Application Details

We invite applicants at all career stages to apply to attend. Application window will be open until May 23.
In addition to speaker presentations, we will feature a number of short talks and posters from accepted applicants. Acceptance does not guarantee a short talk time slot, those elected will be notified.

APPLY TO ATTEND

All applicants will be notified of the decision on their applications in June.

Registration Cost

The conference registration fee is $650 USD for a general ticket and $550 for students, to be paid only by accepted applicants after notification. Application is free. Registration includes:

• Three days of conference sessions
• Welcome reception (Sunday, 9/28) & midday event (Tuesday, 9/30)
• All meals during the conference

Please contact events@alleninstitute.org with questions.

Venue

The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington hotel in Renton, WA. Located on the south shores of Lake Washington, the Hyatt Regency combines modern meeting spaces and guest rooms with unparalleled access to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

The hotel is a convenient 10 minutes from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and just 20 minutes from downtown Seattle. The hotel can be reached by public transport, taxis, sea plane and kayak!

Accepted applicants will receive additional travel and accommodation details in advance of the event.

Lake Conference 2025 Speakers

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• Larry Abbott, Columbia University
• Mark Andermann, Harvard University
• Dmitriy Aronov, Columbia University
• Tim Behrens, University of Oxford
• Rafal Bogacz, University of Oxford
• Carlos Brody, Princeton University
• Elizabeth Buffalo, University of Washington
• Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London
• Jeremiah Cohen, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
• Christine Constantinople, New York University
• Kayvon Daie, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
• Lea Duncker, Columbia University
• Eva Dyer, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Yvette Fisher, Ph.D., University of California
• Lisa Giocomo, Stanford University
• Christine Grienberger, Brandeis University
• Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
• Georg Keller, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
• Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Columbia University
• Francesca Mastrogiuseppe, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
• Mackenzie Mathis, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Markus Meister, California Institute of Technology
• Richard Mooney, Duke University
• Mala Murthy, Princeton University
• Shawn Olsen, Ph.D., Investigator
• Srdjan Ostojic, École Normale Superieure Paris
• Vanessa Ruta, The Rockefeller University
• Eric Shea-Brown, University of Washington
• Kim Stachenfeld, Google DeepMind
• Nick Steinmetz, University of Washington
• Lin Tian, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
• Ilana Witten, Princeton University
• Friedemann Zenke, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research