Keynote Speakers

More to be announced

Hailan Hu

Zhejiang University, China

“Neuron-glia interaction in depression”

Brenda Penninx

Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

“Examining stress in daily life”

John F. Cryan

University College Cork, Ireland

Stress and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: More than a Gut Feeling

Martin Picard

Columbia University, USA

“How Energy Flow Fuels Stress and Healing Responses”

Vidita Vaidya

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

“Serotonergic Psychedelics: From Mitochondria to Mood”

Raffael Kalisch

Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Germany

“Healthy illusion: when belief beats reality”

Igor Branchi

Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

A Complexity Approach to Mental Health”

Emily Holmes

Uppsala University, Sweden

“Intrusive memories after trauma: creating a digital treatment”

Matthew Hill

University of Calgary, Canada

A Tale of Translation: Endocannabinoid Regulation of Stress, Anxiety and Fear from Rodents to Humans”

Birgit Kleim

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Karin Roelofs

Radboud University, The Netherlands

“Resilience from a behavioural control perspective”

Christiaan Vinkers

Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

Stress, resilience, and cortisol rhythms

Gal Sheppes

Tel Aviv University, Israel

“Emotion Regulatory Flexibility: From Basic Science to Applied Clinical Interventions”

Nirosha Murugan

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

“Reprogramming Biological Stress: An Energy Resistance Framework for Health”

Andrea Chicca

University of Bern / Synendos Therapeutics AG

SYT-510, a clinical candidate for a first-in-class selective endocannabinoid reuptake inhibitor, demonstrate efficacy in multiple preclinical CNS disease models and a favorable phase 1 safety profile

Franz Vollenweider

University of Zurich, Switzerland