We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Neuroimmunology in Health and Diseases 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 April 13, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday April 16, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Neuroimmunology. 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. Brain-body connections

2. Neuroimmune interactions in barrier tissues

3. Immune cell communications by neurotransmitters

4. Brain barrier biology

5. Microglia 

6. Immunology of neurodegeneration

7. Autoimmunity in the CNS

Invited Speakers:

Xiaoying Chen, Tsinghua University

Coco Chu, Tsinghua University

Marco Colonna, Washington University in St. Louis

Ivan de Araujo, Max Planck Institute

Ana Domingos, University of Oxford

Danyang He, Westlake University

Brian Kim, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jonathan Kipnis, Washington University in St. Louis

Tristan Qingyun Li, Washington University in St. Louis

Tak Mak, University of Toronto

Anna Molofsky, University of California San Francisco

Daniel Mucida, The Rockefeller University

Scott Mueller, The University of Melbourne

Peder Olofsson, Karolinska Institutet

Fränze Progatzky, University of Oxford

Hai Qi, Tsinghua University

Francisco Quintana, Harvard University

Daniel Reich, National Institutes of Health

Rejane Rua, Centre-d-immunologie-Marseille-Luminy

Sophie Ugolini, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, Champalimaud Foundation

Chuan Wu, National Institutes of Health

Wenwen Zeng, Tsinghua University

Karin Ziegler, Technical University of Munich

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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