Biennial Workshop

Biennial Workshop

Integrating New Perspectives on Punishment for Learning,
Decision Making, and Psychopathology

Integrating New Perspectives on Punishment for Learning,
Decision Making, and Psychopathology

Amsterdam, The Netherlands • 25-26 August 2026

Amsterdam, The Netherlands • 25-26 August 2026

Biennial Workshop

Integrating New Perspectives on Punishment for Learning, Decision Making, and Psychopathology

Amsterdam, The Netherlands • 25-26 August 2026

Programme

Programme

  • Day 1: Foundational Mechanisms

    8:00-8:45

    Registration & coffee 

    8:45

    Welcome & Opening Remarks

    9:00-9:45

    Keynote Lecture 1
    Karin Roelofs (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

    9:50-11:10

    Session 1 • To Approach or Avoid? Neural Circuitry of Conflicting Motivations

    Andrew Holmes  (NIAAA, NIH, USA)

    Sebastian Fernandez  (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, CNRS, France)

    Angela C. Roberts (University of Cambridge, UK)

    Rutsuko Ito (University of Toronto, Canada)

    11:10-11:30

    Coffee Break

    11:30-12:30

    ECR Spotlight Session / Travel Awardee Data Blitz

    Short talks given by recipients of the travel awards

    12:30-14:00

    Lunch (provided) + Poster session 1

    14:00-14:45

    Keynote Lecture 2
    Ingo Willuhn (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Netherlands)

    14:50-16:10

    Session 2 • Symmetries of Reinforcement: Translating Models of Reward and Punishment 

    Philip Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)

    Anna B. Konova (Rutgers University, USA)

    Alex Pike (University of York, UK)

    Barry Setlow (University of Florida, USA)

    16:10-16:30

    Coffee Break

    16:30-17:30

    Hot Topics

    Talks selected from Submitted abstracts of people not specifically invited

    17:30-19:00

    Workshop Reception + Poster session 2 

    Evening free (dinner on your own)

  • Day 2: Translational & Applied Perspectives

    9:00-9:45

    Keynote Lecture 3
    Markus Heilig (Linköping University, Sweden)

    9:50-11:10

    Session 3 • Shaping the Circuit: How Experience and Environment Alter Punishment Processing 

    Marloes Henckens  (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

    Frank Meye (Utrecht University, TheNetherlands)

    Lindsay R. Halladay (University of Arizona, USA)

    Marcello Solinas (University of Poitiers, France)

    11:10-11:30

    Coffee Break

    11:30-12:30

    ECR Spotlight Session / Travel Awardee Data Blitz

    Short talks given by recipients of the travel awards

    12:30-14:00

    Lunch (provided) + Poster session 3

    14:00-15:20

    Session 4 • System-Level Integration: Weighing Reward Against Punishment 

    Bita Moghaddam (University of Oregon, USA)

    Christelle Baunez (CNRS, Université de Aix-Marseille, France)

    Sebastien Carnicella (Inserm Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, France)

    Tobias Granwald (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

    15:20-15:40

    Coffee Break

    15:40-17:00

    Session 5 • Translational Models of Addiction: Drug Use Despite Adverse Consequences  

    Yavin Shaham (NIDA, NIH, USA)

    Mickael Degoulet (Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, France)

    Michel Engeln (Université de Bordeaux, France)

    Karis Colyer-Pate (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

    17:00-17:15

    Closing Remarks & Farewell