English version: Diana Taborda
The 8th European Synapse Meeting will be held in Coimbra on the 20th and 21st of October 2022 at the São Francisco Convent. This edition is co-hosted by the Centre for Neurosciences and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra (CNC-UC) and the João Lobo Antunes Institute of Molecular Biology of the University of Lisbon (IMM-UL).
The meeting will bring together neuroscientists from several countries, within and outside the European Union, who study synapses (the communication structures between neurons - the brain cells) in the healthy and diseased brain, with the aim of sharing ideas and gaining a better understanding of information exchange in the brain.
The meeting will bring together junior and senior neuroscientists from several countries, within and outside the European Union, who work on synapses and to provide a forum for new directions and ideas in studying synapses in the healthy and diseased brain. The meeting welcomes participation from scientists within and outside the EU and will combine research lectures by leading neuroscientists, selected talks and poster presentations.
The program will provide multiple opportunities for interaction, during the poster sessions, lunch time and coffee breaks, providing an opportunity for disseminating the latest advances and for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration. The meeting will be held at the São Francisco Convention Center in Coimbra, a unique setting that combines history and the best of the Portuguese architecture, and which will certainly contribute to inspire your future research and foster partnerships to address novel and challenging questions.
The scientific event includes lectures by leading neuroscientists, including Gordon Fishell, from Harvard Medical School (USA), and Rosa Cossart, from the Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (France). The program will provide multiple opportunities for interaction, during the poster sessions, lunch time and coffee breaks, providing an opportunity for disseminating the latest advances and for cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration.
Ana Luísa Carvalho, chair of the organizing committee, researcher at the CNC-UC and professor at the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the UC (DCV/FCTUC) explains that “the meeting gathers scientists interested in understanding how the exchange of information between brain cells occurs (synapse), how this process contributes to information storage in the brain and how it is at the root of behaviour. Changes in brain communication are the basis of neuropsychiatric diseases"
More information available at: https://esm-coimbra2022.cnc.uc.pt.