The Brain Prize Meeting 2017

REWARDING NEUROSCIENCE

With international top keynote speakers including the three 2017 prizewinners, The Brain Prize Meeting brings together young neuroscientists and top researchers at this high-level neuroscience event. For the full program see here, and for registration here.

WHEN
Monday 30 October 2017 until Wednesday 1 November 2017

WHERE
Hindsgavl Castle, Middelfart, Denmark

SPEAKERS

Prizewinners
Peter Dayan, University College London, United Kingdom
Ray Dolan, University College London, United Kingdom
Wolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Invited keynote speakers
Roshan Cools, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Morten Kringelbach, University of Oxford & Aarhus University, United Kingdom and Denmark
Yael Niv, Princeton University, USA
Melanie Wilke, University Medicine Goettingen, Germany

Invited special lecture
Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, United Kingdom

'New Talent Talk'
Ciara McCabe, University of Reading, United Kingdom

CERTIFICATION
The meeting is certified by the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark as an external Ph.D. course worth 1 (one) ECTS point. PhD students must submit an abstract to be eligible for the ECTS point.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Kamilla Miskowiak, Copenhagen University Hospital and University of Copenhagen, Morten Mørup, Technical University of Denmark, Duda Kvitsiani, Aarhus University, Jakob Kisbye Dreyer, University of Copenhagen, and Tanja Sheldrick-Michel, University of Southern Denmark

ORGANIZERS
The Lundbeck Foundation in collaboration with Danish Universities and Danish Society for Neuroscience.

SPONSOR
The Lundbeck Foundation is the sole sponsor of this meeting.

AUDIENCE AND LANGUAGE
The meeting is open to junior and senior scientists in the field of basic as well as clinical neuroscience. The number of participants is limited to 120. The language is English.

ABSTRACTS
Participants are invited and encouraged to submit one or more abstracts. All PhD students attending are required to submit an abstract. Abstracts dealing with topics outside of the main theme of the meeting are also welcome. All submitted abstracts will be presented as either short oral presentations or poster presentations.

Submit abstracts in pdf format max 350 words to info@thebrainprize.org att. Line Kristensen.

Poster size: A0 = 1189 (H) x 841 (W) mm.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 October 2017.