About this Event
Come and join the annual BNS Summer School, which this year will explore movement disorders across nerve, muscle, and brain from early ideas to the newest tools reshaping how we see disease.
Weโll travel from classical neuropathology to spatial biology, from RNA and mitochondria to misfolded proteins and AI, asking simple but big questions along the way: why does movement fail, why do some cells die first, and how can technology help us see things differently?
This event will be informal, interactive, and thought-provoking, as well as conversation-rich, with plenty of discussion, curiosity, and freedom to think out loud. If you are a neuroscientist or neuropathologist at any career stage, the meeting will offer an opportunity to engage with like-minded colleagues, share ideas, and explore new ways of thinking together.
The registration fee includes on-site accommodation and all catering, so the conversations can continue over coffee, meals, and well beyond the lecture room.
Agenda
๐: 11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Arrival & Registration
Host: 27/05/2026
๐: 12:40 PM - 02:10 PM
The Moving Mind: Paradigm Shifts in Understanding Movement Disorders
๐: 12:40 PM - 12:50 PM
BNS President Welcome
Host: Silvia Marino, QMUL
๐: 12:50 PM - 01:10 PM
Early Concepts of Muscle Disease & Movement Failure, and evolving definitions
Host: Matthew Clarke, UCL
๐: 01:10 PM - 01:30 PM
Peripheral Nerve Pathology Through Time
Host: Alex Rossor, UCL
๐: 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Paradigm Movements in Neuropathology: From Ways of Thinking to Machines
Host: TBC
๐: 01:50 PM - 02:10 PM
Movements in Neuropathology
Host: Discussion
๐: 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM
Break
๐: 02:40 PM - 04:20 PM
When Regulation Breaks: DNA, RNA, Epigenetics & Organelle Stress in Motion
๐: 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM
RNA-Binding Proteins & Motor Neurone Vulnerability
Host: Pietro Fratta, UCL
๐: 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM
Epigenetics of Motor System Disorders
Host: Sarah Marzi, KCL
๐: 03:20 PM - 03:40 PM
Early vs Late-Onset Gene Regulation
Host: Alexandra Monceau, Newcastle
๐: 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM
Infection on a Genetic Background: Acute Axonal Neuropathy in RCC1 Carriers
Host: Robert Harkness, Manchester
๐: 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM
DNA, RNA & Epigenetics
Host: Discussion
๐: 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM
Break
๐: 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM
Movement, Energy, and Vulnerability: Mitochondria at the Core of Disease
Host: Michael Devine, Crick, London
๐: 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM
Mitochondrial Brain Map
Host: TBC
๐: 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM
Organelle Stress and Dysfunction in Neuromuscular Disease Pathogenesis
Host: TBC
๐: 05:50 PM - 06:20 PM
Organelle Stress
Host: Discussion
๐: 07:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner & Socialising
๐: 07:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Host: 28/05/2026
๐: 09:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Lessons From the Vulnerable: What Selective Degeneration Reveals About Misfold
๐: 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM
A Long Road to the Protein-Only Hypothesis
Host: Tiago Outeiro, Germany
๐: 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM
Why Some Cells Die First: Selective Vulnerability in Neuropathies
Host: Alex Rossor, UCL
๐: 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Why Some Cells Die First: Selective Vulnerability in Muscle Diseases
Host: Esther Fernรกndez-Simรณn, Newcastle
๐: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Why Some Cells Die First: Selective Vulnerability in Neurodegenerative Disease
Host: Mathieu Bourdenx, UCL
๐: 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Selective vulnerability
Host: Discussion
๐: 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Break
๐: 11:20 AM - 12:40 PM
Detecting Pathology: Novel Technologies Across Molecular Scales
๐: 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Post-Translational Modification Detection with Nanopore
Host: TBC
๐: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Seeing Neurodegeneration in Three Dimensions: Cryo-ET Insights
Host: Rene Frank, Leeds
๐: 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Spatial Lipidomics in Parkinson's disease
Host: Ibrahim Kaya, Sweden
๐: 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Novel Technologies
Host: Discussion
๐: 12:40 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
๐: 02:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Research to Practice: Nerve, Muscle & Brain Pathology
Host: Interactive
๐: 06:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner & Socialising
๐: 07:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Host: 29/05/2026
๐: 09:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Moving Targets: How Therapies, Biomarkers and AI Are Redefining Neuropathology
๐: 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM
Neuropathology of Cell Replacement Therapy in Parkinsonโs Disease
Host: TBC
๐: 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM
Anti-Amyloid Beta Treatment Effects and Neuropathological Interpretation
Host: Baayla Boon, USA
๐: 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Advanced in vitro Modelling of Neuromuscular Disease and Therapies
Host: Saverio Tedesco, UCL and Crick
๐: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
When Biology Meets Intervention: Huntingtonโs Disease Pathology After Therapy
Host: TBC
๐: 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Moving Targets
Host: Discussion
๐: 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
Break
๐: 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
From Gut to Brain: Tracing ฮฑ-Synuclein Pathology in Parkinsonโs Disease
Host: James Conway, UCL
๐: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
CSF and Plasma Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Host: Ashvini Keshavan, UCL
๐: 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
CSF and Plasma Biomarkers for Neuromuscular Disease
Host: TBC
๐: 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Extracellular Vesicles as a Peripheral Window for Movement Disorder Diagnosis
Host: Tiago Outeiro, Germany
๐: 12:40 PM - 01:10 PM
What Can an AI Scientist Do? Lessons from Kosmos
Host: Mathieu Bourdenx, UCL
๐: 01:10 PM - 03:00 PM
Discussion, Closing Remarks & Lunch
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Royal Agricultural University, Stroud Road, Cirencester, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 396.15






