Minisymposia
Minisymposia focus on advances or present conflicting views in rapidly developing areas of neuroscience. Speakers are typically junior investigators, and researchers at all career levels are encouraged to attend. Minisymposia will take place November 14–18 in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Minisymposia taking place during Neuroscience 2026 are listed below.
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Hidden Vision: Multiscale Foundations of the Subcortical Visual System
Chair: Sara Ajina, MBBS DPhilInstitution: University College London
Co-Chair: Nikhil Bhatla, PhD
Institution: Institute for All Minds
Date & Time: Saturday, November 14, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme E – Sensory Systems
Session Number: MIN53
Subcortical nuclei are central to perception and cognition, yet their functional organisation and interactions with cortical networks remain poorly understood. This minisymposium will combine multiscale, cross-species approaches to reveal how recent discoveries from cellular circuits to network dynamics are reshaping our understanding of subcortical visual and cognitive organization.
Immune Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease
Chair: Matthew Havrda, PhDInstitution: University of New England
Co-Chair: Jae-Kyung 'Jamise' Lee, PhD
Institution: University of Georgia
Date & Time: Saturday, November 14, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Ballroom A
Theme: Theme C – Neural Aging and Degeneration
Session Number: MIN35
Understanding of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) has evolved based on evidence of complex communication between central and peripheral immune cells that affects CNS homeostasis. Clinical observations and numerous studies implicate a pro-inflammatory milieu in the degeneration of dopamine neurons. This minisymposium aims to move beyond the observation that inflammation exists to highlight precise mechanistic advances that define how immune dysregulation drives neurodegeneration.
Regulation of Proteostasis at the Synapse in Health and Disease
Chair: Katarzyna Grochowska, PhDInstitution: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Co-Chair: Tal Laviv, PhD
Institution: Tel Aviv University
Date & Time: Saturday, November 14, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme B – Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Session Number: MIN22
This session will explore how synaptic proteostasis is maintained through lysosomal exocytosis, chaperone-mediated autophagy, axonal and dendritic autophagy, and mitochondrial specialization. Speakers will present new in vivo biosensors and circuit-level approaches revealing how these pathways regulate synaptic structure and neurotransmission, and how their disruption promotes protein aggregation and synaptic dysfunction in disease.
The Non-canonical Hippocampus: New Findings From an Unexplored System
Chair: David Moorman, PhDInstitution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Co-Chair: Jordan Farrell, PhD
Institution: Harvard Medical School
Date & Time: Saturday, November 14, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme G – Integrative Physiology and Behavior
Session Number: MIN76
Despite decades of hippocampal research, three interrelated regions have been largely neglected until recently. Understanding the noncanonical hippocampus — area CA2, the fasciola cinereum, and the indusium griseum — reveals new perspectives on hippocampal regulation of cognition, emotion, physiology, and disease. This session will highlight novel research into these noncanonical hippocampal structures, providing the foundation for a new model of hippocampal structure and function.
Transforming Neuroscience Research Through AI-Driven Data Integration and Analysis
Chair: W. Jim Zheng, PhDInstitution: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Co-Chair: Michael Hawrylycz, PhD
Institution: Allen Institute
Date & Time: Saturday, November 14, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 146AB
Theme: Theme J – Techniques
Session Number: MIN115
This session will highlight recent advances in machine learning and AI, particularly deep learning, and how they are reshaping the analysis and integration of complex neuroscience data. The speakers will present AI-driven methods and discoveries that advance understanding of brain cells, circuits, and function while fostering innovation across neuroscience research.
Armamentarium Towards Brain-wide Precision Access to Cell Types
Chair: Bosiljka Tasic, PhDInstitution: Allen Institute
Co-Chair: Gordon Fishell, PhD
Institution: Broad Institute
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Ballroom A
Theme: Theme J – Techniques
Session Number: MIN114
To understand structure-function relationships in the nervous systems, neuroscientists need tools that integrate genetic, viral and molecular approaches for cell-type-specific access in vivo. These tools can help elucidate the structure and monitor or perturb the activity of specific cell types. This session will showcase projects funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative Armamentarium, focusing on recent breakthroughs in approaches for cell-type-specific expression of transgenes in the nervous system.
