Outline of the scientific program

MONDAY 24.10.2022

16:00 – 17:00 Registration

17:15-18:00 Concert

18:00 – 22:00 Opening talk and welcome reception

The Opening talk entitled 'Turning the glass from half empty to half full: neuropsychological mechanisms which could explain rapid acting antidepressant efficacy' will be given by Emma Robinson

TUESDAY 25.10.2022 Chaired by Justyna Hinchcliffe

07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 10:00 Justyna Hinchcliffe 'Methods to assess the emotional states of laboratory rodents and to refine their lifetime experience'

10:00 – 10:45 Junior researcher talks:

· Molly Davidson "The effects of negative trait affect on decision-making under ambiguity"

· Louisa Bierbaum "How do you feel? Measuring emotional states in mice using two different cognitive judgement bias paradigms"

· Katie Kamenish “The effects of amitriptyline on affective biases in rats”

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break 

11:15 – 12:15 Neil Garrett 'Model-based habits'

12:15 – 13:00 Junior researcher talks:

· Daan W. Laméris "Affective responses and behavioural correlates in response to managed fission-fusion events in bonobos (Pan paniscus)"

· Zhen Zhang "Can memory bias be modified through attention and interpretation bias training?  A proof-of-concept study"

· Laila Berroug “Neurobehavioral impairments across sexes following developmental exposure to an Organophosphate Pesticide: Malathion”

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Ciara Greene 'From fake news to false memories: Tracing the consequences of exposure to misinformation'

15:30 – 16:15 Junior researcher talks:

·  Afroditi A. Asimakopoulou "The Role of Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Fake News: A Scoping Review"

·  Maryanne Brassil "The mechanisms of misleading memories: Exploring the cognitive factors that influence eyewitness susceptibility to the misinformation effect." 

·  PhD student

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 17:45 Oliver Robinson 'Translational cognitive and computational perspectives on affective bias in mood and anxiety disorders'

17:45 – 18:30 Junior researcher talk:

· Patrick Mulvaney "An Investigation of the Key Features of VR Social Anxiety Experiences"

· Assim Kalouaz "Awe in virtual reality storytelling: exploring the contribution of priming.

· PhD student

19:00 – open Dinner

WEDNESDAY 26.10.2022 Chaired by Karolina Noworyta

07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 10:00 Rui F. Oliveira 'Optimism/pessimism effects on health and disease in zebrafish'

10:00 – 10:45 Junior researcher talks:

· Xianzong Meng "A seminatralistic enviorment model for testing animals' foraging"

· Fitri Fareez Ramli "Mechanism of ebselen on emotional processing"

· Menghan Sun “Own Serotonin Transporter Genotype increases Anxiety- and Depression-Like Behavior and alters neuroplasticity markers independent of maternal genotype”

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break 

11:15 – 12:15 Johannes Algermissen 'Pavlovian biases in learning and decision-making and how to make adaptive use of them'

12:15 – 13:00 Junior researcher talks:

                · Ping Chen "Effect of striatal dopamine on Pavlovian bias. A large [18F]-DOPA PET study"

· Dasha Anderson "Back to basics: the importance of dose in preclinical psychiatric research"

· Paula Andrés-Herrera “Altered motivated behaviour and neuroinflammation: role of inflammatory pain”

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Ewelina Knapska 'Social learning about threats and rewards'

15:30 – 16:00 Junior researcher talks:

· Sophia Marie Quante "How powerful is a touch? The influence of regular touchscreen training and its termination on hormones and behaviour in mice'  

· Jesus D. Lorente "Uncovering a Dynorphinergic projection of Central Amygdala to Nuclues Accumbens: implications on negative affective states induced by inflammatory pain"

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break 

16:30 – 17:30 Jessie Adriaense 'Evolutionary origins of empathy: comparative research on emotions in birds and primates' 

17:30 – 18:30 Lubor Kostal 'Cognition, affective states and chicken welfare'

19:00 – open Dinner

THURSDAY 27.10.2022 

07:00 – 09:00 Breakfast

9:30 – 18:00 Full day of the trip to the Memorial and Museum of the Auschwitz-Birkenau former nazi concentration camp.

19:00 – open Dinner

FRIDAY 28.10.2022

07:00 – 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 12:00 Departure