About the conference

The 2025 NRSN conference will be a one-and-a-half day event and will take place at Tøyen hovedgård as a pre-meeting to the FENS Regional Meeting (FRM) in Oslo (16th-19th June) on Saturday, 14th June and Sunday, 15th June. This is the perfect opportunity to prepare for the FRM by meeting other students in neuroscience and AI from all over Norway and to practice your conference and presentation skills in a friendly atmosphere. 

The event is a collaboration between NRSN and the NORA Norwegian AI Research School.

Highlights:

• Oral presentations
• Poster sessions
• Keynote lectures (confirmed speakers: Nancy Kanwisher (MIT) and Kristin Branson (HHMI/Janelia))
• Social activities 
• Dinners and networking

The tentative programme can be found here (still under development and subject to change).

More information to come soon. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact NRSN if you have any questions about the event.

Who can participate?

The conference is open to all members of NRSN and NORA.ai Research School.

We encourage students to attend from the very start of their research project to the last year of their PhD, as this gives them the chance to develop their professional network and improve their presentation skills over time, and to receive feedback on their projects at different stages.

NRSN members

There is no registration fee and travel (up to 2500 NOK per person) and accommodation costs are covered by NRSN for all participants who are members by NRSN. Additionally, non-member PhD students, master students, and postdocs whose supervisor has registered NRSN members in their lab are also welcome to attend the conference free of charge.

Nora.ai members

There is no registration fee, and NORA.ai offers funding of up to 1000 NOK for travel and accommodation for its members.

Registration and practical matters

REGISTER HERE!

Deadline for registration: 7th May

Read more about registration and practical matters here.

Keynote speakers

Professor Nancy Kanwisher

MIT McGovern Institute, USA

Kavli Prize Laureate

Nancy Kanwisher is the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Mc Govern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned her bachelor's degree in biology and PhD at MIT. Kanwisher's groundbreaking research has been pivotal in mapping human cognitive processes to specific brain regions. Following her landmark discovery in 1997 of the fusiform face area's role in facial recognition, she has identified brain regions responsible for processing places, bodies, sentence meaning, and music, significantly advancing the understanding of the brain's functional organization. Kanwisher's achievements have been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Troland Research Award and the NAS Award in the Neurosciences. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2024, Nancy Kanwisher was awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience together with Doris Tsao and Winrich Freiwald for the discovery of a highly localized and specialized system for representation of faces in human and non-human primate neocortex.

Dr. Kristin Branson

Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

Kristin Branson develops machine vision and learning algorithms designed to extract scientific understanding from imaging and video data sets resulting from large-scale, neurological studies of behaving animals. Branson and her team use these high-throughput tools to address previously unanswerable questions about the brain and behavior, thereby gaining insight into nervous system function, evolution, and ethology. Their goal is to develop robust, general-purpose implementations of these algorithms that are freely available for widespread use by biologists worldwide.

Early Career Training Programme (ECTP) at the FENS Regional Meeting 2025

FENS is pleased to announce an additional Early Career Training Programme (ECTP) the day after the pre-meeting. Organised by FENS in collaboration with IBRO-PERC, NRSN, and the NORA Research School, the ECTP offers a unique opportunity to participate in hands-on training at leading laboratories at the University of Oslo (UiO).

Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from around the world can apply to participate in the NRSN and NORA pre-meeting to network and prepare for the FRM and to visit host laboratories at the University of Oslo (UiO) on June 16th, 2025. Read more and apply here.

Previous conferences

Click here to see posters from previous conferences.