2026 CNCM Conference

The 2026 Summer Conference on Neural Circuits in Health and Disease, jointly sponsored by the CNCM and the Cajal Club and co-hosted by the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, the Center for Advanced Pain Studies, the Broad Institute, and Harvard Medical School, will be held at the Irvine Marriott. This conference will provide a platform to discuss and explore how neural circuits operate under normal conditions and in disease states, knowledge essential for developing innovative treatments for neurological disorders. The meeting topics are highly significant, covering six scientific sessions including Multi-omics and Multimodal Approaches to Circuit Mapping, Cell-Type-Specific Tools and Circuit Dissection, Emerging Technologies in Neural Recording and Imaging, Circuit Mechanisms of Brain Disorders, Pain, Emotion, and Motivation, and Computational Neuroscience and Neural Circuit Modeling. Specialized workshops offering hands-on experiences will also be held on the UC Irvine campus. The conference aims to promote the understanding and treatment of brain disorders through basic and clinical research, and support communication between scientists, physicians, health-care providers, and the public about neuroscience advances and brain health research progress. It offers an excellent opportunity for interaction among researchers at all career stages, with opportunities for abstract submissions for short talks or poster presentations.