Wednesday 22 April
9.30am – 9.35am
Welcome and housekeeping

Morning Session

9.35am – 9.50am
Rapid Fire 1: Does exposure to chronic psychosocial stress throughout one’s life, lead to a higher risk of Parkinsons or Parkinsonian-like symptoms by Shama Khiara

Morning Session

9.50am – 10.15am
Research comms 1: Investigating the potential of a brain specific estrogen prodrug to improve brain health in a young and middle-aged mouse model of surgical menopause by Celine Camon

Morning Session

10.15am – 11am
Prize session

Morning Session

11am – 11.15am
Break

Break

11.15am – 11.30am
Rapid fire 2: Systematic Mapping and Microstructural Quantification of U-Shaped Fibers by Busra Mutlu Ipek

Morning Session

11.30am – 11.45am
Rapid fire 3: Profiling Endogenous and Recruited Brain Macrophages Following Acute Stroke by Matthew Pirie

Morning Session

11.45am – 12pm
Rapid fire 4: High-Throughput Drug Screening and Repurposing for a Rare Childhood Neurodevelopmental Disorder by Tamsin Baxter

Morning Session

12pm – 12.25pm
Research comms 2: Cerebellar Kv2.1 Downregulation, Cytoarchitectural Alterations, and Persistent Motor by Lan Zhu

Afternoon Session

12.25pm – 12.50pm
Research comms 3: OPM-FLUX – an open-source analysis pipeline for OPM-MEG by Arnab Rakshit

Afternoon Session

12.50pm – 1.50pm
Lunch break

Break

1.20pm – 1.50pm
AGM

Afternoon Session

1.50pm – 2.50pm
Neuroscience Career Pathways Panel

Afternoon Session

2.50pm – 3.05pm
Rapid fire 5: Differential effects of pharmacological and physical stress on checking behaviour in rats by Marina Rodriguez Lopez

Afternoon Session

3.05pm – 3.30pm
Research comms 4: A GLIAL MECHANISM OF ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTION: FLUOXETINE POTENTIATES ATP-DRIVEN CAMP SIGNALLING IN ASTROCYTES by Catriona Marston

Afternoon Session

3.30pm – 3.45pm
Break

Break

3.45pm – 4pm
Rapid fire 6: Normative Modelling of Resting-State EEG Across the Lifespan for Application in the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia by Sanna Fraser

Afternoon Session

4pm – 4.15pm
Rapid fire 7: Metallic Dysfunction in the Huntington's Disease Heart and Brain by Melissa Scholefield

Afternoon Session

4.15pm – 4.55pm
President's plenary: The Brain's Autopilot

Afternoon Session

4.55pm – 5pm
Closing words day 1

Afternoon Session