2:00 - 6:00 PM Grand Foyer

ICBEM Registration open at Grand Hotel Union

4:00 - 4:20 PM White Hall

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Welcome & Acknowledgements from the Program Committee -  Kelly Drew, PhD & Robert Zorec, PhD
• • Prof. Dr. Gregor Majdič, Rector, University of Ljubljana 
  • Acad. Prof. Dr. Tatjana Avšič Županc, Vice President, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 
• Information about ISN - Caroline (Lindy) Rae, PhD
• Information about ISCBFM - Kelly Drew, PhD
• Welcome from the Organizing Committee & Presentation of the Safety Plan - Nina Vardjan, PhD

4:20 - 4:30 PM White Hall

TRIBUTE TO ARNE SCHOUSBOE - Mary McKenna, PhD

4:30 - 5:30 PM White Hall

PLENARY LECTURE:  Biomarkers and Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Agneta Nordberg, MPharm, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

5:30 - 6:00 PM White Hall

POSTER BLITZ I

Chairs: Kelly Drew, PhD & Gary Yellen, PhD

25 Student and Postdoc Posters: P-01 to P-42 (1 slide/min)

P-01 / P-03 / P-04 / P-06 / P-07 / P-10 / P-14 / P-16 / P-17 / P-19 / P-20 / P-22 / P-24 / P-25 / P-26 / P-27 / P-28 / P-29 / P-30 / P-31 / P-32 / P-33 / P-34 / P-41 / P-42

6:00 - 8:30 PM Garden Hall & uHotel Restaurant

WELCOME RECEPTION & DINNER 

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:00 - 10:00 AM White Hall

SYMPOSIUM 1: Coordination of Neurometabolic and Neurovascular Coupling and Homeostasis of Energy Metabolism in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

Chair: Doug Rothman, PhD     Co-Chair: Marine Tournissac, PhD

• Oxygen imaging of hypoxic pockets in the mouse cerebral cortex - Felix Beinlich, PhD, University of Copenhagen
• Interventions for neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease - Ai-Ling Lin, PhD, Univ. of Missouri, USA

10:00 - 10:30 AM Garden Hall

Refreshment break in poster area

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM White Hall

TRAVEL AWARDEE SHORT TALKS

Chairs: Marko Kreft, PhD and Maya Kaelberer, PhD

Students:

Postdocs:

12:00 - 12:30 pm White Hall

POSTER BLITZ II 

Chairs: Robert Zorec, PhD & Marko Kreft, PhD

25 Student and Postdoc Posters: P-44 to P-82 (1 slide/min)  

P-44 / P-45 / P-46 / P-47 / P-48 / P-51 / P-52 / P-54 / P-55 / P-57 / P-60 / P-61 / P-62 / P-64 / P-66 / P-68 / P-70 / P-73 / P-74 / P-75 / P-77 / P-78 / P-79 / P-90 / P-82

12:30 - 2:00 PM Garden Hall

Lunch Break 

2:00 - 3:30 PM White Hall

SYMPOSIUM 2: In Vivo Imaging Modalities for Study of Neurometabolic and Neurovascular Coupling

Chair: Caroline (Lindy) Rae, PhD     Co-Chair: Aisha Ameen, PhD student

• MRI methods for studying neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling - D.S. Fahmeed Hyder, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, USA
• Homeostatic Modeling of Neuroimaging Data to Obtain Brain Maps of pCO2, pO2 and pH in Aging - Silvia Mangia, PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
• Mass spectrometry imaging reveals brain metabolism during neuronal activation and postnatal development - Elisa York*, PhD, Harvard Brain Science Initiative, USA
  

3:30 - 4:00 PM Garden Hall

Refreshment break in poster area

4:00 - 5:30 PM White Hall

SYMPOSIUM 3: Mitochondrial and Metabolic Alterations and Resilience in Injured and Aging Brain

Chair: Miguel Perez-Pinzon, PhD     Co-Chair: Sarah Kaye, PhD student

• Decreased N-acetylaspartate (NAA) after brain injury: is it a marker of cell loss or altered metabolism? - Susanna Scafidi, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, USA

• Mimicking Arctic ground squirrel resilience to improve outcome following stroke - Neel Singhal, MD, PhD, Univ. of California San Francisco, USA
  
• NAD⁺ mitophagy axis- a target to treat Alzheimer's disease - Evandro F. Fang, PhD, University of Oslo/Akershus University Hospital, Norway
  

5:30 - 7:30 PM uHotel Restaurant

Dinner Break 

7:30 - 9:00 PM White Hall

SPECIAL SESSION: Emerging Therapies for Brain Injury and Regeneration

Chairs: Jon Storm-Mathisen, PhD and Ukpong Eyo, PhD

• Synaptic and metabolic targets for ischemic neuroprotection by conditioning paradigms - Miguel Perez-Pinzon, PhD, University of Miami, USA
  
