Neuronus IBRO & IRUN Neuroscience Forum

Neuronus IBRO & IRUN Neuroscience Forum is an annual conference organized at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) for young researchers from diverse subdiscplines of neuroscience. Most of the topics cover neurobiology, cognitive and affective neuroscience, as well as clinical neuroscience and neurology.

Organizers

Neuronus Forums are operated by a team of researchers from Kraków, supported by neurobiology, psychology, and medical students from the Jagiellonian University Students’ Neuroscience Society NEURONUS and the Jagiellonian University Neurology Student Club.[1]

Support is also provided by:

Structure and objectives

The conference consists of keynote lectures given by invited speakers, followed by parallel symposia dedicated to cognitive and biological aspects of neuroscience, a session with clinical neuroscience presentations, as well as numerous poster presentations. Usually, 1-2 lectures per conference edition are given by IBRO International Alumni.

As the emphasis during Neuronus Forums is mostly put on the development of young scientists, events are accompanied by sessions on career opportunities or academic writing and reviewing. A few travel grants for pre-doctoral attendees from Central and Eastern European countries are available each year.

History

Since 2008, four editions of two separate events have been organized each year. The first one, "Students' Neuroconference", has been organized by the Neuronus Students' Society and was mostly devoted to molecular and biological neuroscience. The second one, "Krakow Workshop on Psychophysiology", covers a field of cognitive neuroscience and has been organized by the Psychophysiology Laboratory of the Jagiellonian University.

The idea of merging these two conferences in 2012 has given rise to the IBRO & IRUN - featured annual event, which has taken place every year from 2012 to 2016.

The number of attendants each year from 2012 to 2016:

  • In 2012, the conference was attended by about 450 participants including over 50 speakers from 15 countries
  • In 2013, the conference was attended by about 400 participants including over 60 speakers from 16 countries
  • In 2014, the conference was attended by about 500 participants including over 60 speakers from 20 countries
  • In 2015, the conference was attended by about 600 participants including over 70 speakers from 20 countries
  • In 2016, the conference was attended by about 450 participants including over 70 speakers from 18 countries

Among the keynote speakers in previous editions were In 2012:

  • Margaret Niznikiewicz (Harvard Medical School, USA)
  • Kenneth Hugdahl (University of Bergen, Norway)
  • Sergey Kasparov (University of Bristol, UK)
  • Tibor Harkany (University of Aberdeen, UK)

In 2013:

  • Adrian Owen (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
  • Peter Hagoort (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
  • Wolf Singer (Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  • Robin Franklin (University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Anthony Holtmaat (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Juan Lerma (Universidad Miguel Hernandez – CSIC, San Juan/Alicante, Spain)

In 2014:

  • Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany)
  • Rafael Malach (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
  • Carles Escera (University of Barcelona, Spain)
  • David Colquhoun (University College London, UK)
  • Philbert Tsai (University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • Angela Roberts (University of Cambridge, UK)

In 2015:

  • Kia Nobre (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, UK)
  • Niels Birbaumer (Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany)
  • Paul Whalen (Dartmouth College, USA & Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, UK)
  • Tom Johnstone (University of Reading, UK)
  • Pamela Shaw (University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Mark Hübener (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany)
  • Bassem Hassan (VIB, KU Leuven, Belgium)

In 2016:

  • Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, Gif/Yvette, France)
  • Christian Büchel (Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)
  • Karl Gegenfurtner (Department of Psychology, Giessen University, Germany)
  • Benno Roozendaal (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour & Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
  • Robert Lucas (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK)
  • Miguel Maravall (School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)

Future editions

The next conference will be held on 20-22th April 2018 in Auditorium Maximum, Kraków.

Post-conference publications

To summarize the presentations given by the conference attendees, special issues have been published in scientific journals, such as the International Journal of Psychophysiology (2012)[2] and Advances in Cognitive Psychology.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Organizers". neuronusforum.pl.
  2. ↑ "International Journal of Psychophysiology". sciencedirect.com.
  3. ↑ "Advances in Cognitive Psychology". ac-psych.org.
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