Interoception in Aging and Disease
Chair: Kara Marshall, PhDInstitution: Baylor College of Medicine
Co-Chair: Rose Hill, PhD
Institution: Oregon Health
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme E – Sensory Systems
Session Number: MIN60
Brain-body interactions govern the most basic physiological processes. Interoceptive sensory neurons with diverse cellular identities and functions innervate all internal organs. This session will highlight recent breakthroughs in our understanding of molecular and cellular pathways and circuits of the interoceptive nervous system, and how they are integrated in the CNS. The speakers will have a special focus on how these processes are modulated and disrupted during aging, disease, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Neural Correlates of Sickness
Chair: Jessica Osterhout, PhDInstitution: University of Utah
Co-Chair: Ioana Carcea, MD, PhD
Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme D – Neuroimmunity, Neurovasculature, and Neural Injury
Session Number: MIN50
Infection triggers adaptive physiological and behavioral symptoms. However, the mechanisms underlying these changes have, until recently, remained unclear. Recent advances indicate the brain plays a key role in generating sickness symptoms via circulating cytokines or immune-activated vagal afferents. Moreover, neural ensembles can anticipate or recall sickness to trigger symptoms. This session will highlight recent breakthroughs in our understanding of neural mechanisms of sickness symptoms.
Neural Population Geometry and Dynamics in Flexible Cognition
Chair: Cheng Xue, PhDInstitution: University of Chicago
Co-Chair: Gouki Okazawa, PhD
Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Ballroom B
Theme: Theme I – Cognition
Session Number: MIN101
To understand flexible cognition, a major puzzle is how neuronal representation of task variables flexibly adapts to different task contexts. This session will discuss how circuits selectively route and transform population activity to drive flexible behavior. Highlighting the diverse approaches of theory, multi-region electrophysiology, and population neural analysis, speakers will demonstrate how dynamic information flow and geometric structure support flexible cognitive control.
Voltage Imaging: From a Promising Tool to New Discoveries
Chair: Yoav Adam, Ph.D.Institution: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-Chair: Xue Han, Ph.D.
Institution: Boston University
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme J – Techniques
Session Number: MIN102
Recent advances in genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) and high-speed microscopy now enable optical measurements of membrane potential with high spatiotemporal resolution across many neurons. While this technology attracts considerable attention, it has been mostly used so far for technical demonstrations. This session will highlight new biological discoveries already emerging across models and cell types, and discuss the next opportunities for the field.
Embodied Cognition: How Does Embodiment Impact Cognitive Processing?
Chair: Evan Schaffer, PhDInstitution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Co-Chair: Shreya Saxena, PhD
Institution: Yale University
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme F – Motor Systems
Session Number: MIN99
This session will bring together experimental neuroscientists, computational modelers, and roboticists to identify general principles of embodied cognition. Talks will examine how sensorimotor constraints and feedback loops shape neural activity beyond classical motor circuits, influencing predictive sensory processing, learning, and decision making.
Glial Regulation of Motor Circuit Formation, Function, and Regeneration
Chair: Sarah Ackerman, PhDInstitution: Washington University in St. Louis
Co-Chair: Laura Fontenas, PhD
Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme B – Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Session Number: MIN18
From simple planaria to humans, proper assembly and maintenance of motor circuits is key to organismal survival. Recent data indicate that glia, a heterogeneous group of non-neuronal cells within the nervous system, directly communicate with neurons to tune motor circuit dynamics. This minisymposium will highlight recent advances in our understanding of how diverse glial cell types promote proper formation, function, and reconstruction of the key circuits that drive motor behavior.
Parallel Claustral Networks for Behavioral Control in Health and Disease
Chair: Yavin Shaham, PhDInstitution: IRP/NIDA/NIH
Co-Chair: Ami Citri, PhD
Institution: The Hebrew University
Date & Time: Sunday, November 15, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme G – Integrative Physiology and Behavior
Session Number: MIN81
This minisymposium will present recent advances showing that the claustrum acts as a central hub composed of parallel networks, defined by their connectivity, with differential roles in behavioral control. The speakers will also present evidence that different claustral circuits help filter information, regulate frontal cortex flexibility, influence pain sensitivity and opioid relapse, and become disrupted after exposure to alcohol.
Amygdala-Centered Cortico-Subcortical Networks in Social Perception and Decision-Making
Chair: Sai Sun, PhDInstitution: Tohoku University
Co-Chair: Haiyan Wu, PhD
Institution: University of Macau
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 146AB
Theme: Theme H – Motivation and Emotion
Session Number: MIN90
This symposium advances causal understanding of amygdala-centered subcortical networks underlying social perception, affective processing, and motivational decision-making. Integrating intracranial recordings, neurosurgical and neuromodulatory approaches, and computational modeling, it highlights how frontal-striatal-amygdala circuits shape emotional behavior in healthy and clinical populations.
Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Underlying the Diverse Roles of the Insular Cortex in Brain-Body and Brain-Environment
Chair: Kobi Rosenblum, PhDInstitution: Sagol Dept Neuro, University of Haifa
Co-Chair: Tianyi Mao, PhD
Institution: Vollum Institute/Oregon Health
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme E – Sensory Systems
Session Number: MIN80
The insular cortex (IC) is an evolutionarily conserved associative cortex that integrates interoceptive and exteroceptive signals to support homeostasis, learning, motivation, and emotional and self-related awareness. Disrupted IC function is implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders including mood disorders, schizophrenia, and addiction. This session highlights recent transformative advances in elucidating the function and the circuit and structural principles underlying its diverse roles.
From Pathways to Pathology: High-Plex Spatial Proteomics From 2D Single-Cell to 3D Neuroscience
Chair: Miranda Orr, PhDInstitution: WashU Medicine
Co-Chair: Christopher Keene, MD, PhD
Institution: UCSD
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme J – Techniques
Session Number: MIN110
Single-cell studies have revealed selective alterations in brain cell types during development, aging and neurodegenerative disease, but most rely on dissociated tissue and transcriptomics, losing spatial context and protein-level biology. This minisymposium highlights spatial proteomic imaging, from high-plex single-cell mapping to 3D spatial proteomics, to localize pathways in intact brain tissue and define cell- and circuit-level mechanisms.
Neural Signals Into Actions: Restoring Movement and Sensation
Chair: Stephen Kemp, PhDInstitution: University of Michigan
Co-Chair: Nitish Thakor, PhD
Institution: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme F – Motor Systems
Session Number: MIN65
This minisymposium explores how neural signals can be translated into restored movement through advanced neural interfaces and robotics. Talks span brain, muscle, and surgical interfaces, highlighting intuitive motor control and emerging strategies for sensory restoration in individuals with limb amputation or paralysis. Together, these recent advances inform future strategies for interfacing with the nervous system, with direct implications for improving patient quality of life.
Cellular and Molecular Changes Across the Lifespan and Healthspan of Primates: Connecting Brain, Blood, and Cognitive
Chair: Melissa Edler, PhDInstitution: Kent State University
Co-Chair: Merina Varghese, PhD
Institution: University of Rhode Island
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme C – Neural Aging and Degeneration
Session Number: MIN34
Aging is associated with cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology in the brain of humans and nonhuman primates. However, our closest evolutionary relative, the great apes, do not develop the overt neurodegenerative changes, such as neuron loss and severe cognitive decline seen in Alzheimer’s disease. This session will showcase emerging research on the age-related cellular, molecular, and pathological changes that converge and diverge among primates, including humans.
Circuitry and Computational Mechanisms of Habitual Control
Chair: Ignacio Obeso, PhDInstitution: Cajal Neuroscience Centre - CSIC
Co-Chair: Rani Gera, PhD
Institution: Caltech University
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme I – Cognition
Session Number: MIN97
This minisymposium brings together circuit neuroscience, computational modelling, ecological measures, and clinical research to examine how habits influence the learning of action initiation and inhibition, its arbitration and how these processes break down in disease. The speakers will examine how stress, control, and individual differences in arbitration between goal-directed and habitual systems are shaped along fronto-striatal circuits in rodent, controls and clinical samples.
Metabolic Interactions in Neurovascular Coupling
Chair: Philip O'Herron, PhDInstitution: Augusta University
Co-Chair: Philipp Machler, MD, PhD
Institution: UCSD
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Ballroom A
Theme: Theme D – Neuroimmunity, Neurovasculature, and Neural Injury
Session Number: MIN77
While it has long been assumed that neurovascular coupling serves the metabolic needs of activated neural tissue, the interaction between neural activity, blood flow changes, and metabolite function is not well understood. This session will highlight recent discoveries on the mutual interdependence of brain states and metabolic states and how they interact with the vasculature, including challenges to conventional understanding about the driving forces in neuro-vascular-metabolic coupling.
Opioid Signaling in Habenula Circuits: An Emerging Substrate for Opioid Addiction
Chair: Thomas Hnasko, PhDInstitution: UC San Diego
Co-Chair: Emmanuel Darcq, PhD
Institution: INSERM
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 146AB
Theme: Theme H – Motivation and Emotion
Session Number: MIN85
The medial and lateral habenula (Hb) are critical to the regulation of affect, avoidance, and coping behaviors, and play pivotal roles in the expression of depression and addiction. High levels of mu-opioid receptors (MOR) were identified in Hb a generation ago and recent studies have begun to identify the functional effects of acute and chronic opioid signaling on Hb cells and synapses. This session will explore how opioids act on Hb circuits to regulate affect and adaptive and maladaptive behaviors.
