Conferences
You can meet the Editors of Nature Reviews Neuroscience (Darran Yates, Katherine Whalley, Sian Lewis and Jake Rogers) at some of the meetings below.
If you want to learn more about any of these topics, 'Recommended reading' links to related content from Nature Reviews Neuroscience are provided below the relevant conferences.
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DECEMBER 2025
8–12, Suzhou, China
CSHAsia: Functions and regulation of sleep
JANUARY 2026
24–29, Big Sky, Montana, USA
Winter conference on brain research
FEBRUARY 2026
1–6, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Basal Ganglia
8–13, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Neuroelectronic Interfaces
15–20, Galveston, Texas, USA
GRC: Cephalopod Neuroscience
15–20, Ventura, California, USA
GRC: Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Rare Dementias
22–27, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Thalamocortical interactions
22–27, Ventura, California, USA
GRC: Alcohol and the Nervous System
MARCH 2026
1–6, Galveston, Texas, USA
GRC: Sleep Regulation and Function
1–6, Pomona, California, USA
GRC: The Neuroscience of Social Behaviors
7–10, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 2026
9–11, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Sunposium: At the Forefront of Understanding Neural Circuits
12–15, Lisbon, Portugal
COSYNE 2026
16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone: Gut-brain axis
18–21, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
CSH: Neuronal circuits
APRIL 2026
13–17, Suzhou, China
CSHAsia: Neuroimmunology in Health and Diseases
21–24, Heidelberg, Germany
EMBO workshop: Brain (epi)genome
27–30, Munich, Germany
EMBO workshop: Advances in Stroke-Immunology: From molecular mechanisms to clinical translation
30–2 May, New York, New York, USA
Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting
MAY 2026
3–8, Barcelona, Spain
GRC: Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
10–15, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits and Behavior
12–16, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
CSH: Brain-body physiology
17–21, Thun, Switzerland
Lake Conferences: The Neurobiology of Mental Health 2026
19–22, Heraklion, Greece
EMBO workshop: Dendrites and beyond: properties, functions and contributions to network processing
24–29, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Myelin
25–29, Suzhou, China
CSHAsia: Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders – From Genetic Discoveries to Interventions
31–5 June, Newry, Maine, USA
GRC: Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication
JUNE 2026
7–12, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Cell Biology of the Neuron
14–18, Bordeaux, France
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
14–19, New London, New Hampshire, USA
GRC: Barriers of the CNS
14–19, Newry, Maine, USA
GRC: Fragile X and Autism-Related Disorders
21–24, Awaji, Japan
CSHAsia: Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders: Fundamentals and Treatments
22–25, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone: Neurodegeneration: From Neurocentric to System-Wide Perspectives
22–25, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone: Neuroinflammation in Health and Disease
JULY 2026
6–10, Barcelona, Spain
FENS Forum 2026
12–15 London, UK
Alzheimer’s Association International Conference
12–17, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Synaptic Transmission
19–24, Easton, Massachusetts, USA
GRC: Auditory System
19–24, Lucca, Italy
GRC: Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
19–24, New London, New Hampshire, USA
GRC: Neural Genetics and Epigenetics
19–24, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, USA
GRC: Neurobiology of Cognition
AUGUST 2026
2–7, Barcelona, Spain
GRC: Neurobiology of Brain Disorders
2–7, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
GRC: Neural development
3–6, New York, New York, USA
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
9–14, Newry, Maine, USA
GRC: Visual System Development
9–14, Holderness, New Hampshire, USA
GRC: Frontal cortex
16–21, Newry, Maine, USA
GRC: Hypothalamus
16–21, Barcelona, Spain
GRC: Mechanisms of Epilepsy and Neuronal Synchronization
25–28, Rungsted Kyst, Denmark
FENS Brain Conference: Cancer Neuroscience
SEPTEMBER 2026
8–11, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
CSH: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity
OCTOBER 2026
5–8, Heraklion, Greece
FENS Brain Conference: Vocal Communication
NOVEMBER 2026
14–18, Washington, D.C., USA
Society for Neuroscience 2026
30–4 Dec, Suzhou, China
CSHAsia: Novel Insights into Glia Function & Dysfunction
DECEMBER 2026
1–4, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
CSH: Neurodegenerative Diseases: Biology & Therapeutics
7–10, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
CSH: Development & 3D Modeling of the Human Brain
