IFIBIO at the SAN Annual Meeting: Symposium, Plenary Lecture, and Scientific Contributions

In early October 2026, researchers from IFIBIO Houssay actively participated in the Annual Meeting of the Argentine Society for Neuroscience (SAN), held at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Within the framework of the meeting, they organized a scientific symposium and a plenary lecture, in addition to participating in other activities and presenting posters. The meeting brought together over 600 researchers from Argentina and other Latin American countries.

The symposium and plenary lecture featured invited researchers from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), McGill University (Canada) and Centro Atómico Bariloche (Argentina). This was possible through the support of the SPIRIT programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), within the framework of the SPIRIT (Elevating Swiss-Argentinian Partnership) project, which links the laboratory of Dr. Camila Zold (IFIBIO Houssay, UBA-CONICET) with that of Dr. Manuel Mameli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland).

The team organized a thematic symposium that brought together SPIRIT project members and researchers from Argentina and Canada. Speakers included Dr. Camila Zold (IFIBIO Houssay) and Dr. Salvatore Lecca (Mameli Lab, University of Lausanne), who also served as co-chairs, together with Dr. Soledad Esposito (CONICET, Bariloche) and Dr. Nicolas Tritsch (McGill University, Montreal).

The session filled the 350-seat venue and provided an outstanding opportunity to present results from the SPIRIT project to the broader Latin American neuroscience community and to foster exchanges across research groups from different countries.

Dr. Manuel Mameli was invited to deliver one of the plenary lectures of the meeting, introduced by Dr. Fernando Kasanetz (IFIBIO Houssay). The lecture was one of the highlights of the congress and allowed Dr. Mameli to present his research to the full gathering of neuroscientists.