We are excited
to host you in beautiful
Montréal, Canada!
Join us from September 17-19, 2026.
Program
Final program will be posted here in September.
Presenter Information:
Speakers & Chairs
The call for symposia has closed. Chairs of selected symposia have been contacted.
Poster Abstracts & Awards
The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, as well as the Bucci and Poster Awards, are CLOSED.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
ALL poster abstracts are accepted unless otherwise noted.
Please check your poster number and presentation time in the final program.
Poster boards will be landscape, 1.2 m H by 1.8 m W (approx. 48”H by 72”W) and pins will be provided.
Schedule & Venue Info
The 2026 meeting will take place across two locations: Union Française de Montréal [429 Avenue Viger E] and the adjacent Centre de recherche du CHUM [900 R. Saint-Denis]. The schedule and venue locations are as follows:
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Welcome Reception, 5 - 8 pm, Union Française
Friday, September 18, 2026
Talks & Symposia, 8 am - 5:30 pm, CHUM
Symposium 1: The prefrontal cortex: brain-wide interactions and plasticity supporting memory-guided discrimination (Nat Kinsky [Chair], Isabel Muzzio, Kaori Takehara, James Howard)
Symposium 2: New perspectives on impulsive behavior (Kate Nautiyal [Chair], Peter Balsam, Malcolm Campbell, Aysenur Okan)
Symposium 3: Emerging Voices: Valence, Conflict, and Control (Steve Ramirez & Kirstie Cummings [Co-Chairs], Brianna Fitzgerald, Hugo Bayer, Albit Caban, Ashley Sheehan)
Symposium 4: Putting “context” into context: highlighting diverse associative and neural mechanisms for contextual control (Ron Keiflin [Chair], Jennifer Murray, Marielena Sosa, Kurt Fraser)
Keynotes: Melissa Sharpe (Past President Lecture), Andy Delamater, Mark Bouton
Posters & Cash Bar, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Union Française
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Talks & Symposia, 8 am - 5:30 pm, CHUM
Symposium 5: Cues in Control: Neural Circuits Shaping Cue-triggered Reward Seeking and Threat Avoidance (Anna Samaha [Chair], Rutskuko Ito, Rebecca Shansky, Benjamin Saunders)
Symposium 6: Sex Difference in Circuits Mediating Anxiety and Fear Learning (Nesha Burghardt & Ekaterina Likhtik [Co-Chairs], Thomas Kash, Victor Luna, Bénédicte Amilhon
Symposium 7: The roles of the BNST and mPFC in the generalization of fear and avoidance (Luis Rosas-Vidal & Joanna Dabrowska [Co-Chairs], Hadley Bergstrom, Reesha Patel, Joseph Stujenske, Lindsay Halladay)
Symposium 8: Legacy Symposium (Mark Baxter, Michael McDannald, Guillem Esber, Gorica Petrovich)
Keynotes: Peter Holland, Yael Niv (WIL Lecture)
Posters & Cash Bar, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Union Française
Banquet Dinner, 7:30 pm - 9 pm, CHUM
If you cannot attend the 2026 meeting, members are encouraged to pay dues of $25 to support the Society and keep an active membership.
Hotel Info
Our affiliated hotel is the Hyatt Centric Old Montréal. Our hotel block is now full. However, there are rooms outside the block still available.
Other hotels near the conference:
Hotel 10
Hotel Tru
Hotel de l'ITHQ
Hôtel St-Thomas
Hotel & Spa Carré Saint-Louis
Sponsors
A special thank you to our sponsors for the 2026
Pavlovian Society Annual Meeting.