Postnatal Development of Sensory Circuits Supporting Lifelong Social Behaviors
Chair: Megan Kirchgessner, PhDInstitution: NYU School of Medicine
Co-Chair: Alicia Che, PhD
Institution: Yale University School of Medicine
Date & Time: Monday, November 16, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme E – Sensory Systems
Session Number: MIN58
Sensory circuits undergo both age- and experience-dependent changes over development, yet little is known about how early sensory plasticity influences, or is influenced by, an animal’s interactions with its social environment. This minisymposium will showcase cutting-edge manipulations and measurements of sensory circuits in developing animals to understand the complex interplay between sensory processing and social behaviors, both in typical neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Formation and Function of Electrical Synapses
Chair: Elizabeth Martin, PhDInstitution: University of Iowa
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme B – Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Session Number: MIN26
Fast synaptic transmission is either electrical, mediated by gap junction channels, or chemical, mediated by neurotransmitters/receptors. It is often suggested that electrical synapses simply pre-pattern the nervous system in early development, to later be replaced by chemical synapses in mature circuits. However, recent findings make it clear this dogma is oversimplified. This session will explore new relationships between electrical and chemical synapses in neural circuit assembly and function
Integrating Time, Space, and Memory: Multiscale Insights Into Cognitive Map
Chair: Mayank Mehta, PhDInstitution: UCLA
Co-Chair: Chenglin miao, PhD
Institution: Peking University
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Ballroom A
Theme: Theme I – Cognition
Session Number: MIN96
The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex are essential for spatial navigation and memory. While place and grid cells long defined the field, new research reveals the cognitive map is a dynamic, multidimensional construct, encoding time, context, and experience. This symposium brings together pioneers redefining this concept. This session will explore how brain states and environment shape spatial representations across scales, from single neurons to network dynamics.
Novel Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Antidepressant-like Behaviors
Chair: Zhenzhong Ma, PhDInstitution: Vanderbilt University
Co-Chair: Jihye Kim, MD
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme H – Motivation and Emotion
Session Number: MIN87
Novel antidepressants, such as ketamine and psilocybin, produce rapid and sustained therapeutic effects in patients with depression. Neuroplasticity, characterized by adaptive changes in synaptic strength, spinogenesis, and circuit plasticity across multiple brain regions, is essential for antidepressant and stress responses. This minisymposium highlights recent advances in elucidating these critical synaptic mechanisms, which may inform the development of improved antidepressant therapies.
Views and Approaches to the Neural Substrates of Reading: Theory, Brain, and Behavioral Data in View of Clinical Findings
Chair: Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, PhDInstitution: Bar-Ilan University
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme A – Development
Session Number: MIN03
Most researchers agree that reading relies on neural substrates that were evolutionarily specialized for other functions, but it is still debatable what these functions are. Understanding these mechanisms and transformations is key for developing effective treatments for the vast types of reading difficulties that exist. This session will present a diversity of views about how reading developed from theories to brain and behavioral data, in light of practical knowledge in the field.
Integrating Cytoskeletal Systems in Neurons and Glia: Dynamic Orchestration of Structure and Function
Chair: Bettina Winckler, PhDInstitution: University of Virginia
Co-Chair: Meng-meng Fu, PhD
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme B – Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia
Session Number: MIN17
Cells in the nervous system rely on multiple cytoskeletal systems — microtubules, actin, intermediate filaments, spectrin, and septins — that have traditionally been studied in isolation. Recent advances now reveal extensive coordination among these systems. This session will bring together experts on distinct cytoskeletal polymers to define unique features as well as cross-talk of different cytoskeletal systems to shape neuronal and glial morphology and function in health and disease.
Leveraging Non-Mammalian Systems to Investigate the Biology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chair: Ellen Hoffman, MD, PhDInstitution: Yale University
Co-Chair: Rachel Arey, PhD
Institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme A – Development
Session Number: MIN05
This minisymposium presents cutting-edge research leveraging scalable non-mammalian systems, including zebrafish, Xenopus, C. elegans, and Drosophila, to investigate biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), particularly autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The speakers will present studies highlighting the unique advantages of these systems for high-throughput analyses of risk genes, pharmacological screens, and in vivo visualization of neural circuits underlying basic behaviors.
