“Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology” will be a 3.5 day forum discussing emerging technologies, topics and views in the use of comparative and evolutionary strategies to understand human brain cellular and circuit function. The scientific program will include about 30 talks by invited speakers, short talks selected from participant abstracts, and two poster sessions. The conference will address remarkable new technologies, resources and tools for understanding conserved and species-specialized cellular and circuit makeup of the adult and developing brain across mammalian species. Focused themes will explore comparative analyses of functional systems underlying motor control, language, visual and basal ganglia circuitry, and comparative genomics identifying conserved and human lineage-specific genomic changes that could impact brain circuit function and disease.