Neuroscience Day 2025

As ever, our much-hyped and eagerly anticipated annual Neuroscience Day was a great success this year. This packed one-day conference brought together nearly 400 colleagues from across our vast and diverse community at the University of Edinburgh. A large number of schools, departments, centres, institutes and labs were represented as well as the full career spectrum from undergraduate student to Professor.

We were treated to a range of perspectives on topics such as:

• real-world visual cognition with brain computational models
• Epigenetic signatures of perinatal systemic inflammation and their relation to childhood cognition
• interrogation of the neural code underlying episodic memory
• the  EDIFY programme (eating disorders)
• the power of predictive processing by reverse-engineering biological neural networks
• age-related retinal degeneration
• the role of APOE4 in vascular dysfunction and cognitive impairment
• metabolism in motor neuron diseases

By bringing together researchers from all corners of the University, Neuroscience Day offers a unique opportunity to enhance and foster new connections, collaborations and push interdisciplinary boundaries.