Festival of Touch - Sciencesconf.org

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08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00	Badge pick-up, coffee & croissants 8:15 - 9:00 (45min) Badge pick-up, coffee & croissants Have a breakfast drink and snack, pick up your conference badge Welcome introduction 9:00 - 9:15 (15min) Welcome introduction Amphi Sci Nat Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception 9:15 - 10:00 (45min) Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception Amphi Sci Nat Sliman Bensmaia Short oral presentations 10:00 - 10:20 (20min) Short oral presentations Amphi Sci Nat Coffee break 10:20 - 10:40 (20min) Coffee break Courtyard Touch illusions & prosthetic applications 10:40 - 12:00 (1h20) Touch illusions & prosthetic applications Lunch, posters, demos 12:00 - 14:00 (2h) Lunch, posters, demos Posters/demos Short oral presentations 14:00 - 15:00 (1h) Short oral presentations Amphi Sci Nat Wet, damp, moist, humid…what do we really feel? Thermo-tactile interactions in skin wetness sensing 15:00 - 15:45 (45min) Wet, damp, moist, humid…what do we really feel? Thermo-tactile interactions in skin wetness sensing Amphi Sci Nat Davide Filingeri Coffee break 15:45 - 16:00 (15min) Coffee break Courtyard Wetness, slip, and texture 16:00 - 17:45 (1h45) Wetness, slip, and texture Amphi Sci Nat	Tactile interactions and social touch 9:00 - 10:00 (1h) Tactile interactions and social touch Amphi Sci Nat Short oral presentations 10:00 - 10:30 (30min) Short oral presentations Amphi Sci Nat Methods: focus on microneurography 10:30 - 10:55 (25min) Methods: focus on microneurography Amphi Sci Nat Coffee break 10:55 - 11:15 (20min) Coffee break Courtyard What we really know about C-tactile afferents 11:15 - 12:00 (45min) What we really know about C-tactile afferents Amphi Sci Nat Rochelle Ackerley Lunch, posters, demos 12:00 - 14:00 (2h) Lunch, posters, demos Posters/demos Short oral presentations 14:00 - 15:00 (1h) Short oral presentations Touch is really skin deep: cellular and molecular mechanisms of sensory mechanotransduction 15:00 - 15:45 (45min) Touch is really skin deep: cellular and molecular mechanisms of sensory mechanotransduction Amphi Sci Nat Gary Lewin Coffee break 15:45 - 16:00 (15min) Coffee break Courtyard Traversing the periphery: 1st order neurons 16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) Traversing the periphery: 1st order neurons Amphi Sci Nat	Sense of touch and movement go hand in hand 9:00 - 9:45 (45min) Sense of touch and movement go hand in hand Amphi Sci Nat Ingvars Birznieks Short oral presentations 9:45 - 10:05 (20min) Short oral presentations Amphi Sci Nat Coffee break 10:05 - 10:30 (25min) Coffee break Courtyard Skin mechanics 10:30 - 12:00 (1h30) Skin mechanics Amphi Sci Nat Lunch, posters, demos 12:00 - 14:00 (2h) Lunch, posters, demos Posters/demos Affective touch: more than skin stroking 14:00 - 15:40 (1h40) Affective touch: more than skin stroking Amphi Sci Nat Coffee break 15:40 - 16:00 (20min) Coffee break Courtyard Short oral presentations 16:00 - 16:30 (30min) Short oral presentations Amphi Sci Nat The neuroscience of human social touch 16:30 - 17:15 (45min) The neuroscience of human social touch Amphi Sci Nat India Morrison	Tribute to Tiffany Field, Touch and neuroprotection: A putative contribution by C-LTMRs 9:00 - 9:45 (45min) Tribute to Tiffany Field, Touch and neuroprotection: A putative contribution by C-LTMRs Amphi Sci Nat Francis McGlone Short oral presentations 9:45 - 10:40 (55min) Short oral presentations Amphi Sci Nat Coffee break 10:40 - 11:00 (20min) Coffee break Courtyard Affective touch and disorders 11:00 - 12:00 (1h) Affective touch and disorders Close of meeting 12:00 - 12:15 (15min) Close of meeting