Symposia & Speakers
Plenary speakers
Rosa Cossart
Institute of Mediterranean Neurobiology
France
Guillermo Lanuza
Leloir Institute Foundation
Argentina
Tomomi Shimogori
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Japan
Shubha Tole
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Keith Murai
McGill University
Canada
Travel bursaries and poster awards
ISDN travel bursaries: please indicate if you wish to apply for a bursary when submitting your abstract. To qualify you must be a postdoctoral fellow within 5 years of completing your PhD (or equivalent) degree, or a graduate student that is registered in a graduate research degree programme.
Poster awards: Prizes will be awarded to the best posters presented by trainees.
Symposia & invited speakers
Invited speakers will contribute on the following topics:
Environmental regulation of the developing brain
Chairs: (Japan) / (United States)
- , Johns Hopkins University, United States ; Kennedy Krieger Institute, United States
- , Yale School of Medicine, United States
- , Aix-Marseille University, France
- , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Molecular drivers of stability versus plasticity of neural cell fate and their implication for brain repair
Chairs: (United Kingdom) / (China)
- , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- , King's College London, United Kingdom
- , Peking University, China
- , Leloir Institute, Argentina
From molecules to circuits: New tools for neurodevelopment across species
Chairs: (Saudi Arabia) / (Croatia)
- , King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
- , University of Zagreb, Croatia
- , Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
- , University of New Mexico, United States
Perturbed neurodevelopmental mechanisms in brain cancers
Chairs: (United States) / (Canada)
- , Seattle Children’s Research Institute / University of Washington, United States
- , UCSF, United States
- , Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
- , McGill University Health Center Research Institute, Canada ; Montreal Children's Hospital, Canada
Development and evolution of motor systems
Chairs: (Austria) / (United States)
- , Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
- , University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States
- , Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- , Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute, France
Post-transcriptional regulation of brain development
Chairs: (Germany) / (France)
- , IGBMC, France
- , Southern University of Science and Technology, China
- , University of Barcelona, Spain
- , UCLA, United States
Development and functions of the blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers
Chairs: (India) / (United States)
- , Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital, United States
- , Vanderbilt University, United States
- , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Mechanisms and translational avenues of early-onset neurodevelopmental disorders
Chairs: (India) / (India)
- , Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (BRIC-InStem), India
- , Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India
- , UC San Diego, United States
- , University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Neuronal morphogenesis and connectivity
Chairs: (Switzerland) / (India)
- , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
- , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
- , University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- , Johns Hopkins Medicine, United States