We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Autism & Neurodevelopment Disorders – from Genetic Discoveries to Interventions 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 June 17, and will conclude after lunch on Friday June 21, 2024.
The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Autism & Neurodevelopment Disorders. 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. Autism genetics
2. Molecular & circuit mechanisms
3. Insights from neurodevelopmental disorders
4. Translational studies
5. New animal models
Keynote Speakers:
Hideyuki Okano, Keio University
Invited Speakers:
Camilla Bellone, University of Geneva
Robert Froemke, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Ji-Song Guan, ShanghaiTech University
Adam Guastella, The University of Sydney
Junhai Han, Southeast University
Hailiang Huang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Keith Kendrick, University of Electronic Science and Technology
Eunjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Seung-Hee Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Boxing Li, Sun Yat-sen University
Fei Li, Xinhua Hospital
Li Li, Stanford University
Hiroyuki Nawa, Wakayama Medical University
Zilong Qiu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jonathan Sebat, University of California, San Diego
Toru Takumi, Kobe University School of Medicine
Irina Voineagu, The University of New South Wales
Kun Xia, Central South University
Han Xu, Zhejiang University
Li Yi, Peking University
Xiang Yu, Peking University
Jing Zhang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Xiaochang Zhang, The University of Chicago
Yongqing Zhang, Hubei University
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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, 2024.