DATE & TIME
September 22 - 24, 2026 EST
LOCATION
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607
DETAILS
Join us at ECNS 2026, hosted by the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester. This dynamic in-person meeting brings together an international community to share advances in EEG, neurophysiology, and the understanding and treatment of neurobehavioral disorders.
Keynote Speakers

Adrianna Di Martino, MD
Child Mind Institute

Bernadette Gillick, PhD
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health

Lisa Maffie, DNP
Harbor Health Services, Inc
Schedule of events
Day 1 | Tuesday | September 22, 2026
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 10:45 am Session 1: Neurobiologically-derived Biomarkers and Mechanistically Targeted Interventions in Neurodevelopmental Conditions
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Dr. Lauren Ethridge
Translating sensory EEG phenotypes in Fragile X Syndrome (FXS): validating biomarkers from mouse to human to enable clinical trials
9:30 am - 10:00 am - Dr. Christine Conelea
Targeted engagement of Tourette-related neurocircuitry with TMS to augment behavior therapy
10:00 am - 10:30am - Dr. Christian Cazares
Aperiodic activity as a candidate marker of cortical dysfunction in Rett syndrome EEG and Mecp2+/- mouse visual cortex
10:30 am - 10:45 am - Session 1 Discussion Panel
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 12:45 pm - Session 2: Neural Oscillations and Network Synchrony: From Circuit Mechanisms to Biomarkers in Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders
11:00 am - 11:30 am - Dr. Shlomit Beker
From Neural Synchrony to Clinical Biomarkers
11:30 am - 12:00 pm - Dr. Sophie Molholm
Beyond Sensory Encoding: Altered Feedback Shapes Perception in Autism
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm - Dr. Tal Kenet
Synchronization as a Window into the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Autism
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm - Session 2 Discussion Panel
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
ECNS Presidential Lecture – Dr. M. Kemal Arikan
2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Session 3: Trainee and Early Career Investigators Session
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm - Flash Talks
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm - Poster Session
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm: Keynote Speaker
Dr. Adrianna Di Martino
Day 2 | Wednesday | September 23, 2026
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:45 am Session 4: Psychosis
9:00 am – 9:30 am - Dr. Brian Keane
Thalamic and cortical sensory dysconnectivity as a biomarker for psychosis
9:30 am – 10:00 am - TBD
10:00 am – 10:30 am - Dr. Steven Silverstein
Retinal neural and vascular changes in psychotic and mood disorders
10:30 am – 10:45 am - Session 4 Discussion Panel
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 12:45 pm Session 5: Targeting Brain Stimulation – The When and the Where
11:00 am – 11:30 am - Dr. Ivan Alekseichuk
Physiological and behavioral roles of EEG phase through the lens of transcranial magnetic stimulation
11:30 pm – 12:00 pm - Dr. Eric Rawls
Using multimodal neuroimaging to isolate and target a human neurocomputational mechanism driving enhanced expected value of control
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm - Dr. Simon Davis
Modulating memory representations in aging and disease
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm - Session 5 Discussion Panel
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Session 6: EEG-Derived Markers to Characterize and Treat Drug Use
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm - Dr. Derek Fisher
Interaction between caffeine and menstrual cycle phase on EEG-indexed sustained attention
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm - Dr. Salvatore Campanella
Cognitive ERPs in substance use disorders
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm - Dr. Tanju Surmeli
QEEG Guided Neurofeedback is effective and reduces relapses as a stand-alone therapy in Substance Use Disorders
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm - Session 3 Discussion Panel
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Break
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm: Keynote Speaker
Dr. Bernadette Gillick
Understanding Recovery and Development after Early Brain Injury using Neuromodulation
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Dinner Reception
Jackrabbit Club
40 Anderson Avenue
Rochester, NY
Day 3 | Thursday | September 24, 2026
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:45 am Session 7: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Clinical Practice: Implications of Intracranial Electroencephalography
9:00 am – 9:30 am - Dr. Tonmoy Monsoor
Bridging Research and Practice in Intracranial EEG: Omni-iEEG for Epilepsy Biomarker Discovery
9:30 am – 10:00 am - Dr. Adeen Flinker
Neural dynamics of feedforward and feedback speech processing
10:00 am – 10:30 am - Dr. Frank Garcea
Advances in translational brain mapping at URMC
10:30 am – 10:45 am - Session 7 Discussion Panel
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 12:45 pm Session 8: EEG Biomarkers of Predictive Processing in Psychosis and its At-Risk State
11:00 am – 11:20 am - Dr. Michael Kiang
P2 visual semantic priming effects predict two-year clinical outcomes in patients at clinical high risk for psychosis
11:20 am – 11:40am - Dr. Molly Erickson
Divergence between mismatch negativity (MMN) deficits and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia
11:40 am – 12:00 pm - Dr. Victor Pokorny
Alpha Peak Frequency in Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis
12:00 pm – 12:20 pm - Dr. Brian Coffman
Effects of Attention on Perceptual Grouping and Segmentation of Auditory Stimuli in First Episode Psychosis
12:20 pm – 12:45 pm - Session 8 Discussion Panel
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Session 9: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Clinical Practice: Implications of intracranial Electroencephalography
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm - Dr. Kathryn Toffolo
Developing a sense of meaning: How children with and without autism comprehend semantics across development
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm - Dr. Mark Pflieger
Using individual structural MRI and group fMRI to benchmark and improve distributed localization of ERP cortical sources
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm - Dr. Pierfilippo DeSanctis
Neural Signatures of Complex Daily Activities in Older Adults at Risk for Cognitive Decline
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm - Session 9 Discussion Panel
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm: Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Maffie
Honoring Loss and Driving Discovery: Risk, Research, and the Fight to End SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy)
5:15 pm - 5:20 pm
Closing Remarks
Reserve your Spot
For questions about the event, please email: Sherry_Mentor@URMC.Rochester.edu
For questions about the registration site or process, please email: cmeregistration@urmc.rochester.edu
Hotel Reservations
For your convenience, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Strathallan Rochester Hotel and Spa.
To make your reservations, please call 800-446-8667 and provide group code: ECN
Booking link: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/ecns-meeting-stay-strathallan/
