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The next ESBRA Conference will be held in Brussels 4 > 6 September 2025 at the UCLouvain, Brussels | Belgium.
The President is Prof Philippe de Timary.
Authors are invited to submit their abstract from this website.
To submit an abstract, we invite you to use the « Abstract submission » button, and to respect the guidelines and the template for the document layout you will find below.
Authors will have to specify if they wish to present an oral communication or a poster. Abstracts will then be reviewed and selected by the scientific committee members, and the organizing committee. The selected candidates for both posters and oral communications will be notified by the Conference Secretariat.
If you want to submit multiple papers, you only need to create ONE web account. Please use the same account (personal access code) for any additional submission.
To ensure that your abstract is maintained in the programme, you must register online and pay your registration. Deadline for such registration will be defined later.
All submissions (PDF format) must be made online from the website. Abstracts sent by email will not be accepted.
A symposium is a series of oral presentations on a common topic, organised by a group (maximum 4 presentations, total duration 1h30).The chair(s) make(s) a proposal for a theme with a list of potential speakers. This proposal is validated (or rejected) by the scientific committee. If the symposium proposal is accepted, the speakers will then submit individual abstract, which will be evaluated in the same way as the oral abstract.
- Abstract must be in English, and should not exceed one-page A4 format (portrait)
- Margins: 25mm each side
- Text: Left and right justified, Interline 1.5 line, Times, size 10
- Title: Times, bold, capital letters, size 14, centered
- Name of the authors: Times, size 10, centered, presenting author underlined
- Authors address/affiliation: Times, size 9, centered, italics; each affiliation in a new paragraph
- Bibliographical references are not mandatory
- The PDF file size must not exceed 3 Mb
You must carefully follow the template below. Any abstract which does not comply with this template will not be accepted.
The abstract MUST be submitted as a PDF-file Scanned PDF-files are not allowed.
Files must be created using a PDF-distiller, all fonts must be embedded. The file may neither contain any form of security, nor bookmarks, links or multiple files in a single PDF file.
Information available soon
Georges KOOB
Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
United States of America
Christelle BAUNEZ
Leader of the team “Cognition and Physiopathology in the Basal Ganglia” (CoPhyBaG)
Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone
France
Santiago CANALS
Full Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and lead the Laboratory of Plasticity of Brian Networks in the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH)
Spain
Shilpa CHOKSHI
Chief Scientific Officer, Institute of Hepatology | Professor of Experimental Hepatology, KCL at Foundation for Liver Research
United Kingdom
Bin GAO
MD, PhD
Deputy Scientific Director
Chief, Laboratory of Liver Diseases
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institutes of Health
United States of America
Léonie KOBAN
Associate Researcher (tenured) at CNRS and team leader at Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Lyon (CRNL)
France
ESBRA cannot provide any financial support and all speakers must pay their fees.
| Type | Early up to 30 June, 2025 | Late from 1 July, 2025 |
| Standard member registration without gala dinner | 450€ | 550€ |
| Student member registration without gala dinner | 150€ | 200€ |
| Standard non-member registration without gala dinner | 550€ | 650€ |
| Student non-member registration without gala dinner | 200€ | 250€ |
| Full standard member registration | 550€ | 650€ |
| Full student member registration | 250€ | 300€ |
| Full standard non-member registration | 650€ | 750€ |
| Full student non-member registration | 300€ | 350€ |
| Additional order | ||
| Gala dinner for participant | 100€ | |
| Accompanying person | 120€ | |
For more details about reduced fees, please refer to the paragraph Important information for reduced fees.
PLEASE NOTE, the full registration fees include:
- access to the Get together and the Gala Dinner*
- coffee breaks and lunches
* The registration fee “without Gala Dinner” is the same as the full registration except that it does not include the access to the Gala Dinner
| ESBRA Membership | Annual (€) | Biennial (€) |
| Regular ESBRA membership | 75€ | 150€ |
| Reduced ESBRA membership* | 25€ | 50€ |
| Student ESBRA membership | 20€ | 40€ |
| Reduced student ESBRA membership* | 10€ | 20€ |
If you wish to benefit from this reduced registration fee, you have to send a proof of your status (e.g. copy of a valid student card or your professor’s letter) to esbra2025@cborg.fr
Without proof of your status, you will not be entitled to this reduced registration fees.
Accepted credit cards are VISA®, Eurocard® and Mastercard®
During the online payment, you will be connected to the PAYBOX website.
Your credit card details will not be stored on our server.
Additional administrative charges: 10 € VAT incl.
Cheque payable in France
Additional administrative charges: 10 € VAT incl.
You are responsible for ALL bank fees.
The bank details will be mentioned on the pro-forma invoice sent by email after your registration.
NB: Please indicate the name of the people registered (or the invoicing references).
Order form payable in France.
Additional administrative charges: 10 € VAT incl.
Any cancellation request must be sent by email to esbra2025@cborg.fr
The following cancellation fees will apply:
- Until 15th July 2025: 50% refund minus 30€ administrative costs.
- From 16th July 2025: No refund. Fees will be aquired by ESBRA.
⊕ Arrival at Brussels-Midi station (TGV, Thalys and Eurostar)
Take the metro:
- Line 2 or 6, direction Simonis (Elisabeth)
- change at Arts-Loi station and take line 1, direction Stockel;
- get off at Alma metro station, which is in the heart of the university campus.
⊕ Arrival at Brussels-Schuman station (all national trains coming from Namur and Luxemburg) or ⊕ Brussels-Central station (all international trains except TGV, Thalys and Eurostar)
Take the metro:
- Line 1, direction Stockel;
- get off at Alma metro station, which is in the heart of the university campus.
Money-saving subscriptions are available, such as the “carte Train scolaire” and the “carte Campus”.
The UCLouvain campus and Saint Luc University Hospitals are served by metro line 1 and the Alma station stop.
STIB
- Line 42 on Avenue Hippocrate (stop at “UCL-Saint-Luc”)
- Line 79 on Avenue Mounier (Stop at “Cliniques UCL”)
- Lines 76 and 77: Crainhem metro station stop
Brussels (Zaventem) Airport is close to the congress (7km) and access by taxi is easy.
For public transportation, from 5:30 am to 11:45 pm, seven days a week, four trains per hour depart Brussels Airport for Brussels Central train station (avoid going to Leuven or Landen). From there, take metro line 1, direction Stockel, to Alma metro station, in the heart of the university campus.
Brussels South Charleroi Airport is served by low-cost airlines. It is located 55 km from the UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus. Airport shuttles link the airport to the centre of Brussels.
- The A bus runs from the airport to Charleroi South train station in 10 minutes.
- Two trains per hour (one per hour on weekends) depart for Brussels.
Brussels offers a wide choice of accommodation.
You can choose to stay in the city center or close to the conference venue.
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