On July 10, there started the International Summer School “Neuro-Sleep as a Complex System” at SSU. The conference is held as part of the RSF megagrant implemented in the Smart Sleep Laboratory, the Research Medical Centre, SSU. The on-site school takes place from July 10 to 12 at the Volzhino estate in Engels.
The International School is dedicated to highlighting new trends in the study of neural networks as a complex system using interdisciplinary methods, modelling, and machine learning approaches, as well as innovative technologies for the treatment of brain diseases during sleep.
The participants of the school – the world's leading scientists from various fields, including sleep medicine, neurophysiology, optics, and other branches of physics – will talk about modern research of the sleeping brain as a complex open system. The scientists will discuss the topics related to fundamental sleep research, multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the brain, the meningeal lymphatic system, modelling of brain drainage, as well as bio- and neurophotonics.
The online school will be attended by scientists from Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Greece, England, USA, China, and Belarus. The Russian researchers will include those from Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Research Center of Neurology, the Irkutsk Sleep Medicine Centre, and research centres of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Saratov State University will be represented by the staff of the Smart Sleep Laboratory, the Faculty of Biology, the Institute of Physics, and other units of the university: Oksana Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Andrei Slepnev, Konstantin Sergeyev, Nadezhda Semenova, Ivan Fedosov, Alexander Shirokov, Anatolii Karavayev, Aleksei Pavlov, Ekaterina Borovkova, Yurii Ishbulatov, Nikita Navolokin, Maksim Zhuravlev, Inna Blokhina, Andrei Terskov, Arina Yevsyukova, Daria Zlatogorskaya, Victoria Adushkina, Elmira Kaibeleva, German Guyo, Alexander Dubrovskii, Alexander Dmitrenko, Valeria Krupnova, Maria Manzhaeva, Maria Tsoi, Inna Yelizarova, and Polina Yegorova. Oksana Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Chair of the Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Chief Researcher of the Smart Sleep Laboratory, SSU, a leading scientist in neuroscience, will make a presentation on photostimulation of brain excretory system.
In 2015, the discovery of the meningeal lymphatic drainage system in the brain, which removes metabolites and toxins from its tissues during sleep, gave impetus understanding the mechanisms of the regenerative properties of the sleeping brain. Due to it, there have appeared new scientific concepts about the immunity of the brain and its regenerative processes.
Neuro-sleep is considered as a complex system that is studied using interdisciplinary approaches. The scientists are developing innovative technologies for assessing the blood-brain barrier and portable devices for stimulating the lymphatic elimination of toxins from the brain, as well as for the treatment of brain diseases during sleep.
To remind, the staff of the Smart Sleep Laboratory has developed the smart cap to treat Alzheimer's disease. The device will also be useful for people with sleep deficiency. Also, it promotes the elimination of toxins and metabolites formed in the brain due to the lack of sleep.
The programme committee of the conference consists of Oksana Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Center of Sleep Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Thomas Penzel, and Professor of Humboldt University in Berlin Jürgen Kurths.
At the end of the conference, the participants will receive the certificates. The reports of the school will be published in The European Physical Journal: Special Topics.
Read the conference programme on the website.
