“Building Better Brains: From Synapses to Societies”
Thank you for attending the SOBP 2026 Annual Meeting!
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2026 SOBP Annual Meeting
WHEN: April 30th – May 2nd, 2026
WHERE: New York City, New York
WHAT: The 2026 SOBP Annual Meeting provides an interactive platform for learning and discovery. The meeting program focuses on alternative and transformative frameworks for understanding psychiatric illnesses and the use of enhanced and newly emerging tools for experimental measurement and manipulation. Presenters will share research techniques and experimental designs they applied to elucidate the biological pathways and markers associated with psychiatric symptoms and disorders.
Sponsors & Exhibitors
Are you interested in seeing a specific company sponsor or exhibit at the SOBP Annual Meeting? We encourage members to suggest who they’d like to see present at the meeting. Please keep in mind that product-selling companies should focus on tools for researchers rather than to be used on patients. Log in to access the form.
During Meeting Childcare
Interested in childcare at the 2026 Annual Meeting? We are delighted to announce that KiddieCorp will be hosting the children's program during the annual conference. With forty years of experience, KiddieCorp has been a trusted provider of high-quality children's programs and youth services for conventions, trade shows, and special events.
We encourage early registration as availability is limited and operates on a first-come, first-served basis. To secure advance reservations, both the registration form and full payment must be received by KiddieCorp. On-site registration will be limited to available space.
Submission Details
While submissions are closed for this year's meeting, we invite you to learn more about our submission types, awards, and criteria.
Thursday April 30 Plenary : Building Blocks of the Brain
- Oscar Marin Cortical Interneurons in Health and Disease
- Ralda Nehme Unraveling the Complexity Using Genetically Diverse Human Cellular Models
- Tomas Paus Population Neuroscience of the Growing Brain
Friday May 1 - Plenary II: How maternal influences and parenting shape development
- Devanand Manoli
- Melissa Bauman
- Bianca Jones Marlin "Nature, Nurture and the Neuroscience of Parenthood "
Saturday May 2nd - Plenary III: How do we fix circuits that have gone awry?
- Conor Liston
- Marta Di Forti
- Rob Reinhart "Interactive, Deep, and Orchestrated: Charting a Path to Scalable, Intelligent Brain Stimulation"
- Kim Noble
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