Welcome to the 16th ILAE Summer School for Neuropathology and Epilepsy Surgery in Erlangen, Germany
16th INES in Erlangen, Germany, September 10-13, 2026
Welcome to our 16th International Summer School for Neuropathology and Epilepsy Surgery, which will be held in Erlangen, Germany! We are honored to continue the series of international workshops with advanced training opportunities for neuro-/pathologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroimager and neuroscientists. The registration is completed and the course fully booked. We are looking forward to another exciting possibility for interdisciplinary discussion and teaching. We will all address this year also novel research avenues, discussing pathogenic MAPKinase signalling variants in MTLE-HS (lecture by Sattar Khoshkhoo from Boston) and our CRC1540 'Exploring Brain Mechanics' (lecture by Silvis Budday from Erlangen).
We offer a comprehensive training environment in small teaching groups at virtual microscopes and brain dissection facilities to study the spectrum of epilepsy-associated lesions in surgical human brain tissue. Distinguished lecturer will train participants also in clinical semiology, imaging, and neurosurgery, thereby emphasizing the impact of neuropathology in clinical decision making. Our tutors will help you and your group guiding through a selected series of epilepsy surgery specimens, presenting the ILAE classification of hippocampal sclerosis, and focal cortical dysplasias (update from 2022), as well as the WHO classification 2021 for low-grade epilepsy-associated brain tumors. We also welcome you to present and discuss own cases from your daily routine with our distinguished faculty.
