Presidential Lecture

• Stanislas Dehaene College de France, France Title   How we learn: Building bridges between neuroscience and education Achievement  
  • Director of INSERM Unit 562 “Cognitive Neuroimaging”
  • 1999 James S. McDonnel Foundation Centennial Fellowship   Biography   Abstract

Torsten Wiesel Lecture

• Hee-Sup Shin Center for Cognition and Sociality, Institute for Basic Science, Korea Title   Genetic and circuit analysis of empathy behaviors in the mouse Achievement  
  • 2015 Hotchkiss Lectureship Award
  • 2006 National Honor Scientist, MOST   Biography   Abstract

IBRO-Kavli Lecture

• Steven E. Hyman Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA Title   A new molecular map of psychiatric disease mechanisms Achievement  
  • 2015 President of Society for Neuroscience   Biography   Abstract

Plenary Lecture

• Erwin Neher Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Research, Germany Title   Modulation of short-term plasticity at a glutamatergic synapse Achievement  
  •1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine   Biography   Abstract

Dana Neuroethics Lecture

• Judy Illes Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Canada Title   On the ethics of neuroethics in international brain research Achievement  
  • Co-Founder and President, International Neuroethics Society   Biography   Abstract

Keynote Speakers

• Joseph S. Takahashi University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Title   Circadian clock genes and the transcriptional architecture of the clock mechanism Achievement  
  • 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Biology and Biochemistry
  • 2012 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the Sleep Research Society   Biography   Abstract
• Jerold Chun Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, USA Title   Genomic mosaicism and the Alzheimer’s disease brain Achievement  
  • 2018 Leadership Award, Hydrocephalus Association
  • 2016 Alzheimer’s San Diego Researcher of the Year   Biography   Abstract
• Hailan Hu Zhejiang University Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology, China Title   Neural mechanism of social and emotional behavior
  – from pecking order to ketamine Achievement  
  • 2016 Tan Jia Zhen Life Science Award
  • 2015 Chang Jiang Scholar Award   Biography   Abstract
• Yukiko Gotoh Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan Title   Chromatin-level regulation of neural stem/progenitor cell fate Achievement  
  • 6th JSPS PRIZE, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Japan Academy Medal   Biography   Abstract
• Masanobu Kano Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan Title   Neural mechanisms of synapse remodeling in the developing brain Achievement  
  • 2015 Uehara Award
  • 2015 Medal with Purple Ribbon   Biography   Abstract
• Peter Mombaerts Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics, Germany Title   Targeting olfaction Achievement  
  Director, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt (2006-2013)
  Director, Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics (2013-now)   Biography   Abstract