IBI Daegu Conference 2026
Date: Sep 4 -5, 2025
Meeting type: Conference
Hosted by: Korea Brain Research Institute
Organized by: IBI Emotional Brain Working Group
The conference will serve as a forum for exchanging the latest insights across the neurosciences, with in-depth scholarly discussion spanning advances in neural circuits and connectomics, the brain mechanisms of social behavior, and research into stress and psychedelics.
Schedule Overview
DAY 1: September 4, 2026
Opening Lecture
Delivered by Prof. Jun Soo Kwon (Hanyang University), the opening lecture will set the tone for the conference with an in-depth address on cortico-thalamo-cerebellar dysconnectivity across the schizophrenia spectrum.
Symposium 1 — Synaptic & Circuit Mechanisms of Social Behaviors
This session examines the synaptic and neural-circuit mechanisms that govern social behavior, presenting the latest research trends in the brain functions underlying sociality.
Speakers: Doyun Lee (IBS), Yan Li (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Aditya Nair (Nanyang Technological University), Ain Chung (KAIST).
DAY 2: September 4, 2026
Symposium 2 — Circuits & Connectomics
This session addresses the latest technical advances in connectomics, the mapping of the structure and function of neural networks.
Speakers: Sung Soo Kim (UC Santa Barbara), Jae-Byum Chang (KAIST), Jinseop S. Kim (Sungkyunkwan University), Jong-Cheol Rah (KBRI).
Symposium 3 — Stress & Psychedelics
This session illuminates the mechanisms of the stress response and the neurological effects of psychedelic compounds, an area of growing attention, with speakers sharing findings on novel therapeutic approaches.
Speakers: Sandeep Nayak (Johns Hopkins University), Zhenhua Shao (Sichuan University), Seung-Eon Roh (Johns Hopkins University), Sourav Banerjee (National Brain Research Centre).
For more details, please contact:
Dr. Jawook Koo: jawook.koo@kbri.re.kr
Dr. Da Eun Lee: eun21@kbri.re.kr
Register (free) for this in-person event here: https://bit.ly/ibidaegu2026
