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Brain Conference 2024
15/03/2024

Brain has published landmark papers in clinical neurology and translational neuroscience since 1878. The Guarantors of Brain aim to promote teaching, education and research in neurology and related disciplines, and we started the Brain Conference in 2021 to further fulfil this mission. Brain is proud of its broad readership, comprising both clinicians and scientists within the neurosciences. This conference is for our general readership – whether you are a clinician or scientist, a student or senior faculty, working directly with patients or in the wet lab, this conference has something for you.
The conference is composed of topic sessions, representing a broad range of neuroscience topics. The sessions for conference 2024 are as followed:
- Sleep
- Advanced Therapies
- Neuroinflammation
- Stroke
Register to Attend
Poster abstract submission
Abstracts for posters to be presented at the Brain Conference are requested.
The themes for posters are as followed:
- Advanced Therapies
- CNS Injury
- Dementia
- Epilepsy and Sleep
- Genetics
- Movement Disorders
- Multiple Sclerosis/Neuroinflammation
- Neuro-oncology
- Neurodegeneration – Cellular & Molecular
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Neuropsychiatry
- Pain and Headache
- Stroke
The review committee will also be selecting abstracts from the submissions for oral presentation in the Data Blitz session. The duration of the Data Blitz talk is 5 minutes. If you do not wish to be considered for the Data Blitz presentation, please indicate this on the submission form.
Please note that abstracts will only be accepted if only one of the contributing authors will be present in-person at the conference to present the poster.
Closing date for abstract submission: 23 February 2024
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome & Introduction
09:15 – 10:15
Plenary
- Prof Colin Espie: Title TBC
10:15 – 11:30
1st Session – Sleep
Chair: Prof Colin Espie Co-Chair: Dr Laurent Sheybani
- Prof Vladyslav Vyazovskiy: Talk 1.1 Sleep, wake and other states: neurophysiology, regulation and function
- Prof Florian Mormann: Talk 1.2 Single-neuron correlates of human memory consolidation during sleep
- Dr Lucie Barateau: Talk 1.3 Neurobiology of central disorders of hypersomnolence
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee/tea Break
12:00 – 13:15
2nd session – Advanced Therapies
Chair: Dr Rita Horvarth Co-Chair: Dr Meher Lad
- Prof Gabriele Lignani: Talk 2.1 Title TBC
- Prof Matthis Synofzik: Talk 2.2 Brain precision medicine 2.0: individual patient-customized antisense oligonucleotides for severe neurodegenerative brain diseases
- Dr. Catherine Mummery: Talk 2.3 Title TBC
13:15 – 14:15
Lunch & Poster Session
14:15 – 15:35
3rd Session – Data Blitzes
- Data Blitz: Presenters TBC
15:35 – 16:00
Coffee/tea Break
16:00 – 17:05
4th Session – Neuroinflammation
Chair: Prof Alasdair Coles Co-Chair: Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan
- Prof David Hunt: Talk 4.1 TBC
- Dr Arman Eshaghi: Talk 4.2 TBC
- Talk 4.3 TBC
17:05 – 18:10
5th session – Stroke
Chair: Dr Melanie Fleming Co-Chair: Dr Lucia Li
- Dr. Steffen Tiedt: Talk 5.1 Title TBC
- Dr Zahraa Al-Ahmady: Talk 5.2 Title TBC
- Dr Hanna Willis: Talk 5.3 Title TBC
18:10 – 18:15
Close of presentations
18:15 – 19:30
Drinks reception & posters
19:30