International Society for Tractography Conference

Welcome to the International Society for Tractography Conference!

We are excited to announce the inaugural Conference of the International Society for Tractography, taking place from October 13-16, 2025, in the city of Bordeaux, France.

This landmark event will bring together a maximum of 150 participants in the field of tractography, with a focus on anatomy, methodology, and applications in both clinical and scientific contexts.

Designed to foster meaningful exchange and collaboration, the conference embraces an innovative format that reflects the Society’s raison d’être: to advance research, innovation, and community in our common field of interest, tractography.

Days will be structured in two parts:

• The first part will feature keynote lectures, short oral presentations, and poster sessions showcasing the latest advancements in the field.

• The second part will adopt a retreat-style format, emphasizing interactive roundtable discussions on critical challenges facing tractography. Each session will focus on a dedicated topic for two hours, culminating in a collective discussion to define actionable objectives and chart the future direction of the field.

The registration will open on June 15th.

We look forward to building momentum together as we shape the future of tractography in Bordeaux in next October!

Abstract Call Now Open

Submission Deadline: May 15th at 23:59 (UTC +2:00, Bordeaux).

Abstracts must be submitted as a one-page document that includes the title, authors, affiliations, introduction, methods, results and conclusion sections, and optional figures. A maximum of 10 references may be included on the same page.

Preliminary program

Keynote Speakers

Marco Catani

King's College London

Professor Marco Catani is a clinical neuroscientist specializing in neuropsychiatry. He has pioneered the use of diffusion tractography to identify novel pathways in the human brain and has extensively studied the clinical syndromes associated with their damage.
Hugues Duffau

Salpêtrière University Medicine

Professor Hugues Duffau is a renowned French neurosurgeon and researcher. His notable contributions include the development of intraoperative brain mapping methods in humans, particularly applied to eloquent areas, and advancing the understanding of cerebral plasticity.
Anastasia Yendiki

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital's

Dr. Anastasia Yendiki is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Her research focuses on tractography methods for mapping the white-matter axon bundles through which the different regions of the human brain communicate with each other.