (Foyer)
11:40-12:10Kinetic analysis of transmitter release at 
hippocampal mossy fiber synapses
Takeshi Sakaba (Doshisha University, Japan)
12:10-12:40Metabolic constraints of long-term plasticity in the hippocampusStefan Hallermann (University of Leipzig, Germany)
12:40-14:00Lunch Break (Foyer)
14:00-14:45Symposium – Recent Advancements II 
Early career researchers 
(Talks: 7 min + 3 min discussion)
Chair: 
Katharina Lichter (ISTA, Austria)
14:00-14:10Investigating ultrastructural and molecular correlates of short-term facilitation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapsesInes Hojas Garcia-Plaza (MPI-NAT, Germany)
14:10-
14:20
The Ca2+ sensors of synchronous and asynchronous release at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses Silvia Jamrichova (ISTA, Austria)
14:20-14:30Vesicle availability and presynaptic potentiation
at hippocampal mossy fiber boutons
Marta Orlando (Charité University Hospital, Germany)
14:30-14:40Presynaptic mechanisms underlying GABAreceptor-mediated heterosynaptic depression at hippocampal mossy fiber synapsesPeipeng Lin (ISTA, Austria)
14:45-
16:45
SymposiumRecent Advancements IIIChairs: Peter Jonas (ISTA),
Katharina Lichter (ISTA)
14:45-
15:15
Activity-dependent protein synthesis at 
hippocampal mossy fiber boutons
Pablo Castillo (Albert Einstein College of MedicineUS)
15:15-15:45Coffee break (Foyer)
15:45-16:15Calcium-dependent control of multi-site 
glutamate release at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses
Dmitri Rusakov (UCL, UK)
16:15-16:45Fluorescence-based ultraresolution
analysis of synaptic structure
Silvio Rizzoli (University of Göttingen, Germany)
16:45Closing remarksPeter Jonas (ISTA),
Katharina Lichter (ISTA)

Food and drinks are provided throughout the event.