Program

Registration and Welcome

Brain circuits, pain processing and modulation - I
Chair: Herta Flor

Tor Wager: Concepts, learning and pain modulation

Vania Apkarian: Cortical Dynamics of Pain and Passion

Frank Porreca: Going in circles with opioids for pain relief

Poster teasers I: Livia Asan, Damien Kerspern, Enrico Schulz, Maria Zamfir

Lunch and poster sesion

Challenges and advances in pain treatment
Chair: Martin Schmelz

Didier Bouhassira: Non- invasive brain stimulation: a new
treatment option for chronic pain?

Andrew Rice: Neuropathic pain: aligning animal models with the clinical picture

Carla Nau: Voltage-gated sodium channels as targets in pain therapy

Coffee break

Brain circuits, pain processing and modulation - II
Chair: Sabine Herpertz

Sigrid Elsenbruch: Nocebo effects in visceral pain

Eija Kalso: Persistent postsurgery pain: From prediction to treatment

Carl Saab: Micro-state and macro-state dynamics in thalamocortical circuits: scientific discovery leading to quantitative pain assessment

Informal reception with finger food

Peripheral afferents and mechanisms
Chair: Stefan Lechner

Gary Lewin: Mechano-transduction and primary afferent mechanism

Yves DeKoninck: Untangling afferent coding strategies with population recording

Xu Zhang: Somatosensory neuron types and their functions

Coffee Break

Spinal cord circuits and their plasticity in pain
Chair: Norbert Weidner

Mark Tuszynski: Neural stem cell therapy in spinal cord injury: spinal cord “replacement” enables host axonal regeneration

Qiufu Ma: Take a step back: mapping spinal circuits and revisiting "pain" measurement in mice

Martyn Goulding: Genetic approaches to mapping the spinal circuitry for pain and itch

Poster teasers II: Federica Franciosa, Alaa Ibrahim, Jagadeesh Gandla

Lunch and poster session

Young Scientist Symposium
Introduction: Linette Tan
Chairs: Christopher Sliwinski, Paul Naser, Shiying Lu

Brett Benedetti: Demystifying the editorial and peer review processes at Nature research journals

Chairs: Britta Kretzschmar, Katrin Usai

Flavia Mancini, University of Cambridge, UK: Preserved somatotopic maps of the digits in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Giulia Liberati, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium: Nociceptive gamma-band oscillations recorded from the human insula

Fernando Kasanetz, University of Bern, Switzerland: Network dynamics of nociceptive and aversive processing in the anterior cingulate cortex

Linette Tan: The mid-cingulate cortex to posterior insula pathway plays a key role in nociceptive hypersensitivity

Yan Tang: Somato-sensory modulation of oxytocin neuron activity in behaving rats

Christopher Milde: Measures of cortical plasticity in amputees and impact on current theories on phantom limb pain

Coffee Break

Flashback

Thomas Sears (introduced by Steve McMahon): A tale of two tails

Wilfrid Jänig (introduced by Jerry Gebhart): Jänig, Schmidt & Zimmermann: 50 years ago in Heidelberg: Science and its
consequences

Hermann Handwerker (introduced by Walter Zieglgänsberger): Nociceptors and pruriceptors: pipe dreams of physiologists-or the basis of pain and itch perception?

Short break

Music

Conference Dinner

Young Scientist Symposium Chairs: Francisco Taberner, Robin Jonas

Aziz Moqrich, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, France: Mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic pain: Insights from an atypical myosin protein

Joao Braz, University of California, San Francisco, USA: Repairing spinal cord inhibitory circuits with cell transplants to treat chronic pain

Felipe Ribeiro, Harvard Medical School, USA: Pain and neuro-immune interactions mediate the pathogenesis of necrotizing fasciitis

Vincenzo Prato: The molecular mechanism of NGF-induced mechanical hyperalgesia

Johann Jende: Distal symmetric diabetic polyneuropathy structural nerve remodeling differs between diabetes type I and II: an in vivo study using MRI neurography

Margot Maurer: Interaction of nociceptive and non-nociceptive afferents within the spinal trigeminal nucleus

Radhika Puttagunta: Elucidating new axonal regenerative pathways for clinical intervention following spinal cord injury

Carmen La Porta: Low back pain model in mice and the impact of stress

Coffee break

Interplay between afferents, spinal neurons and glia
Chair: Thomas Kuner

Allan Basbaum: Peripheral circuits and mechanisms of neuropathic pain

Stephen McMahon: Transcriptional profiling of nociceptive neurons in health and disease

Lunch

Poster prize distribution, moderated by Norbert Weidner

Poster prize talks

Meeting of Scientific Advisory Board of
the Heidelberg Pain Consortium (SFB
1158)

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