Neuroscience @ Nottingham
annual meeting
Nottingham Neuroscience Day: 08 January 2026

The annual Neuroscience@Nottingham (N@N) meeting will take place at the University of Nottingham on Thursday, 8th of January 2026 (9.00 - 18.00). 

The event is free to register for anyone interested in neuroscience research across Nottingham (UoN and NTU). Please hold this date in your diaries and register to attend. Please consider submitting an abstract to present your research as a poster or a short talk (15 min). 

The day will follow the established format, with keynote talks from invited external speakers, short talks by members of our local community (selected from the submitted abstracts), and posters. Representatives from several companies, that are kindly co-sponsoring the event, will attend to present their products and services. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

 https://forms.office.com/e/q6pYAq5e59 

Date: 08 January 2026

09.00 - 09.30 Registration + poster arrangement

09.30 - 10.00 Welcome, sponsor presentations 

10.00 - 10.30 Prof. Stephen Jackson: Developing wearable median nerve stimulation for movement disorders  

10.30 - 11.00 Short talks

11.00 - 11.45 Coffee break + poster viewing 

11.45 - 12.45 Keynote talk, Prof. Peggy Series
From maladaptive predictions to symptoms: the emerging field of computational psychiatry

12.45 - 14.15 Lunch + poster viewing

14.15  - 14.30 Dr. Max Wilson: Our Future Living with Personal Brain Scanners
14.30 - 15.30 Short talks 

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break + poster viewing

16.00 - 17.00 Keynote talk, Prof. Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

Local and global regulation of sleep and vigilance: a cross-species approach 

17.00 - 18.00 Drinks + poster viewing

Dr. Silvia Maggi (UoN, Psychology; silvia.maggi@nottingham.ac.uk )
Dr. Michael Okun (UoN, Life Sciences; michael.okun@nottingham.ac.uk )