Theme- Human Cerebral Cortex Development III

Co-Chairs:

Gavin Clowry and Zoltán Molnár

Organising Committee:

Lyndsay Murray (Deputy to Meetings Officer), Hannah Webb (Meetings Administrator)

The symposium will explore various aspects of human cortical development, including cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating cell number and diversity, migration and circuit assembly from the beginning of cortical plate formation until birth. We have selected speakers to invite from around the world who will describe how advances in developmental neurobiology, organoids, transcriptomics and imaging are offering new insights into the mechanisms controlling the development of the human cerebral cortex, as well as the developmental abnormalities and clinical advances.

Conference Abstracts

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The Anatomical Society Summer Meeting

14th-16th July 2025,

St. John's College, Oxford, UK

Registration opening April 2025

Early bird registration fees

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Non-member: TBC

Early career researcher/student member (Anatomical Society): TBC

Student non-member: TBC

Late registration fees

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Non-member: TBC

Early career researcher/ student member (Anatomical Society): TBC

Student non-member: TBC

Please note if capacity for the conference is reached before registration closes: registration will close early.

Keynote speakers

• Alain Chedotal, Paris
• Arnold Kriegstein, San Francisco
• Zeljka Krsnik, Zagreb
• Madeline Lancaster, Cambridge
• Tom Nowakowski, San Francisco
• Ana Namburete, Oxford
• Faye McLeod, Newcastle
• Katie Long, London
• E. S. Anton, Chapel Hill
• Sara Bandiera, Oxford
• Becky Carlyle, Oxford
• David Price, Edinburgh
• Nenad Sestan, New Haven
• Rebeccah Slater, Oxford
• Helen Stolp, London
• Francis Szele, Oxford
• Tim Zolnik, Berlin
• Flora Vaccarino, New Haven
• Jetro Tuulari, Turku
• Masahiro Tsuji, Kyoto
• Anton Tonchev, Varna
• Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama, Tokyo

Exhibition celebrating the founder of neurology, Thomas Willis (1621-1675) - Neurologist - Chemist - Physician

To honour the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting 2025 at St John’s College, Oxford, the Library presents once more its successful exhibition celebrating the founder of neurology, Thomas Willis (1621–75). Born into the time of the Scientific Revolution, the emergence of modern science in Europe, Willis received his Bachelor of Medicine in Oxford during the Civil War. A co-founder of the Royal Society, Willis contributed to the emergence of 'science' in his field of Medicine by extracting knowledge from observation and experiments. Today, the circular arteries that supply blood to the brain are still known as the Circle of Willis. He also coined a considerable number of other neuroanatomical terms still in use and was the first to recognise a substantial number of pathologies.

The exhibition showcases first and early editions of his publications, his shorter-lived legacy in Chemistry, and his compassion as a practical physician in surviving letters to a colleague.

Attendees of the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting can visit the exhibition between 11 and 16 July in St John’s College’s Library & Study Centre. The entrance to the Library is located in the Canterbury Quad. For more information click here.

Cave Young Investigator Poster Prize.

The Cave Young Investigator poster prize will be awarded for the best poster presented by an attendee, normally of relatively junior status, at the summer meeting. To be eligible for this prize, the work presented must have been carried out while the first author was an undergraduate or postgraduate student and be presented within 1 year of the award of the doctorate, if applicable. The presenter may be a member of the Anatomical Society or a non-member. For more information on poster guidelines click here. 

For further information about this prize click here