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Events Team at The Society

The local organising committees of ISAN 2024 are proud to invite those with an interest in autonomic neuroscience, both fundamental and clinical, to this Oxford– Birmingham meeting. While the Oxford meeting has a cardiovascular focus, the Birmingham meeting, hosted in the green heart of the historic campus of the University of Birmingham, will cover the full breadth of autonomic research.

Oxford ISAN 2024: Cardiac Neurobiology: Concepts to Clinic

23 – 24 July 2024, University of Oxford, UK

The autonomic nervous system regulates all aspects of normal cardiac function, and is recognised to play a critical role in the pathophysiology of many cardiovascular diseases. As such, the value of neuroscience based cardiovascular therapeutics is increasingly evident.

This meeting will bring together the international community working in the field, with ample time to catch up with colleagues and establish new connections.

Local Organising Committee, University of Oxford, UK

• Professor David Paterson
• Professor Neil Herring

Keynote speaker

• Professor Gero Miesenboeck, University of Oxford, UK

Sessions topics

• From Central Nervous System to Peripheral Nervous System
• Cell–Cell Communication in the Heart
• The Bridge to Translation: Model Systems
• Neuromodulation and Target Therapies to the Heart

In association with this, there will also be a special issue of The Journal of Physiology and the call for papers closes on 1 May 2024.

This Special Issue will update the three white papers published in 2016 on the current state of understanding of human cardiac neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, pathophysiology, autonomic testing, risk stratification, and neuromodulatory strategies to mitigate the progression of cardiovascular diseases. In addition, there is an opportunity to submit original research manuscripts that target the three key areas below.

Topics for this call for papers include but are not restricted to:

• Neurobiology of cell–cell communication in the heart
• The Bridge to Translation: model systems
• Neuromodulation and target therapies to the heart

Guest editors:

• Professor David Paterson, University of Oxford, UK
• Professor Kalyanam Shivkumar, University of California, Los Angeles, US

Key dates

Early bird registration deadline: 27 May 2024
Registration deadline: 7 July 2024

ISAN 2024

25 – 26 July 2024, University of Birmingham, UK

Immediately following the Oxford meeting, the Birmingham meeting will cover the full breadth of autonomic research.

Local Organising Committee, University of Birmingham, UK

• Professor Janice Marshall
• Dr Keith Brain
• Dr Andy Holmes
• Dr Andy Coney
• Dr Davor Pavlovic

Keynote speakers

• Professor Andrew Allen, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Dr Jessica Folosa, Augusta University, Georgia, US
• Professor Kevin Tracey, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, US

Symposia

• Anatomical, functional, and molecular mapping of autonomic innervation of organs
• Bidirectional association between depression and autonomic nervous system alteration: New insights into therapeutic strategies
• Bioelectronic medicine
• Breaking news in cardiac autonomic regulation
• Central nervous control of blood pressure, brain blood flow, and cognitive health
• Integrative control
• Interrogating the physiology of the human vagus nerve
• Glucose sensing affecting autonomic activity – a new insight into neuronal control of metabolic homeostasis
• Neuroimaging of cardiovascular and respiratory control in humans
• Recent insights into the role of the vagus nerve in brain–gut communication and therapeutic implications of vagus nerve stimulation in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders
• Targeting GI vasodilatory hormones for the treatment of postprandial syndromes in autonomic disorders
• Utilising NIH SPARC resources for ANS research
• Working towards selective vagus nerve stimulation to modulate autonomic function
• “You’re so vein” – new insights into the function and autonomic regulation of the “forgotten” venous circulation

Key dates

Abstract submission closes: 7 April 2024
Early bird registration deadline: 27 May 2024
Registration deadline: 7 July 2024