Symposia, workshops & special sessions
See below for all the Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions taking place during the Festival. To see the sessions in chronological order, please see Programme by day.
Symposia
SUNDAY 14TH APRIL: SESSIONS 13.00 - 14.40
S1: Grid cells: Beyond self-location
Freyja Olafsdottir, University College London, UK (co-chair) - The contribution of grid cells to navigation
Kimberly Stachenfeld, DeepMind, London, UK (co-chair) - Dimensionality reduction of a hippocampal predictive map with grid cells
Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, US - Coding of space and time in the entorhinal cortex
Joseph O'Neill, Cardiff University, UK - Superficial layers of the medial entorhinal cortex replays independent of the hippocampus
S2: The multi-morbid old brain
Convened by the British Neuropathological Society
Johannes Attems, Newcastle University, UK (co-chair) - Neuropathology of age associated neurodegeneration
Tiago Outeiro, Georg August University, Germany (co-chair) - Protein modifications and interactions in neurodegeneration
Lauren Walker, Newcastle University, UK - Post-translationally modified amyloid beta in neurodegeneration
Colin Smith, University of Edinburgh, UK - Brain banking in dementia research
S3: Precision therapy: Antisense oligonucleotides targeting coding and noncoding RNAs for neurological disorders
Convened by Neuroscience Ireland
Cristina Reschke, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland (co-chair) - A microRNA-based disease-modifying therapy for epilepsy: journey to pre-clinical development
Suzan Hammond, University of Oxford, UK - Oligonucleotide therapies for neuromuscular diseases
Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, University College London, UK - Therapies targeting DNA and RNA in Huntington's disease
Gerhard Schratt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Novel non-coding RNA transcripts and their binding proteins as targets to shape neuronal network stability
S4: Brain network development
Convened by the French Neuroscience Society
Alain Chédotal, Institut de la Vision, France - 3D analysis of axon guidance with light sheet microscopy
Rosa Cossart, INSERM, France - Development of hippocampal assemblies
Simon Butt, University of Oxford, UK - Interneuron diversity and development
Christopher Eaton, University of Birmingham, UK - Epilepsy, seizures and EEG findings in young people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
S5: Neurobiological candidates for the rapid antidepressant response to ketamine
Convened by the British Pharmacological Society
Philip Cowen, University of Oxford, UK (co-chair) - Psychopharmacological mechanisms involved in the rapid antidepressant actions of ketamine and nitrous oxide
John Krystal, Yale Medical School, USA - Glutamatergic responses to ketamine mediate neuroplasticity and antidepression
Martin Walter, University of Tübingen - Brain network reflections of ketamine's glutamatergic and noradrenergic effects
Ginetta Collo, University of Brescia, Italy - Do actions of ketamine on dopaminergic transmission contribute to its antidepressant effects
Chair: Clare Stanford, UCL, UK
SUNDAY 14TH APRIL: SESSIONS 16.20 - 18.00
S6: Kisspeptin: a novel regulator of sex hormone secretion and sexual behaviour
Convened by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology
Waljit Dhillo, Imperial College London, UK - Kisspeptin modulates sexual and emotional brain processing in humans
Su Han, University of Otago, New Zealand (co-chair) - Arcuate kisspeptin neurons are the long-elusive hypothalamic pulse generator driving fertility
Kevin O’Byrne, King's College London, UK (co-chair) - Amygdala kisspeptin, sexual behaviour and anxiety in rodent models
Julie Bakker, University of Liège, Belgium - Female sexual behaviour in mice is controlled by kisspeptin neurones
S7: The link between neuroinflammation and dysregulated metabolism in the context of age and Alzheimer's disease
Convened by Dementia and Neurodegeneration Network Ireland
Marie-Victoire Guillot-Sestier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Immunometabolism and Alzheimer’s disease: Alteration of microglial metabolic function with age and cerebral amyloidosis
Catherine B. Lawrence, University of Manchester, UK (co-chair) - The role of zinc deficiency and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease
Michael Heneka, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany - The inflammasome in AD
