Hongkui Zeng, PhD (Co-Organizer)
Allen Institute for Brain Science (NAS)
“Dynamic changes of brain cell types in development and aging”

Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
“Genetic, cellular and intercellular strategies of human brain development”

Vanessa Ruta, PhD
Rockefeller University
“Themes and variations in social circuits”

Pierre Vanderhaeghen, PhD
VIB Leuven
“Mechanisms linking human brain development, evolution, and (dys)function”

Xiangmin Xu, PhD (Co-Organizer)
University of California, Irvine
“Neural circuit analysis and single-cell spatial multi-omics of aging and brain disease pathogenesis in unconventional animal models”

Paola Arlotta, PhD (Co-Organizer)
Harvard University
“Passage of time in brain organoids: the journey to understand human brain development and maturation”

Guillermina Lopez-Bendito, PhD
UMH-CSIC, Spain
“Interplay Between Spontaneous Activity and Genetic Programs in Sensory-Modality Cortical Arealization”

Josh Huang, PhD
Duke University
“Genetic dissection of cortical neuron type trajectories: from developmental origin to behavioral function”

Larry Zipursky, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
“Synaptic Gradients: From continua of cell types to molecules and behavior”

Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Stanford University
PJ Harman Lecture of Cajal Club
“Myelin plasticity in health and disease: from cognition to cancer”

Li-Huei Tsai, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Frequency Matters: Harnessing 40 Hz Stimulation for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neuroprotection”

Hailan Hu, PhD
Zhejiang University, China
“Decoding the Neural Mechanisms of Depression: Insights Through Ketamine’s Pharmacological Lens”

Guoping Feng, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NAS)
“Developing therapeutic approaches for ASD”

Sten Linnarsson, PhD
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
“Cell atlas of the developing human meninges identifies inner dura layer cells as the likely origin of human meningioma”

Karel Svoboda, PhD
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics (NAS)
“Illuminating synaptic learning rules”

Elizabeth Buffalo, PhD
University of Washington (NAS)
“Dynamic Modulation of the Hippocampal Code During Learning”

Bernardo Sabatini, MD, PhD
Harvard University (HHMI/NAS)
“Phasic and tonic dopamine in behavioral adaptation”

Nelson Spruston, PhD
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
“What can we learn about memory by watching it form in the hippocampus?”

Liqun Luo, PhD (Co-Organizer)
Stanford University (HHMI/NAS)
“Deconstructing the Serotonin System in the Mouse Brain”

Carlos Brody, PhD
Princeton University (HHMI)
“Towards detecting and understanding internally-timed and internally-defined neural signals”

Anne Churchland, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
“Movements and engagement in decision-making”

Edward Chang, MD
University of California, San Francisco
“Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe”

Yang Dan, PhD
University of California, Berkeley (HHMI/NAS)
“The how and why of sleep”

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
Columbia University (HHMI)
(Freeman Hrabowski Scholar)
“Skin-brain axis for tactile sensations: from mice to naked mole-rats”

Zhigang He, PhD, BM
Harvard University
“Organization and regeneration of brain-spinal connections”

Catherine Dulac, PhD
Harvard University (HHMI/NAS)
“The Neurobiology of Sickness”

John Ngai, PhD
National Institute of Health, BRAIN Initiative
“The NIH BRAIN Initiative”