Past Keynote Speakers
Past Keynote Speakers
- Takao Hensch, PhD
- Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology; Professor, Neurology (Children’s Hospital); Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
"Translating Critical Periods"
- Kristina Nielsen, PhD
- Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
"The shape of the world – representation of 3D versus 2D shapes in visual area V4"
- Dr. Lorenz Studer, MD
- Director for the Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Bo Chen, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor - Ophthalmology, Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, and Neuroscience Mount Sinai
- Generating New Neurons and Protecting Old Neurons in Vision Restoration
- Cristina M. Alberini, Ph.D.
- Professor: NYU - The Center for Neural Science
- The infantile amnesia paradox: a critical period of learning to learn and remember
- David Amaral, Ph.D.
- Beneto Foundation Chair, MIND Institute; University of California Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine; Core Investigator, California National Primate Research Center
- The Ups and Downs of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Tracking the trajectories of autism in the Autism Phenome Project.
- Brian A. MacVicar, PhD. FRSC, FCAHS
- Co-Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health
Univ. British Columbia - New roles for pericytes and astrocytes in the function, repair and regeneration of cerebral blood vessels
- Eve Marder, PhD
- Professor of Biology, Member, US National Academy of Sciences
Brandeis University - Variability, Robustness and Homeostasis in Neurons and Networks
- Jeffrey Lichtman, MD, PhD
- Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University - Connectomics
- Valina Dawson, Ph.D.
- Director Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs Institute for Cell Engineering
Professor of Neurology Johns Hopkins University - PARsing Cell Death in Parkinson's disease
- Martin Chalfie, Ph.D.
- Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2008
William R Kenan Jr. Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University - Touch Sensing in C. elegans: Transduction and Modulation
- Lorna W. Role, Ph.D.
- Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY Stony Brook
- Cholinergic Modulation of Cortico-limbic Circuits Related to Attention, Memory and Mood
- Carol Barnes, Ph.D.
- Regents' Professor Psychology and Neurology, Director Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Research Scientist ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, University of Arizona
- Brain Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in Aging: What is Normal?
- Larry Young, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine
- Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.
- Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair, Human Genetics
Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART)
Co-Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine - Genomic investigations of human higher cognition and transcriptome organization
- Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
- Director Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Where are we with the Autisms?
- Elizabeth Grove, Ph.D.
- Professor of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago
- Embryonic patterning and the mammalian forebrain
- Elissa L. Newport, Ph.D.
- George Eastman Professor, Former Chair of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
- Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms for Language Acquisition in Human Infants and Adults
- Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor & Chair of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
- Disorders of Neuronal Position
- Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D.
- Frederick P. Rose Professor, Rockefeller University
- New Directions in the CNS Neuronal Migration