April, 9th 2026
Location: Area della Ricerca CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Auditorium
10.00 Opening Remarks Andrea Lenzi, President CNR and Michela Fagiolini Director IN CNR
10.10 Morning session. Chair Tommaso Pizzorusso, Scuola Normale Superiore
10.15 Takao Hensch (Harvard University), Translating critical periods
10.45 Hannah Monyer (German Cancer research Center), To be determined
11.15 Michael Stryker (UCSF), Competition without Competitors in Developing Visual Cortex
11.45 Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute),The dynamic brain: Computing with oscillations and waves
12.15 End of moring session
12.30 Lunch at CNR
14.45 Afternoon Session, Chair Alessandro Cellerino, Scuola Normale Superiore
15.00 Graziella DiCristo (University of Montreal), Sex and estrous dependent effects on sensory processing
15.30 Eero Castren (University of Helsinki), Neuronal plasticity in the recovery from mood disorders
16.00 Tobias Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute), Of Spines and Engrams
16.30 Laura Cancedda (IIT), …but always keep the human in mind
17.00 Mriganka Sur (MIT), To be determined
17.30 Concluding remarks
April, 10th 2026
Location: Scuola Normale Superiore, piazza dei Cavalieri 7 Pisa
Sala Azzurra
Chair Lina Bolzoni, Accademia dei Lincei
15.00 Opening remarks, Alessandro Schiesaro, Director of Scuola Normale Superiore
15.10 Salvatore Settis (Accademia dei Lincei), Un dialogo fra discipline, da Pisa a Los Angeles a Roma
15.30 Lina Bolzoni (Accademia dei Lincei) Lamberto, o dell’arte della memoria
16.00 Tommaso Spazzini Villa, In questo cielo nascosto tra noi
16.30 Sara Longo (singer) and Matteo Anelli (double bassist), Per Lamberto: godersi ill momento, canzoni in jazz, musical performance
17.00 S.em Cardinale Tolentino Mendonça, video connection
17.30 Concluding remarks, Tommaso Pizzorusso, Vice-dicector Scuola Normale Superiore
Registration (Participation is free, but registration is required)