About this Event
The BSMS Physiology Society National Conference brings together medical and biomedical students, clinicians, researchers and those with a keen interst in the brain for a full day at the intersection of physiology, neuroscience, and clinical medicine.
The neurosciences are at an inflection point. Theoretical frameworks are evolving alongside rapid advances in neurohpysiology and neuroimaging, which are beginning to reshape how clinicians and researchers conceptualise conditions spanning chronic pain, epilepsy, dementia and psychiatric states. Few figures have shaped that shift more than Professor Karl Friston, whose work on the free energy principle and active inference has offered a unifying framework for understanding brain function, and whose influence now extends from computational psychiatry to the foundations of neuroimaging itself. For those working across neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and anaesthetics, engaging with these developments is increasingly relevant not just to research, but to how clinical questions are framed.
Taking place on Sunday 12th April at the University of Sussex, the day features a steller lineup of speakers spanning neuroscience and physiology research, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery, including a keynote from Professor Karl Friston, offering perspectives that rarely share the same stage, grounded in NHS clinical practice.
Attendees can expect:
- Talks bridging neuroscience and clinical application across specialties
- A poster competition open to students and early-career researchers
- CPD-accreditation
- Direct engagement with speakers at the forefront of translational neuroscience
This conference addresses two audiences rarely spoken to together, medical students and early-career doctors seeking an interdisciplinary foundation standard curricula do not provide, and more experienced clinicians engaging critically with frameworks beginning to shape research agendas and, in time, practice.
So, whether you are drawn to the cutting edge of neurophysiology research, the realities of clinical practice, or the science of how we learn and teach medicine, there is something here for you. Expect thought-provoking talks, interactive breakout sessions, a clinician panel discussion, and the kind of interdisciplinary conversation that simply does not happen inside standard lectures.
Joint faculty-student conference organised by the BSMS Physiology Society, University of Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
https://sites.google.com/view/bsmsphysiologysoc-conference/2026-conference-from-mechanisms-to-medicine
Further speaker details and program to follow. Please email [email protected] with any queries : )
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Fulton Building, 94 North - South Road, Falmer, United Kingdom
GBP 22.38
