Senior undergraduates, post-baccalaureate students, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty interested in development and neuroscience attended the conference, which was coordinated by Mubarak Hussain Syed, assistant professor of Biology at UNM and head of the Syed Neural Diversity Lab, and his colleagues and co-organizers Drs. Katherine Nagel, David Schoppik of the New York University School of Medicine, and Josie Clowney from the University of Michigan.

Syed and his team in the Neural Diversity Lab investigate the genetic and molecular mechanics regulating neural diversity, from stem cells to neural circuits.

The findings will help uncover the fundamental principles of nervous system development and potentially to understand and treat neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, ADHD, and autism. 

Conference attendees discussed “what developmental programs in the neural stem cells regulate the formation of distinct classes of neurons, how they wire together and regulate distinct behaviors,” he explained.

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