Call for Poster Abstracts

BNA2025 is a fantastic opportunity to share your work with the wider neuroscience community. The BNA is currently accepting abstract submissions for poster and flash poster presentations for the conference.

Please read our abstract requirements document before visiting the submissions portal to ensure your submissions align with our guidelines. This document offers useful information and details the specific criteria for submitting abstracts, helping you to prepare your submissions effectively and ensuring they meet our considerations.

Please note that you must be registered to attend BNA2025 in order to submit an abstract. The final deadline for abstract submissions is 11:59pm GMT Friday 31 January 2025. 

We encourage early submissions and those who submit their poster abstract by 18th November will be included in round 1 reviews and will be notified of acceptance on 5th December:

All other authors will be notified of their acceptance from 3rd March 2025.

Please note that there will be no late breaking abstracts, or extensions to the submission deadline. Abstracts submitted after 31 January 2025 will not be accepted.

Accepted posters are subject to a £65 administration fee – if your abstract is selected for inclusion in the BNA2025 scientific programme, we will notify you and request payment by 17th March 2025, There is no fee for submitting a poster.

If you need any further assistance before submitting your poster abstract please contact [email protected]. 

Poster themes
We welcome poster abstracts in the following areas to align with our scientific programme content: 

1. Ageing and Neurodegeneration
2. Behavioural neuroscience
3. Brain repair and regeneration
4. Brain/Body interactions
5. Computational and theoretical neuroscience
6. Human cognitive neuroscience
7. Neurodevelopment, stem cells and associated disorders
8. Neurons & Glia: physiology, cell-cell communication and plasticity
9. Neuropharmacology
10. Neurotechnology & AI
11. Novel methods and technology development
12. Other (history of neuroscience, PPIE etc)
13. Other neurological and genetic disorders
14. Psychiatry & Mental Health
15. Training & Education
16. Treatments & Translational Neuroscience

Multiple ways to share your research
We welcome two types of poster abstract– ‘Traditional’ and ‘Preregistration’. Preregistration posters give the opportunity to submit plans for studies yet to be undertaken, whereas traditional posters describe work that has already been completed.

In addition, throughout BNA2025, we will showcase 24 posters in dedicated flash poster or ‘rapid fire’ sessions. Flash poster presentations are 3 minutes long, with 1 power point slide. This is a great opportunity to highlight the key points of your poster and encourage delegates to visit you during your poster presentation.  

Highlighting Credibility in Neuroscience
The BNA supports neuroscientists to make their research as robust, reliable, replicable, and reproducible as possible. We encourage poster presenters to demonstrate ways that they have made their work more credible and highlight their efforts using our Open Science Badges.

You can add up to three Open Science Badges to your abstract during the submission process. For more information on Open Science Badges, visit https://bnacredibility.org.uk/open-science-badges.

Recognising excellence
The BNA is proud to recognise excellence amongst our student and early career community. During BNA2025, Poster Prizes will be awarded to eligible presenting authors. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for a prize during the abstract submission process.