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

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Nils Brose

ENI Talks: Neural Circuit Computations

2 Understanding neural computations through the eye of a fly

Speaker: Prof. Marion Silies

3 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Jan Clemens

4 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Caspar Schwiedrzik

14:50 Break - Networking

5 Opening Remarks

Speakers: Prof. Wolfgang Brück, Prof. Erwin Neher

Diethelm Richter memorial

6 Music by Duo Violinissimo

7 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Evgeni Ponimaskin

8 The maieutics and Dr Diethelm Richter, Dr Erwin Neher, and Dr Walter Stühmer

Speaker: Prof. Cornelius Frömmel

9 Music by Duo Violinissimo

16:45 Break - Networking

10 Keynote Lecture: The Neurobiology of Body-Brain Communication

Speaker: Prof. Ivan de Araujo

18:15 Group Picture

18:30 Break - Transfer

19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 26 June

ENI Talks: Circuits in Learning and Cognition

11 Memory-efferent pathways and the role of recurrent action feedback

Speaker: Dr Oliver Barnstedt

12 Exploring the role of the higher order thalamus in cognition

Speaker: Prof. Jorge Jaramillo

13 Modulation of neural function by experience in alternate social realities

Speaker: Dr Frederic Römschied

10:15 Break - Networking

ENI Talks: Sensorimotor Transformations and Metabolic Circuits

14 TBA

Speaker: Dr Thomas Frank

15 Hypothalamic Control of Behaviour in Health and Disease

Speaker: Dr Anne Petzold

16 β-Cell Collectives as Nutrient-Integrating Metabolic Circuits

Speaker: Prof. Marjan Rupnik

12:00 Lunch Break

Poster Session

ENI Talks: Molecular Mechanisms in Neuron Physiology and Pathology

17 Towards improving organellar acidification and genome stability in the ageing brain

Speaker: Prof. Ira Milosevic

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

Speaker: Prof. André Fischer

19 After 10 years of Dlk1 it's time to kick it up a Notch

Speaker: Prof. Till Marquardt

15:15 Break Networking

ENI Talks: Synapses

20 Presynaptic metabolism

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Hallermann

21 Diversity at Synapses: Coworking of plasticity and stability

Speaker: Prof. Oliver Schlüter

22 Imaging the synapse at the nanoscale

Speaker: Prof. Silvio Rizzoli

23 Takeoff at the ENI: A Crash Pilot’s Journey

Speaker: Prof. Stephan Sigrist

17:25 Informal get-together