Neuroscience Ireland

🌟 NSI Travel Grant in Action! Grateful to Morgane E. Le Dréan, for sharing her work at #NSI2025: on how secondary bile acids affect enteric neurons — and for representing the gut–brain connection so brilliantly! 🧠

💫NSI Travel Bursary in Action:
@tcddublin.bsky.social PhD student Narin Suleyman attended the 19th #ECCN in London, presenting her research on motor network excitability in individuals at genetic risk of ALS. Supporting early career neuroscientists!

Our travel bursaries: neuroscienceireland.com

Starting/started a research group after 2018, in EU continent? Great opportunity to apply soon: FKNE Leadership training course! Develop your leadership, management, mentoring skills, with training by Leadership Sculptor & @FKNE Fens Kavli Network Scholars
fenskavlinetwork.org/fkne-leaders...

Just a reminder! 🗓️
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies @fens.org - #FENSForum2026 will take place on 6–10 July 2026 (instead of 4–8 July), due to the Tour de France Grand Départ. Mark your calendars for Europe’s largest neuroscience meeting!
fensforum.org/scientific-p...

💡The NSI-Early Career Researchers Network @nsi-ecrn.bsky.social Annual General Meeting - Monday, September 29th!
🔗 Register for a Zoom meeting:
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📣NSI is now on Facebook and Instagram!📣
New channels allow us to reach a wider audience, engage more people with Irish neuroscience. If you are on these platforms, we warmly invite you to follow:
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“Male 1 year old Zebrafish coronal midbrain section, probed for GFAP and costained by DAPI”

Congratulations to Fergus Woods from UCD on being selected for our next Image of the Month! 🎉👏🏅

Apply to have your own work showcased on our social media via the link in our bio!

Applications for the Seeding Neuroscience Grants are OPEN! This grant helps emerging #neuroscience organizations build strong structures for long-term impact in local neuroscience communities
Apply by 15 Oct: buff.ly/hHLdEJ9

#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm

Neuropsychological assessment practices in PRECISION-ALS: challenges and opportunities for harmonization - PubMed These findings illustrate areas of commonality and divergence in neuropsychological screening practices. Site-specific variations are likely to confound research involving cross-country data-sharing. ...

🎉Congratulations to Emmet Costello for being our next spotlight article of the month for his work “Neuropsychological assessment practices in PRECISION-ALS: challenges and opportunities for harmonization”

Link to article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40689468/

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📣 Nominations are open for the 2026 ALBA-Elsevier Award Lecture!

Registration is now open for “Dementia and Brain Health in Women – Carriers and Opportunities”, co-hosted by @drni.bsky.social and Nina Carberry MEP.

📅Tuesday, October 14th 2025, 12:30-14:30pm at the European Parliament in Brussels - and will also be live-streamed
⏩ Register: tinyurl.com/2tm524ry

🌟 Grateful to all #NSI2025 sponsors — with special thanks to Platinum Sponsor Cumulus Neuroscience and Dr. Alison Buick, who also presented CNS-101 results validating the NeuLogiq® platform for at-home #dementia monitoring (59 pts, 60 controls).

🔗 cumulusneuro.com

✨ We’re on YouTube! ✨
Our first video is here: highlights from the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025 🎥🧠
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We’d be grateful for your subscriptions and shares to help us expand the neuroscience community across Ireland 🧠

Sujithra Srinivas, UCD Conway Institute, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science ucddublin.bsky.social, attended #IEC2025 in Lisbon with support from an NSI Travel Bursary, presenting research on m6A RNA methylation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. We are pleased to support early career researchers💫

Huge congratulations to all early career researchers who presented their work at the Neuroscience Ireland 2026 conference in Queens University Belfast last week!
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Great turnout at NSI-ECRN’s very own Big Brain Quiz at The Botanic Inn in Belfast during the NSI 2025 Conference in Queens University Belfast last week!😄🧠
So glad to see universities across the country represented here!🧑‍🔬🔬🍺

📷💫 NSI 2025 in Pictures!
A huge thank you to 200+ attendees who made #NSI2025 unforgettable!✨See highlights & download 270+ photos:
neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-gal...
Tagging NSI is much appreciated😊

Great opening address and introduction to Neuroscience Ireland meeting 2025 in Queens University Belfast 🧠 by Dara Cannon & Kathy Ruddy @neuroscienceirl.bsky.social

So pleased to see this special #EJN Virtual Issue highlighting #neuroscience research from Ireland, launched in celebration of the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025! 🇮🇪🧠 Many thanks to EJN for this initiative 🤗

🤝We’re delighted to acknowledge the support of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience for #NSI2025!
🔗 Learn more: www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience

#AICS2025 — Call for Papers! 📣
🚨 Submission Deadline: 15 Sept 2025!
The 33rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2025) takes place at the Hyatt Centric Liberties Hotel, Dublin, on 1–2 December 2025.
👉 Learn more and submit your paper: aicsconf.org

📢Just 3 days to go! Meet the speakers of the Neuroscience Ireland Conference 2025 – “Connectivity for Brain Health” in Belfast.
🚨 Last chance to register! neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-con...

💡 Can TMS become a reliable clinical tool in stroke recovery?

Dr Niamh Kennedy drniamh.bsky.social‬ (@ulsteruni.bsky.social) presents findings on the test–retest reliability of single-pulse TMS in healthy participants & stroke survivors: https://neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-dr-niamh-kennedy

💫🤝 Connecting Researchers and Industry!
Alongside groundbreaking research presentations, attendees will also have the chance to meet our industry partners — exhibitors who will be on site with their equipment to demonstrate products and answer questions.

📢 Have some last-minute, cutting-edge science to present as a poster at NSI 2025? Submit it as a Late Breaking Abstract before midday, 20 August!
📩 Submit a Late Breaking Abstract:
neuroscienceireland.com/nsi2025-post...

👟🧠Kick off the conference with a gentle ~5k jog through the local area, guided by QUB PhD student Daniel McCabe!

📅 Evening before the Сonference - 27th August
🕔 5 pm start – Elms Village, BT9 5BW
Сontact: d.mccabe@qub.ac.uk

Discover more: neuroscienceireland.com/ns2025-socia...

Prof Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social) reveals how visual representations appear as early as 2 months of age. Awake fMRI + deep neural networks are shedding light on infant brain development:
🔗 neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-rho...

📢 Have some last-minute, cutting-edge science to present as a poster at NSI 2025? Submit it as a Late Breaking Abstract before midday, 20 August!
📩 Submit a Late Breaking Abstract:
neuroscienceireland.com/nsi2025-post...

👏🏆 Dr. Dearbhaile Dooley dooleylab.bsky.social
(ucddublin.bsky.social‬) is the 2025 winner of the NSI Early Career Investigator Award! Congratulations!🤝

About the award: https://neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-awards

#NSI2025 profile: https://neuroscienceireland.com/nsi-2025-dearbhaile-dooley

🌟 #FENS @fens.org – #EJN Prizes: Last days to nominate!
Nominate now for two prestigious awards with
@ejneuroscience.bsky.social & #Wiley ahead of #FENSForum!
🏆 FENS-EJN Award – £10,000
👉 loom.ly/zEAUrdo

🏆 Early Career Investigator Prize – £7,000
👉 loom.ly/OsS0ezg