Presidential lecturer
William Newsome
Bill Newsome is the Harman Family Provostial Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
Keynote lecturer
Isabelle Peretz
Dr. Peretz is a cognitive neuropsychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal and Canada Research Chair on neurocognition of music
Featured plenary lecturers
Bita Moghaddam
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program, School of Medicine
Baljit S. Khakh
Professor, Physiology
Professor, Neurobiology
Associate Director of Research, Brain Research Institute
Vice Chair, UCLA Neuroscience
Director, UCLA Physiology Outreach Program
Alon Chen
Alon Chen is the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and the former Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany.
Brain Prize Award Lecturer
Michael Greenberg
Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Winner of the 2023 Brain Prize
Plenary symposia chairs
Leah Mayo
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary
Full Member, Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Parker Research Chair in Psychedelics
Marie-Ève Tremblay
Associate Professor, University of Victoria
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) of Neurobiology of Aging and Cognition
Jaideep Bains
Senior Scientist, Krembil Research Institute
Director, Research Institute, Krembil Research Institute
