Program - PNP 26

WE ARE CURRENTLY SETTING UP THE PROGRAM, UPDATES WILL COME SOON…

First speakers already confirmed: Mark Geyer, Torsten Passie, Pedro Mediano, Roy Salomon, Bernard Lerer, Eyal Kuzbaum, Eric Vermetten

Explore the structure of this year’s Psychedelic Neuroscience Workshop. The program combines keynote lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions, and informal exchanges — all designed to spark collaboration and deepen insight into consciousness research and neurobiology.

Speakers at PNP26

The program below is a working draft that is being updated. 

We will notify you of final program with the exact presentation running order, time schedule, and each speaker’s topic will be published closer to the event date.

Monday, April 27th

8:00

Greetings and Information

Tomáš Páleníček

Psychedelic research at NUDZ and in Czech Republic as of 2026

Facility Tour

Čestmír Vejmola

9:00

Keynote I

Torsten Passie

10:00

Coffee break

11:00

Presentations

TBA

12:00

Lunch break

13:00

Keynote II

Mark Geyer

14:00

Presentations

TBA

16:00

Finish

Tuesday, April 28th

8:00

Presentations

TBA

Clinical Workshop

Torsten Passie & Ingmar Gorman

9:00

Keynote I

TBA

10:00

Coffee break

11:00

Presentations

TBA

12:00

Lunch break

13:00

Keynote II

TBA

14:00

Presentations

TBA

16:00

Finish

Speakers at PNP 2026

Keynote Speakers - Plenary Talks

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Mark Geyer

Center for Psychedelic Research, University of California San Diego, US

Topic TBA

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Torsten Passie

Hannover Medical School, Germany

Topic TBA

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Bernard Lerer

Hadassah BrainLabs, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Psilocybin – NMDA Receptor Agonist Combined Treatment in Psychiatric Disorders: Hypothesis, Proof of Concept and Human Studies | Psychedelics and OCD: New Approaches

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Pedro Mediano

Imperial College London, UK

A unifying framework for the large-scale neuroscience of psychedelics

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Eric Vermetten

Leiden University, Netherlands

Topic TBA

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TBA

TBA

Clinical Workshop - Tue 28th Morning (preliminary date)

Torsten Passie
Ingmar Gorman

Join a professional clinical workshop on Psychedelic-assisted therapy, led by Torsten Passie and Ingmar Gorman, in a small, intimate setting.

This exclusive workshop is especially relevant to clinicians – psychiatrists and psychotherapists.

More details on the workshop and how to register TBA.

Live Presentations

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Ines Erkizia-Santamaria

University of the Basque Country, Spain | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Endogenous serotonin modulates psychedelic-like effects of psilocybin in mice

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Joanna Kuc

University College London (UCL), UK

Speech-based experience sampling in psychedelic research

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Giovanni Rabuffo

University College London (UCL), UK

Frequency-Resolved Reorganization of the Brain’s Functional Repertoire under DMT Links Neural Dynamics to Psychedelic Experience

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Mauro Cavarra

Maastricht University, Netherlands

Analgesic effects of psychedelics: from survey studies to clinical trials

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Eyal Kurzbaum

Kurzbaum Environmental Biotechnology Lab, Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Israel

From Fruiting Bodies to Mycelium: Characterizing Tryptamine Variability and Optimizing Bioactivity in Psilocybe cubensis

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Danielle Kurtin

Imperial College London, UK

Mechanisms and action of psychedelic-enhanced neuroplasticity

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Giuseppina di Salvo

School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNs), Maastricht University, Netherlands

Histone serotonylation contributes to persistent psychedelic-induced epigenomic, transcriptional, and behavioral plasticity in vitro and in vivo

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Kristýna Aleksić

3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

The role of 5-HT2A receptors in sleep architecture and memory consolidation in the animal model

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Adam Wojtas

Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

When psilocybin meets a stressed brain: altered receptor signaling reshapes neurotransmitter release

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Filip Trbušek

Maastricht University, Netherlands | 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Hyperscanning Psilocybin (HyPSI): Interpersonal Neural Synchrony during Shared Psilocybin Administration and Its Association with Social Cognition

Poster Sessions

Poster sessions will take place during the coffee and lunch breaks, outside the lecture hall

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Čestmír Vejmola

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Psilocin modulates sensory-evoked cortical dynamics: visual and auditory EEG signatures in the rat model

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Klára Šíchová

Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Comparative analysis of acute behavioral effects of NBOMes and classical psychedelics in rats

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Chrysostomos Charalambous

Department of Pharmacology, 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Pharmacokinetics, Systemic Toxicity, and Acute Behavioural Effects of the Phenethylamine Derivative 25E-NBOH in Rats

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Filip Trbušek

Maastricht University, Netherlands | 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University | Psychedelic Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ), Prague, Czech Republic

Touch of a loved one smooths the trip: How affective touch modulates LSD’s effects on neural complexity