Speaker Lineup

Friday, August 20, 2021

Session 1: How is Brain Connectivity Organized Globally?



Larry Swanson, PhD
University of

Southern California

Olaf Sporns, PhD

Indiana University



Danielle S. Bassett, PhD
University of Pennsylvania


Xiangmin Xu, PhD

UCI School of Medicine


Session 2: How to Define Cell Types?


Hongkui Zeng, PhD
Allen Institute for
Brain Science

Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
Harvard University




Edward Callaway, PhD
Salk Institute for
Biological Studies

David J. Anderson

California Institute of
Technology


Saturday, August 21, 2021

Session 3: How is Connection Specificity Achieved?


Liqun Luo, PhD
Stanford University

Marla Feller, PhD
University of California,

Berkeley



Xin Duan, PhD
UCSF School of
Medicine

Robert Carrillo, PhD

UChicago Biosciences


Session 4: How is Development Regulated by Gene Networks?


John Rubenstein,
MD, PhD

University of California,
San Francisco

Pasko Rakic, MD, PhD
Yale School of Medicine


Bin Chen, MS, PhD
University of California,
Santa Cruz

Anne West, MD, PhD
Duke University School of
Medicine