Agenda

Thursday, July 16, 2026

7:00 a.m.
Registration / Breakfast / Exhibits

8:00 a.m.           
Opening Remarks
Matthew Rizzo, MD, FAAN, FANA
Frances & Edgar Reynolds Professor; Chair, Department of Neurological Sciences, UNMC

Session 1: Sleep and Circuits

8:15 a.m.
Keynote: Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis
Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Research; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

8:45 a.m.
Break / Exhibits

9:00 a.m.
Oral Presentations
TBD

10:30 a.m.      
Break / Exhibits

Session 2: Brain Health Across the Lifespan: Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration

10:45 a.m.       
Keynote
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD
BJC Investigator; Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

11:15 a.m.        
Oral Presentations
TBD

12:45 p.m.
Lunch / Poster Session

Session 3: Bioinformatics & AI

1:45 p.m.           
Keynote: The National Institutes of Health, Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN^®) Initiative: Inventing the Future
John Jay Ngai, PhD
Director, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN®) Initiative, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

2:15 p.m.           
Oral Presentations
TBD

3:45 p.m.      
Break / Exhibits

4:00 p.m.           
Awards 

4:15 p.m.           
Closing Remarks
Matthew Rizzo, MD, FAAN, FANA

4:30 p.m.           
Adjourn

Networking Reception / Dinner

Herbe Sainte
1934 S 67th Street, Omaha, NE 68106

4:45 p.m.
Networking Reception/Cocktail Hour

5:45 p.m.
Dinner