Editorial on the Frontiers Research Topic titled "Structure, Function and Development of Neural Circuits"

Xiangmin Xu ^*

• University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

The Research Topic special issue served as a repository of the research presentations and communications at the 2023 summer conference titled "Structure, Function and Development of Neural Circuits" (August 21-23, 2023), co-sponsored by the Cajal Club, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the UC Irvine Center for Neural Circuit Mapping. The main Conference took place at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering near the UC Irvine campus located in the beautiful city of Irvine in Southern California. Additional workshops took place on UCI campus. In this front-of-the-field conference, leaders and attendees from diverse institutions presented their research progress and technology advancements and brought unique perspectives to the theme of integrating the different facets of neural circuitsstructure, function, development and disease. This special issue welcomed all article types including research reports, method papers, and reviews and perspectives related to studying the aspects of structure, function and development of neural circuits in health and disease. All conference participants were encouraged to submit their work to the Research Topic; the Topic was also open to non-conference attendees who were interested.The research topic co-editors included Dr. Christine Gall of the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Sandra Jurado of the Institute of Neurosciences of Spanish National Research Council, Dr. Orkide O Koyuncu of the University of California, Irvine, and Dr. Xiangmin Xu of the University of California, Irvine. We thank all the authors for their efforts leading to a nice Research Topic collection, including the nine manuscripts listed below.