OVERVIEW

Neural Plasticity and Recovery after Traumatic CNS Injury & Stroke is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and will be held from Oct 19 - 22, 2027 at Beaver Run Resort & Conference Center in Breckenridge, Colorado, United States of America.

Description:
Stroke and traumatic injury are common neurologic disorders and the leading causes of adult-onset disability. Development of therapeutics to improve recovery has been hindered due to limited understanding of how circuits within the central nervous system (CNS) are affected by injury. Technological advances have enabled interrogation of the CNS with unprecedented resolution, allowing for a critical re-appraisal of proposed mechanisms of recovery. This knowledge is crucial as neuromodulation therapies are available for clinical trials, but when and how to apply these to patients are not well understood.

This Keystone Symposia conference on Neural Plasticity and Recovery after Traumatic CNS Injury and Stroke will bring together scientists working across species and using diverse approaches to understand the mechanisms underlying dysfunction and recovery after stroke or injury to the brain or spinal cord. The meeting will: identify convergent mechanisms across CNS injuries, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury, at molecular, synaptic, cellular, and network scales; highlight cutting-edge methods and technologies for the interrogation and modulation of the CNS after injury; and determine innovative emerging avenues for promoting neural repair and recovery after injury.

The cross-disciplinary nature of this meeting will stimulate collaborations, spark insight, and generate avenues of investigation to transform understanding of how the CNS reorganizes after injury. Co-location with the Keystone Symposia conference on Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Mechanisms and Therapeutics will provide opportunities to connect researchers investigating neural circuit formation, vulnerability, plasticity, and repair across developmental and injury-related contexts.

This conference will be unique in its focus on basic and translational science of CNS recovery that brings together researchers working across many disease models and injury types.