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DESCRIPTION:2026 Yang ICoN Center Symposium: Self-Organization and Emergenc
 e in Development\n\nDate: Thursday\, May 21\, 2026Time: 8:45am - 5:00pm wi
 th poster session & reception to follow Location: Singleton Auditorium (46
 -3002\, Third Floor of MIT Building 46) This is an in-person event Event i
 s free and open to the public Registration is required. Register by Wednes
 day\, May 13 Poster Session Info: When you register\, please indicate if y
 ou would like to be considered for the poster session. Submission of a pos
 ter title does not guarantee selection. Deadline for submitting poster inf
 ormation for consideration is Friday\, May 1 \n\nSymposium Overview\n\nThi
 s event brings together leading researchers to explore how neural structur
 e and function emerge during development. Speakers will discuss key theore
 tical and empirical challenges in explaining how complex neural systems ar
 ise across molecular\, cellular\, and circuit levels.\n\n \n\nThe K. Lisa 
 Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center at MIT pioneers 
 computational models of brain function that unify multiple levels of biolo
 gical data\, from molecules to circuits to behavior. The center is part of
  the Yang Tan Collective\, a multi-university effort dedicated to accelera
 ting collaborations in basic science\, research\, and engineering to impro
 ve human health and well-being at a global scale. Learn more about the Col
 lective at yangtan.mit.edu.\n\n \n\nSymposium Agenda: \n\n8:30 AM – Chec
 k-in Opens \n\n8:45 AM – Welcome & Introduction from Ila Fiete\, MIT\n\n
 \nSession 1: Genetic Programs for Neural Circuit Assembly\n\n9:00 AM – F
 enna Krienen\, Princeton University\nSpatially-resolved genetic programs i
 n primate brains\n9:50 AM – Yerbol Kurmangaliyev\, Brandeis University\n
 How are neural circuits encoded in the genome?\n\n \n\n10:40 AM – Mornin
 g Break\n\n\nSession 2: Self-Organization in Brain Development\n\n10:55  A
 M – Paola Arlotta\, Harvard University\nBuilding complexity in brain org
 anoids takes time and (self)-organization\n11:45 AM – P. Robin Hiesinger
 \, Freie Universitat Berlin \nSelf-Organization in Fly Brain Development\n
 \n \n\n12:35 PM – Lunch Break\n\n\nSession 3: Emergence of Large-Scale N
 eural Architecture\n\n1:20 PM – Gordon Smith\, University of Minnesota\n
 Common principles underlying the development of large-scale cortical netwo
 rks\n2:10 PM – Matthias Kaschube\, FIAS Frankfurt Institute for Advanced
  Studies\nThe emergence of functional modular networks in cortical develop
 ment\n\n\n3:00 PM – Afternoon Break\n\n\nSession 4: Robustness and Geome
 try in Biological Systems\n\n3:15 PM – Stanislav Shvartsman\, Princeton 
 University\nA class of natural tessellation algorithms \n4:05 PM – Brady
  Weissbourd\, MIT\nMechanisms of robustness in jellyfish neural networks\n
 \n4:55 PM – Closing Remarks\n\n5:00 PM – Poster session & Networking R
 eception
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LOCATION:Building 46\, Singleton Auditorium 
SUMMARY:2026 Yang ICoN Center Symposium: Self-Organization and Emergence in
  Development
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/the-k-lisa-yang-integrative-co
 mputational-neuroscience-icon-centers-symposium-self-organization-and-emer
 gence-in-development
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Seminars/Lectures
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