The schedule and venue locations are as follows:

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Welcome Reception, 6 - 8 pm, Union Française

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Talks & Symposia, 7:30 am - 5:30 pm, CHUM

  • Symposium 1: The prefrontal cortex: brain-wide interactions and plasticity supporting memory-guided discrimination (Nat Kinsky [Chair], Isabel Muzzio, Kaori Takehara, James Howard)

  • Symposium 2: Putting “context” into context: highlighting diverse associative and neural mechanisms for contextual control (Ron Keiflin [Chair], Jennifer Murray, Marielena Sosa, Kurt Fraser)

  • Symposium 3: Emerging Voices: Valence, Conflict, and Control (Steve Ramirez & Kirstie Cummings [Co-Chairs], Brianna Fitzgerald, Hugo Bayer, Albit Caban, Ashley Sheehan)

  • Symposium 4: New perspectives on impulsive behavior (Kate Nautiyal [Chair], Peter Balsam, Malcolm Campbell)

  • Keynotes: Melissa Sharpe (Past President Lecture), Sydney Trask, Andy Delamater, Mark Bouton

• Posters & Cash Bar, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Union Française

Saturday, September 19, 2026

• Talks & Symposia, 7:30 am - 5:40 pm, CHUM

  • Symposium 5: Cues in Control: Neural Circuits Shaping Cue-triggered Reward Seeking and Threat Avoidance (Anna Samaha [Chair], Rutskuko Ito, Rebecca Shansky, Benjamin Saunders)

  • Symposium 6: Sex Difference in Circuits Mediating Anxiety and Fear Learning (Nesha Burghardt & Ekaterina Likhtik [Co-Chairs], Thomas Kash, Victor Luna, Bénédicte Amilhon

  • Symposium 7: The roles of the BNST and mPFC in the generalization of fear and avoidance (Luis Rosas-Vidal & Joanna Dabrowska [Co-Chairs], Hadley Bergstrom, Reesha Patel, Joseph Stujenske, Lindsay Halladay)

  • Symposium 8: Learning about threats and rewards (Guillem Esber, Gorica Petrovich, Michael Conoscenti)

  • Keynotes: Yael Niv (WIL Lecture), Michael McDannald

• Posters & Cash Bar, 5:40 pm - 7:30 pm, Union Française

• Banquet Dinner, 7:30 pm - 9 pm, CHUM

  
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If you cannot attend the 2026 meeting, members are encouraged to pay dues of $25 to support the Society and keep an active membership.