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Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce the first of several keynote speakers for the IBNS 2025 Annual meeting in Tromso, Norway.

	Presidential Lecture: Comparative and developmental neurobiology of pair-bonding. Karen Bales received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Orleans (1993), Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee (1995), and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Maryland, College Park (2000). After completing her post-doctoral fellowship in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2004, she joined the Psychology faculty at UC-Davis. In 2020, she also joined the department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior. Her research focuses on the neurobiology of pair bonding and biparental care in titi monkeys, prairie voles, and seahorses. Dr. Bales is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Primatology, the highest-ranked journal in primatology; she was also President of the American Society of Primatologists from 2012-2014. She was awarded the 2021 Exemplar Award from the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, an award which recognizes the careers of scientists who set outstanding examples of integrating different perspectives in the study of Animal Behavior. She was also named a UC-Davis ADVANCE Scholar in 2014 and in 2018 received the UC-Davis Laboratory Safety Award for the “safest lab on campus”.
	Bench-to-Bedside Lecture: Game of Hormones: Why Sex and Sex Hormones Matter for Brain Health. Dr. Liisa Galea is the Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She leads the Women’s Health Research Cluster (>750 members worldwide). Dr. Galea is a world-renowned expert in sex and sex hormone influences on brain and behaviour in both health and disease states, with a focus on stress-related psychiatric disorders and dementia. She has > 200 published papers, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. She has won numerous awards, including the Mortyn Jones Medal. She has served on peer review committees for NSERC, CIHR, NIH and the Wellcome Trust and is the principle editor of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology and is in the top 1% of cited researchers worldwide. She is tireless advocate for women’s health research and for sex and gender-based analyses towards improved health for all people.
	Keynote: Fear outside the box. Newton Canteras got his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He is currently a full professor at the Department of Anatomy of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo. He did his post-doc under the supervision of Larry W. Swanson at the Salk Institute and the University of Southern California. Newton has a long tracking history of collaboration with Larry Swanson, with whom they did important neural-tracing studies revealing a wealth of neural circuitries critical for the organization of several motivated behaviors. Over the years, Newton has also collaborated with other influential scientists, such as Robert and Caroline Blanchard (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA), Cornelio Gross (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), and Avishek Adhikari (University of California – Los Angeles), among others. Newton has developed leading work for understanding neural circuits subserving defensive behavior using cutting-edge methodologies and ethological approaches in more naturalist experimental sets. His studies have been influential in understanding neural systems underlying fear and anxiety, challenging current views based on classical fear conditioning studies.
	Keynote Lecture: The Neurobiology of Stress-Related Memories: Basic and Translational Perspective. Jelena Radulovic graduated at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1987 and completed her PhD thesis in 1993, at the same University. In 1996, she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently as a group leader at the Department of Molecular Neuroendocrinology. From 2004-2020 she has been with Northwestern University as the Dunbar Professor of Bipolar Disease in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is currently the Sylvia and Robert S. Olnick Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, where she also serves as the Director of the Psychiatry Institute Montefiore Einstein (PRIME). She is also Professor at Aarhus University, where she leads a laboratory at the Department of Biomedicine. Her long-standing research focus has been on the neurobiological mechanisms by which stressful experiences shape memory circuits and contribute to maladaptive behaviors in preclinical models.
	Local Keynote Lecture: Neural and behavioural signatures of protein appetite. James McCutcheon trained as a neuroscientist in the UK at University of Sussex (BSc, 2002) and University College London (PhD, 2007) before moving to Chicago to work at Rosalind Franklin University (Micky Marinelli’s lab) and University of Illinois at Chicago (Mitch Roitman’s lab). During these postdoc positions he developed an interest in how dopamine neurons are involved in pursuit of rewards, both natural (food) and unnatural (drugs). In 2013, he moved back to the UK to University of Leicester to start his own lab and in 2019 moved to Tromsø, Norway where he is a Professor of Biological Psychology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His lab currently studies how we make choices about food and other rewards with a focus on the need to fulfil one's nutritional requirements. Recent work has outlined the importance of dietary protein and shown profound changes in behaviour and activity in reward-related neural circuits when animals are fed unbalanced diets.
	Local Keynote Lecture: Translational psychopharmacology: Lessons from opioid drug studies in humans.  Siri Leknes is a Professor of Social and Affective Neuroscience at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Senior Researcher at Oslo University Hospital. She completed her D.Phil. at Oxford, UK, and postdoctoral research at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The overarching aim of Leknes’ Affective Brain lab (LAB lab) is to understand how the brain and body give rise to pleasurable and painful feelings. LAB lab specialises in drug studies, charting how the brain’s neurochemical systems shape hedonic feelings, decisions and behaviour. Leknes is currently funded by an ERC grant to study state-dependent effects of opioids and their relation to social support, stress and dopamine. In addition, LAB lab conducts clinical research, studying mood, stress and pain in groups treated with opioid agonists and antagonists. Leknes’ work on the benefits of acute pain was awarded The Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize in Social/Personality Psychology. Leknes has served as associate editor for Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and is now associate editor for Pain. She is also the President of the Society for Social Neuroscience.

