Join leading international researchers and emerging scientists for the 2027 DANDRITE Symposium, The Connected Brain — a three‑day exploration of how neural circuits are mapped, coordinated, and reshaped to generate behaviour. This year’s theme highlights the dynamic interplay between neurons, glia, and the immune system across development, health, and disease.
Hosted by DANDRITE — the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, established by the Lundbeck Foundation and Aarhus University — the symposium offers a highly interactive format supported by The Brain Prize.
Just as the brain’s networks connect cells, regions, and systems to shape behaviour, The Connected Brain will bring together neuroscientists across disciplines and career stages, creating new links between fields, ideas, and people to advance our understanding of the brain.
More details and speaker announcements will follow here.
We look forward to welcoming you in Aarhus, the city of smiles, in June 2027!
Michelle Monje is internationally recognized for pioneering work on neuron-glia interactions and activity-dependent myelination. Her research has revealed how neural activity regulates oligodendrocyte precursor cells and how these mechanisms are co-opted in glioma, reshaping understanding of brain development and cancer.
Marco Prinz is a leading neuroimmunologist whose work has been central to defining the ontogeny, maintenance, and functional specialization of microglia and CNS-associated macrophages. His research has significantly advanced our understanding of neuroimmune interactions in development, inflammation, and neurodegeneration.
Rui Costa is a systems neuroscientist known for elucidating the neural circuit mechanisms underlying action selection, learning, and motivation. Through circuit-level and computational approaches, his work has defined how distributed basal ganglia and cortical networks coordinate adaptive behavior.
Jelena Radulovic is a molecular and systems neuroscientist known for her work on the mechanisms of learning, memory, and stress. Her research has uncovered how neuropeptide signaling and stress-related pathways regulate synaptic plasticity and memory formation, revealing how emotional and physiological states shape cognitive processes and influence vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders.
