Lecture 'Meet the Jury: The role of noradrenaline and astrocytes in the healthy and damaged brain'
- For whom
- Alumni , Press , Students
- When
- 04-11-2025 from 14:30 to 20:00
- Where
- UZ Gent, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Department of Head and Skin - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Contact
- lien.vanhoorne@ugent.be
Session 1 PhD presentations and project update meeting
14:30-14:50 - Drs. Isabeau De Bie: Irradiation of the juvenile mouse brain impairs activity of the locus coeruleusnoradrenergic system
14:50-15:10 - Drs. Maren De Colvenaer: The role of astrocytes in noradrenergic modulation of hippocampal excitability
15:10-15:30 - Dr. Jérôme Wahis: Alpha 1 adrenoreceptors in astrocytes: a key component of noradrenergic neuromodulation
15:30-15:50 - Prof Dr. Dimitri De Bundel: Astrocyte modulation of hippocampal excitability: from synapse to seizure
16:00-16:15 - Coffee break
Session 2
16:15-17:15 - Meet the Expert - Keynote lecture Prof Dr. Gutierrez: From dynamic identities to stable functions: the role of neuron-astrocyte networks in sleep regulation in health and disease
Session 3
18:00-20:00 - Public PhD defense Sielke Caestecker: Role of the locus coeruleus in modulation of hippocampal excitability in the healthy and epileptic brain