Travel Award Application Form NOW OPEN

IBNS has a commitment to diversity and inclusion and welcomes undergraduates, graduates and postdocs from all geographic areas and backgrounds to apply for a 2025 travel award to assist with their travel expenses for the IBNS 34th Annual meeting. IBNS membership is required to apply for travel awards.  Not a member?  JOIN here. The deadline to apply for a 2025 Travel Award is December 13, 2024 at 11:59PM EST.  

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Call for Symposium or Satellite Proposals - Closed

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We are pleased to announce that the IBNS Program Committee is now accepting proposals to develop an exciting program for the 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held June 24-29, 2025, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. Symposia play a major role in shaping the IBNS annual meeting by focusing on timely, relevant, and innovative research in the field of Behavioral Neuroscience. More information is provided below, so please share the Call with your friends and colleagues.

October 14, 2024 is the deadline for priority consideration of symposium or satellite proposals. Deadline has been extended to October 28 at 11:59PM EST.  

A symposium includes four (4) speakers and is scheduled for two (2) hours. The time and date of symposia are set by the Program Committee. All symposium proposals should be submitted online and include:

• Title
• Name of the chairperson(s)
• Substantive but succinct description of the topic and proposed talks (Limited to 4,400 characters, including spaces.)
• List of four (4) speakers with affiliations and email addresses
• Tentative talk titles

We welcome proposals using innovative formats (debate style, hands-on demonstration or workshop), for which the same 2-hour format will also be available.

All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee and then submitted to the IBNS Council for consideration. Proposals that are not accommodated one year may be re-submitted the following year and will receive the same consideration as all other proposals. 

Members and non-members of IBNS are invited to submit symposium proposals online.

IMPORTANT:

Early career trainees (postdoctoral fellows/graduate students) are encouraged to submit symposium proposals together with senior investigators, to gain experience in organizing and co-chairing sessions as well as presenting their work alongside senior researchers in their field; a suggested format would be to include three (3) PIs and one (1) trainee in the panel.

IBNS supports diversity in science. As such, we request that you include diversity information pertaining to your submission. Please recognize that diversity takes many forms, in terms of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, professional seniority​, institution type, etc. The Program Committee will take this information into consideration when prioritizing symposia proposals. Please (briefly) provide justification if more than one presenter comes from the same institution ​or if the panel consists entirely of only one gender. The Chair will also be required to attest that none of the participants have previously been found guilty of behavior in conflict with the IBNS Code of Conduct.  ​

*Please note that IBNS does not provide financial support to symposium speakers or organizers. Each organizer and speaker are expected to cover their own fees, including registration and abstract submission fees.

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Venue

Radisson Blu Hotel, Tromsø
Sjogata 7- Po Box 928, Tromsø, Norway

IBNS Group Room Rate: 1495NOK (Approximately $139USD)
Breakfast included

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