Invitation to attend the international meeting, The Brain Active Milieu in Norm and Pathology 2026, co-organised by Jiaxing University and Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, and held in Jiaxing, China, from 30 March to 2 April 2026. The meeting is organized by Alexey Semyanov MAE and Vladimir Parpura MAE, both members of the Physiology and Neuroscience Section of Academia Europaea.

The organizers welcome all speakers, colleagues, students, and guests to this meeting which brings together leading researchers from different areas of neuroscience to discuss the brain active milieu in both health and disease. This topic reflects a growing recognition that brain function cannot be understood by studying neurons alone, but instead requires an integrated view of the dynamic interactions between neurons, astrocytes, microglia, vasculature, extracellular matrix, and metabolic environment.

The goal in organizing this meeting is to create a stimulating and friendly forum for scientific exchange. Over the next few days, the programme will inspire new ideas, encourage lively discussion, and promote collaborations across disciplines, methods, and countries. The broad range of lectures, from fundamental cellular mechanisms to advanced imaging, disease models, and translational perspectives, highlights both the complexity of the field and the exciting opportunities that lie ahead.

The organizers are especially pleased to host this event at Jiaxing University and to welcome many distinguished international and Chinese scientists to our campus. The meeting will offer opportunity to meet new colleagues, strengthen existing collaborations, and share a vision for the future of neuroscience.

Conference venue: 899, Guangqiong Road, Lianglin Campus, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, China. Lecture Hall on the 1st floor of the library.
Accommodation: Fuyue Hotel, Middle Ring West Road, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, China.

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Preliminary program#

30 March 2026#

• Day of arrival
• Campus and lab visits
• Welcome dinner

31 March 2026#

9:00 -9:30 Opening ceremony
9:30 – 10:30 Plenary lecture (introduced by Alexey Semyanov MAE), Mu Ming Poo: "Non-human primate models for biomedical research"

10:30 – 10:55 Coffee break

Morning session (chairperson: Alexey Semyanov MAE)

10:55 – 11:25 Dmitri Rusakov MAE: "Glutamate spillover is widespread in the brain and may help associative memory retrieval"
11:25 – 11:55 Yu-Wei Wu: "Id1 and Id3 Sustain the Unique Laminar Specialization of Adult Layer 1 Astrocytes"
11:55v– 12:25 Valentin Nagerl: "Nanoscale imaging of living brain tissue"
12:25 – 12:55 Baoman Li: "The new route and driving mechanisms of cerebrospinal fluid flow to peripheral organs"

13:00 – 14:20 Lunch

Afternoon session (chairperson: Dmitri Rusakov MAE)

14:30 – 15:00 Yulong Li: "Spying on Neuromodulator Dynamics In Vivo by Constructing Multi-Color GRAB Sensors"
15:00 – 15:30 Vedrana Montana: "Impact of metabolic microenvironment on normal and cancerous astrocytes"
15:30 – 16:00 Vladimir Parpura MAE: "Vesicular glutamate release from malignant astrocytes"

16:00 – 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 – 16:55 Rok Cerne: "KRM-11-81: Preclinical Development of a Next-Generation GABAA Potentiator for the Treatment of Epilepsy" 16:55 – 17:25 Feiran Han: "(LC Bio) Application of High-Spatial-Resolution Multi-Omics on Neurological Diseases"

18:00 Dinner

1 April 2026#

9:00 – 10:00 Plenary lecture (introduced by Vladimir Parpura MAE), George Augustine: "A bottom-up approach to understanding the claustrum" 10:00 – 10:30 Xu Hao (Evident): "The next-generation multi-photon microscopy enables deeper discoveries in neuroscience"

10:30 – 10:55 Coffee break

Morning session (chairperson: Vladimir Parpura MAE)

10:55 – 11:25 Alexey Semyanov MAE: "The link between astrocyte morphology and subcellular calcium dynamics"
11:25 – 11:55 Hajime Hirase: "Distribution and functional significance of rodent cerebellar glycogen"
11:55 – 12:25 Zhi He: "Clonidine, an α2-AR agonist, exerts neuroprotective effects against cerebral ischemia by inhibiting the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB signaling pathway in microglia" (in Chinese, with an on Screen translation in English)
12:25 – 12:55 Franziska Müller: "Cooling the Flames: Serotonergic Control of Astrocyte Physiology"

13:00 – 14:20 Lunch

Afternoon session (chairperson: Robert Zorec MAE)

14:30 – 15:00 Chunzhu Zhao: "Miniature Multi-photon Microscopy Advancing In Vivo Brain Imaging"
15:00 – 15:30 Christian Henneberger: "Activity-dependent astrocytic glycine release limits synaptic potentiation in the hippocampus"
15:30 – 16:00 Kirill Volynsky: "Mechanisms underlying short-term synaptic plasticity and neurotransmitter release kinetics at single synapses"

16:00 – 16:25 Coffee break

16:25 – 16:55 Robert Zorec MAE: "Adrenergic Regulation of Astrocytes in Health and Neurodegeneration: Searching for new GPCR targets"
16:55 – 17:25 Wang Pu (Horiba): "Applications of coherent Raman microscopy in Life Sciences"

18:00 Dinner

2 April 2026#

Scientific discussion on a trip to Yangyuan Ancient Town (Haining) and tidal wave.

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