Cells, Circuits, and Cognition: Celebrating 25 years of ENI-G research

25 Jun 2026, 13:00 → 26 Jun 2026, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

City Campus/1-1 - Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Max Planck City Campus)

Join us in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the institute’s official opening at our symposium.

Thursday 25 June

13:30 → 13:35 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Nils Brose

13:35 → 14:50 ENI Talks: Neural Circuit Computations

13:35 Understanding neural computations through the eye of a fly

Speaker: Prof. Marion Silies

14:00 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Jan Clemens

14:25 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Caspar Schwiedrzik

14:50 → 15:15 Break - Networking

15:15 → 15:30 Opening Remarks

Speakers: Prof. Wolfgang Brück, Prof. Erwin Neher

15:30 → 16:45 Diethelm Richter memorial

15:30 Music by Duo Violinissimo

15:45 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Evgeni Ponimaskin

16:15 The maieutics and Dr Diethelm Richter, Dr Erwin Neher, and Dr Walter Stühmer

Speaker: Prof. Cornelius Frömmel

16:30 Music by Duo Violinissimo

16:45 → 17:15 Break - Networking

17:15 → 18:15 Keynote Lecture: The Neurobiology of Body-Brain Communication

Speaker: Prof. Ivan de Araujo

18:15 → 18:30 Group Picture

18:30 → 19:00 Break - Transfer

19:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 26 June

09:00 → 10:15 ENI Talks: Circuits in Learning and Cognition

09:00 Memory-efferent pathways and the role of recurrent action feedback

Speaker: Dr Oliver Barnstedt

09:25 Exploring the role of the higher order thalamus in cognition

Speaker: Prof. Jorge Jaramillo

09:50 Modulation of neural function by experience in alternate social realities

Speaker: Dr Frederic Römschied

10:15 → 10:45 Break - Networking

10:45 → 12:00 ENI Talks: Sensorimotor Transformations and Metabolic Circuits

10:45 TBA

Speaker: Dr Thomas Frank

11:10 Hypothalamic Control of Behaviour in Health and Disease

Speaker: Dr Anne Petzold

11:35 β-Cell Collectives as Nutrient-Integrating Metabolic Circuits

Speaker: Prof. Marjan Rupnik

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

12:00 → 14:00 Poster Session

14:00 → 15:15 ENI Talks: Molecular Mechanisms in Neuron Physiology and Pathology

14:00 Towards improving organellar acidification and genome stability in the ageing brain

Speaker: Prof. Ira Milosevic

14:25 RNA-dependent regulation of epigenetic processes: Expanding the druggable space in neurodegenerative disorders

Speaker: Prof. André Fischer

14:50 After 10 years of Dlk1 it's time to kick it up a Notch

Speaker: Prof. Till Marquardt

15:15 → 15:45 Break Networking

15:45 → 17:25 ENI Talks: Synapses

15:45 Presynaptic metabolism

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Hallermann

16:10 Diversity at Synapses: Coworking of plasticity and stability

Speaker: Prof. Oliver Schlüter

16:35 Imaging the synapse at the nanoscale

Speaker: Prof. Silvio Rizzoli

17:00 Takeoff at the ENI: A Crash Pilot’s Journey

Speaker: Prof. Stephan Sigrist

17:25 → 18:30 Informal get-together