#Bradford2025 | Latest programme announced, deadline extension and travel grant open for all members
The latest programme details for the BSN Annual Meeting in Bradford, UK, are now live and includes the selected oral communications - thank you to all who submitted.
To make it as easy as possible for all to attend we are opening up the travel grant to ALL members (not just ECRs) to support you with up to £200 or £450 for internationally-based members.
We have also extended the deadline for early bird rates, late breaking poster abstracts and the annual conference travel grant to 18 July 2025.
Submit your poster abstract*: bsnbradford2025.oa-event.com/abstract-submission
Late-breaking poster abstract deadline: 18 July 2026
*To submit an abstract you will need to create a profile with Oxford Abstracts, our conference website host for 2025.
Register today: bsnbradford2025.oa-event.com/registration
Early bird registration deadline: 18 July 2025
Apply for a travel grant: www.neuroendo.org.uk/grants - now open to ALL BSN members (not just ECRs)
Travel grant deadline: 18 July 2025
About our 2025 Annual Meeting
This year the British Society for Neuroendocrinology (BSN) is hosting its annual meeting in Bradford, UK, on 31 August - 3 September. We are looking forward to welcoming you to the next BSN annual meeting in Bradford, UK. The meeting will highlight the latest neuroendocrinology research with a strong focus on our early-career researchers.
Bradford District is a city steeped in heritage and is City of Culture for 2025. A city made famous by its wool trade, Bradford now leads the way as a UNESCO City of Film, is home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where we are holding the conference dinner. It’s a city of contrast, with beautiful moorlands and picturesque towns and villages such as Haworth, Saltaire and Ilkley sitting alongside a modern, multicultural city centre. The Bradford is easy to travel to with train stations and Leeds Bradford Airport nearby.
Latest programme now live!
Our annual meeting programme has been update with the latest oral communications presentations. The programme highlights the latest neuroendocrinology research with a strong focus on our early-career researchers. Highlights include:
Early Career Researcher event on Transitions and Leadership (31 August)
Invited speakers and participants will take part in a panel discussion, speed networking session and workshop on transitions and leadership, followed by an ECR welcome reception.
Symposium 1: Endocrine disruption by environment
- Peter Duncan - Long-term, dynamic remodelling of the corticotroph transcriptome and excitability after a period of chronic Stress
- Richard Clayton - Radiation-induced hypopituitarism and neuroendocrine functions of NG2-glia
Symposium 2: Rhythms and hormonal interaction
- Professor Jonathan Johnson - Circadian metabolism and chrono-nutrition in humans (invited speaker)
- Dr Beatrice Filippi - Beyond Neurons: The hidden power of astrocytes in insulin-driven metabolic control (invited speaker)
- Chris Coyle - Chemogenetic manipulation of circadian entrainment via a population of vasopressinergic retinal ganglion cells that project to the SCN undergoing an experimental jetlag paradigm
- Szilvia Vas - brainstem noradrenergic neurons suppress the activity of the kisspeptin GnRH pulse generator in mice
Symposium 3: Beyond traditional models in neuroendocrine research
- Dr Chris Faulkes - Life in a reproductive dictatorship - social control of reproduction in naked mole-rats (invited speaker)
- Tabinda Islam - New perspectives on the evolution of kisspeptin signalling revealed by opposing actions of kisspeptin-type neuropeptides derived from different precursors in an echinoderm
- Eder Zavala - Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data
- Mortyn Jones Lecture Professor Anne White - The implications of hypothalamic and pituitary processing of POMC (working title)
- Alison Douglas Lecture Professor Alison Douglas - The cellular basis of hypothalamic function (working title)
Selected ECR Oral Communications
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Jari Berkhout - FOXP1 differentially regulates the development of murine vasopressin and oxytocin magnocellular neurons
- Sooraj Nair - Preserved AVP-induced spiking in male murine corticotrophs during chronic stress and recovery
- Vito Hernández - Kisspeptin signaling beyond reproduction: Chemoanatomical characterization and functional insights
- Celine Camon - DHED, a bran specific 17BE2 prodrug, targets feeding centres of the hypothalamus but does not protect against metabolic dysfunction
- Lauren Jones - Cell-type unbiased characterisation of brainstem neuronal populations recruited by semaglutide
- Teodora Georgescu - Establishing a model to investigate respiratory changes during pregnancy using radiotelemetry
Registration fees - early bird closes 18 July 2025
£100.00 - ECR early bird
£150.00 - ECR standard
£125.00 - Full member early bird
£175.00 - Full member standard
£175.00 - Non-member academic
Apply for the BSN Annual Conference Travel Grant - closes 18 July 2025
The Annual Conference Travel Grant supports ALL BSN members with registration, travel and accommodation (not subsistence) to the UK BSN meetings for up to £200 for UK-based members and £450 for internationally-based members. Applicants must have been a member of the BSN for at least 6 months to apply. Please note that, as this is a standalone grant, it will not impact your eligibility for future travel grant opportunities.
Details for submission, registration and grant applications
Submit your poster abstract*: bsnbradford2025.oa-event.com/abstract-submission
Late-breaking poster abstract deadline: 18 July 2026
*To submit an abstract you will need to create a profile with Oxford Abstracts, our conference website host for 2025.
Register today: bsnbradford2025.oa-event.com/registration
Early bird registration deadline: 18 July 2025
Apply for a travel grant: www.neuroendo.org.uk/grants - now open to ALL BSN members (not just ECRs)
Travel grant deadline: 18 July 2025
We look forward to welcoming you to Bradford this September!
Local Organising Committee
Dr Gisela Helfer
Dr Stuart Dickens
Dr Giulia Grimaldi
Dr Harsha Kantamneni
Dr Samantha Mclean
Dr Peter Nicholls
Dr Ritchie Williamson
