The Society for Neuroscience will hold Neuroscience 2021 as a fully virtual experience November 8–11, 2021.

Registered attendees can preview the meeting’s scientific content, including posters, full symposia and minisymposia talks, during the five days preceding the official meeting (November 3–7). Attendees can also leave questions for speakers and poster presenters to answer. The full virtual experience will be available until November 30, 2021.

A number of SFARI Investigators (current and past) will be giving presentations and chairing scientific sessions at the meeting. A selection is highlighted below:

Jessica Cardin, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Minisymposium panelist:
Developmental perturbation of PV interneurons disrupts state-dependent circuit dynamics
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 10, 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. CST

Guoping Feng, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Minisymposium panelist:
Social genes, brains and behavior in rodents and primates: Implications for understanding neuropsychiatric disorders
Date & Time: Monday, November 8, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST

André Fenton, Ph.D. (New York University)
Storytelling session panelist:
Oh sh*t — Great scientists tell stories about their greatest failures
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 10, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CST

Alessandro Gozzi, Ph.D. (Italian Institute of Technology)
Minisymposium panelist:
Parsing autism heterogeneity with cross-species fMRI
Date & Time: Monday, November 8, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CST

Anthony J. Koleske, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Symposium co-chair:
The neuronal cytoskeleton — Nexus for signaling, development and plasticity
Date & Time: Thursday, November 11, 1:15 p.m.– 2:15 p.m. CST

Kenneth Kwan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Minisymposium panelist:
Maintenance of genome stability in cortical development
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 9, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CST

Michelle Monje, M.D., Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Minisymposium chair:
Glia — The glue holding memories together
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 10, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CST

Cian O’Donnell, Ph.D. (University of Bristol)
Dual perspectives panelist:
Can artificial intelligence (AI) provide a theoretical framework for understanding the brain, or is it too far removed from physiology to be useful?
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 10, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST

Bence Ölveczky, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Symposium panelist:
Behavioral state tuning in the striatum
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 9, 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. CST

Catharine H. Rankin, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)
Then and Now session panelist:
What makes a model nervous system?
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 9, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST

Song-Hai Shi, Ph.D. (Tsinghua University)
Special lecture:
Lineage-dependent assembly of the neocortex
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 10, 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. CST

Aakanksha Singhvi, Ph.D. (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Minisymposium chair:
Molecular mechanisms of glial engulfment
Date & Time: Thursday, November 11, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CST

Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. (Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School)
Peter and Patricia Gruber Lecture:
Genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 10, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CST

Mingjie Zhang, Ph.D. (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Symposium co-chair:
Liquid-liquid phase separation in physiology and pathophysiology of nervous system
Date & Time: Monday, November 8, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CST