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Merging Minds, Advancing Discoveries Date: 29 November – 2 December 2026 Venue: Hilton Sydney   Register Now 📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Australasian Neuroscience Alliance 2026 We are delighted to share that the 2026 Biological Psychiatry Australia (BPA) Annual Scientific Meeting will be a landmark joint conference with the Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) and Australasian Neuroscience Society […]

Great news!   The abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED!   New deadline  – 7 August 2025 5pm AEST. You can submit your abstract(s) here.   Please note: Late-breaking abstract submissions will be available after this date, but are subject to a limited number of remaining poster slots and will not be eligible for prizes.   Don’t

15th Annual Meeting: Melbourne 26-28 October. Submissions for oral and poster presentations are now open here. Submit yours before the deadline on 31 July 2025. Registration is also open here.  

BPA is excited to announce this year’s excellent symposia lineup for the 15th Annual BPA meeting in October!

This year we will be hearing about groundbreaking biological psychiatry research about the hypothalamus and mental illness, sleep across the lifespan, animal models of mental health and biological phenotypes of heterogeneous psychiatric disorders.

More details about each symposium lineup coming soon!  

The BPA Executive Committee has the great pleasure to announce that Professor Alex Fornito will present the 2025 Isaac Schweitzer Lecture.

Dr Natalie Matosin is an Al & Val Rosenstrauss Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation Fellow and Head of the MINDS Lab at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Submissions open later in 2025

Call for Symposia for BPA2025: Opens 10 April 2025, and closes 5pm, 15 May 2025 (No extensions). Submit your symposium proposal below.