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Celebrating 15 years of the UCL Neuroscience Symposium
2024 marked the 15th annual UCL Neuroscience Symposium, showcasing the cutting-edge neuroscience research at UCL and connecting over 600 attendees from the neuroscience research community. The theme of the 2024 symposium, organised by the UCL Neuroscience Domain, was “From Molecules to Mind” reflecting the breadth of research at UCL in molecular, cellular, circuit and cognitive neuroscience.
The symposium featured keynote speaker Professor Pieter Roelfsema, Director of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam whose research focuses on the circuit mechanisms of visual perception and cognition to develop cortical prostheses to restore vision in blindness. Professor Karen Duff, Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute, also gave a keynote talk on her research seeking to understand the molecular causes and consequences of tauopathy in Alzheimer’s disease and identify and test novel therapeutic targets.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Pieter Roelfsema
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Conscious visual perception and how to restore it when the eyes fail
Professor Karen Duff
UK Dementia Research Institute
Unravelling the contribution of tau to Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia
Plenary Speakers
The symposium featured talks from plenary speakers covering a range of topics from the neural basis of social behaviour in zebrafish to the importance of heart-brain interactions for mental health. Speakers included:
Dr Athena Akrami
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
Learning and exploiting sensory statistics across multiple species
Dr Elena Dreosti
Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL
Social swimmers: Zebrafish leading the way in mental health and pain research
Professor Sarah Garfinkel
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
Clinical neuroscience and the heart-brain axis
Professor Aman Saleem
Experimental Psychology, UCL
Visual cortical processing - more than what meets the eye
2024 Early Career Neuroscience Prize
Each year the UCL Neuroscience Domain presents the Early Career Neuroscience Prize to two UCL neuroscientists, recognising outstanding work published in the past year in any field of neuroscience. The 2024 junior category winner was Dr Anya Suppermpool, research fellow at the UCL Ear Institute and Dr Pip Coen, Principal Research Fellow, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL Division of Biosciences won the advanced category prize.
Dr Anya Suppermpool
UCL Ear Institute
Dr Pip Coen
Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL
2024 Jon Driver Prize
To honour the memory of Jon Driver, an annual prize is awarded each year at the symposium to outstanding young neuroscientists from UCL. Reflecting Jon Driver’s commitment to mentorship, and his seminal contribution to promoting neuroscience at UCL, the prize is awarded competitively every year to recognise the high-quality research of students completing their PhD in the field of neuroscience at UCL. The winners of the 2024 Jon Driver Prize were PhD Students Eleanor Spens (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) and Maxime Beau (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research).
Eleanor Spens
UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Maxime Beau
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
2024 UCL Neuroscience Symposium Sponsors
The UCL Neuroscience Domain is very grateful for the generous support of the 2024 UCL Neuroscience Symposium sponsors:
