Monday, August 21, 2023

Session 1: Cell Types and Circuits

Hongkui Zeng, PhD
Allen Institute for Brain Science

Maria Tosches, PhD
Columbia

Yuki Oka, PhD
Caltech

Silvia Arber, PhD
University of Basel, Switzerland

Fan Wang, PhD
MIT

Session 2: Circuit Development

Corey Harwell, PhD
UCSF

Denis Jabaudon, PhD
Geneva University, Switzerland

Hollis Cline, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute

Sergiu Pasca, PhD 
Stanford

Nenad Sestan, PhD
Yale

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Session 3: Systems and Function

Tirin Moore, PhD
Stanford

Leah Krubitzer, PhD
UC Davis

Cris Niell, PhD
Oregon 

Cory Miller, PhD
UCSD

Karen Sears, PhD
UCLA

Session 4: Developmental Disorders of Connectivity

Anna Molofsky, PhD
UCSF

Guoping Feng, PhD
MIT

John Rubenstein, PhD
UCSF

Thomas Südhof, PhD
Stanford

Linda Richards, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis  

John Ngai, PhD
BRAIN Initiative, NIH  

Wednesday August 23rd, 2023

Morning: Special and Selected Presentations

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

8:15 – 9:35 a.m. Special talks from the Cajal Institute (Madrid, Spain) and other Spanish institutions
Ruth Benavides-Piccione, PhD
Carlos Vicario, PhD
Sandra Jurado, PhD
Juan M. Encinas, PhD
9:35 – 10:15 a.m. Selected talks:
Laszlo Zaborszky, MD, PhD (Rutgers University)
Don B. Arnold, PhD (University of Southern California)
10:15 – 10:35 a.m. Break
10:35 – 12:30 p.m. Selected talks:
Hu Zhao, PhD (Chinese Institute for Brain Research)
Shen-Ju Chou, PhD (Academia Sinica)
Alec J. Davidson, PhD (Morehouse School of Medicine)
Michel Baudry, PhD (Western University of Health Sciences)

Afternoon: Conference Workshops

1:30 – 5:00 p.m.
(1) Spatial Transcriptomics (90+ minutes) presented by Vizgen
(2) Miniscope imaging (90+ minutes) by UCLA Miniscope

5:00 p.m. Main conference end

Organizing Committee:

Hongkui Zeng (Allen), Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis), John Rubenstein (UCSF), Xiangmin Xu (UCI)

External Advisory Board:

Edward Callaway (Salk), Liqun Luo (HHMI/Stanford U.), Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute), Bing Ren (UCSD)

For more information, please contact us at cncm@uci.edu
www.cncm.som.uci.edu