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2026 Barrels Meeting

July 4, 2026 – July 5, 2026 (preceding FENS)

9:00 AM-8:00 PM CET

​Sala Josep Marull (UPF University), Barcelona, 08002

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Barrels brings together researchers focused on all aspects of sensory-motor neuroscience (somatosensory, visual, auditory, motor, decision making, etc).

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Confirmed Speakers

Jerry Chen, Boston University

Mathew Diamond, SISSA

Valerie Ego-Stengel, CNRS / Paris Saclay University

Sami El-Boustani, University of Geneva

Laura Grima, HHMI Janelia

Alexander Groh, Heidelberg University

Miguel Maravall, University of Sussex

Laura Modol, Hospital del Mar Research Institute

Simon Musall, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Marcel Oberlaender, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Carl Petersen,  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Fan Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

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Where: Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://www.upf.edu, at the Sala Josep Marull auditorium, Dr. Aiguader building, Campus Universitari Mar (close to downtown & the beach). 
 

Cost of registration is $250 for students and post-docs and $375 for PIs. If event registration costs are a barrier to attendance, contact the organizers.

During registration you can submit an abstract for a poster or a short talk presentation.  If you would like to request a short platform talk, register by April 15th. Acceptance of a talk will be communicated by May 1st.

 

The full program will be posted after May 1st.
 

Registration is open: https://cvent.me/lqDwwa

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