Conference Schedule 

Co-sponsors: The Cajal Club, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping 

Conference venue: The Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering near the UC Irvine campus 

Organizing Committee: Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute), Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis), John Rubenstein (UCSF), Xiangmin Xu (UC Irvine) 

External Advisory Board: Edward Callaway (Salk), Liqun Luo (HHMI/Stanford U.), Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute), Bing Ren (UCSD) 

Day 1 Monday, August 21, 2023 

7:30 – 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast 

8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Welcome & Introduction 

Session 1: Cell Types and Circuits (Chair: Dr. Hongkui Zeng) 

8:30 – 9:20 a.m. (50 min) Keynote speaker, Chair: Dr. Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute)

9:20 – 9:55 a.m. (35 min)  Dr. Maria Tosches (Columbia University)

9:55 – 10:30 a.m. (35 min) : Dr. Yuki Oka (Caltech)

10:30 – 10:50 a.m. (20 min) Break

10:50 – 11:25 a.m. (35 min) Dr. Silvia Arber (University of Basel) 

11:25 – 12:00 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Fan Wang (MIT)

12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch / Poster Session 

Session 2: Circuit Development (Chair: Liqun Luo) 

1:30 – 2:05 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Denis Jabaudon (Geneva University)

2:05 – 2:40 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Alain Chedotal (Institut de la Vision, Paris) 

2:40 – 3:15 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Corey Harwell (UC San Francisco) 

3:15 – 3:35 p.m. Break

3:35 – 4:10 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Nenad Sestan (Yale)

4:10 – 4:45 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Sergiu Pasca (Stanford)

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. On-site reception of all attendees

6:15 p.m. Speaker Dinner (location to be determined) 

Day 2 Tuesday, August 22, 2023 

7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 

Session 3: Systems and Function (Chair: Dr. Leah Krubitzer) 

8:30 – 9:30 a.m. (60 min) PJ Harman Lecture of the Cajal Club: Dr. Tirin Moore (Stanford)

9:30 – 10:05 a.m. (35 min)  Dr. Cory Miller (UC San Diego)

10:05 – 10:40 a.m. (35 min) Dr. Cris Niell (University of Oregon)

10:40 – 11:00 a.m. Break 

11:00 – 11:35 a.m. (35 min) Dr. Karen Sears (UC Los Angles)

11:35 – 12:10 (35 min) Dr. Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis)

12:10– 1:15 p.m. Lunch / Poster Session: Even numbers 

Session 4: Developmental Disorders of Connectivity (Chair: Dr. John Rubenstein) 

1:15 – 1:50 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Thomas Südhof (Stanford)

1:50 – 2:25 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Anna Molofsky (UC San Francisco) 

2:25 – 3:00 pm (35 min) Dr. Guoping Feng (MIT)

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 – 3:50 p.m. (35 min) Dr. Linda Richards (Washington University in St. Louis) 

3:50 – 4:25 p.m. (35 min) Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco)

4:25 – 5:00 p.m. (35 min) Dr. John Ngai (NIH Brain Initiative) 

Day 3 Wednesday, August 23, 2023 

7:30 – 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast 

Session 5: Special talks and selected talks from abstract submissions 

8:15 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. 4 talks by a special delegation from the Cajal Institute (Madrid, Spain) and the Spanish Society of Neuroscience 

9:35 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 2 selected talks (20 minutes each) 

10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Break

10:35 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 4 - 5 selected talks (20 minutes each) 

12:30 -1:30 p.m. Lunch 

Session 6: Conference workshops 

1:30 – 5:00 p.m. (1) Spatial Transcriptomics (90+ minutes) presented by Vizgen 

                                  (2) Miniscope imaging (90+ minutes) by UCLA Miniscope 

5:00 p.m. Main conference end 

Day 4 Thursday, August 24, 2023 [4D Nucleome Consortium Co-hosted Bootcamps [Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), UCI] 

8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. MERFISH Bootcamp (application required)

8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Statistics Bootcamp for Neuroscience and Single Cell Omics Data Analysis