join 300+ participants from 37 countries & 40 institutions worldwide / register now: don’t miss the regular fee until 3 Oct / detailed programme now available / 4 keynote + 10 invited + 14 selected talks + 2 poster sessions with a total of 73 posters + 1 discussion panel / social programme: scale up your connections beyond the conference /



wed 15

scaling up
thu 16

cybernetic
loops
fri 17

models
and robots


︎  Time in Lisbon (WEST)

fri 17 /  models and robots


morning chair:
I. Memming Park, PhD
Neural Dynamics Lab, Champalimaud Foundation. Lisbon, Portugal
afternoon chair:
Shreya Saxena, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University. Yale, United States


09:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee




09:30

Keynote Lecture
Large-scale pretraining on neural data allows for transfer across individuals, tasks and species


Eva Dyer, PhD

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

11:00

Coffee Break




11:30

Spatiotemporal modeling of cortical cholinergic and calcium signaling dynamics across learning


Josue Ortega Caro, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
Wu Tsai Institute
Yale University, New Haven
Connecticut, USA



11:45

DynaMix: zero-shot inference of dynamical systems


Christoph Hemmer, PhD Candidate
Central Institute of Mental Health
Mannheim, DE

Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, DE



12:00

Panel Discussion

Future of Neurocybernetics


As neuroscience, AI, and robotics increasingly intersect, our community faces a defining question: how should we organize and focus our collective efforts to understand intelligence at scale?
This panel brings together leading researchers and innovators to chart the next directions for neurocybernetics — a field that seeks to connect brains, machines, and environments through shared principles of adaptation and control.


Adrienne Fairhall, PhD
University of Washington

Eva Dyer, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Jesse Marshall, PhD
Meta Platforms Inc
Joe Paton, PhD
Champalimaud Foundation

Sean Escola, MD
Protocol Labs

Moderated by Memming Park, PhD
Champalimaud Foundation



13:00

Lunch




14:30

Srinivas C. Turaga, PhD  
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, Virginia




15:00

Investigating the neuromechanics of animal locomotion using robots and simulations  


Auke J. Ijspeert, PhD

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland




16:00

Coffee Break




17:30

Closing Remarks


The closing remarks will include a presentation by John Krakauer of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology (CRN), followed by the announcement of the Protocol Labs best posters and short talk winners, and a summary of the three-day event highlights by the CRSy chairs.



18:00

Boat Tour – Hippotrip


Explore Lisbon by both land and river in a singular and exciting ride on the amphibious bus, Hippotrip.



19:30

Farewell Dinner and Party (sponsored by Protocol Labs)


Join the CRSy delegates in a farewell dinner at LIV Beato where you’ll be treated to delicious Portuguese cuisine in the relaxed atmosphere of one of Lisbon’s historic neighborhoods.