CoSMOS 2025

The 3rd Edition of the ‘Cognition, Systems, Motion, Oscillation, Social (CoSMOS)’ conference will be held in Poroszló, Hungary (by Lake Tisza) between 20 and 24 Oct, 2025. CoSMOS is an invitation-based conference organized by Sanja Mikulovic (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany) and Balazs Hangya (HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary).
The 3rd Edition will feature the latest results in brain-body interaction, anxiety and learning, as well as the crosstalk of these fields. Besides the plenary lectures, the conference aims to provide an opportunity to students and postdocs to present their work in short talks and receive important feedback from experts, regardless of the stage of their experiments. Invited speakers are encouraged to register students and postdocs from their labs.

Venue:  Fűzfa Hotel és Pihenőpark, Kossuth Lajos Street 81. Poroszló, 3388 Hungary

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Invited speakers:

  • Adam Denes – HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest Hungary
  • Francois Georges – University of Bordeaux, France
  • Erika Gyengesi – Western Sydney University, Australia
  • Karolina Korvasova – Charles University, Prague, Czechia
  • Shih-Chieh Lin – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Andrew McAskill – University College London, United Kingdom
  • Sarah Melzer – Medical University of Vienna, Center for Brain Research, Austria
  • Liron Rozenkrantz –  Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Programme:

October 21, Tuesday

09:00 – 10:20  Andrew McAskill, Sarah Melzer
Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:00 Shih-Chieh Lin, Írisz Szabó, Annamária Benke & Yi-Shih Lee
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:45  Victoria Lyakhova, Réka Kispál, Yahya Sulok & Hanga Dormán, Malek Aouadi, Esmeralda Tafani, Ada Braun

October 22, Wednesday

09:00 – 10:20 Dénes Ádám, Liron Rozenkratz
Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:25 Francois Georges, Gyengesi Erika, Hatice Öztekin
Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:40 Karolina Korvasová, Katarina Studenicova, Moises dos Santos Correa, Anna Agafonova, Nawar Georges, Klaus Rössel

Titles:

Malek Aouadi, N. Solari, J. P. Szabó, B. Király, B. Hangya
Firing rate suppression of the medial septum during spatial working memory maintenance without navigation

Annamária Benke, Yi Shih Lee, B. Király, Í. Szabó, V. Pillár, B. Hangya
Investigating neuromodulator dynamics through a two–armed bandit task experiment using fiber photometry measurements

Hanga Dormán, Yahya Sulok, Í. Szabó, V. Pillár, B. Király, B. Hangya
Neuromodulator dynamics during implicit learning in a deterministic serial reaction time task in mice

Réka Kispál, Í. Szabó, D. Schlingloff, B. Hangya
Investigating the role of major cholinergic cell populations during pavlovian conditioning

Victoria Lyakhova, D. Schlingloff, R. Kispál, Á. Simon, B. Hangya
The Functional Involvement Of Cholinergic Lateral Septum Neurons In Processing
Aversive Stimuli

Írisz Szabó, Anna Velencei, Sergio Martínez-Bellver, Bálint Király, Balázs Hangya
Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Modulate Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Activity

Karolina Korvasova
Inter-areal relationship of high-frequency oscillations

Liron Rozenkrantz
Attention Modulates the Immediate Inflammatory Immune Response in Humans

Shih-Chieh Lin
Attention and Reward Signals in Basal Forebrain GABAergic Neurons

Erika Gyengesi
Astrocytic IL-6-driven neuroinflammation impairs medial septal cholinergic function: protective effects of phytosomal curcumin across the lifespan

Francois Georges
A subset of dorsal raphe dopamine neurons is critical for survival-oriented vigilance

Katarina Studenicova
High-frequency oscillations in the macaque visual areas

Anna Agafonova
Hippocampal Role in Prosocial Memory Formation

Sarah Melzer Peptidergic signaling across cortex

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