Happy #FreshFriday! ▶️ Are neuroanatomy multimedia resources effective in improving medical students' understanding of structural and functional neuroanatomy? A systematic review ✏️ Eleni Patera, Mark Pickering, Thomas Flanagan anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🤔Are neuroanatomy multimedia resources effective in improving medical students' understanding of structural & functional neuroanatomy?🧠 🚀🔗Read our OA systematic review published at @asejournal.bsky.social to find out! #Neuro #MedEd doi.org/10.1002/ase....

Next up is Mona Barkat from @ox.ac.uk who will deliver an oral presentation titled 'Integration of 3D-Neuronal Tissue into Traumatic Brain Injury Model' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Up next is Faye McLeod from the University of Newcastle who will talk to us about 'Modelling monogenic epilepsy in human foetal brain slice cultures' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Starting now our final Symposium Session (#9) with invited speaker Flora Vaccarino from Yale University who will give a presentation on 'Functional Genomics of Human Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Starting now Symposium Session #8 with our first invited speaker for today Tom Nowakowski from UCSF delivering a presentation on 'Uncovering the strategies of human radial glia using high throughput genomics' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Moving on now to a sponsor talk by Daniela Cacciabue from The University of Sheffield & Anatomage who will talk to us about 'Anatomy at Sheffield- From Scalpel to Virtual Dissection and Beyond' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now over to Andras Nagy from the Unviersity of Pecs, Hungary delivering a presentation on 'Exploring the teaching traditions of Central European anatomists through the Erasmus+ LEANbody collaborative project' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Taking over now is Leandros Rapteas from the @unibirmingham.bsky.social with a presentation on 'Equipping future clinicians: Inclusive anatomy teaching amid legal and social challenges to gender equity' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up shortly is Honey Zahr from RMLIMS Lucknow, India who will talk about 'Exploring Anatomy Education: A Comparative Analysis of Cadaver Dissection and 3D Anatomical Study Tool' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now over to Ryan Smith from the University of Cambridge who will talk to us about 'A simplified clinically applicable classification of Circle of Willis variants' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Up next is Sophie Mok from the University of Edinburgh who will deliver a presentation on 'Evaluating osteoblast-fibroblast co-culture in a multiphasic calcaneofibular bone-ligament scaffold' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Taking over now, Meric Goker from RCSI who will present on 'Advanced Synovial Microneedle Technology for Drug Delivery to Prevent Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up shortly is Louise Hosty from RCSI who will give a presentation on the 'Development of a Pro-Angiogenic Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Decorated with Vascular Cell-Derived ECM’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now over to Eavan Pakenham from RCSI who will share with us insights on 'Selenium and Magnesium Functionalised Scaffolds for Dual Bone Regeneration and Anti-Cancer Therapy’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Next up is Natalia Penar from the University of Edinburgh, talking about 'Mechanisms of epithelial symmetry-breaking during mammalian morphogenesis' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Our first oral presentation for today is Jason Sparks who will talk about 'Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) mediates bacterial endotoxin-induced fever via an effect on cyclooxygenase-2 and inflammatory cytokines in mice' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Good morning everyone! Final day of the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting at the @ox.ac.uk ☺️ Registration 📍 Porters’ Lodge Presentations 📍Garden Quadrangle Auditorium Foyer #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

