Tuesday9 June 2026
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2 pm
Shuttle bus pickup from Joigny Train Station
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3 pm
Shuttle bus pickup from Joigny Train Station
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3–5 pm
Arrival & Registration
During this registration period, we encourage you to leave your room door open and to explore all the beautiful spaces the château offers. Be neighborly. Find old friends or make a new one.
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4 pm
Shuttle to Domaine Foray
For those staying at Domaine Foray who would like a ride there, please meet at the Château fountain.
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5 pm
Opening Welcome, Aperitif & Poster Session
Please bring your posters with you. We'll meet at the Fountain at 5 pm for anyone who'd like to walk over together — and please take your poster with you at the end of the session. The following evening the poster session will be in a different location.
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7 pm
Dinner
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8:30–9:30 pm
Treasure Hunt
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9:30 pm onwards
Evening Activities
Inscapes-ER & Inscapes 2 — World Premiere, a gradient-themed tie-dye station, chilling by the campfire, and an open bar.
Wednesday10 June 2026
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8 am
Morning Run (optional)
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8–9:30 am
Breakfast
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9:30 am–12:30 pm
Morning Session
Cognitive / Clinical 9:30–10:50 am
Session chairs: Beth Jefferies & Ted Satterthwaite
Ella SahlasMyeloarchitectural changes in epilepsy-associated focal cortical dysplasiaRaven WallaceNeural correlates of experience across movie-watching paradigmsValentina PacellaTwo-way decoding of cognition: linking healthy function and neuropsychological syndromes in a common spaceGiulia PretiBrain Network Harmonics: A Window into Health and DiseaseCoffee Break 10:50–11:10 am
Mapping 11:10 am–12:30 pm
Session chairs: Sofie Valk & Daniel Margulies
Tom NicholsStatistical Inference for Brain Gradient DataFrancis NormandGeometric constraints on the architecture of mammalian cortical connectomesWei WeiPlasticity within limits: Early sensory deprivation drives local cortical reorganization while preserving the global hierarchyXi-Nian ZuoFrequency-specific gradients of cortical organization -
12:30–2 pm
Lunch
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2–5 pm
Afternoon Session
Development / Lifespan 2–3 pm
Session chairs: Bianca Serio & Valerie Sydnor
Alex JohnNucleus-Specific Trajectories of Thalamocortical Connectivity in the Developing BrainAlicja MonaghanCanonical structural and functional neurodevelopmental gradientsZaixu CuiConnectional Axis of Structural Connectivity Development across Healthy and ADHD YouthCoffee Break 3–3:30 pm
Flash talks (5 min) 3:30–4 pm
John GriffithsEffects of corpus callosotomy on hemispheric functional coupling and global fMRI eigenmode/gradient organizationKevin SunAreal Scaling of Personalized Functional Networks and 22q11.2 Deletion SyndromeChen ChenRetinotopic coding predicts individual differences in sustained focus on comprehension and recallRobert ScholzProbing the emergence of sensory and higher-order cortical representations with deep neural networksStructure and Function Panel Discussion 4–5 pm
Chair: Giulia Preti
Joana Cabral, Nicolas Farrugia, John Griffiths & Georg Langs
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5–6 pm
Prep for Evening Activities
Pick up your costumes, should they be required, and join the tie-dye station in the Gallery.
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6–7:30 pm
Aperitif & Poster Session
Please bring your posters to hang up again.
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7:30 pm
Group Photo 📷
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7:30 pm
Dinner
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9 pm – 10:30 pm
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10:15 pm – 1:15 am
Gradients b2b rave
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1 am – late
Thursday11 June 2026
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8 am
Morning Run (optional)
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8–9:30 am
Breakfast
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By 9:30 am
Room Check-out
Please check out of your rooms before the morning session at 9:30 am. Leave your bags in the salon of the main château, or bring them with you to the Orangery.
