Invited Speakers

 Patrick Drew, PhD

 Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA

 Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA

 Interim Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA
 

 June 2025: “Understanding the drivers of spontaneous cerebral arterial dilation "

Léon de Bruin, PhD

Professor of Philosophy of Neuroscience at Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands.
 

Professor of Philosophy of Cognitive Diversity at Radboud University, the Netherlands.

March 2025: "Challenges and opportunities in measuring and modeling the brain: a philosophical perspective"

   Salli Antila, MD

 PHD candidate, Alitalo lab, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

 January 2025: "Meningeal lymphatic vessels in Alzheimer's disease"
       
      

Geir Ringstad, MD PhD 

Associate Professor - Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

September 2024: “MRI of intrathecal tracer propagation in CSF, brain and meninges” 

 Leon Smyth, PHD 

 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kipnis Lab, Washington University School of    Medicine,  St. Louis, Missouri, USA 

 April 2024:  "Identification of direct connections between the dura and the brain"