Lake Conferences

Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology 2026

Date: October 25 - 29, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Lake Washington - Seattle, USA
Organizers: Detlev Arendt, Trygve Bakken, Pico Caroni, Evan Eichler, Alex Pollen, Barbara Treutlein, Vanessa Ruta, Michael Yartsev, and Ed Lein

“Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology” will be a 3.5 day forum discussing emerging technologies, topics and views in comparative and evolutionary approaches to understand nervous system function. The scientific program will include about 30 talks by invited speakers, short talks selected from participant abstracts, and two poster sessions. The conference will cover a range of topics from evolutionary concepts and frameworks to comparative genomics and genetics, conserved and specialized evolutionary and developmental mechanisms, and evolutionary neuroscience systems biology.