Volga Neuroscience Meeting brings together more than 150 scientists from 5 countries
The Fourth International Conference Volga Neuroscience Meeting 2023 focusing on brain science opened in Nizhny Novgorod on June 26. The event is taking place in the Nizhny Novgorod region for the fourth time and brings together leading scientists from around the world to discuss the latest achievements, experiments and theories in the field of neuroscience. It is organised by Lobachevsky University.
This year's conference attracted more than 150 participants from 15 cities and five countries. Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, came to greet the participants and open the conference.
"It is wonderful that Lobachevsky University upholds traditions and continues such meetings, which are especially necessary, fundamental and significant nowadays. They emphasise that science is something that will always be there, science is something that allows us to ensure our technological sovereignty, to discover new development trends, to respond to challenges," said Olga Petrova.
Oleg Trofimov, Acting Rector of Lobachevsky University, underlined in his video address to the participants that the university is really proud of its neuroscience school and hosting such a large-scale international conference in the Nizhny Novgorod region is quite logical.
"We keep our traditions and for the fourth time organise this event, gathering experts from our country and the world on the Volga River and its banks. The neuroscience conference has become a recognised platform for in-depth dialogue and reflection on topical issues related to the functioning of the brain," he noted.
The conference programme includes oral and poster presentations on a wide range of topics: molecular and cellular neurobiology; systems and cognitive neuroscience; clinical and translational neuroscience; neuroplasticity, learning and memory; neurophotonics and optogenetics; neurotechnology and neuroelectronics; neurodynamics, computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Professor Victor Tarabykin, co-chair of the conference organising committee, noted the peculiarity of the conference held by Lobachevsky University:
"Over the years, the Volga Neuroscience Meeting has gained a reputation as one of the largest, and perhaps the most ambitious, conference in our field of science in Russia. In terms of the scope of the topics and questions raised, in terms of the number of representatives of different laboratories, it is indeed more than a representative conference. It brings together scientists from such very different fields as biology, medicine, physics, and mathematical modelling. You won't see anything like it anywhere else."
"The mysteries of how the brain works have always fascinated humanity. We have always wanted to understand why we think, what our consciousness is, why we make such complex decisions, what are the biological and physical underpinnings of these processes. This interdisciplinary conference brought together experts from different fields of science - neurobiology, mathematics, artificial intelligence, physics. At Lobachevsky University, our Neuroscience Research Institute is a recognised research centre, a place of attraction for scientists from all over Russia and the world - both academicians and young people just starting their research career. Each of our meetings is a dialogue and a discovery," said Mikhail Ivanchenko, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing at Lobachevsky University, who is also a co-chair of the conference organising committee.
