Year-end Symposium and Research Showcase
The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience invites our community to a symposium showcasing our award recipients’ trailblazing research on aging, neurodegeneration, and brain resilience. It will include a Stanford neuroscience poster session and contest, as well as a reception. This is an in-person-only event.
Renowned experts in the field will share their latest research and help us better understand the remarkable resilience of the human brain.
Featuring the following speakers:
- Keynote speaker Nir Barzilai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Institute for Aging Research
- Anne Brunet, Stanford University
- Ivan Soltesz, Stanford University
- Katrin Andreasson, Stanford University
- Takeshi Uenaka, Stanford University
Poster Session and Contest
We encourage Stanford-affiliated attendees from all neuroscience disciplines and career stages to present research, including early-stage unpublished work, at the symposium poster session.
Knight Initiative Awardees and Brain Resilience Postdocs are expected to present a poster at the Symposium poster session by April 26.
📌 Posters may be registered or modified through the Symposium registration form.
Deadlines
Registration is required to attend this in-person only event.
Registration Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026
Poster Submission Deadline (in registration form): Sunday, April 26, 2026