Thursday, August 21, 2025
Conference workshops (free and open to all conference registrants). Non-conference attendees may attend for a nominal fee; if interested in registering please contact CNCM.
(1) Strategies for Successful Publishing: A Roundtable with Editors
The session will be led by Editors from Nature, Cell, Molecular Psychiatry, and other journals. They will provide journal specific information and answer questions related to the 2025 conference presentation topics and other items including writing strategies for specific journals, how editorial decisions are made, etc. Conference participants are encouraged to attend this session.
More details will come soon.
(2) Harnessing the potential of spatial transcriptomics
Single-cell genomics has the potential to unlock new insights into brain cell types, neural circuit function and therapeutic implications. The UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM) team will coordinate with PacGenomics/CompleteGenomics and Vizgen scientists to host a spatial transcriptomic workshop with a focus on Stereo-seq and MERFISH technologies. The CNCM currently houses two Vizgen MERSCOPE instruments and is actively developing multimodal MERFISH and high-resolution capture/sequencing based approaches.
More details will come soon.
(3) Cell-type-selective viral targeting reagents for mammalian brain neural circuit analysis
New viral-genetic tools are critical for improving anatomical mapping and functional studies of cell-type-specific and circuit-specific neural networks in the intact brain. The goal of the CNCM viral core is to develop new and improved viral tools that can be used for a broad range of applications and to make them widely available in the neuroscience field. The CNCM has partnered with the lab of Dr. Gordon Fishell at the Broad Institute at Harvard University to produce and distribute cell-type specific enhancer AAV reagents as part of the BRAIN Initiative Armamentarium project. Our CNCM team is teaming up with the UCSD and Salk Institute groups led by Drs. Bing Ren, Bogdan Bintu and Ed Callaway to develop cell-type-selective viral reagents rapidly and at a large scale to permit genetic access to brain cell types and their related neural circuit analysis in mammalian species. This workshop will provide an overview of new technical advancements and introduce newly available viral resources and their neuroscience applications.
More details will come soon.
For more information, please contact us at cncm@uci.edu