Neural Mechanisms of Multisystem Interoception in Humans
Chair: Galia Avidan, PhDInstitution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Co-Chair: Liron Rozenkrantz, PhD
Institution: Bar-Ilan University The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 17, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme I – Cognition
Session Number: MIN91
This minisymposium highlights recent advances in human interoception, examining how signals from multiple body systems are represented, integrated and regulated. Speakers will address cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and immune processes, illustrating how these mechanisms support emotion and cognition and how their dysregulation contributes to mental and physical illness. Together, the talks emphasize a multisystem framework for understanding brain–body function in health and disease
Brain Tumors and the Neural Stem Cell Niche
Chair: Hugo Guerrero Cazares, MD, PhDInstitution: Mayo Clinic
Co-Chair: Sara Piccirillo, PhD
Institution: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme D – Neuroimmunity, Neurovasculature, and Neural Injury
Session Number: MIN04
At first diagnosis, approximately half of aggressive brain tumors contact the subventricular zone (SVZ) stem cell niche by the lateral ventricles. Patients with these “contacting” tumors have earlier tumor recurrence and shorter overall survival, yet the biological reasons for these outcomes remain elusive. This session will explore how stem cell niche contact is linked to behavior of cancer, neural, and immune cells in aggressive brain tumors and how this understanding can change treatment.
Conserved and Divergent Principles of Limb Control Across Species
Chair: Akira Nagamori, PhDInstitution: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme F – Motor Systems
Session Number: MIN66
Across the animal kingdom, limbed animals have evolved to perform a wide range of behaviors. How do evolutionally conserved and divergent features of the nervous system collectively control vastly different biomechanical systems to achieve these behaviors? Leveraging unique methodological advantages offered by different model organisms (fly, mouse, bat, monkey, human), this session will explore control strategies that are conserved as well as diverged across evolution.
Development of Distributed Neural Circuits and the Impact on Emerging Behaviors
Chair: Laura DeNardo, PhDInstitution: UCLA
Co-Chair: JING REN, PhD
Institution: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 9:30 a.m.–noon
Location: WCC Rm 146AB
Theme: Theme H – Motivation and Emotion
Session Number: MIN02
Functional interactions between far-reaching brain systems including neuromodulatory systems, frontal areas, and the limbic system are key substrates of healthy cognition and their developmental disruption is a major risk factor for mental disorders. Yet, the understanding of how these circuits mature is limited. This session will discuss new work identifying the genetic programs that wire complex brain circuits and how the organization and function of these circuits controls behavior across the lifespan.
Illuminating the Mechanisms of Hibernation via Thermoregulatory Research
Chair: wei shen, PhDInstitution: Shanghaitech University
Co-Chair: Jan Siemens, PhD
Institution: Max Delbrueck Center For Molecular Medicine
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 151
Theme: Theme E – Sensory Systems
Session Number: MIN82
This session will focus on the neural mechanisms of thermoregulation and hibernation, two tightly linked processes essential for energy balance and survival. By highlighting recent breakthroughs in hypothalamic circuitry and molecular regulators, this session will clarify how the brain controls body temperature and torpor, and how these discoveries may open new therapeutic avenues for metabolic and neurological diseases.
Paired Neuroimaging and Brain Omics From the Same Individuals for Disease Mechanisms and Diagnostics
Chair: Chris Gaiteri, PhDInstitution: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Co-Chair: Jeremy Herskowitz, PhD
Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 147
Theme: Theme G – Integrative Physiology and Behavior
Session Number: MIN70
Neuroscience lacks an understanding of how molecular and the tissue-level states of the brain relate. New cohorts with paired neuroimaging and brain omics show person-specific synchronization between brain molecular states, electrophysiology and structural and functional neuroimaging, which change our understanding of basic brain biology, aging, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. This session will show how paired data enables whole-brain modeling, diagnostics and targeted disease treatment.
Placental-Neural Crosstalk: Biological Mechanisms Shaping Brain Architecture
Chair: Hanna Stevens, MD, PhDInstitution: University of Iowa
Co-Chair: Anna Penn, MD, PhD
Institution: Columbia University
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2–4:30 p.m.
Location: WCC Rm 150
Theme: Theme A – Development
Session Number: MIN16
Impacts of placental function on normal and pathological brain processes and supported behavior is an integrative research area dubbed “neuroplacentology.” This session will provide an up-to-date introduction to this emerging field. Mechanistic links between variations in placental structure and function and features of human and animal brain development and function will be discussed, clarifying basic biological connections and highlighting new targets to prevent clinical impairments.
