The Swiss Society for Neuroscience (SSN) is thrilled to announce its 25th Annual Meeting, scheduled for February 6-7, 2025, at the University of Lausanne's Lake Campus. This event will bring together neuroscientists, researchers, and students to share cutting-edge research and foster collaborations.

Thursday, February 6 will be Early-Career Researcher Day fully organized by the ySSN with various talks, a poster session, and workshops and a lot of room for networking with junior colleagues from other Swiss neuroscience groups. For more information and registration: https://www.yssn.ch/
This first day will end with a visit of many past SSN presidents that have shaped the network’s activities for 25 years now, followed by a public evening lecture given by Jocelyne Bloch (CHUV Lausanne) and Grégoire Courtine (EPFL) on CNS repair.

The main SSN meeting on Friday, February 7 hosts several plenary lectures and parallel symposia, but also a lunch poster session with time to meet your colleagues and learn about latest advancements in Swiss neuroscience research and applications. In addition, Claudio Bassetti from Bern will introduce the Swiss Brain Health Plan as major neuroscience endeavor for the next years. During lunch please do not forget to join for the SSN Business Meeting introducing the next SSN president. The meeting will end with several awards valorizing the recent best publications in Swiss neuroscience as well as the best posters presented during the 25^th anniversary meeting of the SSN.

Join us in Lausanne for this landmark event to explore the latest in neuroscience research and network with peers!

The event has been submitted for accreditation by the Swiss Association of Cantonal Veterinaries, the Swiss Neurological Society (SNS) and the Swiss Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SSNC).

Meeting Program

Meeting registration

Registration for the meeting is free for members, but mandatory. Please register by January 15 to ease meeting logistics. In case you are not (yet) an SSN member, consider becoming one; SSN membership comes with additional benefits.

Please see HERE for membership application or renewal. Keep in mind that membership approval (and processing membership fees – see below for details-) takes around 2 weeks to be processed. Please bring payment proof in case you ask for (new or renewed) SSN membership later than January 3!

SSN MEMBERS: PLEASE LOG IN TO YOUR SSN PROFILE FOR 2025 MEETING REGISTRATION (to skip the participation fees)

Online registration will remain open until January 30, for late registration (member or non-member) please write to lnds@unil.ch. Please note that even as SSN member you will be charged CHF 50 (onsite) for registration to SSN2025 after January 30, 2025.

Meeting Registration Fees

Non-Members: CHF 150 to be paid during online meeting registration (by credit card only) and for late registration (cash or TWINT onsite). NOTE: This payment will not be considered retrospectively as payment for an SSN Membership! 

Members: Annual SSN membership is CHF 100 for regular members, CHF 40 for students. Membership provides free entry to the meeting and socials, and more benefits please see HERE.

Abstract Submission

Abstract submission is only open to SSN members and will close on January 15! Please see below for more information on abstract and poster preparation.

• Information on how to prepare your abstract can be found here.

• Information on how to prepare your poster (A0 portrait) or oral presentation can be found here.

• In order to submit your abstract, you must be logged as an SSN member.

When coming to SSN2025 in Lausanne please

• Print your registration confirmation email and bring it with you or have the e-mail on your smartphone ready to show at the reception desk

• In case you became an SSN member later than on January 3, 2025, please also have confirmation about membership payment ready to show.

Please note that by choosing to attend the SSN meeting, you accept to likely to appear in photographs, videos, security recordings, etc.; these media might be used for (social media) publications. By attending the SSN meeting, you thus implicitly give your permission for such publications.