2:00 - 6:00 PM

ICBEM Registration open

4:00 - 4:20 PM

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Welcome
• • Prof. Dr. Gregor Majdič, Rector, University of Ljubljana 
  • Acad. Prof. Dr. Tatjana Avšič Županc, Vice President, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 
• Presentation of the Safety Plan
• Acknowledgment of Sponsors
• Information about the International Society for Neurochemistry, and the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

4:20 - 4:30 PM

TRIBUTE TO ARNE SCHOUSBOE

4:30 - 5:30 PM

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

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

5:30 - 6:00 PM

POSTER BLITZ (20) pitches of student and postdoc posters

6:00 - 8:30 PM

WELCOME RECEPTION & DINNER

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:00 - 10:00 AM

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: student/postdoc TBD

• 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, University of Missouri, USA
  

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Refreshment break in poster area

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

TRAVEL AWARDEE SHORT TALKS

Chairs: Ami Raval, PhD, Maya Kaelberer, PhD

1. Functional Metabolic Mapping Shows Preferential Metabolism of Butyrate over Acetate in Mouse Astrocytes - Aisha Ameen, University of Copenhagen
2. Activity-dependent energy metabolism in the presynapse - Felipe Baeza Lehnert, University of Leipzig
3. The role of apolipoprotein e (APOE) isoforms in neural energy metabolism - Vanessa Budny, University of Zurich
4. Whether neurons use lactate or glucose is determined by extracellular lactate, not by energy demand - Yasna Contreras Baeza, Universidad Austral de Chile
5. A lactate-dependent shift of glycolysis mediates synaptic and cognitive processes - Ignacio Fernandez Moncada, INSERM
6. Targeting Mitochondrial Calcium Overload in Alzheimer’s Disease - Sarah Kaye, Wake Forest University
7. Lessons learned from Lafora disease: role of glycogen metabolism in GABAergic neurons in epilepsy - Nuria Moral, Institut Químic de Sarrià
8. Lactate-mediated Mitochondrial Energy Overflow - Daniela Rauseo, CECs
9. Neurovascular coupling and briefCO2 interrogate distinct vascular regulations - Marine Tournisac, INSERM

12:00 - 12:30 pm

POSTER BLITZ (10) pitches of student and postdoc posters

12:30 - 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 PM

SYMPOSIUM 2: In vivo imaging modalities for study of neurometabolic and neurovascular coupling

Chair: Lindy Rae, PhD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• 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

Refreshment break in poster area

4:00 - 5:30 PM

SYMPOSIUM 3: Mitochondrial and metabolic alterations and resilience in injured and aging brain

Chair: Bill Shuttleworth, PhD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• Alterations in fatty acid and ketone metabolism after brain injury - Susanna Scafidi, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, USA
• Mimicking Arctic ground squirrel resilience to improve outcome following stroke - Neel Singhal, MD, PhD, University 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

Dinner Break

7:30 - 9:00 PM

SPECIAL SESSION: Emerging therapies for brain injury and regeneration

Chairs: Jon Storm-Mathisen, PhD and Phil Lee, PhD

• Exercise as a treatment to reverse cognitive impairment after cerebral ischemia - Miguel Perez-Pinzon, PhD, University of Miami, USA
  
• The metabolomic landscape of neural repair - YuanQuan Song, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  
• Facilitated Group Discussion
  

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:00 - 10:30 AM

SYMPOSIUM 4:  Astrocyte metabolism in Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative disease

Chair: TBD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• 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

POSTER SESSION 1 / Refreshment break in poster area

12:30 - 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 - 4:00 PM

SYMPOSIUM 5: Microglial support of neuronal metabolism and role in neurodegeneration

Chair: Maya Kaelberer, PhD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• 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
• Facilitated Group Discussion
  

4:00 - 6:00 PM

POSTER SESSION 2 / Refreshment break in poster area

6:00 - 7:00 PM

EARLY CAREER MENTORING SOCIAL / Location TBD

7:00 - 10:00 PM

INFORMAL MENTORING WALK & DINNER

Explore the Historic Tivoli Park Forest area, followed by Dinner

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:00 - 10:30 AM

SYMPOSIUM 6: Neuronal mitochondria and disease

Chair: Mary C. McKenna, PhD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• Molecular Adaptations of Brain Energy - 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
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10:30 - 11:00 AM

Refreshment break in poster area

11:00 - 12:30 PM

SYMPOSIUM 7:  Lipids and transporters in brain function, metabolism and Alzheimer's disease

Chair: Nina Vardjan, PhD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• 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

Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30 PM

SYMPOSIUM 8: Metabolic regulation of cognition

Chair: Carlos Diaz-Garcia, PhD     Co-Chair: student/postdoc TBD

• 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

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Hot topics and gaps in knowledge

Chair: Mary C. McKenna, PhD    Co-Chair: Carlos Diaz-Garcia, PhD

7:00 - 9:30 PM

GALA DINNER

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast at your hotel

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM

OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS:     Click here for details

Karst Cave Tour  / Predjama Castle / Lipica Stud Farm (Min. 25ppl per tour; All tours meet up for lunch)

2:00 - 3:30 PM

ONE-ON-ONE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY

This optional informal networking event will 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.