As Festival Partners for BNA2019, NSI are delighted to have been involved in developing an exciting scientific stream within the BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience. This stream is composed of an excellent line up of symposium, workshops and plenary lectures chaired and delivered by Irish Neuroscience researchers. Come see the latest research from early career through to veteran neuroscientists on a wide array of exciting topics.
For a full list of symposium and plenary lectures see below and click here
NSI Opening Plenary and The Brain Prize Plenary Lecture
Sunday 14th April: 18:00 – 19:00, the Auditorium, CCD
Decisions, uncertainty and rewards
Professor Ray Dolan,
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UK
Symposium Sessions
Sunday 14th April: 13.00 – 14.40
S3: Precision therapy: Antisense oligonucleotides targeting coding and noncoding RNAs for neurological disorders
Cristina Reschke, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland (co-chair)
Gerhard Schratt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Sarah Tabrizi, University College London, UK.
Monday 15th April: 9.30 – 11.10
S12: Cognitive ageing: Inflammatory mechanisms driving changes in brain plasticity
The ‘Neuronal Signaling’ symposium, supported by Portland Press
Yvonne Nolan, University College Cork, Ireland (co-chair)
Annamaria Cattaneo, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli Brescia, Italy.
Sandrine Thuret, King’s College London, UK.
Aine Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair)
Monday 15th April: 15.30 – 17.10
S17: Cannabinoids: therapeutic potential in CNS disorders
Roger Pertwee, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Eva Marco, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Eric Downer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair)
Michelle Roche, NUI Galway, Ireland (co-chair)
Tuesday 16th April: 15.30 – 17.10
S26: The Microbiome: A Key Regulator of the Impact of Diet on Brain Function
John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland (co-chair)
Carlos Ribiero, Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal.
Marion Rincel, University Bordeaux, France (co-chair)
Philip Burnet, University of Oxford, UK.
Affiliated symposium
Sunday 14th April: 16.20 – 18.00
S7: The link between neuroinflammation and dysregulated metabolism in the context of age and Alzheimer’s disease
Convened by Dementia and Neurodegeneration Network Ireland
Marina Lynch, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair)
Catherine B. Lawrence, University of Manchester, UK (co-chair)
Robert Cumming, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Michael Heneka, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany.
Tuesday 16th April: 09.30 – 11.10
S24: Impact Factor: Concussion and Brain Health
John Kealy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair)
Niamh Lynch, Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, Ireland (co-chair)
Ann McKee, Boston University, US
Nicola Marchi, Institut de Génomique Fonctionelle, France
Tuesday 16th April: 15.30 – 17.10
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)
Jonathan Schott, University College London, UK (co-chair)
Matthew Jones, University of Manchester, UK.
Paola Piccini, Imperial College London, UK.
Wednesday 17th April: 09.30 – 11.10
S34: Vascular Neurology
Convened by the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience
Keith Muir, University of Glasgow, UK
Dominick McCabe, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair)
Aine Merwick, Beaumont Hospital, Ireland
Alex Leff, UCL, UK (co-chair)
SsC: Early Career Researcher Prizewinners’ session
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL: SESSIONS 15.30 – 17.10
Kathy Ruddy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland – NSI Early Career Investigator award winner
Workshop
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