Marina Lynch, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - Inflammasome activation in microglia is accompanied by a switch towards glycolysis: Assessment of the impact on neuronal function
S8: Mental illness in children and adolescents: neuroscience, ethics and practice in psychopharmacology
Convened by the British Association of Psychopharmacology and the International Neuroethics Society
Judith Homberg, Radboud University, The Netherlands - Psychopharmacology in the young and developing brain: perspectives from experimental animal studies
Ciara McCabe, University of Reading, UK - Anhedonia and adolescent depression
Paramala Santosh, King's College, London, UK - Child psychopharmacology and development: perspectives from real world clinical practice
Gabriela Pavarini, University of Oxford, UK - Early intervention and moral development in child psychiatry
Chair: Mitul Mehta, KCL, UK
S9: Neural processes and precursors of self-initiated action
Nima Khalighinejad, University of Oxford, UK (co-chair) - Neural circuits of value-guided self-initiated action in non-human primates
Patrick Haggard, University College London, UK (co-chair) - Volition and action in the human brain
Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel - To will or not to will: neural precursors of deliberate and arbitrary decisions
Joaquim Alves da Alves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Dopamine neuron activity before action initiation
S10: Epigenetics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Convened by The Genetics Society
Schahram Akbarian, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA - The Brain’s Folded Genomes. Implications for Schizophrenia and Other Psychiatric Disease
Arturas Petronis University of Toronto, Canada - Epigenetics and delayed age of onset of psychiatric disease
Therese Murphy, Technological University Dublin, Ireland - Genome-Wide DNA Methylation meta-analysis in the Brains of Suicide Completers
Elaine Murray, Ulster University, UK - DNA methylation analysis of samples from young adults with depression supports a link with the immune response
Chair: Colum Walsh, Ulster University, UK
MONDAY 15TH APRIL: SESSIONS 09.30 - 11.10
S11: The neuroendocrinology of programmed rheostasis
Convened by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology
Tyler Stevenson, University of Aberdeen, UK (co-chair) - The role of thyroid hormone for long-term energy balance
Jaclyn Schwarz, University of Delaware, US - Impact of early-life immune activation on long-term immune function and the ontogeny of learning in males and females
Denise Hough, University of Glasgow, UK (co-chair) - Long-term regulation of steroid hormone biosynthesis
Jonathan Perez, University of Glasgow, Extra-retinal regulation of avian reproduction: a role for va-opsin and neuropsin
Catherine Hume, University of Edinburgh, In vitro optogenetic stimulation of vasopressin retinal ganglion cell axons in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus
S12: Cognitive ageing: Inflammatory mechanisms driving changes in brain plasticity
The 'Neuronal Signaling' symposium, sponsored by Portland Press
Convened by Neuroscience Ireland
Yvonne Nolan, University College Cork, Ireland (co-chair) - Chronic hippocampal inflammation and cognitive decline: neurogenesis-mediated mechanisms
Annamaria Cattaneo, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli Brescia, Italy - Role of the gut microbiome and inflammation in Alzheimer Disease
Sandrine Thuret, King’s College London, UK - Alteration of Hippocampal Neurogenesis by the human systemic milieu: A biomarker of cognitive aging and dementia
Aine Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - Regular physical activity protects against cognitive ageing: assessment of underlying anti-inflammatory mechanisms
S13: Characterizing addiction using neuroimaging
Jeff Dalley, University of Cambridge, UK (co-chair) - MRI-guided analysis of addiction vulnerability
Wolfgang Sommer, Mannheim CIMH, Germany - Developing better treatments for relapse prevention using a systems biology approach
Louise Paterson, Imperial College London, UK - Potential of NK1 antagonism to treat addiction in man
Rebecca Elliott, University of Manchester, UK (co-chair) - Role of DRD3 and modulation of reward in treating addiction in man
S14: Lifespan development in individuals with Down syndrome and the potential of trisomy 21 as a biological model for the causes of Alzheimer's disease
Convened by Alzheimer’s Research UK
Hana D'Souza, University of Cambridge & Birkbeck, University of London, UK (co-chair) - The importance of understanding individual differences in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome
