HS2022

House Symposium 2022 | November, 17th – 18th

Organizing Committee:

Adriano Tort – Associate Professor, Brain Institute – UFRN
Dráulio Araújo – Full Professor, Brain Institute – UFRN
Comissão de Eventos – Brain Institute – UFRN

Program Booklet 2022

Venue: ICe auditorium

November 17th

14:00 – Opening words (Adriano Tort/Draulio Araujo)

14:15 – ICe directors address (Kerstin Schmidt/Maria Bernardete)

14:30 – “Porque a Terra é plana e você ainda não sabe: Entre a Ciência e o Obscurantismo.” (Sergio Neuenschwander)

15:00 – Movie exhibition: “Eu sou uma arara”, de Mariana Lacerda e Rivane Neuenschwander, 2022 (24 min)

15:30 – Students flash talks

16:00 – Coffee Break & Poster Session

17:30 – Capoeira with Sidarta Ribeiro

November 18th

9:30 – Coffee & Poster Session

Talk Session 1

Moderator: Fernanda Palhano

10:00 – “Dream content and slow EEG oscillations during human sleep predict prey adaptation in a predator-versus-prey videogame” (Daniel Brandão/Sidarta Lab)

10:30 – “How different hypotheses for the mechanism of zika virus entrance in the embryonic CNS help to explain the diversity of phenotypes found in human patients?” (Eduardo Sequerra)

11:00 – “Comparative physiology of adult neurogenesis, why and what for” (Rafael Lima/Richardson Leão Lab)

11:30 – “LSD as creativity booster?” (Isabel Wiessner/Draulio Lab)

12:00-13:30 – Lunch Break 

Talk Session 2

Moderator: Daniel Takahashi

13:30 – “Emotional contagion by observation: is it affected in autism?” (Débora Hashiguchi/Rodrigo Pereira Lab)

14:00 – “Mechanisms and functions of respiration-driven gamma oscillations in the primary olfactory cortex” (Joaquin Gonzalez/Tort Lab)

14:30 – “High-frequency oscillations in epileptogenesis” (Antonio Jhones Rocha/Claudio Queiroz lab)

15:00 – “Loud noise modulates dorsal hippocampal theta oscillations during locomotion”(Katarina Leão)

15:30 – Coffee Break & Poster Session

Talk Session 3

Moderator: Rodrigo Pereira

16:30 – “Functional signatures of the visual interhemispheric circuit” (Kerstin Schmidt)

17:00 – “Delayed vocal development in autism: an experimental approach” (Tarciso Velho)

17:30 – “Integrative biology of marmoset vocal behavior” (Daniel Takahashi)

18:00 – Concluding Remarks/Happy Hour