🎉 Anatomical Society Early Careers Social 🎉 Calling all early-career anatomists—join us for an evening to unwind, connect, & reset. 📍 Slug & Lettuce, Chelmsford 📆 Wed 17th Dec ⏰ 7:15pm — we will walk together from ARU campus Come along, switch off, & spend time with people who speak your language.

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All members, a reminder to check your emails for voting instructions

Reminder to all interested!

Report now available for the below Public Engagement and Outreach Grant

Congratulations to our Recipients of Honorary Fellowships!

Congratulations to the 2025 New Fellow of the Year: Dr Philip Cox

Extended deadline notice

Attention all members Deadline: 10 December 2025, 4:00pm UK time Link: www.glasgowaac.com/entries

The deadline for Full or Early Career members interested in applying to become an AnatSoc Ambassador for the Winter and Summer Meeting 2026 has been extended! Click here to apply: buff.ly/zBQkYxU Deadline: Mon 20th Oct 2025, 18:00 (BST)

A good opportunity for any anatomical technical staff to join the Surgical Skills team at RCS Edinburgh! Apply here: buff.ly/V4Fl4c7 Closing date is 9am on 6th October 2025.

Society Members have until midnight on Tuesday 7th October to submit a nomination to sit on the Anatomical Society Council. Find out more details here: buff.ly/Qr9N9IL

⌛ Only got until 4pm (BST) on Monday 6th October to apply for a joint Epilepsy Research Institute & the Anatomical Society PhD Studentship ⌛ Find out all the details here: buff.ly/MxzFTW3

Next up in the Masterclass Series, we will be focusing on Cerebral White Matter. Professor Cannon delves into the teaching aspect, while Roddy O'Kane discusses the surgical context. Join us online on Friday 10th October from 12pm (BST). Sign-up here: buff.ly/Np5NBXh

🧑‍💻 Join us this coming Wednesday (17th Sept) at 15:00 (BST) for a workshop run by the Education Committee! Society Members can join Dr Angelique Duenas for 'Dissecting Paradigms: A Guide for Anatomy Education Researchers'. Sign-up here: buff.ly/XeIxBXK

A very interesting webinar you may want to sign-up for! 'Who Owns the Placenta?' - Join multiple speakers for this event, exploring the many implications of considering this question. Tues 16th Sept 18:00 (BST). Full details here: bit.ly/placenta-160...

Ms Diyya Ameen was another recipient of the Barclay-Smith Travelling Fund, to help with costs attending the Oxford Summer Meeting 2025. Check out all the details on how to apply for the fund and their report here: buff.ly/AOfyzIQ

Researching hand anatomy? Got an interesting interdisciplinary conference for you! The Victorian Hand team from Lancaster University and UAL are looking for abstracts to be presented at London College of Fashion on 8-9 Jan 2026. Abstracts close on 22nd September. Full details here: buff.ly/cHcfm6Y

Orla Mitchell delivered the Dr Sophie Miller Memorial Prize Lecture at the Oxford Summer Meeting. To support the costs of attending the meeting, they were awarded the Barclay-Smith Travelling Fund. Find out more about all prizes and awards at anatsoc.org.uk.

The Barclay-Smith Travelling Fund is available for members to apply for help with costs attending meetings and conferences. Check out all the details and a recent report from Mr Daiki Sugita, who was part of Round 4 of this year's funding, here: buff.ly/AOfyzIQ

Great report from our Round 3 recipient of the 24/25 Barclay-Smith travelling fund Details here: anatsoc.org.uk/funding-and-...

Big congrats to our winner & runner-up in the Cave Young Investigator Best Poster Award from our summer scientific meeting in Oxford! Details here: anatsoc.org.uk/funding-and-...

Well done to our winners and runners up in the best image awards for May 2025! See winning images here: anatsoc.org.uk/funding-and-...

Attention all Anatomical Society Members! Online educational research workshop: 'Applications of AI in anatomical education' Tues 5th Aug, 11am-1230 BST Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Congratulations to the Round 5 recipients of the 24/25 Public Engagement & Outreach Awards! Link: www.anatsoc.org.uk/funding-and-...

Congratulations to the Round 5 recipients of the 24/25 Symington Bequest Award! Link: www.anatsoc.org.uk/funding-and-...

Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser, outgoing Chief Executive of UKRI, will be in conversation with Lord Willetts, Chair of the Foundation for Science and Technology Free webinar, 6:00pm Wed, 8th Oct 2025 Registration: www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-convers...

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