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 May 25, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday May 28, 2026.

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:

Claudia Bagni, University of Lausanne

Daniel Geschwind, University of California, Los Angeles

Invited Speakers:

Joon-Yong An, Korea University

Thomas Bourgeron, Institute Pasteur

Katrina Choe, McMaster University

Xujun Duan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Evan Eichler, University of Washington

Jacob Ellegood, University of Toronto

Daniel Feldman, University of California, Berkeley

Pier Francesco Ferrari, Université Claude Bernard Lyon

Minako Ito, Kyushu University

Eunjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Janine LaSalle, University of California, Davis

Seung-Hee Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Ying Li, Chinese Institute for Brain Research

Fei Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Devanand Manoli, University of California, San Francisco

Zilong Qiu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Toru Takumi, Kobe University School of Medicine

Olga Troyanskaya, University of Washington

Chiara Verpelli, CNR Neuroscience Institute

Xiang Yu, Peking 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We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 May, 2026.