You are cordially invited to participate in a new Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Brain Body Physiology, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin on the evening of Tuesday, May 12 and will conclude with lunch on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
The specific goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers working at the cutting edge of the field of brain-body physiology to present and discuss their latest work. The meeting will include eight oral sessions with the majority of talks selected from openly submitted abstracts. Additional work will be presented in two poster sessions.
Topics:
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Neuroimmune axis
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Brain-gut axis
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Neuroendocrine axis
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Neuro-respiratory axis
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Neuro-metabolic crosstalk
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Brain-organ-microbiome signaling
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Neuro-oncologic crosstalk
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Sex differences in brain-body axes
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Maternal/fetal development
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Axis disruption in disease
Keynote Speakers:
Misha Ahrens, Janelia Farms Research Campus
Rui Costa, The Allen Brain Institute
Discussion Leaders:
Mark Andermann, Harvard University
Jens Bruning, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
Ritchie Chen, University of California, San Francisco
Alexander Chesler, NCCIH, NIH
Nadine Gogolla, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany
Sung Han, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sinisa Hrvatin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Holly Ingraham, University of California, San Francisco
Zachary Knight, University of California, San Francisco
Maayan Levy, Stanford University
Stephen Liberles, Harvard University
Yoav Livneh, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University
Zuri Sullivan, The Whitehead Institute
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford, England
Unpublished material must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentations will be made by the organizers. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
Financial Aid: Please apply in writing via email to Jess Palma if you require financial support.
Social Media: The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlbrainbod. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full
Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.
This conference may be supported in part by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Pricing:
In-Person Fees
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1945 (Subject to Availability)
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1820
Academic Shared Room Package: $1660
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $1240
Student Package*: $1545
Student No-Housing Package: $1125
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $2485
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1780
*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please enquire about availability and fees to upgrade to private room.
Room packages close 2 weeks before the meeting start date
Virtual Participation: Includes access to the oral sessions via Zoom, the digital poster gallery, the Slack discussion workspace, and the Leading Strand video archive.
If you are submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, please plan to attend the meeting in-person.
Virtual Fees:
Academic Virtual Package: $370
Grad Student Virtual Package: $230
Corporate Virtual Package: $550
Late Fee (Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on May 7, 2026)
Late Academic Virtual Package: $470
Late Student Virtual Package: $330
Late Corporate Virtual Package: $650