We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Francis Crick Symposium in Neuroscience: Development, Plasticity and Function of Neural Circuits which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday September 8, and will conclude after lunch on Friday September 12, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Neuroscience. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Stem Cells and Brain Development

2. Neuronal Cell Biology and Circuit Assembly

3. Glia and Brain Function

4. Neurodevelopmental Disorders

5. Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders

6. Brain-Body Physiology

7. Molecular, Synaptic and Circuit Mechanisms of Behavior

8. Technological Innovations

Keynote Speaker:

Liqun Luo, Stanford University

Invited Speakers:

Guoqiang Bi, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS

Yang Dan, University of California, Berkeley

Fiona Doetsch, University of Basel

Joseph Ecker, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Gord Fishell, Harvard Medical School

Paul Frankland, University of Tonronto

Joseph Gleeson, University of California, San Diego

Yukiko Goda, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Yukiko Gotoh, Tokyo University

Yasunori Hayashi, Kyoto University

Denis Jabaudon, University of Geneva

Baljit Khakh, University of California, Los Angeles

Jurgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Bo Li, Westlake University

Lynette Lim, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research

Yingxi Lin, The University of Texas Southwestern

Stavros Lomvardas, Columbia University

Chongyuan Luo, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Hausser, The University of Hong Kong

Anne Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging

Song-Hai Shi, Tsinghua University

Hongjun Song, University of Pennsylvania

Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University

Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in September, 2025.