Keynote speaker

Gloria Choi is an Investigator at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her laboratory investigates the bidirectional dialogue between the immune and nervous systems, with a particular focus on how peripherally derived cytokines act as neuromodulators to shape neural circuit function, behavior, and internal state. Together with her long-standing collaborator Jun Huh at Harvard Medical School, she has helped define how maternal immune activation — and specifically T helper 17 cell–derived IL-17A — alters cortical development to produce neurodevelopmental behavioral phenotypes in offspring. More recently, her group has extended this framework to map immune receptor expression across the central and peripheral nervous systems, delineating cytokine-driven circuits that modulate distinct behavioral states. 

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