7th Pre-clinical Stroke Symposium

registration

Please register HERE

Fees:

£40 - Early Career Researchers (defined as MSc, DPhil or <5 years post-PhD)

£80 - Mid-Career and Senior Researchers (>5 years post-PhD)

£100 - Industry Attendees

Abstract deadline: noon, July 7th, 2025

Late registration fees from August 1st, 2025:

£50 - Early Career Researchers (defined as MSc, DPhil or <5 years post-PhD)

£100 - Mid-Career and Senior Researchers (>5 years post-PhD)

£125 - Industry Attendees

accomodation

Bed and breakfast rooms are available at the conference venue for £108/night. Please book using the following link quoting code PCSS25

Home - Keble College

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will take place in Keble College Hall, the original venue of choice for the Harry Potter great hall (the college turned it down!). Please join us for dinner and networking on the first evening by adding the dinner option during registration.

Preliminary Programme

Day 1, Monday 8 September 2025

10.00-10.30 Registration & Coffee

10.30-10.45 Welcome from Organising Committee

10.45-11.00 Sponsor talk: Inscopix

11.00-12.30 Flash Talks (10 minutes, speakers selected from submitted abstracts, PhD students only)

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.00 Assoc. Prof. Tracy Farr, 'Functional connectivity change in a large animal model of stroke'

14.00-15.00 Flash Talks (10 minutes, speakers selected from submitted abstracts, post-docs only)

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30-16.00 Dr. Paul Holloway, 'Adding new dimensions to in vitro models of stroke'

16.00-16.30 Dr. Amin Mottahedin, 'Time of day effects on ischemia-reperfusion injury after stroke'

16.30-16.35 Sponsor talk: Promega

16.35-17.30 Keynote: Prof. Louise McCullough, University of Texas Health, Houston, 'The Importance of Age and Sex in Translational Stroke Research'

17.30-18.30 Posters, Drinks and Networking

19.30 Dinner, Keble College Hall 

Day 2, Tuesday 9 September 2025

8.30-9.00 Assoc. Prof. Yvonne Couch, 'Studying metabolism in the rodent brain'

9:00-9:30 Dr. Johannes Boltze, 'STAIR XIII: An Update'

9.30-10.30 Flash Talks (10 minutes, speakers selected from submitted abstracts, PhD students only)

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-11.30 Dr. Kamila Szulc-Lerch, 'Preclinical imaging technologies and animal models in stroke research'

11.30-12.30 Flash Talks (10 minutes, speakers selected from submitted abstracts, post-docs only)

12.30-13.00 Dr. Gary Morris, 'New insights into recovery of functional vasculature with the ischemic core after stroke'

13.00-13.15 Prizes and Concluding Remarks 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Yvonne Couch, Paul Holloway and Kamila Szulc-Lerch

sponsors:

Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Research UK Thames Valley Network, British Heart Foundation, Charles River Laboratories, Company of Biologists, Guarantors of Brain, Inscopix (Bruker), Promega, Thistle Scientific