Brain Energy Metabolism

Event details

Date

27-29 September 2027

Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Format

In-Person Event

Join us in Zurich for the second Nature Conference on Brain Energy Metabolism, organised by Nature Metabolism, Nature Neuroscience and Nature Communications, together with the University of Zurich.

The conference will bring together researchers across neuroscience and metabolism to exchange ideas, share recent findings and build collaborations. Across five sessions, the programme will explore cellular metabolism, brain metabolism in ageing and disease, neurovascular metabolism, communication along the body–brain axis, and emerging topics and technologies.

Alongside the scientific programme, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet colleagues and continue discussions, including a conference gala dinner and a boat trip on Lake Zurich.

We welcome abstract submissions on the following topics:

Cellular Metabolism
Brain Metabolism in Ageing and Disease
Neurovascular Metabolism
Body-Brain Axis
Emerging Topics and Technologies

Speakers

Costantino Ladecola

Weill Cornell Medicine

Giovanni D'Angelo

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

Ramon Sun

University of Florida

Lydia Finley

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Jessica Spinelli

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Christiane Wrann

Harvard Medical School

Ana Domingos

University of Oxford

Tune Pers

Center for Basic Metabolic Research

Chenghua Gu

Harvard Medical School

Juan Pedro Bolaños

Universidad de Salamanca

Juan P. Bolaños studied Pharmacy at the University of Salamanca (USAL, Spain), where he performed a PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. He moved to the Institute of Neurology (London, UK) as an EU-funded Marie Curie Postdoc. He returned to USAL, became a lecturer, and then a full professor (2005). He received the Marie Curie Excellence Award in 2005 and the Castilla-León Research Prize in 2021. He is a senior and associate editor in several journals and has organized a dozen international conferences. He was the president of the European Society for Neurochemistry. He is interested in regulating the metabolic and redox coupling amongst the brain cells and its impact on behavior and neurological diseases.