• The metabolomic landscape of neural repair - YuanQuan Song, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Facilitated Group Discussion - Jon Storm-Mathisen, PhD, Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Susanna Scafidi, PhD

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:00 - 10:30 AM White Hall

SYMPOSIUM 4:  Astrocyte Metabolism in Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Disease

Chair: Jens Andersen, PhD     Co-Chair: Vanessa Budny, PhD student

• Clinical imaging and biomarkers of astrocyte function in Alzheimer's disease - Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  
• Functional consequences of impaired astrocyte metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease - Jens Andersen*, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

10:30 - 12:30 PM Garden Hall

POSTER SESSION 1 / Refreshment break in poster area

12:30 - 2:00 PM Garden Hall

Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 PM White Hall

SYMPOSIUM 5: Microglial Support of Neuronal Metabolism and Role in Neurodegeneration

Chair: Maya Kaelberer, PhD     Co-Chair: Felipe Baeza Lehnert, PhD

• Microglia in brain and microvasculature function - Ukpong B. Eyo*, PhD, University of Virginia, USA

• Microglia-specific metabolic changes in neurodegeneration - Blanca Aldana*, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Microglial fitness in ageing and diseases - Virginia Mela*, PhD,  IBIMA, Spain

3:30 - 4:00 PM White Hall

Facilitated Group Discussion - Moderators: Mary McKenna, PhD, Caroline (Lindy) Rae, PhD

4:00 - 6:00 PM Garden Hall

POSTER SESSION 2 / Refreshment break in poster area

6:00 - 7:00 PM Garden Hall

EARLY CAREER MENTORING SOCIAL 

7:00 - 10:00 PM Bistro Svicarija, Tivoli Park

INFORMAL MENTORING WALK & DINNER

Meet in front of Grand Union Hotel and we will walk together through the Historic Tivoli Park Forest to Bistro Švicarija for dinner.

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:00 - 10:30 AM Grand Union Hall

SYMPOSIUM 6: Neuronal Mitochondria and Disease

Chair: Mary C. McKenna, PhD     Co-Chair: Ignacio Fernandez Moncada, PhD

• Molecular and Structural Adaptations of Brain Energy Supply - Vidhya Rangaraju*, PhD, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA
• Metabolic enzyme compartmentalization for efficient energy generation in neurons - Gülçin Pekkurnaz*, PhD, UC San Diego, USA
• Interactions between lysosomes and mitochondria in neurodegeneration - Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD Northwestern University, Chicago, US

10:30 - 11:00 AM Garden Hall

Refreshment break in poster area

11:00 - 12:30 PM Grand Union Hall

SYMPOSIUM 7:  Lipids and Transporters in Brain Function, Metabolism and Alzheimer's Disease

Chair: Nina Vardjan, PhD     Co-Chair: Nuria Moral, PhD student

• Regulation of astrocytic lipid homeostasis by glutamate - Maria Ioannou*, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
• Essential Astrocytic GLUT1-IR crosstalk in Alzheimer's disease - Maite Solas*, PhD, University of Navarra, Spain
• Metabolic Alterations in Senescence: Mechanisms and Opportunities for Intervention - Chanhee Kang, PhD. Seoul National University, S. Korea 

12:30 - 1:30 PM Garden Hall

Lunch Break 

1:30 - 2:30 PM Grand Union Hall

SYMPOSIUM 8: Metabolic Regulation of Cognition

Chair: Carlos Diaz-Garcia, PhD     Co-Chair: Daniela Rauseo, PhD

• Mitochondrial contributions to cognitive heterogeneity in aging- Sreemathi Logan*, PhD, University of Oklahoma HSC, USA
• Astrocyte-to-neuron H2O2 signaling for memory: a frame for synaptopathy in Alzheimer's disease - Thomas Preat, PhD, ESPCI, France

2:30 - 3:00 PM Grand Union Hall

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Hot Topics and Gaps in Knowledge

Co-Chaira: Mary C. McKenna, PhD, Lindy Rae, PhD and Carlos Diaz-Garcia, PhD

PUBLIC FORUM NETWORKING

7:30 - 10:00 PM Grand Union Hall

GALA RECEPTION & DINNER

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Meet in Grand Union lobby

OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS:  Karst Cave Tour  OR Predjama Castle  

Advance RSVP Required by Sept. 5th; All tours meet up for lunch

2:00 - 3:30 PM

ONE-ON-ONE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES   

These optional informal networking events offer young scientists the opportunity to engage in discussions and consultations with senior scientists and other meeting participants. It's a chance to discuss their research, explore potential collaborations, or seek advice from more experienced scientists.