SYMPOSIA
Symposia Sessions
First Nations approaches to studying and promoting mental health and well being |
Improving lives through shared knowledge: Approaches to creating and disseminating learnings from neuroscience, cognition and brain health |
Current perspectives on brain energy metabolism |
Conscious and non-conscious behavioural control: From mechanisms to disease |
From synapse to self: computational, brain imaging and preclinical perspectives on psilocybin’s therapeutic mechanisms |
Emerging conditions treated by deep brain stimulation and related approaches |
The Dark Genome of the Brain: Non-Coding Mechanisms in Plasticity, Memory and Mental Health |
Advanced computational and statistical approaches for cognitive, clinical, and cross-species neuroscience |
Understanding brain disorders in the era of 'omics |
Integrating Sex (as a biological variable) in Neuropsychiatry and Neurodegeneration research: From Biological Insight to Clinical Impact |
Non-Motor Functions of the Cerebellum: Contributions to Cognition, Neuropsychiatry, and Large-Scale Brain Systems |
Basal Ganglia Sensorimotor Circuits: From Cellular Organization to Behavioral Function |
Recent advances in neuroimaging for psychiatric disorders |
From single spikes to brain-wide networks: new technologies for capturing neural activity at every scale |
Neural mechanisms of uncertainty regulation in health and disease: the role of predictive models for attention and decision making |
When cortical development goes wrong: neurogenesis, malformation and psychiatric risk |
Understanding how uncontrollable drug-seeking develops via autonomic, genetic and cognitive mechanisms. |
The role of exposome on brain health 1 - interaction between environmental factors and brain health |
Beyond hunger: Emerging neural mechanisms underlying overeating |
Neuroendocrine control of motivation |
We are excited to announce the call for Scientific Symposia for the upcoming NeuroAlliance 2026 Joint Meeting from 29 November - 2 December 2026 in Sydney, Australia.
Please read the submission requirements and Guidelines carefully before applying. Each symposium should feature four speakers and two chairs.
Proposals will be accepted in EventsAir from current ANS, ACNS, and/or BPA members. Please provide a concise overview of the symposium (150 words max), outlining the main themes and objectives and alignment to ANS, BPA and ACNS interests. Highlight the significance of the topic within the field of neuroscience and the unique perspectives each speaker will bring.
You will also need to detail what each speaker will discuss (200 words/speaker max). Preference will be given to symposium proposals with clear relevance to the interests of all three societies (ANS, ACNS, and BPA). Ensure gender balance and the inclusion of one or more early-/mid-career researchers (<10 years post-PhD) in the proposed speakers.
Priority will be given to symposia proposals that emphasise diversity and inclusion, including career stage and cultural and linguistic diversity of speakers (refer to the NeuroAlliance 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Statement in the Symposia Policy and Guidelines).
Please read the Symposia Policy and Guidelines document for full details and eligibility requirements.
Presenter Deadlines
Call for Symposia Open | 20 March 2026 |
Call for Symposia Close | 17:00 AEST 11 May 2026 |
Notifications to Submitters | Late May 2026 |
Deadline to register or cancel speaking | June 2026 |
Preliminary program launched | Mid July 2026 |
Early Bird registration closes | 26 September 2026 |
Final program launched | Early October 2026 |
NeuroAlliance 2026 Conference | 29 November - 2 December 2026 |
Submission Themes
Proposals that address any research areas represented within the membership are welcomed, including but not limited to:
Ageing | Motor systems |
Artificial intelligence in neuroscience | Neurodegenerative diseases and injury |
Attention processes | Neurodevelopment, neurogenesis, and regeneration |
Autonomic and neuroendocrine systems | Neuroengineering, neuroinformatics and data-driven models |
Behavioural Neuroscience | Neuroimaging |
Biological Psychiatry and psychiatric disorders | Neurological disorders |
Clinical neuroscience: basic, translational and clinical studies | Neuromodulation, neurostimulation and brain-computer interface |
Cognitive neuroscience | Neuronal excitability, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity |
Cognitive processes | Neuro-oncology |
Comparative and evolutionary neuroscience | Neuroscience history and emerging ethical issues |
Computational neuroscience | Neurovasculature and metabolism |
Development | Psychophysiology |
Electroencephalography / fNIRS | Sensory systems |
Glial biology | Social neuroscience |
Individual differences | System neuroscience |
Memory processes | Other |