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Open Science Events:
    Speaker: Kiki Sidiropoulou, Marie Curie Researcher’s night 2024

     Δίκτυα παντού! Γεφυρώνοντας τη Φυσική & την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη (in GR); FORTH Open Science Our Future, Speaker: Maria Papadopouli, H2B Hub, March 8th, 2023, Heraklion

    Crossing Boundaries, Connecting Things, from the Internet to the Brain; Speaker: Maria Papadopouli, Women in Business, March 24th, 2022, Heraklion

1. AREADNE Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles, June 2022
2. 15-th Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Conference, Xanthi, April 2024
3. EAI ValueTools Keynote talk, Heraklion 6-8 September 2023
4. Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies, Workshop on AI, Athens, July 2023
5. Archimedes Research Center: Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences, Summer School. Athens, Greece, July 13, 2023
6. 4-th Panhellenic Conference in Neuroanatomy, Heraklion October 2024
7. 14-th Panhellenic Conference of the Panhellenic Union of Bioscientists, December 20-22, Athens

Speaker: Stelios Smirnakis

1. Stepping up on the Ladder of Cortical Circuit Organization: from single units to multi-neuronal assemblies. Workshop Organizer. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference On Neural Plasticity, WCNP2020, St Kitts and Nevis, Caribbean, 2/8/2020.   
2. Introduction to Optical Methods for Dissecting Functional and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. Molecular Medicine Program. University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Crete, Greece March 19/2021.  
3. Optical Methods for Interrogating Neural Circuit Function. Biological Networks Course, Prof. Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 4/12/2021.
4. Introduction to Network Neuroscience; Imaging tools. Archimedes Research Center: Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences, Summer School. Athens, Greece, July 13, 2023.
5. Functional connectivity in mouse V1 micro-circuits: Identifying putative modules of computation within and across layers.Neurobiology and Computation & Neural Systems seminar, CalTech, Pasadena, Los Angeles, May 7, 2024.
6.  Functional connectivity analysis in cortical microcircuits: what it can teach us about the architecture of multi-neuronal processing. ICPBR Summer School In Non-Human Primate Systems Neuroscience, Sept15th, Shanghai Neuroscience Institute, Shanghai, China.

Speaker: Kiki Sidiropoulou

1. Identifying critical periods for prefrontal cortical function, invited lecture to the Dept of Neurobiology, Haifa University, December 2021
2. The role of depolarizing GABA in the development of the prefrontal cortex, Systems/Computational Neuroscience discussion group presentation at FORTH, October 2022
3. Postnatal development of cellular and synaptic mechanisms in the prefrontal cortex in a cell-type specific manner and their role in shaping network activity, European Brain and Behavior Society meeting, 25-29 August 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4. Part of the symposium entitled “Cellular and network properties of the prefrontal cortex across development: effect on behaviour” organized by K. Sidiropoulou

Speaker: Lidia Vagiaki

1. “A screening analysis for the effect of novel compounds on neuronal activity and synaptic plasticity in the mouse CNS”, IMBB-FORTHz

Eleftheria Psilou, Christina Brozi, Mario Alexios Savaglio, Ioannis Smyrnakis, Stelios Smirnakis, and Maria Papadopouli will participate in the Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles AREADNE 2024. 

They will present their posters entitled: “Identifying Neuronal Computational and Communication Modules of the Functional Connectivity Architecture in Area V1” and  “Motion Direction Decoding in Mouse V1: Predictive Power Relates to Functional Connectivity Organization“.