Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Dissecting Amygdala Function Across Translational Scales
Discussion Leader: Josh Johansen (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Elizabeth Phelps (Harvard, United States)
"The Human Amygdala, Threat and Anxiety: Translational Progress and Challenges"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
Kay Tye (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States)
"Solving the Valence Assignment Problem"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
The Stressed Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Marisa Roberto (The Scripps Research Institute, United States)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
Denise Cai (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States)
"Dissociable Contributions of the Amygdala and Ventral Hippocampus to Stress-Induced Changes in Defensive Behavior"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
Rosenkranz Amiel (Rosalind Franklin University, United States)
"Intersection of Stress and Social Function in the Amygdala"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
Jackie Giovanniello (University of California Los Angeles, United States)
"Opposing Amygdala-Striatal Pathways Allow Stress to Promote Habits"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Hugo Tejeda (National Institute of Mental Health, United States)
"Dynorphin / Kappa-Opioid Receptor Regulation of Excitation-Inhibition Balance Toggles Afferent Control of Prefrontal Cortical Circuits in a Pathway-Specific Manner"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Nate Harnett (McLean Hospital, United States)
"Human Threat Circuitry in the Aftermath Trauma"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Nicholas Gilpin (LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, United States)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sex Differences in the Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Kristen Pleil (Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Deena Walker (Oregon Health and Science University, United States)
"Adolescent Stress Reprograms Sex Differences in the Medial Amygdala Transcriptome and Reward"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Raul Andero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
"Sex Differences in Neural Projections of Fear Processing in Mice and Humans"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Jessica Tollkuhn (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States)
"Brain Sex is a State Defined by Gonadal Hormones"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Jennifer Blackford (University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States)
"Sex Differences in the Human Extended Amygdala"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Value, Decision Making and the Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Nadine Gogolla (Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Vincent Costa (Oregon Health and Science University, United States)
"Amygdala Inputs to Striatum Regulate Exploratory Decision Making"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Mimi Liljeholm (University of California, Irvine, United States)
"Causal Constraints on Value Estimation"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Late-Breaking Topic
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:25 am
Fabricio Do Monte (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, United States)
"Neural Substrates of Approach-Avoidance Conflict"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
Jan Gründemann (DZNE, Germany)
"Distributed Coding in Auditory Thalamus and Amygdala During Aversive Learning"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Microcircuitry and Modulation in the Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Mario Penzo (National Institute of Mental Health, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Ayako M. Watabe (Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan)
"Aversive Memory and Learning Rule Update by the Parabrachial-to-Amygdala Network"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Jin-Hee Han (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
"Reorganization of Memory Cell Ensembles by Re-Learning"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Andrew Holmes (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, United States)
"Novel Amygdala Mechanisms Orchestrating Fear"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Larry Zweifel (University of Washington, United States)
"Encoding the Interactions between Appetitive and Aversive Signals in the Central Amygdala"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Aversive Learning and the Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Susan Sangha (Indiana University School of Medicine, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Anna Beyeler (INSERM U1215, France)
"Contribution of the Insular Cortex to Anxiety: Dissection in Pre-Clinical Models of Healthy and Pathological States"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Paul Frankland (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
"The Reorganization of Short and Long-Range Medial Prefrontal Projections in Consolidation of Threat Memories"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Mihaela Iordanova (Concordia University, Canada)
"Cortico-Amygdala Regulation of Fear Propagation"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:25 am
Andreas Luthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"Dynamic Encoding of Internal States in Amygdala Circuit"
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
Late-Breaking Topic
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Appetitive Learning and the Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Stephen Maren (Texas A&M University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Sean Piantadosi (University of Washington, United States)
"Neuromodulation of valence encoding amygdala ensembles"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Keri Martinowich (Lieber Institute for Brain Development, United States)
"Cell Type-Specific and Spatially-Resolved Molecular Signatures of PTSD across Cortico-Amygdala Circuits in the Human Brain"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Vincent Laurent (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
"An Amygdala-Cortical Circuitry Controls the Striatal Memory System Driving Stimulus-Based Decisions"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Caitlin Orsini (The University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"The Role of Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala in Punishment-Based Risky Decision Making"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Amygdala Regulation of Pain and Arousal
Discussion Leader: Yarimar Carrasquillo (National Institutes of Health, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Fusao Kato (Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan)
"The Posterior Capsular Subnucleus of the Central Amygdala (pCeC) - A Nociceptive Site Receiving Direct Inputs from Pain-Activated Parabrachial Neurons"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Nicholas Gilpin (LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, United States)
"Sex-Dependent Effects of Adolescent Alcohol on Central Amygdala and Nociception"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Jessica Wojick (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Functional and Genetic Dissection of a Nociceptive Amygdala to Accumbens Neural Circuit"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Katelyn Sadler (The University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
"Amygdalar Involvement in Gut Microbiome-Related Pain Signaling"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
"Reverse-Engineering Physiological Arousal and Anxiety within Extended Amygdala Circuits"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Developing Amygdala
Discussion Leader: Steve Ramirez (Boston University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Maya Opendak (Kennedy Krieger Institute, United States)
"Amygdala Circuit Control of Social Behavior in Typical and Perturbed Development"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Maithe Arruda-Carvalho (University of Toronto , Canada)
"Maturation of the Prefrontal-Amygdala Pathway and Developmental Regulation of Emotional Learning"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Ned Kalin (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States)
"Functional Development of the Primate Amygdala and Early Life Pathological Anxiety"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Dylan Gee (Yale University, United States)
"Early Experiences and the Developing Human Amygdala"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure
