Invited speakers

Presidential lecture:

Flora Vaccarino, MD

Harris Professor in the Child Study Center;
Director, Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration, Child Study Center;
Professor in the Department of Neuroscience
Yale School of Medicine

Learn more about Dr. Vaccarino’s recent work:

• Lifelines: Bringing brain organoids to the fore
• Another byproduct of aging: Hypermutations in the brain

View her profile on the Yale School of Medicine website: https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/flora_vaccarino/

Keynote lecture

Sheena Josselyn, PhD

Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health, SickKids Hospital
Professor, Departments of Psychology and Physiology, University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Circuit Basis of Memory

Visit Dr. Josselyn’s website: https://jflab.ca/

Plenary speaker

Hugo Bellen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Distinguished Service Professor,  Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
Faculty Senator, Baylor College of Medicine
March of Dimes Chair in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Chair in Neurogenetics, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute

Learn more about Dr. Bellen on his lab website:  https://flypush.research.bcm.edu/lab/hugo/index.html

Plenary speaker

Dana Small, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology
Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center
Yale School of Medicine

Visit the Small lab website: https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/small/people/

Plenary speaker

Maja Jagodic, PhD

Professor of Neuroinflammation
Associate Professor in Experimental Medicine
Research group leader for research on epigenetics of Multiple Sclerosis at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, and the Center for Molecular Medicine.
Karolinska Institutet

Visit Maja Jagodic’s research group profile

Special Brain Prize Lecture

Ole Kiehn, PhD

Winner of the 2022 Brain Prize, with co-winners, Silvia Arber and Martyn Goulding

Learn more about the prize and winner on the Lundbeck Foundation website:
https://lundbeckfonden.com/en/ole-kiehn

Professor in Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor in Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden.

Visit the Kiehn lab website: https://in.ku.dk/research/kiehn-lab/