Andre Strydom, King's College London, UK (co-chair) - Prodromal features of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome
Niamh O’Brien, Queen Mary University London, UK - Human chromosome 21: Genes as modulators of APP-driven Alzheimer pathology
Frances Wiseman, University College London, UK - Trisomy 21 causes a deficit in lysosomal cathepsins and alters APP/Aβ processing, independently of an extra copy of APP
S15: Experience-dependent neuronal plasticity: An integrated view across different sensory modalities
Sponsored by Scientifica
Elisa Galliano, University of Cambridge, UK (co-chair) - Brief sensory deprivation triggers structural and functional plasticity in the olfactory bulb
Samuel Barnes, Imperial College London, UK (co-chair) - Experience-dependent homeostatic plasticity in visual circuits
Martine Hamann, University of Leicester, UK - Experience-dependent auditory plasticity in health and disease
Samuel Cooke, King's College London, UK - Plasticity within Primary Visual Cortex Supports the Detection of Novelty
MONDAY 15TH APRIL: SESSIONS 15.30 - 17.10
S16: Synaptic plasticity in health and disease
Convened by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience
Professor Graham Collingridge, University of Toronto, Canada - From Hebb synapses to synaptic tag and capture
Tomas Ryan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Rethinking Memory: Dissecting the Role of Hippocampal Engram Cells in Memory Consolidation
Jaideep Bains, University of Calgary, Canada - Giving and receiving: stress, social transmission and the synapse
Shernaz Bamji, University of British Columbia, Canada - Dynamic post-translational palmitoylation of synaptic proteins and synaptic plasticity
Chair: Tim Bliss, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
S17: Cannabinoids: therapeutic potential in CNS disorders
Convened by Neuroscience Ireland
Eric Downer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - Therapeutically targeting innate immune signalling mechanisms in CNS disorders with cannabinoids
Roger Pertwee, University of Aberdeen, UK - Pharmacological actions and potential novel therapeutic uses of certain plant and synthetic cannabinoids
Eva Marco, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Cannabinoids in emotional control, is there a sex-dependent effect?
Michelle Roche, NUI Galway, Ireland (co-chair) - Endocannabinoid modulation of neuroinflammation: implications of psychiatric disorders and pain
S18: Developing disease modifying therapies for Parkinson’s: From molecular mechanisms to clinical trials
Convened by Parkinson’s UK
Maria G. Spillantini, University of Cambridge, UK - Alpha-synuclein's conversion from an essential protein to a neuronal killer?
Anthony HV Schapira, University College London, UK (co-chair) - Glucocerebrosidase: A risk factor for Parkinson's leads to the discovery of novel therapeutic approaches
Giovanna R Mallucci, University of Cambridge, UK (co-chair) - PERK pathway modulation offers a new lease of life for old drugs as Parkinson's therapies
Richard Mead, University of Sheffield, UK - Virtual Biotech partnership: Novel funding to harness the neuroprotective potential of Nrf2-ARE pathway activation
S19: The role of voltage-gated calcium channels in neuropsychiatric disorders
Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Nicola Hall, University of Oxford, UK - Diversity of CACNA1C and CACNA1D splice isoform profiles in human brain
Laurent Ferron , University College London, UK - Modulation of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels by fragile X mental retardation protein
Nadine J Ortner, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Disease causing CACNA1D mutations in patients with neuropsychiatric disease
Cezar Tigaret, Cardiff University, UK (co-chair) - Translational studies of CACNA1C function
S20: Sense and sensibility
Convened by The Physiological Society
Annette Allen, University of Manchester, UK - Colour Vision in Humans
Claire Gizowski McGill University, Canada - Circadian regulation of thirst
Shamik DasgGupta - Dendritic Integration of Sensory Evidence in Olfactory Decision-Making
Michael-John Dolan, Janelia Research Campus, USA - Olfaction in flies
Chair: Professor Hugh Piggins, University of Manchester, UK
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 09.30 - 11.10
S21: Mitochondria in neurodegeneration and aging: transport, intracellular interactions and bioenergetic function
Susan Chalmers, University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair) - Mitochondrial morphology & motility alterations with age, hyperglycaemia and amyloid
