17th Annual Oxford Neuroscience Symposium

The symposium is one of the highlights of our calendar and a showcase for the breadth of Oxford’s neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry research.

This is a high level science conference suitable for graduate students and researchers

This symposium is back to 'face-to-face' and will be a celebration of new and developing talent from across our Oxford Neuroscience Community. It provides graduate students and ECRs an excellent forum to network across Departments and Centres.

The symposium is one of the highlights of our calendar and a showcase for the breadth of Oxford’s neuroscience research. This year's symposium features plenary lectures by Charlotte Stagg and Stephanie Cragg. We have scheduled these to avoid times when people may have caring responsibilities. So do come along.

The venue will, once again, be the Mathematical Institute, which has the one of the largest purpose-built conference facility in Oxford.

This is an ideal opportunity for graduate students to present their first poster.

A limited number of lunch bags will be available on a first come first served basis. 

08.15 Registration opens

09.00 Welcome
Professor Kevin Talbot, Chair of the Neuroscience Strategic Oversight Committee and Head of the Nuffield Department
of Clinical Neurosciences

09.10 PLENARY LECTURE 1
Advancing precise neuromodulation for human motor control
Professor Charlotte Stagg, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

10.10 Coffee and Posters

Session 1
Chair: Professor Philip Burnet, Department of Psychiatry
11.10 Grandiose delusions: developing a psychological treatment
Dr Louise Isham, Department of Experimental Psychology

11.30 Integrating neuroimaging - Building bridges
Professor Stuart Clare, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

11.50 The influence of a changing climate on brain and mental health
Dr Emma Lawrance, Department of Psychiatry

12.10 Neuronal Control of Behavioural Strategies Across Threat and Reward.
Dr Mehran Ahmadlou, Department. of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

12.30 Lunch and Posters

Session 2 Rapid Fire Talks
Chair: Assoc. Professor Susannah Murphy, Department of Psychiatry

13.30 Single cell properties dictate the network representation used by a cortical layer
Katherine Willard, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

13.35 Using AI to identify Alzheimer’s disease phenotypes
Dr Helen Rowland, Department of Psychiatry

13.40 Decoding dentate granule cell development and BDNF-TrkB-dependent hippocampal circuit
formation through integrated single-nucleus multiomics
Dr Jacek Szymanski. Department of Pharmacology

13.45 Investigating the pathological interactions between pain-associated macrophages and
sensory neurons in human
Dr Pao-Sheng Chang, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

13.50 The relationship between occipitotemporal sulcal morphology and children’s reading ability: a replication study
Yifan Yang, Department of Experimental Psychology

13.55 Quinone reductase 2 (QR2) -From first-time memories to dementia
Dr Nathaniel Gould, Department of Psychiatry

14.00 Linking Cognitive and Gait Biomarkers in Parkinsonian Syndromes
Dr Aminette D'Souza, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

14.05 Reactivation and remapping of relational structure during causal inference
Shuyi Lou, Department of Experimental Psychology

14.10 Coffee and Posters

Session 3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Chair: Assoc. Professor Kerry Walker, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics

14.50 PLENARY LECTURE 2
Modulating the modulator: Neuronal and non-neuronal networks controlling dopamine
transmission
Professor Stephanie Cragg, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy,
and Genetics

15.50 Recording and stimulating the serotonergic system in the primate brain
Dr Dr Nima Khalighinejad, Department of Experimental Psychology

16.10 Mapping disrupted protein dynamics that drive synaptic dysfunction in ALS/FTD
Dr Ruxandra Dafinca, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

16.30 The Role of the immune system in brain health
Assoc, Professor Lahiru Handunnetthi, Department of Psychiatry

16.50 Contribution of thalamic head direction cells to spatial navigation
Dr Sarah Hijazi, Department of Pharmacology

17.10. Concluding remarks

17.30 Drinks Reception