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2026 Gamma Workshop

Welcome to the 2026 Gamma Workshop, convened by MIT's Aging Brain Initiative. We're very glad you could join us for this timely discussion and we greatly value your insights. As a guide to the event, we've listed the program below including links to bios for each speaker. Please find Dr. Rosie Firenze during the day if you have any questions.

Date: Thursday, November 19th - Friday, November 20th  
Location: New York Academy of Sciences, 115 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 
Hotel Block: New York Marriott Downtown, 85 West Street at, Albany St, New York, NY 10006  

 

Thursday, November 19  

12:00-1:00 PM Arrival and Registration  

1:00-1:10 Opening Remarks 

Session 1: Brain Oscillations in Cognition/Memory/Perception 

1:10-1:40 Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow 

1:40-2:10 James Dowsett, University of Stirling 

2:10-2:30 Danying Wang, University College London 

2:30-3:00 Vikaas Sohal, University of California, San Francisco 

3:00-3:20 Break with refreshments 

3:20-3:50 PM Christopher Moore, Brown University 

3:50-4:20 PM Annabelle Singer, Georgia Tech 

4:20-4:50 PM Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Cornell University

4:50-5:30 Discussion Panel

5:30-5:50 Break 

5:50-6:30 PM Keynote Address: Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research 

 

Friday, November 20  

8:00-8:30 AM Arrival and Coffee 

Session 2: Gamma Oscillations in Disease & Therapies 

8:30-9:00 Yadong Huang, University of California, San Francisco  

9:00-9:30 Mark Bear, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

9:30-10:00 Tjaša Mlinarič,  KU Leuven 

10:00-10:30 Emiliano Santarnecchi, Harvard University  

10:30-10:50 Break with refreshments 

10:50-11:20 Diane Chan, Alnylam, Mass General Hospital 

11:20-11:50 Christian Howell, Cognito Therapeutics 

12:00-1:30 Lunch with Discussion 

Session 3: Mechanisms and Circuits of Gamma Oscillations 

1:30-2:00 Laura Colgin, The University of Texas at Austin 

2:00-2:30 Jorge Palop, University of California, San Francisco 

2:30-3:00 Jiang-Fan Chen, Wenzhou Medical University 

3:00-3:20 Ken Kosik, University of California, Santa Barbara 

3:20-3:40 Break with refreshments

3:40-4:10 Chinna Adaikkan, Centre for Brain Research – IISc, Bangalore 

4:10-4:40 Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

4:40-5:25 Discussion Panel 

5:30 Close