7th Pre-clinical Stroke Symposium
8 & 9 September 2025, Keble College, University of Oxford
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
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
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