Schedule

NEURONUS & Young PTBUN 2026 Neuroscience Forum will take place in Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University on the 24 - 26 April 2026. The registration desk will open on the 24th of April at 8:00.

Workshops are taking place 23rd April 2026. Details on the workshop schedule will be sent via e-mail to participants.

FORUM SHEDULE

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9:00 - 10:30	Opening Ceremony Adrianna Zenczak, Martyna Bernaciak (Heads of Neuronus 2026) Presentation of IBRO activities: Daniel Wójcik Keynote lecture \| Large Aula A Concious Vision and Its Restoration in Blindness > Speaker: Pieter R. Roelfsema
10:30 - 11:00	Flashtalks > Large Hall A
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	Symposia Session \| Large Aula A High-Level Feedback in Vision: Rules of Prediction, Suppression, and Filling-In > Speakers: Andrew Bell Symposia Session \| Large Aula B Touch, Pain and Interoception in Somatosensory and Cancer Neuroscience > Speakers: Robert C. Coghill Symposia Session \| Medium Aula A Brain Diseases – Different Models, New Insights > Speakers: Alexander Whitworth Symposia Session \| Medium Aula B Medical Case Reports >
13:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:45	Poster Session I > Conference room
14:45 - 15:00	Gold Sponsor Presentation
15:00 - 16:00	Extended Flash Talk Session Computational Methods in Neuroscience >
16:00 - 17:30	Symposia Session \| Large Aula A Immunometabolic Basis of Neurodegenerative Disorders > Speakers: Mootaz M. Salman Symposia Session \| Large Aula B Space-time trades-offs in human nociceptive systems > Speakers: Robert C. Coghill Symposia Session \| Medium Aula A Interpersonal Neural Synchrony in Close Relationships > Speakers: Antonia Hamilton Symposia Session \| Medium Aula B Computational Methods for EEG >
17:30 - 18:00	Coffee Break
18:00 - 19:00	Keynote lecture \| Large Aula A Expanding mechanisms and therapeutic strategies > Speaker: Aaron Gitler
19:00	Welcome Reception Auditorium Maximum, Main Hall


8:00 - 9:00	NeuroFitness Anna Pałasz
9:00 - 10:00	Keynote lecture\| Large hall A Mitochondria in Brain Function and Mental Health > Speaker: Carmen Sandi
10:00 - 11:30	Symposia Session\| Large Hall A Social and Affective Mechanisms of Psychedelics: From Acute Dynamics to Long-Term Adaptation > Speakers: Rebecca Bohme Symposia Session\| Large Hall B Microglia meet metabolism: Microglia as drivers of brain and metabolic health > Speakers: Agnes Nadjar Symposia Session \| Medium Hall B Systems neuroscience of memory formation > Symposia Session \| Medium Hall A From seeing to reacting: visual perception and response control >
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30	Symposia Session\| Large Hall A Bridging worlds - behavioral, molecular and clinical perspectives on psychedelics > Speakers: David Erritzoe Symposia Session\| Large Hall B Neuroendocrine Brain > Speakers: Valery Grinevich Symposia Session\| Medium Hall B Multimodal Brain Data Integration > Speaker: Sophia Ulonska Symposia Session \| Medium Hall A Global Village: Electrophysiological correlates of language control >
13:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:15	Poster Session II > Conference Room
15.15 - 17.00	Symposia Session \| Large Hall A Higher-order conditioning: from incidental associations to psychotic-like states > Speakers: Arnau Busquets Garcia Symposia Session\| Large Hall B Novel functional and anatomical imaging approaches for the nervous system studies> Speakers: Diana Cash & Marija Petrinovic Symposia Session\| Medium Hall B Neuroscience Across Species > Symposia Session \| Medium Hall A From Saccades to Saliency: The role of eye movements in sensory and social cognition >
17:00 - 17:30	Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30	Keynote lecture \| Large Hall A Learing principles of neuroscience from the 'vulgar' Hydra > Speaker: Rafael Yuste
20:00 -	Neuronus Party Don't forget to bring your conference badge. Food will be provided. We're hoping to see you on the dancefloor, there will be space for conversations. Drinks available for purchase.

9:30 - 10:30	Keynote lecture \| Large Aula A Resolving Conflict in the Brain > Speaker: Carolina Rezával
10:30 - 12:00	Symposia Session\| Large Aula A Neuronal mechanisms of social behaviors > Speaker: Felix Leroy Symposia Session\| Large Aula B Targeting Neuroinflammation and CNS Repair in MS: From Psychedelic to Oxysterols and Advanced Drug Delivery > Speaker: Aleksandra Rutkowska Symposia Session\| Medium Aula A Neural systems under strain: from acute functional responses, to chronic structural alterations > Speaker: Ala Yankouskaya
12:00 - 12:30	Coffee Break
12:30 - 14:00	Symposia Session\| Large Aula A Human Cellular Approaches to Study Brain Physiology and Pathology > Speaker: Cristiana Cruceanu Symposia Session\| Large Aula B Decoding Neuroinflammation: Immune Mechanisms, Spatial Profiling and Systemic Implications > Symposia Session \| Medium Aula A Sleep and Biological Rhythms: from Cognition to Clinical Practice >
14:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:45	Poster Session III > Conference room
15:45 - 16:45	OPEN Keynote lecture \| Large Aula A Weaving Vision and Language into Knowledge in the Human Brain > Speaker: Yanchao Bi
16:45	Awards & Closing Ceremony Large Aula A