<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=""><font color="#201f1e" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">There are still free places at the </span></font><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="">in person symposium</span></div><div class=""><span class="" 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);"><br class=""></span></div><font size="2" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30) !important; background-color: white !important;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">From Cortical Microcircuits to Consciousness</b></span></span></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris, France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11-13 April 2022</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter Senn, Alain Destexhe and Ausra Saudargiene</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Abstract submission</b></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(300 words, for Posters): 15 March 2022</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Registration deadline:</b></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 April 2022</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/education/corticon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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" class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Program at a glance</b></span></a><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Speakers:</b></span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Katrin Amunts | Human Brain Project Scientific Research Director</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie Boly | University of Wisconsin, USA</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stanislas Dehaene | Collège de France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alain Destexhe | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathinka Evers | Uppsala University, Sweden</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wulfram Gerstner | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeanette Hellgren-Kotaleski | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viktor Jirsa | Aix-Marseille University, France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Christof Koch | Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA</span><br class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Matthew Larkum | Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steven Laureys </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">| University of Liège, Belgium</span></div><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"></span>Marja-Leena Linne | Tampere University, Finland</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marcello Massimini | University of Milan, Italy</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucia Melloni | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Germany</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michele Migliore | Institute of Biophysics, Italian National Research Council, Italy</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lars Muckli | University of Glasgow, UK</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos | Inserm, NeuroSpin, France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cyriel Pennartz | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Panayiota Poirazi | IMBB-FORTH, Greece</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Clay Reid | Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Petra Ritter | Berlin Institute of Health, Germany</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pieter Roelfsema | Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ausra Saudargiene | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter Senn | University of Bern, Switzerland</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johan Storm | Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Summerfield | University of Oxford, UK</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marmaduke Woodman | Aix-Marseille University, France</span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><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" class="" style="margin: 0px;"></a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Scientific Committee and Organizers:</b></span><br class=""></div></span></font><font size="2" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30) !important; background-color: white !important;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">Walter Senn</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">| University of Bern, Switzerland</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">Alain Destexhe</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">Viktor Jirsa</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">| Aix-Marseille University, France</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">Marja-Leena Linne</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">| Tampere University, Finland</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">Michele Migliore</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">| Italian National Research Council, Italy</span><br class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;">Ausra Saudargiene</span><span class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 37, 41) !important;"> | Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania</span></div></span></font></body></html>