Conference Organizers

Mark Alkema
UMass Chan Medical School, USA

Netta Cohen
University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Hannes E. Bülow
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Keynote Address

David M. Miller, lll
Vanderbilt University, USA

 

Plenary Speakers

Massimo Hilliard, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia
Michael M. Francis, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
Luisa Cochella, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Shawn Xu, University of Michigan, USA
Arantza Barrios, University College London, United Kingdom
Isabel Beets, KU Leuven, Belgium
Steven W. Flavell, MIT, USA
Douglas Portman, University of Rochester, USA
Laura Bianchi, University of Miami, USA

Session Chairs

Baris Tursun, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Vivek Venkatachalam, Northeastern University, USA
Diego Rayes, Bahia Blanca, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Asuka Takeishi, Riken Center For Brain Science, Japan
Peri Kurshan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Ithai Rabinovitch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Nuria Flames, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia IBV-CSIC, Spain
Yan Zou, ShanghaiTech University, China
Alexandra Byrne, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
Supriya Srinivasan, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Zhao-Wen Wang, University of Connecticut, USA
Varsha Singh, Indian Institute of Science, India

Abstract Selection Committee

Abhishek Bhattacharya, NCBS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
 Thomas Boulin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France
 Henrik Bringmann, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
 Alexandra Byrne, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
 Dhanya Cheerambathur, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 Maria Doitsidou, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 Nuria Flames, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia IBV-CSIC, Spain
 Paschalis Kratsios, University of Chicago, USA
 Peri Kurshan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
 Michael O’Donnell, Yale University, USA
 Meital Oren-Suissa, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
 Ithai Rabinovitch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
 Diego Rayes, Bahia Blanca, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
 Monika Scholz, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior, Germany
 Varsha Singh, Indian Institute of Science, India
 Supriya Srinivasan, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
 Shay Stern, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
 HaoSheng Sun, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
 Asuka Takeishi, Riken Center For Brain Science, Japan
 Baris Tursun, Universität Hamburg, Germany
 Vivek Venkatachalam, Northeastern University, USA
David Weinkove, Durham University, United Kingdom
 Zhao-Wen Wang, University of Connecticut, USA
 Yan Zou, ShanghaiTech University, China 

Scientific Topics

Neural Circuits and Behavior 
Development
Synaptic functions 
Circuits
Behavior 
Aging Diseases and Neural Regeneration
Technical advances
Plasticity and sensory responses