Plenary Speakers

2026 meeting

May 18-21, 2026 | Montreal | Hotel Bonaventure

Keri Martinowich, Ph.D.
 Senior Investigator and Director of Translational Neuroscience at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Martinowich’s research program focuses on understanding molecular and genetic mechanisms that contribute to risk for neuropsychiatric disorders with the goal of informing development of novel treatments.

https://www.libd.org/team/keri-martinowich-phd/

Adam Kepecs, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and BJC Investigator, Washington University in St-Louis

The long-term goal of the Kepecs Lab is to reverse engineer the computational and neurobiological processes underlying cognition and decision-making and apply these insights to biological psychiatry.

https://neuroscience.wustl.edu/people/adam-kepecs-phd/

David J. Anderson, Ph.D.

Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience

Genetic dissection of neural circuits controlling emotional behaviors

https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/people/david-j-anderson

Catharine Winstanley


Catharine Winstanley, Ph.D.
Professor & member of the Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Catharine Winstanley investigates the brain mechanisms involved in impulse control

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/catharine-winstanley/

Brain Prize lecture
Michelle Monje, MD Ph.D.

The Monje Lab studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of postnatal neurodevelopment. 

Milan Gambhir Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology and Professor at Stanford University

https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/michelle-monje-deisseroth

Clifford J. Woolf, M.B., B.Ch., Ph.D.
Director of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and the Neurobiology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Research in the Woolf group is devoted to the study of pain, the regeneration of the injured adult nervous system and neurodegenerative conditions.

https://www.hsci.harvard.edu/people/clifford-j-woolf-mb-bch-phd