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9:30 am–12:30 pm
Morning Session
Dynamics 9:30–10:30 am
Session chairs: Boris Bernhardt & Nathan Spreng
Mats van EsThe Temporal Architecture of Intrinsic Brain Networks and Spontaneous CognitionJungmin LeeMapping the signatures of prediction and prediction errors in the human whole brainJoana CabralResonant waves shaping functional GradientsCoffee Break 10:30–11 am
Flash talks (5 min) 11–11:30 am
Jonathan RittmoAge and Alzheimer's disease affect functional connectivity along separate axes of brain organization with differential mediating effects on memory and executive functionBenedikt Paul FuhrDynamic functional synchronization profiles in autism differ by spatial scale and along hierarchical cortical gradientsAhmad SamaraNaturalistic cortical gradients scaffold functional connectivity development in children and adolescentsIsabella L.C. Mariani WigleyBrain Health Inequalities: How Environmental Stressors Shape the Harmonic and Dynamic Scaffold of the Preadolescent BrainDevelopment Panel Discussion 11:30 am–12:15 pm
Chair: Tammy Vanderwal
Xavier Castellanos, Tom Nichols, Lucina Uddin & Ting Xu
Castellanos' Corner 12:15–12:25 pm
Winners of treasure hunt announced 12:25–12:30 pm
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12:30–2 pm
Lunch
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3 pm
Departure
For those taking the bus to Bordeaux, approximate arrival in Bordeaux is around 9 pm.
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Emergency Contacts
Venue mapChâteau du Feÿ
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- 1Château
- 2Farmhouse
- 3Cottage
- 4Gite
- 5Glamping
Venues
- 6Gallery
- 7Forest
- 8Press
- 9Orangery
- 10Sonic Sphere
Dining
- 11Terrace
- 12Oak Trees
Facilities
- 13Gym
- 14Labyrinth
- 15Pool
- 16Parking
Walking routeDomaine Foray ↔ Château du Feÿ
Posters
- Geometry-related differences in functional organization contribute to task-related cortical recruitment
- Reorganisation of Functional Connectivity Gradients in Post-Stroke Aphasia
- Reduced Alpha Power in an Autism Neurosubtype Characterized By Enhanced Excitability
- Retinotopic coding predicts individual differences in sustained focus on comprehension and recall
- Joint cortical embedding of hippocampal and amygdalar subregions reveals divergence and convergence in functional connectivity
- The TRIBEv2 deep brain encoding model recapitulates stable functional gradients across multiple movies
- Sex-differential functional temporal dynamics of the fusiform gyrus in autism
- Dynamic functional synchronization profiles in autism differ by spatial scale and along hierarchical cortical gradients
- Effects of corpus callosotomy on hemispheric functional coupling and global fMRI eigemode/gradient organization
- A Temporal Hierarchy of Human Cortical Gradients Revealed by MEG
- Lifespan Modeling Reveals Shared Cortical Thickness Organization in Mental Illness
- Mapping Subcortical U-fibers and Long-range Fibers in Superficial White Matter
- State-dependent changes of intrinsic neural timescale covariance patterns
- Nucleus-Specific Developmental Trajectories of Structural Thalamocortical Connectivity in the Developing Brain
- MRSI-derived metabolic gradients identify early network alterations in psychosis risk
- Aging along the gradients : uncovering resting-state connectivity reorganization across the lifespan
- Brain Health Inequalities: How Environmental Stressors Shape the Harmonic and Dynamic Scaffold of the Preadolescent Brain
- HippoGenes: Transcriptomic Cartography of the Human Hippocampus
- Innate cortical gradients constrain cross-modal plasticity
- Neurosubtyping autism with naturalistic fMRI
- Age and Alzheimer’s disease affect functional connectivity along separate axes of brain organization with differential mediating effects on memory and executive function
- Accounting for spatial heterogeneity of reporting likelihood in neuroimaging meta-analyses
- Naturalistic cortical gradients scaffold functional connectivity development in children and adolescents
- Probing the emergence of sensory and higher-order cortical representations with deep neural networks
- Methylphenidate reduces subcortical-dominant co-activation states and enhances cortical dynamics
- Individual differences reveal distinct age and pubertal contributions to the refinement of the functional cortical hierarchy during adolescence
- Trajectories of myelin maturation across adolescence: A longitudinal ABCD study
- Areal Scaling of Personalized Functional Networks and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
- A posterior-anterior hippocampal axis of environment-driven myelin plasticity in adolescence
- Excitatory and inhibitory effective connectivity along the principal gradient of cortical organisation
- Structural cortical alterations in substance use disorders and developmental links to adolescent substance exposure