Suzhou，China

May 16-20，2016

Abstract deadline：March 4，2016

Organized by：

Martin Caffrey，Champalimaud Neuroscience Program，Portugal

Zhigang He，Harvard Medical School/Children‘s Hospital，Boston，USA

Anatol Kreitzer，University of California，San Francisco，USA

Minmin Luo，National Institute of Biological Sciences，China

Yimin Zou，University of California，San Diego，USA

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Development，Function and Disease of Neural Circuits 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 16，and will conclude after lunch on May 20，2016.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in neural circuits. 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. Development and genetics of neural circuit

2. Circuit Mechanisms of cognition

3. Neuromodulators in circuit function and behavior

4. Circuit dysfunction and psychiatric disorders

5. Circuit development-related disorders

6. Development and application of cutting-edge technologies

Keynote Speakers：

Roberto Malinow，University of California，San Diego，USA

Marc Tessier-Lavigne，The Rockefeller University，USA

Invited Speakers：

Joshua Berke，University of Michigan，USA

Seth Blackshaw，Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine，USA

Peng Cao，Institute of Biophysics，CAS，CHINA

Alain Chedotal，Institut de la Vision，FRANCE

Rui Costa，Champalimaud Neuroscience Program，PORTUGAL

John Flanagan，Harvard Medical School，USA

Lisa Goodrich，Harvard Medical School，USA

Yasunori Hayashi，Brain Science Institute，RIKEN，JAPAN

Zhigang He，Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital，Boston，USA

Bong-Kiun Kaang，Seoul National University，SOUTH KOREA

Haruo Kasai，University of Tokyo，JAPAN

Anatol Kreitzer，University of California，San Francisco，USA

Dayu Lin，NYU Langone Medical Center，USA

Minmin Luo，National Institute of Biological Sciences，Beijing，CHINA

Christian Lüscher，University of Geneva，SWITZERLAND

Qiufu Ma，Dana Farber Cancer Institute，USA

Jeanne Paz，UCSF School of Medicine，USA

Nirao Shah，University of California，San Francisco，USA

Jerry Silver，Case Western Reserve University，USA

Kazushige Touhara，The University of Tokyo，JAPAN

Kuan Hong Wang，National Institute of Mental Health，USA

Yun Wang，Peking University School of Basic Medical Science，CHINA

Xiang Yu，Institute of Neuroscience，CAS，CHINA

James Zheng，Emory University School of Medicine，USA

Yimin Zou，University of California at San Diego，USA

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 http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in May，2016.