Ana Cristina Rego, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) - Mitochondrial deregulation in Huntington's disease - role of SIRT3
Kurt De Vos, University of Sheffield, UK - Axonal transport defects in neurodegeneration: mitochondria and beyond
Maria Ankaarcrona, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden - ER-mitochondria interplay in Alzheimer's Disease
S22: New directions in epilepsy research
Convened by Epilepsy Research UK
Gabriele Lignani, University College London, UK (co-chair) - Modulating promoter activity to treat intractable genetic and acquired epilepsy
Sukhvir Wright, Aston University, UK (co-chair) - Autoimmune epilepsy: from symptoms to synapse
Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser, University of Edinburgh, UK - GABAergic Medial Septal Neurones and their role in models of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Andrei Ilie, University of Oxford, UK - Phasic and tonic GABAergic signalling combine with membrane potential dynamics to regulate intracellular chloride during seizures
S23: Neuromuscular disorders – cutting edge of translation
Convened by the Association of British Neurologists
Mary Reilly, Association of British Neurologists, UK (co-chair) - Inherited neuropathies: The first treatable neurodegenerative diseases
Orla Hardiman, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - MND – A model neurodegeneration
Michael Hanna, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London, UK (co-chair) - Channelopathies 2019: exciting new phenotypes, mechanisms and therapies
Hugh Willison, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Glasgow, UK - The sweet side of inflammatory neuropathy
S24: Impact factor: Concussion and brain health
John Kealy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - The neurovascular unit following traumatic brain injury
Niamh Lynch, Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, Ireland (co-chair) - Concussion - A paediatrics perspective
Ann McKee, Boston University, US - Updates in CTE: 2019
David Loane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Chronic pathologies following severe TBI: NOXious neuroinflammation as a therapeutic target
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 15.30 - 17.10
S25: How stress affects endocrine systems and vice-versa: A brain-hormone crosstalk
Convened by Society for Endocrinology
Francesca Spiga, University of Bristol, UK (co-chair) - How does stress affect the adrenal gland activity
Karen Chapman, University of Edinburgh, UK - Stress, glucocorticoids, inflammation and brain metabolism
Marie-Pierre Moisan, University of Bordeaux, France - Influence of circadian rhythms on high fat diet - induced memory alterations
Stefan Reber, University of Ulm, Germany - How does stress affect somatic and affective disorders?
S26: The microbiome: A Key regulator of the impact of diet on brain function
Convened by Neuroscience Ireland
John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland (co-chair) - Dietary targeting of the microbiome for the stressed, and ageing brain
Carlos Ribiero, Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal - Commensal bacteria control food choice behavior
Marion Rincel, University Bordeaux, France (co-chair) - Interactions between diet, early-life stress & behaviour: Role of the microbiome & gut barrier function
Philip Burnet, University of Oxford, UK - Prebiotic effects on brain and behaviour in rodents and humans
S27: Neural stem cells and brain cancer
Convened by the British Neuro-Oncology Society
Simona Parrinello, University College London, UK (co-chair) - The niche in neurogenesis and brain cancer
Steven Pollard, University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) - Transcriptional regulation of neural stem cell self-renewal as a target for glioblastoma
Richard Gilbertson, University of Cambridge, UK - Developing new models of brain tumours
Lene Uhrbom, Uppsala University, Sweden - A cell of origin-based approach to decipher glioblastoma biology
S28: Let’s stick together - neurodegeneration an expanding disease spectrum
Convened by the Association of British Neurologists
Timothy Lynch, University College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - Subtypes of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in Ireland
Jonathan Schott, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK (co-chair) - Determining the prevalence and causes of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular disease – results from a British Birth Cohort.
