This year's symposium focuses on memory and sleep, bringing together research across sleep pressure, sleep-dependent plasticity, memory consolidation, brain states, circadian biology, neural dynamics, brain stimulation, sleep measurement, and clinical and translational sleep research.
The symposium provides a friendly and supportive platform for early-career researchers to present their work, receive feedback, and connect with others across Oxford's neuroscience community. Attendance is free and open to all.
Programme
- 13:30–13:40 — Arrival and settling in
- 13:40–13:50 — Prof. Bernhard Staresina: Opening remarks
- 13:50–14:20 — Dr Raffaele Sarnataro (The Francis Crick Institute): Neuroenergetic dynamics controlling the need to sleep
- 14:20–14:50 — Dr Hannah Alfonsa (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford): Intracellular Chloride as a Mechanistic Link Between Sleep Pressure, Behaviour, and Neural Plasticity
- 14:50–15:20 — Dr Melissa Jones (NDCN, University of Oxford): Enhancing hippocampal sharp-wave ripples using closed-loop deep brain stimulation
- 15:20–16:00 — Coffee and poster session
- 16:00–16:30 — Dr Shaun Davidson (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford): Is it time to revisit the scoring of slow wave (N3) sleep?
- 16:30–17:00 — Dr Lukas Krone (DPAG, University of Oxford): The dream to control sleep
- 17:00–17:30 — Dr Marcel Kehl (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford): The Scent of a Memory: Human Neuronal Codes for Perception, Semantics, and Memory
- 17:30–17:45 — Poster prize voting and discussion
- 17:45–17:55 — Prize announcement and closing
- 17:55 onwards — Informal pub social
The event includes a poster session, refreshments, and poster prizes awarded by attendee vote.