We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Illuminating the Brain–a Symposium on Neural Imaging 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 Tuesday June 16, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday June 18, 2026.

The conference will include five oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Neural Imaging. 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.

Keynote Speakers:

Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Göttingen), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Heidelberg)

Invited Speakers:

Arthur Konnerth, Technical University of Munich

Xiaowei Chen, Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence

Peace Cheng, Peking University

Wenbiao Gan, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory

Michael Häusser, University College London

Bong-kiun Kaang, Seoul National University

David Kleinfeld, University of California San Diego

Haoyu Li, Harbin Institute of Technology

Bo Li, Westlake University

Yu Mu, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS

Na Ji, University of California, Berkeley

Valentin Nägerl, Université de Bordeaux

Michael Stryker, University of California San Francisco

Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University

Chao Sun, Aarhus University

Gordon Wang, Stanford University

Quan Wen, University of Science and Technology of China

Jiamin Wu, Tsinghua University

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 June, 2026.