Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025
NSI Conference 2025 Programme
“Connectivity for Brain Health”
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28th August 2025
08:30 Tea & Registration
09:00 Opening & Welcome
Symposium 1: Connectivity & Brain Health Across the Lifespan
10:00
Title to be confirmed
John Foxe
University of Rochester, USA
10:45
Characterising the longitudinal development of intrinsic timescales in the infant brain and how they relate to the alpha brain rhythm
Anna Truzzi
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
11:00
Investigating the reward mechanisms underpinning anhedonia in adolescents
Ciara McCabe
University of Reading, UK
11:15
Size matters. Age and sex-related variations in quantitative metrics derived from diffusion weighted imaging must be adjusted for brain size.
Richard Carson
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
11:30 ECR Spotlight Sessions
12:00 Lunch
13:00 ECR Awardee: Dearbhaile Dooley
13:30 Posters & Networking
Symposium 2: Dysconnectivity in Neurology & Psychiatry
14:15
Title to be confirmed
Alexander Leemans
Utrecht University, Netherlands
15:00
Title to be confirmed
Stephanie Duguez
Ulster University, Northern Ireland
15:15
Stuck in the middle with you: Reflections on Clinical Neuropsychology in practice with the people whose symptoms fall in the conceptual and service gaps between psychiatry and neurology
Nigel Lyttle
Royal Victoria Hospital, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
15:30
A circadian neuroscience perspective on bipolar disorder
Daniel Smith
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
15:45 ECR Spotlight Sessions
29th August 2025
09:30 Tea & Coffee
Symposium 3: Molecular & Cellular Connectivity
10:00
Revolutionising precise neuromodulation for human motor control
Charlie Stagg
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
10:45
Disrupted Molecular Connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease: New Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets
Gerard O’Keeffe
University College Cork, Ireland
11:00
Zinc and the Brain: Unraveling the Trace Element’s Role in Neural Development and Lateralization
Andreas Grabrucker
University of Limerick, Ireland
11:30 ECR Spotlight Sessions
12:00 Lunch
12:45 DIA Awardee: Mark Cunningham
13:30 Posters & Networking
Symposium 4: Impacting Connectivity
14:15
Title to be confirmed
Rhodri Cusack
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
15:00
Speaker to be confirmed
15:15
Modulation of sensorimotor representations through motor imagery-based neurofeedback Ingrid Odermatt
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
15:45 ECR Spotlight Sessions
16:00 Poster & Spotlight prize winners
16:15 Closing