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.

Registration has closed on 15/12/2025.

For special (exceptional) cases requiring late registration, please get in touch with the organising committee (see below).

Date: 08 January 2026

09.00 - 09.30 Registration + poster arrangement

09.30 - 09.40 Welcome

09.40 - 09.55 Sponsor presentation: Cambridge Electronic Design Limited
09.55 - 10.10 Sponsor presentation: Evident

10.10 - 10.40 Prof. Stephen Jackson: Developing wearable median nerve stimulation for movement disorders  

10.40 - 11.10 Short talks:

• MDS-UPDRS has an underlying low dimensional structure, capable of predicting the outcome of Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s disease patients
  Bhadra Santhi Kumar, Ioana Cociasu, Fahd Baig, Lucia Ricciardi, Francesca Morgante, Jonathan O’Keeffe, Mark Humphries   

• Extracellular vesicles from brain tissue: a window into the cellular and molecular dynamics of brain ageing
  Martina Gabrielli, Maria Pia Savoca, Keeley Brookes, Claudia Verderio, Elisabetta AM Verderio

11.10 - 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: 

• Reconstructing the blood-brain barrier on electrospun nanofibres: a static versus dynamic approach
  Chennu Manisha, Lorena R. Lizarraga, Biola F. Egbowon, Aadarsh Mishra, Elisa Tonoli, Gareth W. V. Cave

• Impact of ALS-associated FUS dysfunction on extracellular vesicle-mediated miRNA signalling
  Katherine White, Daniel Scott, Federico Dajas-Bailador, Sebastien Serres, Robert Layfield

• Time-resolved glutamate dynamics during working memory
  Daniel J Cocking, Ryan Elson, Katherine Dyke, Mohammad Z Katshu, Claudia Danielmeier, Adam P Berrington

• Hazards of lowering blood pressure in acute stroke: a holistic view where stroke type and drug class are key
  Philip M Bath, Jason P Appleton, Timothy England, Kailash Krishnan, Nikola Sprigg

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

1 Age-Dependent Transduction Efficiency and Cellular Tropism of AAV9 in  the Neonatal Mouse Brain: Implications for Gene Therapy in Spinal  Muscular Atrophy. 

2 Pilot Validation of a Plantar Flexion fMRI Paradigm for Application in Unilateral Trauma

3 Characterising T1-Dark-Rims in New Lesions of Multiple Sclerosis Patients: Prevalence, Temporal Evolution, and Associations with Disease-Modifying Therapies 

4 Neuroprotective effects of phytocannabinoids

5 Inflammatory Glial EVs: Key Mediators of Sensory Neurone Sensitisation

6 Investigating interhemispheric inhibition in Tourette syndrome using dual site transcranial magnetic stimulation.

7 BLAST & BLAST II: Blinding and adverse effects of Ultrasonic Vagus Nerve Stimulation (U-VNS)

8 ‘Exploration of Psilocybin Mediated Serotonergic Signalling using Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators in Drosophila Melanogaster’ 

9 Investigating the neural correlates of the urge-to-act in the context of Tourette Syndrome

10 Cannabidiol and Cannabigerol Attenuate Organophosphate Induced Neurotoxicity in Human SH SY5Y Cells

11 Advancing Treatments of Tourette Syndrome via Thalamo-Cortical Modelling

12 Bilateral Differences in Neuromuscular Function are Dependent Upon Contraction Type ​

13 Associating measurements of brain and neuromuscular activity during lower limb contractions

14 Early-Life Cisplatin Exposure Triggers Neuropathic Pain and DRG Immune Activation in Juvenile Mice

15 Characterising iPSC models to investigate neuroimmune dysfunction in RNA foci disorders

16 Current modelling for individualised transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) protocols targeting tinnitus 

17 Investigating the role of the ubiquitously expressed thioesterase Ppt1- a proposed multi organ morphological and molecular study to inform therapeutic targeting

18 Hydrogen Sulfide-Linked Neuroprotection by Natural Isothiocyanates: Mitochondrial Support and potential NMDA Receptor Modulation

19 Contribution of non-coding RNAs to TDP-43 Pathology in ALS 

20 Establishing Bidirectional Gut–Brain Models and AI-Assisted Imaging Platform to Identify Preventive Targets for Alzheimer’s Disease

21 How the spinal cord talks to the brain: Illuminating the sensory output system of the spinal cord    
22 Investigating Interbrain Synchrony in Parent-Child Dyads with Cochlear Implants Undergoing Parent-Implemented Habilitation 

23 Oestrogen’s Modulation of Voltage Gated Calcium Channel (VGCCs) in SH-SY5Y Cells

24 Dichotic Sounds as a Test for Spatial Hearing

25 Insula contributions to control of tic-like movements relevant to Tourette’s syndrome: integrative neuroscience studies in rats.

26 When Imaging Meets Modulation: Building a Closed-loop Near-infrared Neuromodulation System

27 Graph-theoretic comparisons of structural covariance networks: quantifying a false discovery rate.

28 Hypoxia induced HIF1α activity and it’s potential connections to diabetic chronic pain

29 Exploring cognitive factors and inducing stimuli of the Zwicker tone

30 Real-time electrochemical detection of reactive oxygen species release from pancreatic β-cells exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of psychiatric drugs

31 Psilocybin and reversal learning: initial dose finding study in male and female Lister hooded rats

32 Astrocytic STAT3 activation precedes neuronal degeneration in a proteotoxic mouse model

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