Wednesday, 28 January 2026

9:00 – 15:00
Satellite Event: HUNDOC - Hungarian Neuroscience Doctoral Conference
Free, but registration required

HunDoc will be at a different venue:
HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences
MAP: Magyar Tudósok Körútja 2, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
(a 5-minute walk from ELU FNS)
Program:
- English-language scientific forum for graduate students
- Selected scientific presentations
- Career forum, discussion

DAY 1 - Thursday, 29 January 2026

08:30 – 18:00
Registration

09:20 – 9:30
Opening remarks

9:30 – 10:20
Plenary lecture I. 
József Csicsvári
Neuronal mechanism that underlies spatial learning

10:20-10:40
Coffee break

10:40 – 12:10
Symposium I.
Organizers: Karolina Pircs and Csaba Kerepesi
Aging and rejuvenation

12:10 – 12:40
Lunch break

12:40 – 15:30
POSTER SESSION - I.

PS01 Stem cells and development
PS02 Repair and regeneration
PS03 Disorders, disease models
PS07 Behaviour
PS08 Neuroendocrinology
PS10 Novel techniques

15:30 – 17:00
Symposium II.
Organizers: Gergely Szalay
Multimodal maps of mind: from circuits to systems in health and disease

17:00 – 17:20
Coffee break

17:20 – 18:10
Plenary lecture II. (Buzsáki lecture)
Sheena A. Josselyn
Astrocytes: emerging stars of engrams

19:30 – 23:00
Gala Dinner (with HunDoc2026 - hackathon winners ceremony)

Place: Trófea Grill Restaurant
Address: 1117 Budapest, Hauszmann Alajos. u. 6/b.
The gala dinner voucher, assuming you ordered it in advance, will be included in the name badge.

DAY 2 - Friday, 30 January 2026

08:00 – 16:00
Registration, information

9:30 – 10:20
Plenary lecture III.
Kenneth Harris
Multidimensional structure of activity in transcriptomically identified cortical cell types

10:20 – 10:40
Coffee break

10:40 – 12:10
Symposium III.
Organizer: Péter Gombkötő
Neuromethods

12:10 – 12:40
Lunch break

12:40 – 15:30
POSTER SESSION - II.

PS04 Cellular neuroscience
PS05 Systems neuroscience
PS06 Cognitive neuroscience
PS09 Modelling

15:30 – 17:00
Symposium IV.
Organizers: Zsolt Némethy and Balázs Lendvai
Research networks around Richter - how open innovation strategies could advance translational neuroscience

17:00 – 17:20
Coffee break

17:20 – 18:10
Plenary lecture IV. 
Peter Janssen
AI-assisted brain-machine interface for navigation in virtual reality

18:10 – 18:20
Closing remarks