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Program

 

Program


September 9th, 2025, at KULeuven, Leuven

8:00-9:00 Registration open (welcome coffee)

9:00 to 9:15 Welcome word by IoNS director Prof. André Mouraux

9:15-10:00 Keynote session, Prof. Sylvie Nozaradan (UCLouvain)
How humans categorize rhythm: a brain that transforms sounds into musical beat and more

10:00-10:30 Coffee break 

10:30-11:30
Advances in neuropsychology diagnosis using XR, Profs. C. Gillebert (KU Leuven) & M. Edwards (UCLouvain) 

  • HEMIRehApp: An immersive virtual reality serious game for the assessment and rehabilitation of post-stroke hemispatial neglect, Prof. Céline Gillebert (KU Leuven)

  • Autoadaptive REASmash: A non-immersive extended reality serious game for the assessment and rehabilitation of visuospatial attention and distractor inhibition, Dr. Gregorio Sorrentino (UCLouvain)
     
  • A COST Action on extended reality neurorehabilitation of spatial neglect and related disorders after brain injury,  Prof. Martin Edwards (UCLouvain)

11:30-12:30
Multimodal electrophysiological approaches for optimisation of neurostimulation techniques in neurologic and psychiatric conditions pathologies, Profs. R. El Tahry & G. Liberati (UCLouvain)

  • Multimodal electrophysiological approach to optimize VNS in epilepsy, Dr. Enrique Germany Morrison (UCLouvain)

  • Modulating neural oscillations to alleviate pain in humans using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, Prof. Giulia Liberati (UCLouvain)

  • A dynamical systems approach to modulating cognitive systems, Dr. Boateng Asamoah (KU Leuven) 

12:30-14:30 Lunch + Poster session

14:30-15:50
Bridging LATE and Alzheimer’s Disease: lessons from neuropathology, Profs. D. Thal (KU Leuven) & B. Hanseeuw (UCLouvain)

  • Clinical breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders: The Leuven-Louvain connection, Prof. Rik Vandenberghe (KU Leuven)

  • Unraveling the causal role of cellular senescence in Alzheimer’s disease pathology: evidence from animal models, Dr. Nuria Suelves (UCLouvain)

  • TDP-43 pathology in ‘pure’ LATE-NC differs from when coexisting with Alzheimer’s Disease, Dr. Sandra Tomé (KU Leuven)

  • How to detect who will decline in the next few years? Deep cognitive assessment to target preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Lisa Quenon (UCLouvain)

15:50-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-17:40

New insights on cellular processes leading to neurodegeneration, Profs W. Annaert (VIB-KU Leuven) & P. Kienlen-Campard (UCLouvain)

  • Unraveling the interactome of presenilin-2/γ-secretase at late endosomes/lysosomes, Dr. Céline Vrancx (KU Leuven)
  • From Pathogenesis to Therapy: Microglial Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease Immunotherapy, Dr. Giulia Albertini (KU Leuven)
  • Unraveling Tauopathy through the Olfactory Gateway, Marion Dourte (UCLouvain)

 

 17:40-18:00 Closing word and award ceremony

 

September 10th, 2025, at UCLouvain, Brussels, Woluwe

8:00-9:00 Registration open (welcome coffee)

9:00 to 9:15 Welcome word by LBI director Prof. Mathieu Vandenbulcke

9:15-10:00 Keynote session, Prof. Henne Holstege (KU Leuven) 
100-plus Study of cognitively healthy centenarians: a molecular exploration of the centenarian brain

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:00
Human brain plasticity, Profs. H. op de Beeck (KU Leuven) & O. Collignon (UCLouvain)

  • Neural reorganization in visual Braille, Filippo Cerpelloni (KU Leuven & UCLouvain)

  • The Effect of expertise on representational geometry in human and artificial brains: The case of chess, Dr. Andrea Costantino (KU Leuven)

  • Going small to get the big picture: Unravelling brain plasticity in blind people using 7Teslas MRI, Marco Barilari (UCLouvain)

    Brain (re)organization following transient early visual deprivation, Stefania Mattioni (KU Leuven & UClouvain & UGent)

  • Brain-based prediction and plasticity in young children with (at risk for) dyslexia, Profs. Maaike Vandermosten (KU Leuven) & Jolijn Vanderauwera (UCLouvain)

12:00-14:00 Lunch + Poster session

14:00-15:50
Interoception and Body Representation in Health and Disease, Profs. G. Liberati (UCLouvain) & J. Van den Stock (KU Leuven)

  • Spatial organization of thermonociceptive processing in the human insula: evidence from intracerebral electroencephalography (iEEG), Aïcha Boutachkourt (UCLouvain & KU Leuven)

  • Exploring the role of interoception in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, Laura Van Hove (KU Leuven)

  • How visual experience shapes body representation, Iqra Shahzad (UCLouvain & KU Leuven) 

Neural basis of social perception: from faces to complex social scenes, Profs. V. Goffaux (UCLouvain) & S. Hagen (KU Leuven)

  • The time-course of category-selective intracerebral neural activity in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex compared to the medial-temporal-lobe, Dr. Simen Hagen (KU Leuven)

  • Fast face-selective responses in prefrontal face patches of the macaque, Dr. Eline Mergan (KU Leuven)

  • Orientation selectivity of face processing: from V1 to category-selective cortex, Prof. Valerie Goffaux (UCLouvain)

  • Social cognition in higher-order cortical brain regions, Dr. Elahe’ Yargholi (KU Leuven)

15:50-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-17:50
TRP channels in pain - from bench to bedside, Profs. T. Voets (VIB-KU Leuven) & E. Hermans (UCLouvain) 

  • Pharmacological targeting of TRP channels to treat pain – facts, failures and future prospects, Prof. Thomas Voets (KU Leuven)
  • TRP channels mutations as susceptibility factors for neuropathic pain, Prof. Roberta Gualdani (UCLouvain)
  • TRPV1 activation mediates noxious effects of acrolein, Prof. Karel Talavera (KU Leuven)
  • Role of TRPV4 in itch sensation, Clara Bourgy (UCLouvain)
  • TRPA1 functionality in the skin after oxaliplatin treatment, Dr. Heleen Marynissen (KU Leuven)

 

17:50-18:10 Closing word and award ceremony

18:15 to 22:00 Social event at Hof Ter Musschen, Woluwe

 
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