Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.

Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair, Human Genetics

Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART)

Co-Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Genomic investigations of human higher cognition and transcriptome organization

Past Keynotes

Pat Levitt, Ph.D.

Director Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Where are we with the Autisms?

Elizabeth Grove, Ph.D.

Professor of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

Embryonic patterning and the mammalian forebrain

Elissa L. Newport, Ph.D.

George Eastman Professor, Chair of the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester

Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms for Language Acquisition in Human Infants and Adults

Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor & Chair of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine

Disorders of Neuronal Position

Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D.

Frederick P. Rose Professor, Rockefeller University

New Directions in the CNS Neuronal Migration