Program

ISINP-2025 is supported by:

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
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ISINP-2025 TIME TABLE
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ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION:

Round Table I
Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, James W. Holsapple, Alan Macy, Ulrich Parlitz, Jürgen Kurths,
J. Randall Moorman, Shlomo Havlin, Eckehard Schöll, Viktor Jirsa, Paul Bogdan

Round Table II
Joseph Loscalzo, Helene M. Langevin, Yaron Ilan, Boris P. Kovatchev, Robert J. Thomas,
Rosario Mantegna, Luca Faes

LECTURE TITLES (TBA)

Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, Ph.D., Professor
University of Exeter, UK
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Natàlia Balague, Ph.D., Professor
INEFC, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1. Network Physiology reveals sex differences in response to exercise with implications for health and performance

Ronny P. Bartsch, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Physics, Bar-llan University, Israel
1. Coexisting forms of coupling and networks of physiological interactions
2. Reconstructing causal networks in physiology

Thomas Beyer, Ph.D., Professor
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1. Dual-modality PET-based whole-body imaging for systemic phenotyping

Paul Bogdan, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California, USA
1. Artificial intelligence for network physiology
2. Network physiology-inspired theoretical foundations of neuroAI: challenges and a Gedanken modeling framework of living neuronal networks dynamics

Luca Faes, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy
1. Measuring integration and emergence in dynamic physiological networks: an information-theoretic approach

Flavio H. Fenton, Ph.D., Professor
School of Physics, Georgia Tech, USA
1. Simultaneous optical mapping of voltage and calcium dynamics in myocardial cell networks of whole ex-vivo human explanted hearts to investigate emergent behavior in arrhythmias
2. Spatiotemporal synchronization in networks of cardiac cells during arrhythmias and defibrillation

Susanna Gordleeva, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Neurotechnologies, Neuroscience Research Institute,
Lobachevsky State University, Russia
1. Astrocytic modulation of neural network signaling.

Nandu Goswami, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Center for Space and Aviation Health, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine, UAE
Gravitational Physiology and Medicine Research Unit, Medical University of Graz, Austria
1. Risk of thromboembolism in space: system interactions, challenges and perspectives

Sallie Gregson, B.A., Journal Manager
Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland
1. Introducing Frontiers in Network Physiology: Bridging Disciplines to Understand Complex Physiological Systems and their Interactions.

Shlomo Havlin, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Physics, Bar-llan University, Israel
1. Theory of interdependent networks: applications in physics and physiology
2. Time persistence of brain networks

James W. Holsapple, M.D., Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine
Neurological Surgery, Boston Medical Center, USA
1. Network physiology: an emerging tool in the clinical neurosciences?
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Yaron Ilan, M.D., Professor
Department of Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel
Department of Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
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Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Ph.D., Professor
Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology, Department of Physics, Boston University, USA
1. The new field of Network Physiology: Building the Human Physiolome
2. Physiologic network interactions: Novel hallmark of physiological state and function

Viktor Jirsa, Ph.D., Professor
CNRS, France
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille University, France
1. On the space-time structure of large-scale brain networks and their dynamics
2. Principles and operation of virtual brain twins

Boris P. Kovatchev, Ph.D., Professor
School of Medicine, University of Virginia, USA
1. Controlling the Human Glucose-Insulin Metabolic Network: the Neural Network AI artificial pancreas and the contemporary treatment of diabetes
2. How in silico models of the human glucose-insulin metabolic network across organ systems made animal trials obsolete

Jürgen Kurths, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Physics, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
1. Synchronization phenomena in coupled oscillators and complex adaptive networks: from complete to partial synchronization
2. Various Synchronization Phenomena in Neural Systems with Time Delay and Complex Noise

Ying-Cheng Lai, Ph.D., Professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
Department of Physics, Arizona State University, USA
1. Controllability of nonlinear dynamical networks
2. Reservoir computing and dynamical networks: recent results and open questions

Helene M. Langevin, M. D.,
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Klaus Lehnertz, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Epileptology at Bonn University Medical Center, Germany
1. Time-evolving functional brain networks – insights from epilepsy

Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., Professor
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
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Alan Macy, MSEE
Biopac Systems, Inc., Santa Barbara, USA
1. Advancing network physiology: challenges and opportunities in developing integrated medical device platforms for high-frequency multisystem monitoring

Rosario Mantegna, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Applied Physics, University of Palermo, Italy
Complexity Science Hub, Austria
1. Comorbidity networks
2. Clustering and dismantling of comorbidity networks

Randall Moorman, M.D., Professor
Department of Medicine, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA
1. How can the study of network physiology improve patient care
2. How anti-aircraft gunnery helps the network physiologist

Ulrich Parlitz, Ph.D., Professor
Max Planck Research Group Biomedical Physics,
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, German
1. Challenges of the complex dynamics of cardiomyocyte networks in heart tissue
2. Data driven modelling, control, and dynamical networks

Sergi Garcia-Retortillo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Health and Exercise Science, Wake Forest University, USA
Complex Systems in Sport Research Group, University of Barcelona, Spain
1. Network physiology of exercise: inter-muscular networks in rest, exercise, fatigue and aging
2. Networks of cardio-muscular coordination – evolution with exercise and fatigue

Rossella Rizzo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy
1. Network physiology of cortico-muscular interactions: mathematical framework and implications for physiological regulation, sleep and neurodegenerative disorders

Eckehard Schöll, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Physics, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany
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Sebastiano Stramaglia, Ph.D., Professor
Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
1. Higher order interactions, in physiological networks, assessed by gradients of O-information and decomposition of the transfer entropy.

Misako Takayasu, Ph.D., Professor
School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
1. Analysis of high-resolution metagenomic time series and modeling of the microbiome interaction network

Robert J. Thomas, M.D., M.M.Sc, Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep, Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
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Bettina Weigelin, M.D., Professor
Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy,
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
1. Multiscale immuno-imaging and network physiology: from immune cell function to systemic immune response in cancer
2. Thermal tuning of immunity: Fever-range temperature modulation of cancer immunity and network physiology

Alexey Zaikin, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Mathematics, University College London, UK
EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, UK
1. Analysis of multidimensional medical data with synolitic networks
2. Emerging of intelligence in complex physiological networks

Xiyun Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangdong, China
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