Brain Institute researcher, Dr Augusto Buchweitz, made his presence felt at the National Conference of Evidence-Based Literacy (Conabe). This year’s theme is “The National Literacy Policy and the state-of-the-art of research on literacy, schooling and numeracy”. The researcher coordinated the symposium: Neurobiological basis of reading and writing. The conference took place between Oct 22 – 25, in Brasilia.