Find FENS at FRM 2025

19 May 2025

FENS News, Neuroscience News

From 16-19 June 2025, the FENS Regional Meeting – FRM 2025 – will be held in Oslo, Norway. This meeting will be organised by the Norwegian Neuroscience Society, in collaboration with the Swedish Society for Neuroscience, Danish Society for Neuroscience, Brain Research Society of Finland, and Icelandic Society for Neuroscience.

This event is serves as an opportunity for FENS member societies to promote excellence in research within their region of Europe. The aim of each FRM is strengthen neuroscience across Europe, promote cross-border scientific exchange, and secure representation and access to the FRM programme for underrepresented scientists and topics.

If you plan to attend FRM 2025, make sure to check out the programme below, featuring all activities hosted by FENS and its committees, EJN – European Journal of Neuroscience, the ALBA Network, and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence.

If you wish to attend but haven’t secured your spot yet, make sure to register by 16 June 2025 on the FRM 2025 website.

 

Monday, 16 June 2025

10:30 – 11:30 / FENS Special Workshop: Funny Brains – Science Communication via Comedy – FRM edition

  • Join science communication and comedy experts John Butler, Michele Marini, and Rebecca Ellis and learn how to use humour to make any research topic engaging. This workshop is organised by the FENS Communication Committee.
  • Find out more and register here. (Note: Registration is limited to 50 participants, allocated on a first come, first-served basis).

10:30-11:30 / CARE Event: Transparency on the use of animals in research and its relevance in neurosciences

13:15-14:45 / FKNE Symposium: Navigating Protein Landscapes in the Development and Aging of Neural Circuits

 

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

9:30-9:45 / Symposium: The multi-laned hippocampus: parallel circuits for memory processing

  • Join this parallel session led by FKNE Scholar Flavio Donato to learn more about the diversity of neurons in the hippocampus.

13:15-14:15 / EJN Workshop Tips to Effectively Prepare, Publish and Review EJN Articles

  • Join John Foxe and Yoland Smith, co-Editors-in-Chief of EJN – European Journal of Neuroscience to learn more about the academic publishing process for a society-owned journal. Alongside EJN Sections Editors Sophie Molholm and Guillaume Rousselet, they will offer tips for those looking to have their work published and/or assist in reviewing.

20:00-23:00 / Young researchers’ social event

  • For attendees of the “Funny Brains” Workshop on Monday, 16 June, the “Young researchers’ social event” on the evening of Tuesday, 17 June will offer the opportunity to perform for an audience. Performance is entirely optional, but we hope you’ll consider sharing your material!

 

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

12:15-13:15 / ALBA Network session: The evolving landscape of Nordic neuroscience

  • Featuring insights from Maryam Ziaei, ALBA Ambassador, and Emre Yaksi, FENS Programme Committee Chair, both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the panel discussion will uncover the unique barriers faced by international researchers in Nordic regions, including a persistent gender gap in Nordic neuroscience.

13:15-14:15 / FENS Neuroscience Career Path event: A world full of opportunities: What career paths for neuroscientists?

  • Organised by the FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET) and moderated by CHET Chair Dirk Schubert, this symposium is dedicated to students and early career scientists. Three speakers currently working in sectors outside of academia (e.g. business, pharmaceutical, publishing, etc.) will explain how their academic background contributed to their career mobility and share their insights and advice on choosing the right path forward.

15:45-16:45 / The Brain Prize Lecture: Brains & AI

  • Each year, the Lundbeck Foundation awards The Brain Prize, the world’s biggest neuroscience award. 2024 Brain Prize Laureate Prof. Terry Sejnowski from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA will deliver this year’s Brain Prize Lecture at FRM 2025. In his lecture, he will discuss how the brain uses temporal context and working memory to process continuous input, drawing on models of recurrent neural networks and traveling waves to explain complex cognitive functions.

17:00-17:15 / ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize 2025 Ceremony

  • At this session, hosted by the ALBA Network and FKNE and chaired by FKNE Scholar Mateusz Ambrożkiewicz, the winner of the 2025 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize will be revealed. With this prize, ALBA and FKNE wish to highlight the achievements of a Europe-based scientist who has contributed to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the brain sciences.

 

Thursday, 19 June 2025

8:30-9:30 / Plenary Lecture – From Cells to Systems: understanding the phenotypic landscape of autism spectrum disorders

  • Join to find out from FENS Programme Committee Member Gaia Novarino how convergences and divergences manifest themselves across different genetic models of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

14:15-15:00 / EJN Best Publication Award Lecture

  • In her lecture, titled “Modulating verbal working memory with fronto-parietal transcranial electric stimulation at theta frequency: Does it work?“, EJN Best Publication Award Winner Dr. Anna Lena Biel will present her work on theta-frequency tACS modulation of working memory.