Schedule

Neuronus 2026 Neuroscience Forum will take place in Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University on the 24 - 26 April 2026. The registration desk will open on the 24th of April at 8:00.

Workshops are taking place 23rd April 2026.Details on the workshop schedule will be sent via e-mail to participants.

FORUM SHEDULE

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9:15 - 10:30	Opening Ceremony Adrianna Zenczak, Martyna Bernaciak (Heads of Neuronus 2026) Presentation of IBRO activities: Daniel Wójcik (chair of IBRO-PERC) Keynote lecture\| Large hall A Concious Vision and Its Restoration in Blindness > Speaker: Peter Roelfesma
10:30 - 11:00	Flashtalks Large hall A
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	Symposia Session\| Large hall A High-Level Feedback in Vision: Rules of Prediction, Suppression, and Filling-In > Speakers: David Richter Symposia Session\| Large Hall B Touch, Pain and Interoception in Somatosensory and Cancer Neuroscience > Speakers: Andrew Bell Symposia Session\| Medium hall B Brain Diseases - Different Models, New Insights > Speakers: Alexander Whitworth Symposia Session \| Conference Room Medical Case Reports >
13:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:45	Poster Session I Conference room
14:45 - 15:45	Extended Flash Talk Session Computational Methods in Neuroscience
16:00 - 17:30	Symposia Session\| Large hall A Immunometabolic Basis of Neurodegenerative Disorders > Speakers: Mootaz M. Salman Symposia Session\| Large Hall B Space-time trades in human nociceptive system > Speakers: Robert C. Coghill Symposia Session\| Medium hall B Interpersonal Neural Synchrony in Close Relationships: Hyperscanning Studies of Parents, Children, and Romantic Partners > Speakers: Antonia Hamilton Symposia Session \| Conference Room Computational Methods for EEG >
18:00- 19:00	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30	Keynote lecture\| Large hall A Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative disease > Speaker: Aaron Gitler
19:00	Welcome Reception Auditorium Maximum, Main hall


9:00 - 10:00	Keynote lecture\| Large hall A Mitochondria in Brain Function and Mental Health > Speaker: Carmen Sandi
10:00 - 11:30	Symposia Session\| Large hall A Social and Affective Mechanisms of Psychedelics: From Acute Dynamics to Long-Term Adaptation Speakers: Rebecca Bohme Symposia Session\| Large hall B Microglia meet metabolism: Microglia as drivers of brain and metabolic health Speakers: Agnes Nadjar Symposia Session \| Medium hall B Systems neuroscience of memory formation Symposia Session \| Conference Room From seeing to reacting: visual perception and response control
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30	Symposia Session\| Large hall A Bridging worlds - behavioral, molecular and clinical perspectives on psychedelics Speakers: David Erritzoe Symposia Session\| Large hall B Neuroendocrine Brain Speakers: Valery Grinevich Symposia Session\| Medium hall B Multimodal Brain Data Integration Speaker: Sophia Ulonska Symposia Session \| Conference Room Global Village: Electrophysiological correlates of language control
13:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:15	Poster Session II Exhibition room
15.15 - 17.00	Symposia Session \| Large hall A Higher-order conditioning: from incidental associations to psychotic-like states Speakers: Arnau Busquets Garcia Symposia Session\| Large hall B Novel functional and anatomical imaging approaches for the nervous system studies Speakers: Diana Cash & Michel Mesquita Symposia Session\| Medium hall B Neuroscience Across Species Symposia Session \| Conference Room From Saccades to Saliency: The role of eye movements in sensory and social cognition
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30	Keynote lecture \| Large hall A Learing principles of neuroscience from the 'vulgar' Hydra Speaker: Rafael Yuste
21:00 -	Neuronus Party Don't forget to bring your conference badge. There will be snacks provided but we recommend grabbing a dinner before the party. We're hoping to see you on the dancefloor, there will be space for conversations. Drinks available for purchase.

9:00 - 10:00	Keynote lecture \| Large hall A Resolving Conflict in the Brain > Speaker:Carolina Rezaval
10:00 - 11:30	Symposia Session\| Large hall A Neuronal mechanisms of social behaviors Speakers: Felix Leroy Symposia Session\| Large hall B Targeting Neuroinflammation and CNS Repair in MS: From Psychedelics to Oxysterols and Advanced Drug Delivery Speakers: Aleksandra Rutkowska Symposia Session\| Medium hall B Neural systems under strain: from acute functional responses, to chronic structural alterations Speakers: Ala Yankouskaya
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30	Symposia Session\| Large hall A Human Cellular Approaches to Study Brain Physiology and Pathology Speakers: Raluca Contu Symposia Session\| Large hall B Decoding Neuroinflammation: Immune Mechanisms, Spatial Profiling and Systemic Implications Speakers: Symposia Session\| Large hall B Sleep and Biological Rhythms: from Cognition to Clinical Practice Speakers
13:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:15	Poster Session III Exhibition room


15:30 - 16:30	OPEN Keynote lecture\| Large hall A Weaving Vision and Language into Knowledge in the Human Brain > Speaker: Yanchao Bi
16:30	Awards & Closing Ceremony Large hall A