Hahn Lecture 2026
Hahn Lecture 2026
This Erwin L. Hahn Lecture took place on October 8, 2026.
Key Speaker
Prof. Roshan Cools
We are delighted that Prof. Roshan Cools agreed to hold the key note on "Chemistry of the adaptive mind: lessons from dopamine"
Venue
Oktogon
UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein, Areal A [Schacht XII], Oktogon [A21] Gelsenkirchener Straße 181 45309 Essen
Programme
Methods
Chair: Harald H. Quick
10:00 - 11:05
Welcome
David Norris
Scientific Director, ELH
10:00 - 10:05fMRI of the human spinal cord at 7T - challenges and recent progress
Falk Eippert
MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
10:05 - 10:35High-resolution 7T fMRI acquisition methods for cognitive neuroscience
Nadine Graedel
University College London, UK
10:35 - 11:05
Data Blitz Session
Chair: Tamás Spisák & Farzad Jabbarigargari
11:05 - 11:40
Cerebellum-ventral tegmental area interactions during fear extinction in cerebellar degeneration at 7T fMRI
Enzo Nio
University Hospital Essen, Germany
11:05 - 11:15The role of the cerebellum and ventral tegmental area in appetitive and adversive conditioning: a 7T fMRI study
Alice Doubliez
University Hospital Essen, Germany
11:15 - 11:25Laminar specificity of bSSFP and VASO at 9.4T in densely sampled subjects
Simon Faßnacht
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
11:25 - 11:35Real-time laminar fMRI and single-block reliability at ultra-high field
Asli Eroglu
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
11:35 - 11:45Poster Walk & Lunch Break
11:45 - 13:00
Session: Application of layer-specific fMRI
Chair: Stephanie Antons & Dagmar Timmann
13:00 - 15:30
Layers of primary visual cortex as window into internal models about predicted environments - Human fMRI with monkey and rodent neuroscience
Lars Muckli
University of Glasgow, UK
13:00 - 13:30Creating deep brain atlases through combined 7 Tesla MRI and histological approaches
Anneke Alkemade
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13:30 - 14:00Laminar fMRI reveals layer-specific dissociation of bottom-up and top-down influences on pain processing
Balint Kincses
University Hospital Essen, Germany
14:00 - 14:30Layer-specific reconfiguration of human fear circuits dissociates fear extinction success from intrusive-memory vulnerability
Antoine Bouyeure
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
14:30 - 15:00Dopaminergic mechanisms of working memory gating at the mesoscopic scale
Helena Olraun
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
15:00 - 15:30Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Erwin L. Hahn Lecture
Chair: David Norris
16:00 - 17:00
Chemistry of the adaptive mind: lessons from dopamine
Roshan Cools
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
16:00 - 17:00Dinner
17:00 - 19:00
Registration
The Registration for this event is currently closed. Registration was possible until September 15, 2026.