ASTRA 2025

Asia-Pacific Spatial Translation Research Alliance

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

To understand how the brain forms memories, feelings and behaviours has long been a dream for researchers.

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain.

This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

"I realized writing is a process that not only transforms ideas into text, but also allows the writer to continuously question and refine those ideas. The AI never did this." #ScienceWorkingLife https://t.co/P0k2irAw7P

[Jonathan Kipnis 🟦 @jonykipnis]

Papers like this are why science remains endlessly exciting. This one made me feel the same wonder I felt at 15 when I first discovered science. || Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions | Science https://t.co/Rl3AlgF982

[Ankur Sharma @asharmaiisc]

Limited spots left for this exciting meeting. #ASTRA25

Early bird ends tonight!

[ASTRA 2025 @2025Astra]

Promising to be a great inaugural conference. Registration is open now. Hurry up and grab your tickets.

[Ankur Sharma @asharmaiisc]

Save the dates!

Announcing the 1st ASTRA meeting, an APAC-wide pan-cancer spatial alliance to uncover oncofetal biology.

📅19–21 Nov 2025 | In person

⛰️ Rydges Resort, Hunter Valley NSW

Rego: https://t.co/ExaGQpTxml