The Regional Meeting for 2010 – The Human Brain: Genes, Development, and Connections in the 21st Century – will be held this October 26-28 in Seattle, WA and co-hosted by the Cajal Club and the Allen Institute for Brain Science. The Allen Institute will host an Opening Reception on the evening of the 26th, where registrants will be able to take a tour of the facility. The symposium will take place the next day, with the CC dinner following that evening.

Scheduled speakers include Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (UCSF), Angela Bongaarts (Allen Institute), Daniel Geschwind (UCLA), Patrick Hof (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Allan Jones (Allen Institute), Christof Koch (Cal Tech), Ed Lein (Allen Institute), Clifford Saper (Harvard), Arthur Toga (UCLA), and David van Essen (Washington University). In addition, the Cajal Club’s Pinckney J. Harman Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Arnold Kriegstein (UCSF), and Wendell J.S. Krieg Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Pasko Rakic (Yale).