Annual Retreat

38th ANNUAL CNUP RETREAT 
September 18-20, 2026 
Stonewall Resort, 940 Resort Drive, Roanoke, WV. 26447 

Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is July 31, 2026. 
Please contact Patti Argenzio (argenzio@pitt.edu) for more information. 


This year’s guest speakers include: 

Jeremy C. Borniger, PhD 
Associate Professor, Cancer Center Member 
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 
Bidirectional communication between the brain and tumors in the periphery

Georgia Panagiotakos, PhD 
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
Changing Channels: Alternative Splicing of Ion Channels During Brain Development and Disease

J. Andrew Pruszynski, PhD 
Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology 
Western University 
Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

Marisa Roberto, PhD 
Professor, Department of Translational Medicine 
The Scripps Research Institute 
Neuropeptides and cytokines: A view from the tipsy synapse