Join us at UC Irvine on November 20, 2025, for a one-day Post-SfN Symposium bringing together leading experts to share the latest advances in neural circuit imaging, mapping, and functional analysis.
Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, Room 2200 (847 Health Sciences Quad, Irvine, CA, 92697)
Featured speakers include:
- Devin Binder (University of California, Riverside): Multielectrode array analysis of neural dynamics in autism and epilepsy
- Wen Chen (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH): Neural Circuits Connecting Brain and Body
- Daniel Feldman (University of California, Berkeley): Cortical processing impairments in mouse models of autism
- Michael Goard (University of California, Santa Barbara): Modulation of hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding by ovarian hormones
- Francesca-Fang Liao (The University of Tennessee Health Science Center): Distinct roles of TRPC3 ion channel in network hyperexcitability of Alzheimer’s disease
- Tianyi Mao (Oregon Health & Science University): Neuronal architecture of the insular cortex underlying its diverse functions.
- Aaron McGee (University of Arizona): Testing the role of microglia and peri-neuronal nets as regulators of plasticity
- Carlos Portera-Cailliau (University of California, Los Angeles): Mapping neural circuit differences in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome
- Zheng Wang (Peking University): Divergent prefrontal computation of reward prediction errors enables behavioral optimization across species
- Haining Zhong (Oregon Health & Science University): Imaging second messenger signaling underlying circuit regulation during behavior
- Hai Zhang (University of California, Irvine): Neural Circuit Mechanism of Acupuncture Analgesia via a Retrosplenial Cortex–Anterior Pretectal Nucleus Pathway
- Bereket Berackey (University of California, Irvine): Harnessing the potential of spatial transcriptomics