<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dear all</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We would like to invite to the in person symposium</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30) !important; background-color: white !important;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From Cortical Microcircuits to Consciousness</b></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">11-13 April 2022</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The Symposium aims at bringing together neuroscientists from the Human Brain Project and invited guests to present their latest achievements in understanding cortical circuits at various scales, including the emergence of consciousness. The involvement of neuronal and neuroglial cells in brain functioning, memory, learning, cognition and consciousness in health and disease will be discussed from the experimental and theoretical perspective.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The Symposium will also address neuroethics and neurophilosophy with links to society in a public key note, followed by a panel discussion by experts. Talks will be recorded and later put online.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">It will also offer a hands-on session on The Virtual Brain, the platform of EBRAINS for constructing and simulating personalised brain network models. EBRAINS is the European research infrastructure for gathering, processing and simulating brain data.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">We hope to see many of you in Paris at the Institut Catholique de Paris, close to Jardin du Luxembourg, in April 2022.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Walter Senn, Alain Destexhe and Ausra Saudargiene</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Abstract submission</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">(300 words, for Posters): 15 March 2022</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Registration deadline:</b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">6 April 2022</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/education/corticon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/education/corticon/</span></a><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io/public-website-production/filer_public/9c/13/9c13c38d-89b9-4300-b496-a9d32fa86bab/programme_at_a_glance.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io/public-website-production/filer_public/9c/13/9c13c38d-89b9-4300-b496-a9d32fa86bab/programme_at_a_glance.pdf" style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Program at a glance</b></span></a><br class=""><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Speakers:</b></span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Katrin Amunts | Human Brain Project Scientific Research Director</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Melanie Boly | University of Wisconsin, USA</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Stanislas Dehaene | Collège de France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Alain Destexhe | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kathinka Evers | Uppsala University, Sweden</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Wulfram Gerstner | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Jeanette Hellgren-Kotaleski | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Viktor Jirsa | Aix-Marseille University, France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Christof Koch | Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Matthew Larkum | Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Marja-Leena Linne | Tampere University, Finland</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Marcello Massimini | University of Milan, Italy</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Lucia Melloni | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Germany</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Michele Migliore | Institute of Biophysics, Italian National Research Council, Italy</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Lars Muckli | University of Glasgow, UK</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos | Inserm, NeuroSpin, France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Cyriel Pennartz | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Panayiota Poirazi | IMBB-FORTH, Greece</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Petra Ritter | Berlin Institute of Health, Germany</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Pieter Roelfsema | Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ausra Saudargiene | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Walter Senn | University of Bern, Switzerland</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Johan Storm | Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Chris Summerfield | University of Oxford, UK</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Marmaduke Woodman | Aix-Marseille University, France</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io/public-website-production/filer_public/9c/13/9c13c38d-89b9-4300-b496-a9d32fa86bab/programme_at_a_glance.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io/public-website-production/filer_public/9c/13/9c13c38d-89b9-4300-b496-a9d32fa86bab/programme_at_a_glance.pdf" style="margin: 0px;" class=""></a></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Scientific Committee and Organizers:</b></span><br class=""></div></span></font><font size="2" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30) !important; background-color: white !important;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">Walter Senn</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">| University of Bern, Switzerland</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">Alain Destexhe</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">Viktor Jirsa</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">| Aix-Marseille University, France</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">Marja-Leena Linne</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">| Tampere University, Finland</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">Michele Migliore</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">| Italian National Research Council, Italy</span><br class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class="">Ausra Saudargiene</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;" class=""> | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania</span></div></span></font></body></html>