Conferences and symposiums Developing Brains 2025
The Conference “Developing Brains” will gather leading scientists to discuss how the immense complexity of the brain arises. Knowing how intricate brain structures are assembled gives not only crucial knowledge about the function of our bodies, but also how some of most common diseases arise.
The pioneering work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Camillo Golgi in the late 1800s opened the way to the understanding of the complexity of the brain and led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Since then, many other discoveries on how the brain structures work have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Nevertheless, many overarching questions regarding how these brain structures arise and function remain unanswered. For instance, how can a single cell give rise to complex structures such as the central nervous system (brain/spinal cord) and peripheral and enteric nervous systems, which include the brain in the gut? The Conference “Developing Brains” will gather international and national leading scientists with expertise in these areas at the Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet. These scientists will give lectures and discuss the latest advances in our knowledge of how brain structures develop.
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Confirmed speakers
Dwight Bergles, Johns Hopkins University, US
Junyue Cao, Rockefeller University, US
Cécile Charrier, Institut de la Vision, Paris, FR
Alan Chedotal, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, FR
Isabel Espinosa-Medina, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, US
Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
Beatriz Rico, King’s College London, UK
Michael Ziller, University of Muenster, DE