The 2026 Andrew S. Rachlin Symposium will feature presentations from 3 keynote speakers: Dr. Hongkui Zeng, Dr. Uri Manor, and Dr. Weizhe Hong. This event will also include presentations by local speakers, a trainee poster session, and happy hour. The theme for this year's symposium is "AI Across Scales in Neuroscience" and will cover topics form proteins to organelles, to cells and circuits, to organisms and behavior. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Please see the schedule below:

8:30 - 9:00 AM - Registration, coffee, & pastries
9:00 - 9:15 AM - Opening Remarks: Mohanish Deshmukh & Sarah Cohen, UNC
9:15 - 10:05 AM - Keynote Lecture: Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute
10:05 - 10:25 AM - Konstantin Popov, UNC
10:25 - 10:55 AM - Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:15 AM - Guorong Wu, UNC
11:15 AM - 12:05 PM - Keynote Lecture: Uri Manor, UCSD - "The Dynamic Cell: Illuminating Organelle Biology from Molecules to Disease"
12:05 - 1:15 PM - Lunch
1:15 - 1:35 PM - Gedas Bertasius, UNC - "From Watching to Understanding: What Video AI Can and Cannot Tell Us About Behavior"
1:35 - 1:55 PM - Harlin Lee, UNC - "Self-supervised learning in biological data"
2:00 - 2:50 PM - Keynote Lecture: Weizhe Hong, UCLA
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Panel Discussion (Hongkui Zeng, Uri Manor, Weizhe Hong)
3:30 - 3:35 PM - Closing Remarks: Mark Zylka, UNC
3:35 - 5:00 PM - Poster Session and Happy Hour