Neroscience Singapore 2025
Our Brain and Body, and Cognitive Science, Psychology, and AI seminar series, are meant to encompass diverse topics in neuroscience. They continued their run in 2025, featuring both local and international neuroscientists.
Neuroscience and AI Minisymposium
SfN.SG organised this minisymposium to coincide with the international machine learning conference ICLR 2025, held in Singapore, attracting a diverse group of international speakers and audience members, including many non-members.
Bridging Basic and Clinical Neuroscience: The Trivergence Virtual Symposium with King’s College London
On 16 March 2025, SfN Singapore (SfN.SG) joined forces with the King’s College London (KCL) Neuroscience Society and international partners from across the USA and Asia to host the Trivergence Virtual Symposium, a day-long virtual conference designed to bring together researchers, clinician-scientists, and students working at the intersection of basic and clinical neuroscience. A Global […]
Bringing the Brain to the Public: SfN.SG’s with ArtScience Museum of Singapore on Mirror Mirror: Journey Into the Mind
When people think about neuroscience outreach, they often picture lecture halls and academic conferences. In 2025, SfN.SG took a different path, one that led straight into the heart of a museum, and into the minds of nearly 130,000 visitors. A Room of Our Own: “Grey Matter” Our biggest public engagement effort of the year was […]
Singapore Symposium on Brain-Body Interactions (SSBBI) and Neuroscience Singapore 2024: Recap
SfN.SG joined forces with the Singapore Symposium on Brain-Body Interactions (SSBBI) from November 4th-6th, 2024 this year, to co-organize the annual symposium, Neuroscience Singapore 2024. The combined session started with flash talks and a vibrant joint poster session on the afternoon of 5th Nov. At the official start of the program on Day 2, SfN.SG President […]
Brain and Body Seminar Series: Recap
Key Findings and Implications Prof. Eric J. Huang from the University of California, San Francisco, presented a compelling exploration of the underlying mechanisms behind germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH), a significant neurological condition affecting developing fetuses. Prof. Huang shared soon-to-be-published data that highlighted the crucial role of immune-vascular interactions, particularly involving activated neutrophils, in disrupting angiogenesis […]
Cognitive Science, Psychology & AI Seminar Series (1): Recap
On August 28, SfN.sg kicked off the Cognitive Science, Psychology and AI seminar series with two talks from NUS Psychology Assistant Professors. DongWon Oh spoke on implicit encoding of social trait perceptions, that is, the rapid interpretation of a face as friendly, hostile, trustworthy etc, which is consistent between and within individuals. He shared his […]
Neuroscience Singapore 2023: Awards
By Caroline Wee Neuroscience Singapore 2023 saw 30 early career presenters in the afternoon poster session on Dec 5th. A panel of 12 neuroscientists including group leaders and postdocs judged the top posters for awards. They are as follows: Best poster Royston Long “Complex effects of age, sex, and Alzheimer’s Disease on hippocampal spatial coding” […]
Neuroscience Singapore 2023: Recap
By Matas Vitkauskas On December 5th and 6th, 2023, the SfN Singapore Chapter co-organised our seminal yearly conference Neuroscience Singapore 2023 at Center for Life Sciences at NUS. The mini-symposium was co-organised with the support of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM). The two days of the conference […]
Minisymposium on Neurobiology of Sleep and Mental Health Disorders: A Recap
By Matas Vitkauskas On November 1st, 2023, the SfN Singapore Chapter co-organised a mini-symposium with on Neurobiology of Sleep and Mental Health Disorders at Center for Life Sciences at NUS. The mini-symposium was co-organised with the support of IMCB and the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM). It was a full house with over 130 attendees, […]