Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025
NSI Conference 2025 Programme
“Connectivity for Brain Health”
28th August 2025
08:30 Registration, Tea & Coffee
09:30 Welcome & Opening
Symposium 1: Connectivity & Brain Health Across the Lifespan
10:00
Oscillatory Brain Activity and the Deployment of Selective Attention
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 1
12:00 Lunch & Poster session 1
Symposium 2: Dysconnectivity in Neurology & Psychiatry
13:30
Targeted control of microglia polarisation after spinal cord injury
ECR Awardee: Dearbhaile Dooley
University College Dublin, Ireland
14:00
The Brain’s Hidden Highways: Exploring Connectivity with Diffusion MRI
Alexander Leemans
Utrecht University, Netherlands
14:45
Personalised Medicine Approaches in Psychiatry
Elaine Murray
Ulster University, Northern Ireland
15:00
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
15:15
A circadian neuroscience perspective on bipolar disorder
Daniel Smith
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
15:30 Tea & Coffee
16:15
From neurons to knowledge: Reflections on the practice, purpose and potential of neuroscience education
Education in Neuroscience Awardee: Áine Kelly
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
16:45 Closing remarks
18.30 Drinks Reception (Whitla Hall) Everyone Welcome
19:00 Conference Banquet (ticket only)
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
11:15
CNS-101: A validation study of multimodal digital biomarkers for longitudinal at-home use in dementia patients
Alison Buick
Cumulus Neuroscience, Head of Global BD, Northern Ireland
11:30 ECR Spotlight Sessions 2
12:00 Lunch & Poster Session 2
Symposium 4: Impacting Connectivity
13:30
Building a Neuroconstructivist Model of Infant Development using Awake fMRI and Computational Modelling
Rhodri Cusack
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
14:15
My Bipolar Life Behind the Science
Liam Gildea
Author & Wellness Speaker, Ireland
14:30
Modulation of sensorimotor representations through motor imagery-based neurofeedback
Ingrid Odermatt
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
14:45
The reliability of using single pulse non-navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in a sub-acute stroke population
Niamh Kennedy
Ulster University, Northern Ireland
15:00 Tea & Coffee
15:30
From neurons to networks: A journey through the dynamic brain
DIA Awardee: Mark Cunningham
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
16:15 Awards
16:30 Closing