Disorders of Movement Across the Lifespan: Linking Muscle, Nerve and Brain

Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 11:00 am to Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm UTC+01:00

Royal Agricultural University | Cirencester

British Neuropathological Society
Publisher/HostBritish Neuropathological Society
Disorders of Movement Across the Lifespan: Linking Muscle, Nerve and Brain
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Join us in person to explore how muscles, nerves, and the brain connect in movement disorders across all ages!
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.

Weโ€™ll 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

๐Ÿ•‘: 11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Arrival & Registration
Host: 27/05/2026
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:40 PM - 02:10 PM
The Moving Mind: Paradigm Shifts in Understanding Movement Disorders
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:40 PM - 12:50 PM
BNS President Welcome
Host: Silvia Marino, QMUL
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:50 PM - 01:10 PM
Early Concepts of Muscle Disease & Movement Failure, and evolving definitions
Host: Matthew Clarke, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 01:10 PM - 01:30 PM
Peripheral Nerve Pathology Through Time
Host: Alex Rossor, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM
Paradigm Movements in Neuropathology: From Ways of Thinking to Machines
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 01:50 PM - 02:10 PM
Movements in Neuropathology
Host: Discussion
๐Ÿ•‘: 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM
Break
๐Ÿ•‘: 02:40 PM - 04:20 PM
When Regulation Breaks: DNA, RNA, Epigenetics & Organelle Stress in Motion
๐Ÿ•‘: 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM
RNA-Binding Proteins & Motor Neurone Vulnerability
Host: Pietro Fratta, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM
Epigenetics of Motor System Disorders
Host: Sarah Marzi, KCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 03:20 PM - 03:40 PM
Early vs Late-Onset Gene Regulation
Host: Alexandra Monceau, Newcastle
๐Ÿ•‘: 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM
Infection on a Genetic Background: Acute Axonal Neuropathy in RCC1 Carriers
Host: Robert Harkness, Manchester
๐Ÿ•‘: 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM
DNA, RNA & Epigenetics
Host: Discussion
๐Ÿ•‘: 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM
Break
๐Ÿ•‘: 04:50 PM - 05:10 PM
Movement, Energy, and Vulnerability: Mitochondria at the Core of Disease
Host: Michael Devine, Crick, London
๐Ÿ•‘: 05:10 PM - 05:30 PM
Mitochondrial Brain Map
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM
Organelle Stress and Dysfunction in Neuromuscular Disease Pathogenesis
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 05:50 PM - 06:20 PM
Organelle Stress
Host: Discussion
๐Ÿ•‘: 07:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner & Socialising
๐Ÿ•‘: 07:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Host: 28/05/2026
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Lessons From the Vulnerable: What Selective Degeneration Reveals About Misfold
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM
A Long Road to the Protein-Only Hypothesis
Host: Tiago Outeiro, Germany
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM
Why Some Cells Die First: Selective Vulnerability in Neuropathies
Host: Alex Rossor, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Why Some Cells Die First: Selective Vulnerability in Muscle Diseases
Host: Esther Fernรกndez-Simรณn, Newcastle
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Why Some Cells Die First: Selective Vulnerability in Neurodegenerative Disease
Host: Mathieu Bourdenx, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Selective vulnerability
Host: Discussion
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Break
๐Ÿ•‘: 11:20 AM - 12:40 PM
Detecting Pathology: Novel Technologies Across Molecular Scales
๐Ÿ•‘: 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Post-Translational Modification Detection with Nanopore
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Seeing Neurodegeneration in Three Dimensions: Cryo-ET Insights
Host: Rene Frank, Leeds
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Spatial Lipidomics in Parkinson's disease
Host: Ibrahim Kaya, Sweden
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Novel Technologies
Host: Discussion
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:40 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
๐Ÿ•‘: 02:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Research to Practice: Nerve, Muscle & Brain Pathology
Host: Interactive
๐Ÿ•‘: 06:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner & Socialising
๐Ÿ•‘: 07:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Breakfast
Host: 29/05/2026
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Moving Targets: How Therapies, Biomarkers and AI Are Redefining Neuropathology
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM
Neuropathology of Cell Replacement Therapy in Parkinsonโ€™s Disease
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM
Anti-Amyloid Beta Treatment Effects and Neuropathological Interpretation
Host: Baayla Boon, USA
๐Ÿ•‘: 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Advanced in vitro Modelling of Neuromuscular Disease and Therapies
Host: Saverio Tedesco, UCL and Crick
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
When Biology Meets Intervention: Huntingtonโ€™s Disease Pathology After Therapy
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Moving Targets
Host: Discussion
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
Break
๐Ÿ•‘: 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
From Gut to Brain: Tracing ฮฑ-Synuclein Pathology in Parkinsonโ€™s Disease
Host: James Conway, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
CSF and Plasma Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Host: Ashvini Keshavan, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
CSF and Plasma Biomarkers for Neuromuscular Disease
Host: TBC
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Extracellular Vesicles as a Peripheral Window for Movement Disorder Diagnosis
Host: Tiago Outeiro, Germany
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:40 PM - 01:10 PM
What Can an AI Scientist Do? Lessons from Kosmos
Host: Mathieu Bourdenx, UCL
๐Ÿ•‘: 01:10 PM - 03:00 PM
Discussion, Closing Remarks & Lunch
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Royal Agricultural University, Stroud Road, Cirencester, United Kingdom

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