Where
Centrum Kongresowe Politechniki Wrocławskiej
ul. Janiszewskiego 8
50-372 Wrocław
When
2-5.09.2025
Call for abstracts
Dear Colleagues, The 17th Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society will be held – for the first time – in Wrocław, Poland on September 2…
Travel Grant Application
We are pleased to announce a call for applications for travel grants for young researchers and PhD students to attend the 17th International Congress of…
The Young Investigator Award
The Young Investigator Award for outstanding studies submitted to the PNS Congress is awarded biennially by the Executive Committee of PNS. The winner is invited…
| Satellite Symposium : European Networking for Brain Research | |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | HE Twinning 'SAME-NeuroID’ – Łukasiewicz-PORT, Wroclaw |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | HE Twinning 'TrePsy’ – Institute of Pharmacology PAS, Cracow |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Coffee Break |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | European Brain Research Initiatives |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00 – 17.00 | General Assembly of the Polish Neuroscience Society |
| 17.00 – 17:30 | Coffee Break |
| 17.30 – 18.40 | Official Opening Ceremony Jerzy Konorski Memorial Lecture Molecular biology of synaptic plasticity Speaker: Leszek Kaczmarek (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) |
| 18.40 – 19.15 | Flashtalks – highlights of submitted abstracts |
| 19.30 | Welcome Reception |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture Gut feelings – Microbiome, Brain and Behaviour Across the Lifespan Speaker: John Cryan (University of Cork, Cork, Ireland) |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Konorski Award Lecture talks for best publication 2023 & 2024 |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break |
| 11.15 – 13.15 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii | Symposium 1 Zinc and the Brain: Unlocking Neurobiological Secrets Chair: Bernadeta Szewczyk (Maj Institute of Pharmacology, PAS, Cracow, Poland) Speakers: Andreas M. Grabrucker, Jerome Ezan, Artur Krężel, Bernadeta Szewczyk Symposium 2 Neurobiology of Early Life Adversity Across the Lifespan and Across Generations Chair: Ali Jawaid (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Mathias Schmidt, Aniko Korosi, Ali Jawaid, Weronika Tomaszewska Symposium 3 Novel approaches for the PNS targeting and modulation Chair: Mateusz Kucharczyk (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Mateusz Kucharczyk, Jimena Perez-Sanchez, George Goodwin, Sara Jager |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | Lunch Break |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Poster session I |
| 15.00 – 17.00 | Symposium 4 On the way to Parkinson’s disease: molecular, cellular and clinical aspects of prodromal synucleinopathies Chair: Michał Węgrzynowicz (Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland) Speakers: Nathalie Van Den Berge, Grzegorz Kreiner, Ambra Stefani, Giorgio Vivacqua Symposium 5 Copper in the brain Chair: Anna Członkowska (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland) and Susan Gaskin (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Speakers: Anna Członkowska, Susan Gaskin, Tomasz Litwin, Petr Dusek Symposium 6 Advancing neuroscience with unbiased methods of automatization of behavioral studies Chair: Bartosz Zglinicki (Łukasiewicz – PORT, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Aleksandra Badura, Andrew Holmes, Adam Brosnan, Bartosz Zglinicki |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Coffee Break |
| 17.30 – 18.30 | Keynote lecture A neuroscientists’ journey into environmental neuroscience. What large-scale scale human neuroimaging can tell us about the impact of environment and society on brain and behavior Speaker: Marcin Szwed (Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland) |
| 18:30 – 19.00 | TBA |
| 19.00 – 20.00 | Open Lecture for general audience |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture TBA Speaker: Camila Bellone (Geneva University Neurocenter, Geneva, Switzerland) |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Flatau Award Lecture |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break |
| 11.15 – 13.15 | Symposium 7 EEG/ECoG based functional connectivity neuroimaging in the rat – towards standardization and translation in neuropsychopharmacology Chair: Daniel Wójcik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) Speakers: Ivana Chrtkova, Theodor Doll, Jaroslav Láčík, Marian Dovgialo Symposium 8 Human Brain Development Chair: Bogna Badyra (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) Speakers: Simona Lodato, Antonela Bonafina, Aleksandra Pękowska, Maciej Figiel Symposium 9 Brain and metabolism Chair: Joanna H. Śliwowska (University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland) and Monika Kaczmarek (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Olsztyn, Poland) Speakers: Lora Heisler, Monika Kaczmarek, Palma Collado, Joanna H. Śliwowska |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Poster session II |
| 15.00 – 17.00 | Symposium 10 Unraveling the Social Brain: how hierarchies, partners, and hormones shape rodents behavior Chair: Hanna Trebesova (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland) Speakers: Hanna Hörnberg, Hanna Trebesova, Jonathan P. Fadok, Alan Kania Symposium 11 Intersecting Pathways: Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease Chair: Natalia Malek (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Nico Melzer, Lidia Sabater, Marta Kaminska, Ewa Trojan Symposium 12 Sponsors Presentations |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Coffee Break |
| 17.30 – 18.30 | Keynote lecture TBA Speaker: John J. Foxe (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA) |
| 18.30 – 19.30 | TBA |
| 19.30 | Reception at the Town Hall sponsored by IBRO |
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture Experience-dependent inhibition shapes the neuronal code in the mouse dentate gyrus Speaker: Marlene Bartos (Institute of Physiology I, University of Freiburg, Germany) |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Young Investigator Award talks |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee Break |
| 11.15 – 13.15 | Symposium 13 Plasticity and encoding at synapses and neuronal networks and beyond Chair: Jerzy Mozrzymas (Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Sebastiano Curreli, Andrea Barberis, Grzegorz Wiera, Dariusz Rakus Symposium 14 Time for flies – an alternative model for research on brain diseases Chair: Milena Damulewicz (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland) Speakers: Milena Damulewicz, Aron Szabo, Aaron Voigt, Sergio Casas-Tinto Symposium 15 Bridging Autoimmunity and Neurodegeneration: Immune Cells in Action Chair: Natalia Malek (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland) Speakers: Bart Eggen, Maarten Titulaer, Agnieszka Zabłocka, Natalia Malek |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | Lunch Break |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Poster session III |
| 15.00 – 16.00 | Keynote lecture Drosophila as a model for human neurodegenerative disease: A focus on the brain through age & disease Speaker: Nancy Bonini (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Official closing + Best Presentation Awards |
