The conference programme is comprised of  plenary sessions, symposia and contributed oral and poster presentations for which abstracts are currently invited.

Plenary Sessions and Invited Speakers

• Epigenetic Mechanisms in Memory Formation
  David Sweatt, McKnight Brain Institute, USA

• Epigenetics / Rett Syndrome
  Adrian Bird, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, UK

• Neuroimaging of Human Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  Jay Giedd, National Institute of Mental Health, USA

• Neural Basis of Vocal Learning
  Constance Schaff, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Optogenetics
  Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA

• Synaptogenesis
  Peter Scheiffele, Biozentrum University Basel, Switzerland

• Epilepsy as a Prototype Neurodevelopmental Disorder
  Jeff Noebels, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Symposia

• Cilia in the Developing Nervous System:  Organizers of Signalling and Migration
  Chair: Josesph Gleeson, University of California, San Diego, USA

• Development of the Synapse
  Chair: Takao Hensch, Harvard University, USA

• Genomic Basis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders including Autism and Schizophrenia and Intellectual Disability
  Chair: Pamela Sklar, Harvard Medical School, USA
  Co-Chair: Jonathan Sebat, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

• Human Brain Evolution
  Chair: Colette Dehay: Inserm U846, France

• Mechanisms and Diseases of Early Brain Development
  Chair: Sam Pleasure, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  Speakers
  Jean Hebert, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
  Kathy Millen, Shuba Tole, Stanford University, USA
  Shuba Tole, Stanford University, USA

• Molecularly Targeted Therapy for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  Chair: Alcino Silva, University of California, Los Angles, USA
  Speakers
  Mark Bear, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Takao Hensch, Harvard University, USA

• Neuroimaging
  Chair: Scott Fraser, California Institute of Technology, USA

• Transcriptional Control of Neuronal and Glial Cell Fates
  Chair: Ryoichiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan
  Speakers
  Siew-Lan Ang, The National Institute for Medical Research, UK
  Gordon Fishell, Fishell Laboratory, USA                             
  Jane Johnson, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, USA
  Ryoichiro Kageyama, Institute for Virus Research, Japan
  Michael Wegner, Institut für Biochemie, Germany

Authors interested in presenting their latest research are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentation by 26 February 2010.