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.
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attendees from all neuroscience disciplines and career stages to present research, including early-stage unpublished work, at the symposium poster session.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.
Poster Session Contest Awards:
- 1st place - Travel award ($2500) and $500 cash
- 2nd place - Travel award ($2000) and $300 cash
- 3rd place - Travel award ($1500) and $100 cash
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
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