Matthew Jones, University of Manchester, UK - Unravelling FTD – syndromes, proteins, genes and treatments
Paola Piccini, Imperial College London, UK - Advances in Neuroimaging in PD
S29: Within and beyond the medial temporal lobe: Brain circuits for place and recognition memory
Sponsored by TOCRIS, a Bio-Techne Brand
Tobias Bast, University of Nottingham, UK (co-chair) - Prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens: relevance for the hippocampal learning-behaviour translation and for the cognitive impact of hippocampal dysfunction
Lisa Genzel, Donders Institute, The Netherlands - Hippocampal-prefrontal cortex interactions in sleep for memory consolidation: from rats to humans
Lisa Kinnavane, University of Bristol, UK (co-chair) - Mapping anatomically verified activity patterns for recognition memory processing within and beyond the medial temporal lobe
James Ainge, University of St Andrews, UK - Hippocampal-entorhinal circuits underlying associative recognition memory
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: SESSIONS 09.30 - 11.10
S30: Vestibular cognition
Convened by the Experimental Psychology Society
David Wilkinson, University of Kent, UK (co-chair) - Vestibular Stimulation: an adjuvant therapy for cognitive and psychiatric impairment?
Elisa Ferre, University of London, UK (co-chair) - Vestibular contribution to human perception and cognition
Peter zu Eulenburg, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universitat, Germany - The human vestibular cortex
Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland - The plastic self: how vestibular signals influence the sense of self and embodied cognition
S31: Sleep and the neuroendocrine system
Convened by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology
Henrik Oster, University of Lubeck, Germany - Animal models of sleep, and neuroendocrine physiology
Nayantara Santhi, University of Surrey, UK - Human sleep, and neuroendocrine physiology
Eve Van Cauter, University of Chicago, US (co-chair) - Sleep, Hormones and Metabolism
Edward Harding, Imperial College London, Distinct preoptic neurons connect sleep onset and body cooling in response to a warm stimulus
Konstantinos Kalafatakis, University of Bristol (10 minute ECR talk) - Changes in the pattern of circulating cortisol differentially modulate daily mood oscillations and the resting state networks of the human brain
Co-chair: John Johnston, University of Surrey, UK
S32: Advances in Child Neurology 2019
Convened by the British Paediatric Neurology Association
Anne Marie Childs, Leeds General Infirmary, UK - SMA and DMD: what is best practice care?
Katharina Vezyroglou, UCL-Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK - ATP1A3 related disease through the ages
Helen Cross, UCL-Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK (co-chair) - New ways forward in childhood epilepsy
Ming Lim, Evelina Childrens Hospital, London, UK (co-chair) - Autoimmune neurological disease in childhood
S33: New molecular approaches for understanding synapses, circuits, and behaviour
Yvonne Jones, University of Oxford, UK - Semaphorin-plexin complexes, signalling and synapses - a structure-function perspective
Marco Tripodi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK - Using self-inactivating, trans-synaptic rabies virus to map and manipulate neural circuits
Jonny Kohl, University College London, UK - Functional Circuit Architecture Underlying Parental Behaviour
Bill Wisden, Imperial College London, UK - Molecular neurobiology of sleep circuits
Chair: Mick Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK.
