17th International Conference of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa Marrakesh-Morocco April, 17-20, 2025

Title: Young Women Investigator in Africa
Organizer: Nouria Lakhdar-Ghazal (Morocco)
African Center for Advanced Training in Neuroscience, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
email: nlakhdarghazal@gmail.com

Abstract:

This symposium will be funded by IBRO and is being organised to bring together 5 young female neuroscientists from different parts of Africa who are at the start of their career, at the end of their thesis or post-doctorate to present their research work, which is being developed in their laboratory in Africa. This symposium encourages research carried out by women in a context where scientific research is dominated by men. The symposium will include a speaker representing North Africa (Morocco), a speaker representing South Africa (RSA), a speaker representing East Africa (Kenya), a speaker representing West Africa (Nigeria) and finally a speaker representing Central Africa (Cameroon). The symposium is proposed and will be coordinated by Professor Nouria Lakhdar-GHazal (Chair of the African Centre for Advanced Training in Neuroscience).

Speakers

Number	Speaker	e-mail	Title of  the communication
SP5_1	Siham BOUMHAOUED	siham_boumhaouad@um5.ac.ma	Melatonin modulates the diurnal variations in both cholinergic and dopaminergic release in the mouse striatum
SP5_2	Amalia Awala	awlama001@myuct.ac.za	Silent sentinels: microglial (in)action during cryptococcal infection
SP5_3	Nelly Murugi Nyaga	nellyflashier@gmail.com	Translational Research: SMART Guidelines for Psychiatric Diseases
SP5_4	Kom Diebo Bibiane Tatiana	tatianakom717@gmail.com	Antidepressant-like effects of the aqueous lyophilisate of Momordica foetida (Cucurbitaceae) in rats
SP5_5	Adedunsola Obasa	dunsolaobasa@gmail.com	Neuropathological Impacts of Pre-Injury Stress in Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).