[visionlist] COSYNE 2026: Abstract submission closes soon; Travel grants

[Tomas Hromadka]

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Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2026 (Cosyne)

MAIN MEETING
12 - 15 March 2026
Lisbon, Portugal

WORKSHOPS
16 - 17 March 2026
Cascais, Portugal

www.cosyne.org

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IMPORTANT DATES

   Abstract submission is now open.
   Abstract submission deadline: 16 October 2025, 11:59PM PST

   Workshop proposal submission is now open.
   Workshop proposal submission deadline: 23 October 2025, 11:59PM PST
   
   Travel grant applications are now open.
   *Undergraduate* travel grant application deadline: 12 November 2025, 11.59PM PST
    Other travel grants application deadline: late December 2025


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               COSYNE MEETING & WORKSHOPS
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The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function.

The MAIN MEETING is single-track. A set of invited talks is selected by the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS feature in-depth discussion of current topics of interest, in a small group setting.

Cosyne topics include but are not limited to: neural basis of behavior, sensory and motor systems, circuitry, learning, neural coding, natural scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, neuromodulation, and computation with spiking networks.

We would like to foster increased participation from experimental groups as well as computational ones. Please circulate widely and encourage your students and postdocs to apply.

When preparing an abstract, authors should be aware that not all abstracts can be accepted for the meeting. Abstracts will be selected based on the clarity with which they convey the substance, significance, and originality of the work to be presented.


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                   TRAVEL GRANTS
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Applications are now open for travel grants to attend the conference. Each awardee will receive at least EUR500 to help offset the costs of travel, registration, and accommodations. Larger grants may be available to those traveling from outside Europe or having other declared needs. Special consideration is given to scientists who have not previously attended the meeting, under-represented minorities, students who are attending the meeting together with a mentor, undergraduate students, and authors of submitted Cosyne abstracts. We currently offer five travel grant programs for New Attendees, Presenters, Mentors, Undergraduates, and Childcare travel grants. For details on applying, see www.cosyne.org/travel-grants.


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                 COSYNE 2026 COMMITTEES
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
   General Chairs: Tatiana Engel (Princeton) and Kevin Franks (Duke)
   Program Chairs: Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind) and Mark Histed (NIH)
   Workshop Chairs: N Alex Cayco Gajic (ENS) and Guillaume Lajoie (MILA/U Montreal)
   Tutorial Chairs: Eva Dyer (Georgia Tech) and Talmo Pereira (Salk)
   Mentorship and Networking Chairs: Denise Cai (Mount Sinai) and Luke Sjulson (Albert Einstein)
   Undergraduate Travel Chairs: Lea Duncker (Columbia) and Kevin Miller (DeepMind)
   Development Chair: Michael Long (NYU)
   Social Media Chair: Sabera Talukder (Caltech)
   Audio-Video Media Chair: Carlos Stein Brito (Chamaplimaud)
   Poster Design: Maja Bialon

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   Mark Histed (NIH) Co-chair
   Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind) Co-chair
   Mikio Aoi (UCSD)
   Arkarup Banerjee (CSHL)
   Helen Barron (Oxford)
   Marcus Benna (UCSD)
   Adrian Bondy (Princeton)
   N Alex Cayco Gajic (ENS)
   Hannah Choi (Georgia Tech)
   Ben Cowley (CSHL)
   Brian DePasquale (BU)
   Sridhar Devarajan (IISc)
   Laura Driscoll (Allen Institute)
   Eva Dyer (U Penn)
   Becket Ebitz (U Montreal)
   Noemi Elteto (DeepMind)
   Arseny Finkelstein (Tel Aviv U)
   Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial)
   Matt Golub (U Washington)
   Laura Grima (Janelia)
   Bilal Haider (Georgia Tech)
   Kiah Hardcastle (Harvard)
   Y Kate Hong (CMU)
   Michele Insanally (U Pittsburgh)
   Jonathan Kao (UCLA)
   Ann Kennedy (Northwestern)
   Kishore Kuchibhotla (JHU)
   Anna Levina (U Tubingen)
   Camilo Libedinsky (National Institute of Singapore)
   Laureline Logiaco (CU Anschutz)
   Emily Mace (Med Cntr Gottingen)
   Emily Mackevicius (Basis)
   Francesca Mastrogiuseppe (Champalimaud)
   Alexander Mathis (EPFL)
   Luca Mazzucatto (U Oregon)
   Dan McNamee (Champalimaud)
   Jorge Mejias (UVA)
   James Murray (U Oregon)
   Hendrikje Nienborg (NIH)
   Ramon Nogueira Manas (U Chicago)
   Gouki Okazawa (Inst of Neurosci, China)
   Marino Pagan (U Edinburgh)
   Agostina Palmigiano (UCL)
   Hannah Payne (NYU)
   Rui Ponte Costa (Oxford)
   Carolina Rezaval (U Birmingham)
   Erin Rich (NYU)
   Alex Roxin (Centre de Recerca Matematica)
   Shreya Saxena (Yale)
   Benjamin Scott (BU)
   Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth)
   Nicholas Steinmetz (UW)
   Carsen Stringer (Janelia)
   Jennifer Sun (Cornell, DeepMind)
   Marie Suver (Vanderbilt)
   Tatjana Tschumatchenko (U Bonn)
   John Tuthill (U Washington)
   Ali Weber (Bryn Mawr)
   Brandon (Brady) Weissbourd (MIT)
   Alex Williams (NYU)
   Klaus Wimmer (Centre de Recerca Matematica)
   Anqi Wu (Georgia Tech)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
   Stephanie Palmer (U Chicago)
   Anne-Marie Oswald (U Pittsburgh)
   Alexandre Pouget (U Geneva)
   Anthony Zador (CSHL)


CONTACT
    meeting [at] cosyne.org


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