Speakers

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Anthony Figaji
University of Cape Town

Imagining a bold future for African neuroscience

Christopher Krupenye
Johns Hopkins University

The social minds of humans and other apes

Plenary Speakers

Angelina Kakooza Mwesige
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health; Makerere Univesrity College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Nodding Syndrome in Africa: 60 Years of Research but the Enigma Continues.

Olivia Matshabane
Stellenbosch University

Neuroethical Considerations of Innovative Neurointerventions for Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Africa

Symposium Speakers

Alicja Puล›cian
Nencki Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

Decoding social ties โ€“ using automation and machine learning to investigate neural underpinnings of sociability

Basil Enicker
University of KwaZulu-Natal

Outcomes and prognostic factors of childhood

Ursula Rohlwink
University of Cape Town

Understanding tuberculous meningitis: A focus on the brain.

Pieter Naudรฉ
University of Cape Town

Longitudinal maternal and child immune markers as predictors of neurodevelopment in HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) children in a South African birth cohort

Amalia N Awala
University of Cape Town

Cryptococcal wars: host-fungus interactions in cryptococcal brain infection

De Wet Wolmarans
North-West University

Addicted to persistence? The psychobiology of spontaneous behavioural repetition in deer mice

Aletta Millen
Integrated Molecular Physiology Research Initiative

The role of systemic inflammation in the development of neuroinflammatory models of depression

Dorit Hockman
University of Cape Town

Cell type-specific gene expression dynamics during human brain maturation

Thomas Amatey Tagoe
University of Ghana

Brief periods of environmental enrichment reduce behavioural and anatomical evidence of depression in mice.

Willie Daniels
University of the Witwatersrand

The Evils of Nyaope

Zama Msibi
University of KwaZulu Natal

Intracranial infections in HIV positive children in KwaZulu Natal

Annerine Roos
University of Cape Town

Interactive effects and timing of prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure on brain microstructural development in children

Sooraj Baijnath
Integrated Molecular Physiology Research Initiative, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand

Mass spectrometry imaging: providing novel insights into the world of neuroscience

Nynke A. Groenewold
Department of Psychiatry & Mental Health, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town

Morphometric integration of frontal regulatory networks in young children born to depressed mothers

Joseph Raimondo
Division of Cell Biology, Department of Human Biology, Neuroscience Institute and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town

Cestode modulation of host networks in the brain.

Khalid El Allali
Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine

A Neuronal Growth Factor (B-NGF) within the seminal plasma of the male dromedary camel induces ovulation in the female by activating hypothalamic GnRH, Kp and RFRP neurons