Further Program Announcements Coming Soon!

KEYNOTE LECTURES

Aaron Gitler - Stanford University

Yanchao Bi - School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, China

Carmen Sandi - Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics, EPFL

Rafael Yuste - Columbia University

Pieter Roelfsema - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

SYMPOSIA 

Touch, Pain and Interoception in Somatosensory and Cancer Neuroscience
Invited speaker: Andrew Bell, PhD (University of Glasgow, UK)

The Neuroendocrine Brain
Invited speaker: Valery Grinevich (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Human Cellular Approaches to Study Brain Physiology and Pathology
Invited speaker: Cristiana Cruceanu (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Microglia meet metabolism: Microglia as drivers of brain and metabolic health
Invited speaker: Agnès Nadjar (University of Bordeaux, France)

Decoding Neuroinflammation: Immune Mechanisms, Spatial Profiling and Systemic Implications
Invited speaker: Dr. Anna M. Planas (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Space-time trade-offs in human nociceptive system
Invited speaker: Robert C. Coghill (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Higher-order conditioning: From incidental associations to psychotic-like states
Invited speaker: Dr. Arnau Busquets Garcia (Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Spain)

Interpersonal Neural Synchrony in Close Relationships: Hyperscanning Studies of Parents, Children, and Romantic Partners
Invited speaker: Antonia Hamilton (University College London, UK)

Social and Affective Mechanisms of Psychedelics: From Acute Dynamics to Long-Term Adaptation
Invited speaker: Dr. Rebecca Böhme (Linköping University, Sweden)

High-Level Feedback in Vision: Rules of Prediction, Suppression, and Filling-In
Invited speaker: David Richter (University of Granada, Spain & Radboud University, Netherlands)

Neural systems under strain: from acute functional responses, to chronic structural alterations
Invited speaker: Dr. Ala Yankouskaya (Bournemouth University, UK)

Novel functional and anatomical imaging approaches for the nervous system studies
Invited speaker: Diana Cash, PhD and Michel Mesquita, PhD (King’s College London, UK)

Multimodal Brain Data Integration
Invited speaker: Sophia Ulonska (TU Wien, Austria)

Brain diseases – different models, new insights
Invited speaker: Alexander Whitworth, PhD (University of Cambridge, UK)

Bridging worlds - behavioral, molecular and clinical perspectives on psychedelics
Invited speaker: David Erritzoe (Imperial College London, UK)

Immunometabolic Basis of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Invited speaker: Dr. Mootaz M. Salman (University of Oxford, UK)

Targeting Neuroinflammation and CNS Repair in MS: From Psychedelics to Oxysterols and Advanced Drug Delivery
Invited speaker: Dr hab. Aleksandra Rutkowska (Medical University of Gdansk, Poland)

Sleep and biological rhythms: from cognition to clinical practice