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Friday, 27 October



9:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee




9:30

From emotional contagion to decision making


Valeria Gazzola, PhD
Social Brain Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam




10:00

Formalizing the usage of anthropomorphism in comparative cognition


Gabriel Madirolas, PhD
Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA-CBI Toulouse)



10:30

Dynamic representation of appetitive and aversive stimuli in nucleus accumbens neurons


Ana João Rodrigues, PhD
The Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS)
School of Medicine, University of Minho




11:00

Coffee Break




11:30

Albino Oliveira-Maia, MD, MPH, PhD
Champalimaud Research and Clinical Centre, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal.
NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, NMS, FCM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa




12:00

Vicarious reward signals in the VTA drive prosocial choices in rats


Joan Esteve-Agraz
, PhD Candidate
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC-UC)
University of Coimbra




13:00

Lunch




14:30

The Impact of Heartbeats on Cognition and Emotion 


Sarah Garfinkel, PhD
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London




15:00

Sophie Bagur, PhD
Audition Institute, Pasteur Institute



15:30

Maria J. Ribeiro, PhD
CIBIT-ICNAS & FMUC University of Coimbra



16:00

Coffee Break




16:30

Keynote Lecture

Inner workings of microbial membrane proteins and nervous systems


Karl Deisseroth, PhD
Stanford University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute




17:00

Closing Remarks




17:30

Farewell Tea




18:00

Social
Boat tour




19:00

Social
Banquet