The APE2022 follows the success of our previous two editions in 2020 and 2021. See below a brief summary of these two editions.

Dates: 20th to 22nd September 2021 (online)

We had some incredibly exciting and inspiring three days of excellent keynotes, symposia, workshops, discussion rounds, presentations and posters, followed by our social networking events. We would like to thank all the presenters, committee members, and delegates for supporting us in this event! We had around 300 people from 20 countries register for the conference. We also had a further 350 students from Portugal and Brazil join as classes. Thus, we hope that all presentations have reached a truly wide international audience! We were very delighted to share this moment with you and hope you enjoyed this time spend together with us.

 

DONATIONS FOR OUR SUPPORTERS

The APE2021 was a free event, however, we encouraged delegates to donate to the charities supporting APE2021 by joining us for the open table discussion on their experiences around collaborations with academia. All the money raised was split evenly across these three charities:

• Living Without Abuse (LWB) - who offer help and support for anyone suffering from domestic abuse and/or sexual violence. 
• FND Dimensions - who provide peer support for people diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) as well as careers and families. 
• Aftermath - Surviving Psychopathy Foundation - who support the families and victims of those with psychopathy.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

We sincerely thank the Keynote Speakers who made a significant contribution to the success of the APE2021:

Professor Essi Viding
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK

Title: “Why should neuroscientists studying psychiatric disorders care about gene-environment correlation?”

Professor Michael Berk
Alfred Deakin Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine Deakin University, Australia

Title: " Can we prevent depression?”

Dr. Mufti Mahmud 
Department of Computer Sciences Nottingham Trent University, UK

Title: “Applied Informatics for Brain network decoding and disease identification”

 

AWARDS

We want to take the opportunity to congratulate again all the nominee for their great talks and poster presentations and broadcast their works. Very well done and congratulations to all of them!

The winner of the ECR were:

• Post Graduate Early Career Award: Sabrina Lenzoni, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Postdoc Early Career Award: Zohreh Doborjeh, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Presentation Awards 2021:

• Day 1 - Lisa Gossage, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
• Day 2 – Kelly Johal and Stephanie Blanco, Nottingham Trent University, UK
• Day 3 – Zohreh Doborjeh, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Poster Blitz Awards 2021:

• Patricia Batista, Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory | Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal  

Poster Awards 2021:

• Jennifer Firth, Nottingham Trent University, UK 
• Sabrina Lenzoni, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

• Salsa entertainers Mas Y Mas (Rikki & Dalila)
• Viola de Gamba Performance, Israel Castillo 

 

COMMITTEES

Executive Committee:

• Patrícia Oliveira-Silva, Ph.D. – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Nadja Heym, Ph.D. – Nottingham Trent University
• Alex Sumich, Ph.D. – Nottingham Trent University

Support Committee:

• Alyson Blanchard, Ph.D. - NTU
• Ana Filipa Moreno – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Catarina Aguiar – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Gonçalo Faria – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Julia Ayache – Nottingham Trent University
• Louise Wallace – Nottingham Trent University
• Lucia Penalba – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Manuel Silva – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Maria Inês Ferreira – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Matthew Belmonte, Ph.D. – Nottingham Trent University
• Miguel Ferreira – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Mufti Mahmud, Ph.D. – Nottingham Trent University
• Patrícia Batista – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Sabrina Lenzoni – Nottingham Trent University
• Sara Freitas – Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory
• Stephanie Blanco – Nottingham Trent University