The Global Stress & Resilience Meeting 2027 will bring together the international community to explore emerging discoveries, innovative methodologies and key translational challenges shaping the field. Several national and thematic partner networks will join forces for this conference instead of holding separate annual meetings in 2027, creating a unique opportunity for scientific exchange and collaboration.
The three-day program will combine plenary lectures and panels, parallel symposia, short oral presentations and poster sessions, bringing together PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and established scientists from around the world. A strong emphasis will be placed on scientific interaction, networking and opportunities for early-career researchers, including through the GSRNet Junior Investigator Awards. The scientific program spans fundamental, translational and clinical research, with internationally recognized scientists addressing some of the key questions shaping stress and resilience research today, including:
Brain–body interactions: how neural, glial and microbiome mechanisms influence stress, resilience and mental health, with Hailan Hu and John Cryan.
Psychedelics and mental health: understanding how psychedelics act on the brain and their emerging potential for mental health, with Vidita Vaidya and Franz Vollenweider.
The endocannabinoid system and stress: exploring how cannabinoid signaling contributes to stress regulation and its potential as a therapeutic target, with Matthew Hill and Andrea Chicca.
Energy, metabolism and the brain: investigating how cellular energy and bioelectric processes interact with stress, health and resilience, with Martin Picard and Nirosha Murugan.
Stress in everyday life and mental health: understanding how stress affects mental health at the population and individual levels, and what determines vulnerability and resilience, with Brenda Penninx and Christiaan Vinkers.
Trauma, memory and recovery: exploring how traumatic experiences affect the mind and brain and how this knowledge can inform interventions, with Emily Holmes and Birgit Kleim.
Complexity and behavioral flexibility: examining how dynamic and flexible responses to changing environments can help us understand mental health and resilience, with Igor Branchi and Karin Roelofs.
Mechanisms and regulation of resilience: investigating the processes that allow people to adapt successfully to stress and how emotions can be regulated in the face of adversity, with Raffael Kalisch and Gal Sheppes.
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