Welcome session
12.00 – 13:00 Lunch
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and introduction – practical information (André Mouraux)
Building Harvey (55) – Level 0 – Seminar Harvey 3
Animal and Cellular Electrophysiology – Part I

13:15 – 15:00 Basic concepts in electrophysiology (Philippe Gailly)
Building Harvey (55) – Level 0 – Seminar Harvey 3

15:00 – 18:00 Practical sessions:
Building Pasteur (53) – FYCL – Level -1

• Group 1: Practical 1: The lipid bilayer (P. Gailly)
• Group 2: Practical 2: Electrophysiology on neurons (R. Gualdani & T. Parpaite)
• Group 3: Practical 3: Hippocampal brain slices and LTP (X. Yerna & F. Issa)

19:00 – Dinner  Restaurant : “Le Vignoble”
Avenue de Tervuren 368, 1150 Brussels https://www.levignoble.be/

By car:

• 10 minutes from the campus By metro:
• From Alma station: Metro route 1 direction Gare de l’Ouest
• Stop at Roodebeek (2 minutes) – Walk to the portal Roodebeek (160 m)
• Tramway route 8 direction Louise destination Wiener (7 minutes)
• Stop at Musée du Tram – Walk to destination (210 m)

 Tuesday November 5, 2024 
Animal and cellular electrophysiology
 

08:30 – 09:00 Coffee
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Animal and Cellular electrophysiology – Part II

09:00 – 12:00 Practical sessions:
Building Pasteur (53) – FYCL – Level -1

• Group 1: Practical 2: Electrophysiology on neurons (R. Gualdani & T. Parpaite)
• Group 2: Practical 3: Hippocampal brain slices and LTP (X. Yerna & F. Issa)
• Group 3: Practical 1: The lipid bilayer (P. Gailly)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Animal and Cellular electrophysiology – Part III

13:30 – 16:30 Practical sessions:
Building Pasteur (53) – FYCL – Level -1

• Group 1: Practical 3: Hippocampal brain slices and LTP (X. Yerna & F. Issa)
• Group 2: Practical 1: The lipid bilayer (P. Gailly)
• Group 3: Practical 2: Electrophysiology on neurons (R. Gualdani & T. Parpaite)
  Coffee available in the IoNS cafeteria (Building Pasteur (53) – Level 0)

Seminar and virtual demonstration

17:00 – 18:00  Hippocampal slices / Multielectrode array (Marie-Laure Possovre, 3Brain
Building Laennec (57) – Level 0 – Gerty Cori Seminar

Wednesday November 6, 2024 
Human electrophysiology

08:30 – 09:15 Coffee
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Human electrophysiology – Lectures I – EEG and ERPs
Auditoires Centraux – Auditorium Maisin

09:15 – 09:45 Nature of the EEG signal / time-domain averaging / ERD/ERS (A. Mouraux)
09:45 – 10:15 Sensory-evoked potentials for clinical diagnosis (S. El Sankari)
10:15 – 10:45 Intracerebral EEG for human neuroscience research (G. Liberati)
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 EEG for the diagnostic workup of epilepsy (V. Danthine [online])
11:30 – 12:00 Event-related brain potentials for cognitive neuroscience (V. Legrain)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Human electrophysiology – Practical I1
Building Claude Bernard (54) – Level +2 – COSY
Three groups, rotated each 1-1.5 hours
Coffee available in the IoNS cafeteria (Building Pasteur (53) – Level 0)

13:30 – 14:45

• Group 1: Practical 2: Event-related brain potentials (G. Herbillon & V. Legrain)
• Group 2: Practical 3: Rodent EEG-video setup (A. Dereli & E. Germany)
• Group 3: Practical 1: Recording of the scalp EEG (C. Leu & A. Boutachkourt)
  
  15:00 – 16:15
• Group 1: Practical 3: Rodent EEG-video setup (A. Dereli & E. Germany)
• Group 2: Practical 1: Recording of the scalp EEG (C. Leu & A. Boutachkourt)
• Group 3: Practical 2: Event-related brain potentials (G. Herbillon & V. Legrain)
  
  16:30 – 17:45
• Group 1: Practical 1: Recording of the scalp EEG (C. Leu & A. Boutachkourt)
• Group 2: Practical 2: Event-related brain potentials (G. Herbillon & V. Legrain)
• Group 3: Practical 3: Rodent EEG-video setup (A. Dereli & E. Germany)

Thursday November 7, 2024 
Human electrophysiology

08:30 – 09:00 Coffee
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Human electrophysiology – Lectures II – Non-invasive brain stimulation
Building ICP (74) – Level 0 – Seminar ICP 3

09:00 – 10:00 Vagus nerve stimulation and pupillometry (Riem El Tahry & Shiyong Su)
10:00 – 11:00 Transcranial direct current stimulation and related techniques (Giulia Liberati) 11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 Transcranial magnetic stimulation, MEPs, neuronavigation (Robert Hardwick)
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Human electrophysiology – Practical II
Building Claude Bernard (54) – Level +2 – COSY
Three groups, rotated each 1-1.5 hours
Coffee available in the IoNS cafeteria (Building Pasteur (53) – Level 0)

13:30 – 14:45

• Group 1: Practical 3: tVNS, pupillometry, KINARM and reflex, tokens task and skill learning (C. Braconnier, F. Chaise, M. Patnaik, S. Su)
• Group 2: Practical 1: TMS, EMG and neuronavigation (M. Moreno Verdu & B. Waltzing)
• Group 3: Practical 2: tDCS/tACS (Y Fathi Arateh)
  
  15:00 – 16:15
• Group 1: Practical 1: TMS, EMG and neuronavigation (M. Moreno Verdu & B. Waltzing)
• Group 2: Practical 2: tDCS/tACS (Y Fathi Arateh)
• Group 3: Practical 3: tVNS, pupillometry, KINARM and reflex, tokens task and skill learning (C. Braconnier, F. Chaise, M. Patnaik, S. Su)
  
  16:30 – 17:45
• Group 1: Practical 2: tDCS/tACS (Y Fathi Arateh)
• Group 2: Practical 3: Practical 3: tVNS, pupillometry, KINARM and reflex, tokens task and skill learning (C. Braconnier, F. Chaise, M. Patnaik, S. Su)
• Group 3: Practical 1: TMS, EMG and neuronavigation (M. Moreno Verdu & B. Waltzing)

18:00  Board game night (organized by the IoNS PhD Association – IPA)
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0