On Monday, October 30, 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Translational Neuroscience Center (TNC) at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, will host the third Boston-wide Neurodevelopmental Disorders Symposium in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. This symposium will include a Case Presentation on Language, and sessions encompassing Sleep, Neuroimmunology, and Genetics.

This conference, sponsored by the Anne and Paul Marcus Family foundation, is open to scientists and physicians from academia, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, disease-based foundations, and the government and will include guest speakers and a poster session for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Event Co-Chairs:

Mriganka Sur, PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD - Boston Children's Hospital
Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD - Massachusetts General Hospital

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Helen Tager-Flusberg, PhD - Boston University
Ev Fedorenko, PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard Shane, PhD - Boston Children's Hospital
Guoping Feng, PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dara Manoach, PhD - Massachusetts General Hospital
Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD - Boston Children's Hospital
Beth Malow, MD, MS - Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Gloria Choi, PhD - McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Staci Bilbo, PhD - MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Kyle Williams, MD, PhD - Massachusetts General Hospital
Dan Geschwind, MD, PhD - Semel Institute, UCLA