EBRAINS-Italy MNESYS Workshop

This conjoint EBRAINS-MNESYS workshop will address the pillars of multiscale brain modelling by presenting and discussing front-end research topics in Computational Neuroscience. This event will offer the attendees the opportunity to explore multiscale modelling workflows, digital computation tools, data-based validation workflows, data analysis pipelines, and several applications to neurophysiology, neuropathology, and neurotechnology. The workshop also aims to foster collaboration and drive innovation within the field of Computational Neuroscience, contributing to the establishment of the EBRAINS-Italy research infrastructure and partnership.


9th July  2025       Hall 3B  Palazzo dei Congressi
8:45 Welcome  and Introduction 
9:00-10.30 Introductory concepts
9:00     Michele Migliore (CNR)  
                        The EBRAINS-Italy ecosystem of workflows and pipelines for computational 
                        neuroscience research
9:30     Egidio D’angelo (Univ. of Pavia) 
                        Brain modelling toward the generation of digital twins
10:00  Sergio Martinoia (Univ. of Genoa) 
                       In-vitro and in-silico brain models: toward hybrid biological-digital twins
10:30 Coffee Break
11.00-12:30 Computational modeling and hands-on (cells and circuits)
11:00 Jonathan Mapelli (Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
                      Multiscale modeling of the hippocampus: "embedding microcircuits into whole-brain 
                        models"

11:30 Claudia Casellato (Univ. of Pavia)
                           Multiscale cerebellar circuit models
12:00 Sergio Solinas (Univ. of Sassari)
                          Modelling and visualisation of the CA1 region of the Human Hippocampus
12:30 Lunch Break
14.00-15.30 Computational modelling of systems and whole brain
14:00 Paolo Massobrio (Univ. of Genoa)
                         Model fusion: experimental and mathematical approaches to decoding neuronal 
                         ensembles in physiological and pathological conditions
14:30 Alberto Mazzoni (School of Adv. Studies Pisa)
                         From silico to clinics: network models of neurodegeneration for early diagnosis and   
                        personalized treatments
15:00 Alberto Antonietti (Polytechnic University of Milan)
                       Multiscale models for Parkinson’s disease and neuromodulation
15:30 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 Theoretical models
16:00 Dora Marasco (Univ. of Federico II Naples)
                    The A-GLIF model in action: data-driven modelling and neuron copy generation for 
                    heterogeneous large-scale network implementations
16:30 Pierstanislao Paolucci (INFN Rome)
                    Apical mechanism supporting incremental learning and sleep cycles
17:00 Maurizio Mattia (Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome)
                    Recurrent neural networks as digital twins of brain activity
17.30 - 18:00 Discussion and Final Remarks