The inaugural meeting of the UK Glia Network

To register and submit the abstract: link – deadline is 5 August 2024

The programme includes a poster session and 3 mini-symposiums - Role of glial cells in neurodegeneration, Glia cells in non-mammalian systems/outside the CNS, Molecular and functional diversity of glial cells. Keynote speakers feature Jeffrey Lliff, Roslyn Bill, Alexei Verkhratsky, Soyon Hong and Clare Howarth. Full programme of the event is available to view here.

There are excellent prices for best ECR talk/poster presentations and all participants will also benefit from a complimentary copy of book “Neuroglia” by Prof Alexei Verkhratsky and Arthur Butt.

The UK Glia Network has recently been founded by a group of researchers passionate about glia. The overall mission of the network is to create an open and interactive community of scientists who are from or working in the UK and interested in pushing the boundaries of glia research. The goals of this community are to encourage networking and collaboration among glia researchers which potentially will lead to impactful discoveries, attracting competitive funding, and promote the sharing of state-of-the-art tools and technologies used to study glia. We hope to reinforce mobility and training of early career researchers and strengthen the UK glia community.

Follow UK Glia Network on X (Twitter) @UKGlia – or if you are not on social media you could sign up for updates of the network here.