S34: Vascular Neurology
Convened by the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SPEAKER ORDER HAS CHANGED FOR THIS SESSION
Aine Merwick, Beaumont Hospital, Ireland - Optimising risk-stratification to guide management following a transient ischaemic attack
Dominick McCabe, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - Update on translational platelet science / haemostasis in ischaemic cerebrovascular disease
Alex Leff, UCL, UK (co-chair) - Novel approaches to rehabilitation following stroke
Keith Muir, University of Glasgow, UK - Neuroimaging techniques to optimise selection of acute ischaemic stroke patients for IV thrombolysis or mechanical thrombectomy
S35: Educational neuroscience research into neurocognitive predictors of academic outcome
Convened by the British Psychological Society
Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven, Belgium (co-chair) - Symbolic numerical processing is a key predictor of learning arithmetic
Iroise Dumontheil, University of London, UK (co-chair) - Inhibitory control and science and maths reasoning
Grégoire Borst, University Paris Descartes, France - Sulcal morphology of the brain as an early cerebral constraint on future academic learning
Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, Rutgers University, US - Brain network interactions supporting inhibitory control during rational number processing
Workshops:
SUNDAY 14TH APRIL: 16.20 - 18.00
W1: Big Data: Management, modelling & collaboration
Madeleine Lowery, University College Dublin, Ireland (chair) - Modelling big data, an inter-disciplinary approach
Claire Gillan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Big Data: techniques and collaboration for psychiatric health
John Terry, University of Exeter, UK - Computational Biology
Damien Coyle, Ulster University, UK - Neurotechnology and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Sara Pulit, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands - Computational biology applications in large-scale omics data: examples from obesity genetics
MONDAY 15TH APRIL: 09.30 - 11.10
W2: President's session: Safeguarding credibility and reproducibility in neuroscience
Pia Rotshtein, University of Birmingham, UK - How study pre-registration can benefit neuroscience
Emily Sena, University of Edinburgh, UK - How & why to avoid risks of bias in preclinical neuroscience research
Verena Heise, University of Oxford, UK - An ECR'S guide to changing research culture
Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol, UK (chair) - Scientific Ecosystems and Research Reproducibility
MONDAY 15TH APRIL: 15.30 - 17.10
W3: How a journal handles your paper
J. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford, UK (chair) - Ethical issues around scientific publishing
Jeff Dalley, University of Cambridge, UK - The peer-review process and what we expect reviewers to do
Marina Picciotto, Yale University School of Medicine, US - What we expect in a good paper
Juan Lerma, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain - What happens to your paper once submitted to a journal
John Foxe, University of Rochester, US - Reproducibility
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: 09.30 - 11.10
W4: Workshop by and for Early Career Researchers: Opening Up Peer Review
The workshop aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding publication and peer review process/ Expected a spirited discussion on reviewers' comments (the good, the bad and the ugly), the editorial decision making process, the evolution of a paper from submission to publication, and the role of pre-registration in helping to improve reproducibility.
Delegates will benefit from a practical discussion around reviewers' comments, editorial comment and authors' responses for a recently published manuscript in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology. In doing so, the audience will see how a paper evolves from submission to publication, leading to a larger conversation on what makes a good reviewer and opening up the peer review process.
Prof Julian Mercer, University of Aberdeen and Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Professor Stafford Lightman, University of Bristol and co-founder of the Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Dr Pia Rothstein, University of Birmingham, expert on pre-registration and Registered Reports
Special Sessions:
SUNDAY 14TH APRIL: 13.00 - 14.40
SsA: Rapid-fire poster talks
30 submitted poster abstracts will be selected to give talks of just 3 minutes and 2 slides each. Get a taste of the whole Festival in just one session!
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 09.30 - 11.10
SsB: The BSN Alison Douglas Lecture
Convened by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology
Dr Jane Robinson, University of Glasgow
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 15.30 - 17.10
SsC: Early Career Researcher Prizewinners' session
Nitzan Censor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel - Rapid perceptual learning and its implications across memory domains (The Sieratzki UK-Israel Prize for Advances in Neuroscience prize: ECR category)
Ella Striem-Amit, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA - The action system in people born without hands.(The Sieratzki UK-Israel Prize for Advances in Neuroscience prize: Young Researcher's category)
Kathy Ruddy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - A different state of mind ; Regulating motor cortical excitability using TMS-based neurofeedback (NSI Early Career Investigator award winner)
Guiseppe D'Agostino - Hindbrain Circuits Controlling Appetite (The BSN Mick Harbuz prize winner)
MONDAY 15TH APRIL: 13.10 - 13.50
SsD: Q&A session with Professor Anil Seth
What is the relationship between consciousness, memory, and identity? Can there be more than one consciousness governed by a single brain?
Anil provides an insight into the state-of-the-art research in the new science of consciousness. Distinguishing between conscious level, conscious content and conscious self, he describes how new experiments are shedding light on the underlying neural mechanisms in normal life as well as in neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Join Professor Anil Seth for a special feature Q&A session with Miss Jamie Thakar, BNA postgraduate member and University of Bristol students, currently investigating the relationship between the stress hormone, cortisol, emotional processing and functional connectivity of the brain, under the supervision of BNA President Professor Stafford Lightman.