Spontaneous Activity in Brain
Development meeting
SPONT 2026
19 – 22 October
Atami, Japan
We are excited to announce the return of the SPONT meeting!
We invite you to participate in the “Spontaneous Activity in Brain Development” meeting, a dynamic forum for neuroscientists exploring brain activity during development. The fourth SPONT meeting, SPONT2026, is scheduled from 19-22 October 2026 in Atami, a picturesque seaside town near Tokyo, Japan.
4 Days
To be determined
KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Carla Shatz
Stanford University, US
SPEAKER
Renata Batista-Brito
Albert Einstein NY, US

Claude Desplan
New York University, US

Gord Fishell
Harvard Medical School, US

DU Jiulin
Inst. Of Neuroscience, China
Theofanis Karayannis
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Masanobu Kano
Teikyo University, Japan

Liang Liang
Yale School of Medicine, US

Laura Modol
Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Spain

Ai Nakashima
University of Tokyo, Japan

Kenichi Ohki
University of Tokyo, Japan

Carlos Portera-Cailliau
UCLA, US

Peter Scheiffele
Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland

Tomomi Shimogori
RIKEN, Japan

Sayaka Takemoto
Nagoya University, Japan

Alex Tiriac
Vanderbilt University, US
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 22ND
Registration Rates
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Organized by

Guillermina López-Bendito
Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, Alicante, Spain

Christian Lohmann
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kenichi Ohki
Department of Physiology, University Tokyo, Japan

Marla Feller
University of California, Berkeley, US
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