The INs and OUTs of Glia

Feb 16, 2026, 9:00 AM → Feb 17, 2026, 10:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Lecture Hall (MPINAT City Campus)

Klaus-Armin Nave (MPEM)

Welcome to the Department of Neurogenetics!

You have reached this page because you are a personally invited guest
to the 2-day symposium “INs and OUTs of GLIA”, hosted by the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
in Göttingen, Germany, on February 16–17, 2026.

The detailed program, including all confirmed speakers, is available here.

The meeting is free of charge.

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Please fill out this form (press link) at your earliest convenience.

You may also find practical information about the venue (MPINAT, City Campus) and travel directions helpful. For your convenience, we provide a list of recommended hotels within walking distance.

Thank you, and I am looking forward to welcoming you to Göttingen soon,

Klaus-Armin Nave

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All in One_Combined

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• Poster_The INs and OUTs of Glia.pdf
• The INs and OUTs of Glia_Programme details.pdf

Mon, February 16

1 Welcome Note

Speaker: Klaus-Armin Nave (MPEM)

2 NG2-glia at the crossroads: from health to disease

Speaker: Leda Dimou

3 The art of wrapping: how myelinating glia perfect sheath geometry

Speaker: Amit Agarwal

4 Correlative microscopy and proteome analysis identifies molecular heterogeneity of myelin

Speaker: Hauke Werner

10:45 AM Coffee and Tea Break

5 Myelination from development to adult

Speaker: Mika Simons

6 Transitions of oligodendroglia to disease-associated states in MS: Insights from single-cell and spatial omics

Speaker: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

12:30 PM Lunch Break

7 Size matters: axon caliber-driven control of myelin quality

Speaker: Robert Fledrich

8 Glial determinants of peripheral nerve repair

Speaker: Ruth Stassart

9 Novel approaches to understanding the immuno-pathology of human peripheral nerves

Speaker: Gerd Meyer zu Hörste

3:00 PM Coffee and Tea Break

10 Schwann cells in the CNS

Speaker: Robin Franklin

11 OUTbreak: glial extracellular vesicles and their journey through the brain (and body)

Speaker: Evi Krämer

12 Neuron-oligodendroglial interactions in health and disease: from cognition to cancer

Speaker: Michelle Monje

13 Towards a brain-machine-interface

Speaker: Oriol Vinyals Jr.

6:30 PM Apero

7:30 PM Dinner Buffet

9:00 PM Open Bar

Tue, February 17

14 Brain myelin as an energy source in humans

Speaker: Carlos Matute

15 New nanoelectronics insights on the myelin sheath

Speaker: Maarten Kole

16 Transport routes across myelin: myelin motors matter

Speaker: Julia Edgar

17 The metabolic symphony of white matter

Speaker: Aiman Saab

11:00 AM Coffee and Tea Break

18 Defective myelin, microglia and amyloid-beta: a trio infernale driving neurodegeneration

Speaker: Constanze Depp

19 Rethinking amyloid-β production through the lens of oligodendrocytes and axons

Speaker: Andrew Sasmita

20 IN and OUT of microglia - Ab clearance under acidic conditions

Speaker: Simone Eggert

1:00 PM Lunch Break

21 What is a reactive astrocyte, and what do they do?

Speaker: Shane Liddelow

22 Towards understanding brain ketone body metabolism

Speaker: Gesine Saher

23 "Adaptive" immunity by microglia

Speaker: Anne Schäfer

3:30 PM Coffee and Tea Break

24 Preserving myelin integrity in aging and neurodegenerative diseases

Speaker: Tal Iram

25 To be decided

Speaker: Giovanna Malluci

26 The concept of glia – a historical journey

Speaker: Helmut Kettenmann

27 Closing remarks

Speaker: Klaus-Armin Nave (MPEM)

6:30 PM Dinner Buffet

8:00 PM Party