| May 24 | Introductory Session – Chair: Srikanth Ramaswamy | |
| Afternoon | Arrival, Refreshments | |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Welcome | Henry Markram (EPFL) and Srikanth Ramaswamy (EPFL) |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | The dopamine reward signal | Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge) |
| 19:00 – 19:30 | Control of noradrenaline by locus coeruleus circuits | Mriganka Sur (MIT) |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Dinner | |
| May 25 | Morning Session – Chair: Menahem Segal | |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Selective synapse modulation using endogenous release of neuromodulators | Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Controlling GABAergic inhibition through differential modulation and plasticity of distinct inhibitory circuits |
Michael Higley (Yale University) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Inputs to apical dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons in behavior | Randy Bruno (Columbia University) |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | The structure of neuromodulatory axons | Graham Knott (EPFL) |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Dopamine and Acetylcholine Balancing Act in the Striatum | Gilad Silberberg (Karolinska Institute) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Gating striatal dopamine transmission | Stephanie Cragg (University of Oxford) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | The Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System Supports Cortical Network Operations | Laszlo Zaborszky (Rutgers) |
| 11:40 – 12:10 | Panel discussion | |
| 12:10 – 12:20 | Group Photo |
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| 12:20 – 13:30 | Poster session with standing lunch | |
| May 25 | Afternoon Session – Chair: Srikanth Ramaswamy | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Neuromodulatory regulation of excitatory-inhibitory dynamics in the mouse prefrontal cortex |
Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute) |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Oxytocin, cortical plasticity, and maternal behavior | Rob Froemke (NYU) |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Subcortical control of cortical circuits; a neurochemical state space? | Anita Disney (Duke University) |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Activity of hypothalamic goal-directed circuit across brain states | Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern) |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Coffee break | |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Compartmentalized serotonergic modulation of striatal circuits | Raffaella Tonini (Italian Institute of Technology) |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Reward processing by the Dorsal Raphe | Minmin Luo |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Uncovering Heterogeneity in Brain Norepinephrine Circuits | Lindsay Schwarz (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Coordinating form and function in the locus coeruleus noradrenaline system | Josh Johansen (Riken) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Panel discussion | |
| 17:00 – 17:40 | Eight flash talks from selected abstracts | |
| 17:50 and 18:30 |
Departure of shuttles to the Alpine Restaurant Les Marmottes | |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 – 21:30 | Return walk | |
| May 26 | Morning Session – Chair: Anita Disney | |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Neuromodulation of human neocortical microcircuits | Huib Mansvelder (Vrije Universiteit) |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | A data-driven in silico framework to predict cholinergic control of neocortical network states | Srikanth Ramaswamy (EPFL) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Parallelization method of cortico-thalamo-cerebellar circuits toward exascale computing | Jun Igarashi (RIKEN) |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Basal Forebrain Modulation of Adaptive Behavior | Andrea Chiba (University of California, San Diego) |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Panel discussion | |
| 11:10 – 12:00 | Final discussion + feedback | |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 | Departure |
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