The final talk for today will be given by Zoltan Molnar one of the chairs and co-organizers of the Anatomical Society Summer Meeting 2025, who will give us a lecture on the History of Neuroscience #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Our final invited speaker for today is Sara Bandiera from @ox.ac.uk & @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social who will talk to us about 'Extrinsic modulation of cortical development by early thalamic innervation in the human foetal brain' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Moving on with invited speaker Tim Zolnik from Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin who will talk about 'Orexin-activated neurons of the human cortex' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up shortly is invited speaker Anton Tonchev from Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria who will deliver a presentation titled 'An insight into human cortical development from adult neurogenesis' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Starting symposium session #6 with invited speaker @alainchedotal.bsky.social from Institut de la Vision, Paris who will talk to us about Tridimensional analysis of human nervous system development. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now taking over is invited speaker Helen Stolp from Royal Veterinary College who will discuss the short- and long-term effects of acute early-life activation of the GABA receptor on neuronal development . #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up is a sponsored talk by primal pictures, by David Price from the University of Edinbrugh who will talk to us about Variation in human brain development. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Moving on, our invited speaker Masahiro Tsuji from Kyoto's Women's University will delve into the Pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with low birthweight: insights from a rat model. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Starting symposium session #5 with our Dr Sophie Miller Prize Awardee Orla Mitchell from RCSI who will talk to us about Early Life Adversity & Brain Structure: A Longitudinal Structural Human MRI study. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now over to the next oral presentation which will be delivered by Mohammed Abuelem from @ox.ac.uk who will talk to us about 'Cortical Layer 6 Drd1a-Cre+ neurons mediating dopaminergic-driven activation of the murine medial prefrontal cortex' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up is our invited speaker Željka Krsnik from the University of Zagreb who will discuss 'Initial regional patterning and laminar dynamics in the developing human prefrontal cortex and cingulate cortex'. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Up next is our invited speaker, Nenad Sestan from @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social who will dive into the 'Origins of the Prefrontal Cortex and Cognitive- Emotional Networks: What Makes Us Human’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up next is a sponsor talk by Anastasiia Tourbier from Maxwell Biosystems who will give a presentation on: 'Maxwell systems: Next Generation Electrophysiology for Functional Characterization of Human Neural Organoids and Assembloids' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Moving on to our next invited speaker, Arnold Kreigstein from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social who will share with us genomic insights into human brain development and disease #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Our first invited speaker for today, Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama from Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science will now talk to us about the 'Molecular Basis of Subplate Layer Expansion in Human Fetal Brain Development' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Taking over now, Nicoletta Kessaris from University College London who will talk to us about 'Molecular multitaskers: the pleiotropic power of transcriptional co-factors in mouse cortical development' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up shortly is Andrew Copp from University College London who will discuss ‘Chiari II brain malformation is secondary to open spina bifida: evidence from a new mouse genetic model’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now over to Muhammad Assir from the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social , who will talk to us about ‘IL-17A Alters Human Cortical Development in a 3D Ex Vivo Model of Maternal Immune Activation’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Next up is Daniel Berg from the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social talking about 'Mapping and modelling neural stem cell dynamics in the developing human dentate gyrus' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Our first oral presentation for today is Aarushi Vaidya from the University of East Anglia who will talk to us about 'Can early forebrain patterning/ holoprosencephaly (HPE) be modelled in vitro using 2D and/or 3D human induced pluripotent stem cell models?’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

😊Now it is time for Poster Session 1 and the drinks reception sponsored by Anatomage! Make sure to check out the poster presentations! 📍Marquee 🕜 18:00-19:00

Our final talk for today will be delivered by @aaronbarron.bsky.social from the University of Turku who will talk to us about how 'Peripheral immune proteins predict reduced cortical thickness in 5-year-old human children'. #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Up next is Michael O’Connor from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) who will dive into ‘Mapping Early Psychosis: Hippocampus and Amygdala output differences in Adolescents with Psychotic Experiences’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up next is our invited speaker Ana Namburete from @ox.ac.uk who will talk to us about ‘Mapping Fetal Brain Anatomy with Ultrasound and AI’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Jetro Tuulari from Neurocenter Finland steps up next to share insights on ‘Prenatal exposures and early life neuroimaging– the importance of looking beyond the first weeks of life’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Our first invited speaker for session 2, Rebeccah Slater from the University of Oxford will share insights on ‘The painful brain: developing pain perception in early infancy’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Finishing off today’s session 1 with a sponsor talk by Elsevier with Sinaoife Andrews who will update us on the Complete Anatomy New Neuroanatomy Model 🧠 #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Coming up is our first oral presentation for today's session 1 by Thomas Theil from the University of Edinburgh‬ who will discuss ‘Modelling the role of the primary cilia gene CEP41 in autism spectrum disorder using human cortical organoids’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Now over to our next invited speaker Eva Anton from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who will talk to us about ‘Primary Cilia: A Novel Signaling Gateway to Cortical Neural Circuits' #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Next up is our invited speaker Katie Long from @KingsCollegeLon talking about how the extracellular matrix shapes the developing human cortex #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

Our first invited speaker for today’s session 1: is Madeline Lancaster from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) with a presentation titled ‘Exploring mechanisms controlling human brain evolution using organoids’ #AnatSocSummer25 #AnatSocOxford

The Anatomical Society’s Summer Meeting 2025 Session 1 begins now at @ox.ac.uk! 📍Auditorium at St John’s College