The aim of the meeting is to stimulate and expand the interdisciplinary and (inter)national networking of researchers in the neuroscience and stem cell field. Robin Ali (London), Roger Barker (Cambridge), AnnaHerland(Stockholm), Florian Merkle (Cambridge),GiorgiaQuadrato(Los Angeles), and MariusWernig(Stanford) will deliver keynote lectures spanning topics from neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration, neurosensory, neuroimmunology, neurovascular and translational neuroscience.