The 2018 meeting will feature a scientific programme focused on recent advances and future directions in fundamental and applied developmental neuroscience. Organised by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN), this meeting will include the following topics with talks on diverse model animals and human diseases:

• Cell lineage and neural diversity in the cerebral cortex
• Development and plasticity of sensory pathways
• Oligodendrocyte/neuron interactions
• Neural stem-progenitor cells in the embryonic, early postnatal, and adult mammalian brain
• Neural activity, subtype specification and circuit formation
• Cell migration and layer formation in the developing cerebral cortex
• How the Reeler mutation has shaped our understanding of brain development
• Transgenerational epigenetic events
• Neurodevelopment and psychiatric disorders
• Modeling neurodevelopment and developmental brain disorders: from Primate to human PSC-based 2D and 3D models
• Mechanisms of circuit formation and degeneration
• Development and plasticity of vocal communication systems in human and non-human models
• Genome editing applications in understanding function and pathology of the nervous system.