SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE I |
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm | Shigetada Nakanishi (Osaka Bioscience Institute; Kyoto Univ., JAPAN)
"Integrative and regulatory mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the neural network" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm | Informal Social |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:15 am | DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Gord Fishell (New York Univ., NY) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Yishi Jin (UC San Diego, CA)
"Regulation of mRNA stability in synapse formation" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Gord Fishell (New York Univ., NY)
"Genetic control of cortical interneurons derived from the Medial Ganglionic Eminence" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:45 am - 11:05 am | Hollis Cline (Scripps Institute, San Diego, CA)
"Experience-dependent circuit assembly" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 12:30 pm | CEREBELLUM |
| Discussion Leader: Andreas Lüthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, SWITZERLAND) |
11:15 am - 11:35 am | Masanobu Kano (Univ. Tokyo, JAPAN)
"Activity-dependent regulation of climbing fiber synapse elimination during postnatal cerebellar development" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:05 pm | Michael Häusser (Univ. College London, UK)
"Travelling waves in cerebellar cortex" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Lauren McElvain (Salk) "Bidirectional, anti-Hebbian plasticity of a sensory synapse" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HOT TOPICS: OPTICAL PROBING OF NEURAL DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon Univ., PA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Karel Svoboda (HHMI, Janelia Farm, VA) "Imaging neocortical and thalamocortical circuits" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Michael Ashby (NIH) "Mapping the synaptic connectivity that underlies cortical circuit development using single cell photostimulation" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Mark Schnitzer (Stanford Univ., CA)
"Of mice, men, and microscopes: Imaging cellular function in behaving subjects" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Claire Wyart (UC Berkeley) "Optogenetic dissection of behaviour identifies spinal cerebrospinal fluid contacting neurons that drive locomotion" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Florian Engert (Harvard Univ., MA)
"Functional imaging of an entire vertebrate brain at single cell resolution" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | LIMBIC SYSTEM |
| Discussion Leader: Matthew Wilson (MIT, MA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Thomas Klausberger (MRC Oxford Univ., UK)
"Network oscillations across the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Rene Hen (Columbia Univ., NY)
"Hippocampal neurogenesis: regulation by stress and antidepressants" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Andreas Lüthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, SWITZERLAND)
"Neuronal circuitry of conditioned fear" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | AUDITORY SYSTEM |
| Discussion Leader: Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor, NY) |
11:00 am - 11:10 am | Bassam Atallah (UCSD) "Instantaneous modulation of gamma oscillation frequency by balancing excitation with inhibition" |
11:10 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Annabelle Singer (UCSF) "Rewarded outcomes enhance reactivation of experience in the hippocampus" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Dan Sanes (New York Univ., NY)
"Synaptic and encoding mechanisms that support perceptual maturation" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins Univ., MD)
"Complex sound processing in primate auditory cortex" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CHEMICAL SENSES |
| Discussion Leader: Liqun Luo (Stanford Univ., CA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Donald Katz (Brandeis Univ., MA)
"Multi-scale dynamics of taste perception: behavior and neural networks" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Catherine Dulac (Harvard Univ., MA)
"Molecular architecture of circuits underlying instinctive behavior in rodents" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Dayu Lin (CalTech) "Differentiate reproduction and aggression pathways in rodents" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Alexander Fleischmann (Columbia) "Olfactory learning with a ‘monoclonal’ nose" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Liqun Luo (Stanford Univ., CA)
"Exploring Neural Circuits with Genetic Mosaics" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:35 am | COGNITION |
| Discussion Leader: Yang Dan (UC Berkeley) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
"Cortical mechanisms of auditory attention" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Daphne Bavelier (Univ. Rochester, NY) "Learning in complex environments: The case of video games" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Viviana Gradinaru (Stanford) "Optical deconstruction of Parkinsonian neural circuitry" |
10:40 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am - 10:55 am | Jing Lu (Duke) "Genetic dissection of neural circuits in OCD-like behavior in SAPAP3 mutant mice" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Okihide Hikosaka (NIH, MD) "Subcortical mechanisms of reward-based learning" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:35 am | Short break |
11:35 am - 12:30 pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE II |
11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Allison Doupe (UC San Francisco, CA) "What songbirds can teach us about the basal ganglia and learning" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | COMPUTATION |
| Discussion Leader: Alexandre Pouget (Univ. Rochester, NY) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Dennis Barbour (Washington Univ St Louis) "Neuroplasticity induced by activity-triggered microstimulation" |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Jesse Goldberg (MIT) "High frequency entrainment of thalamic neurons by basal ganglia output in the singing bird: A new model of pallido-thalamic interaction" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Alexandre Pouget (Univ. Rochester, NY)
"Modeling probabilistic inference in neural circuits" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Evan Schaffer (Columbia) "Firing rate dynamics in transitions between synchrony and asynchrony" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm | Sebastian Seung (MIT, MA) "Imagining functional connectomics" |
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Jai Yu (IMP Vienna) "Mapping the fruitless circuit for male courtship behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:30 am | NEOCORTEX 1 |
| Discussion Leader: Takao Hensch (Harvard Univ., MA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA)
"Tracking experience-dependent changes in neocortical circuits in a fosGFP transgenic mouse" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis Univ., MA) "Plasticity of inhibition and the activity-dependent development of visual cortex" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Yang Dan (UC Berkeley, CA) "Plasticity and neuromodulation in the visual cortex" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | HOT TOPICS: EPIGENETICS |
| Discussion Leader: Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis Univ., MA) |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Lisa Monteggia (UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX) "Epigenetics and Synaptic Transmission" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Frances Champagne (Columbia Univ., NY) "Influence of the social environment on epigenetic modification in the developing brain" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Li-Huei Tsai (MIT, MA) "Chromatin remodeling associated memory formation in health and disease" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time / Optional Excursion |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | NEOCORTEX 2 |
| Discussion Leader: Rafael Yuste (Columbia Univ., NY) |
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Li Zhang (Univ. Southern California, CA) "Synaptic circuitry mechanism underlying development and function of auditory cortex" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Tania Rinaldi Barkat (Harvard) "Functional modification of thalamocortical connectivity during a critical period in the mouse auditory system" |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Brett Benedetti (Carnegie Mellon Univ) "Reliable and precise neuronal firing after sensory plasticity in superficial layers of somatosensory cortex" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Karpagam Srinivasan (Stanford) "Genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the function of Satb2, a regulator of callosal fate in vertebrate neocortex" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Laura Restani (CNR Pisa) "Functional masking of deprived eye responses by callosal input" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Rafael Yuste (Columbia Univ., NY) "The cortex as a linear network" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |