Brain & Mind Symposium 2025

06.11.2025 08:30 - 07.11.2025 17:10

Small Hall, Main Building, University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki

Thursday 6th of November 2025

8:30 – 8:45 Opening words

MODULE I : INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE 

8:45 – 9:30 Keynote speaker: Alberto Gallace (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy): “Virtual reality technology for the study of sensory-motor brain plasticity”

9:30 – 10:00 Stephane Deny (Aalto University, Finland): “Neural models of mental rotation”.

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:15 Keynote speaker: Per Kristian Eide (Oslo University Hospital, Norway): “Extra-vascular solute transport in human brain”. 

11:15 – 11:45 Pau Puigdevall (University of Helsinki, Finland): “An in vivo and in vitro spatiotemporal profile of human midbrain development”.

11:45 – 12:00 2 x Short Talks Selected from Abstracts 

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

MODULE II : NEUROPSYCHIATRY

13:00 – 13:45 Keynote speaker: Pascale Chavis (INMED, France): “Sex differences in developmental vulnerability to neuropsychiatric diseases”

13:45 – 14:00 2 x Short Talks Selected from Abstracts 

14:00 – 15:15 Coffee break and poster session I 

15:15 – 15:45 Juha Gogulski (Aalto University, Finland): “Using TMS-EEG and sensory stimulation to enhance neural plasticity”.

15:45 – 16:05 Tuomo Noppari (Helsinki University Hospital, Turku PET centre, Finland): “Autism and Psychopathy: Imaging Two Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders”.

16:05 – 17:15 Discussion event on the future of neuroscience education in Finland 

17:15 – 17:30 Closing words

18:00 – 23:00 DINNER at Restaurant Block by Dylan

Friday 7th of November 2025

MODULE III :  INNOVATIVE METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCE

8:55 – 9:00 Opening words

9:00 – 9:45 Keynote speaker : Shigeaki Kanatani (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden): “TRISCO: Whole-brain spatial RNA imaging at single-cell resolution”.

9:45 – 10:15 Sarka Lehtonen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland): “Next-Generation Human Models for Mechanistic Dissection of Synucleinopathies”. 

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 11:05 Mia Liljeström (Aalto University, Finland): “Using normative modeling for detecting mild traumatic brain injury from MEG data”. 

11:05 – 11:25 Vilma Lammi (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Harnessing FinnGen in collaboration with other large registry registry data sets to tackle complex disorders like long COVID”

11:25 – 11:45 2 x Talks Selected from Abstracts 

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch

MODULE IV : NEURODEGENERATION AND REGENERATION

12:45 – 13:30 Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir (University of Cambridge, UK): “Regenerative plasticity: neuroprotection and remyelination”.

13:30 – 13:45 2 x Talks Selected from Abstracts 

13:45 – 15:00 Coffee break and poster session II 

15:00 – 15:30 Tarja Malm (University of Eastern Finland, Finland): “A window to the brain: How early AD-related pathology alters the function of human neurons”.

15:30 – 16:00 Hanna Renvall (Helsinki University Hospital, Finland): “Time-resolved tracking of neuronal activity combined with artificial intelligence: Tools for predicting dementia risk”.

16:00 – 17:00 Career panel discussion

      • Olli Pietiläinen, University of Helsinki 
      • Andrea Dichlberger, Helsinki Innovation Services
      • Otto Kari, Valo Therapeutics / University of Helsinki
      • Johanna Huupponen, Bayer

17:00 – 17:10 Closing words

Find out more on the website: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/bm-symposium2025/