Sunday
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2:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 7:40 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
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7:40 pm - 9:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Heterogeneity in the Midbrain: From Cell Type Identification to Function
Discussion Leader: Mary Kay Lobo (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA)
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7:40 pm - 7:55 pm |
Opening Remarks
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7:55 pm - 8:10 pm |
Introduction by Discussion Leader
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8:10 pm - 9:10 pm |
Marisela Morales (National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, USA)
"VTA Neuronal and Functional Diversity"
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9:10 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Monday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Catecholamine Cellular and Circuit Heterogeneity
Discussion Leader: Lindsay Schwarz (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:20 am |
Stephan Lammel (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Dopamine Circuits in Reward and Aversion"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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9:30 am - 9:50 am |
Erin Calipari (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA)
"Dopaminergic Signatures Controlling Sex Differences in Valence-Based Decision Making"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 10:50 am |
Talia Lerner (Northwestern University, USA)
"Plasticity of Striatonigrostriatal Dopamine Circuits Leading to Inflexible Behavior"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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11:00 am - 11:20 am |
Patricia Jensen (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA)
"Identification of Noradrenergic Subpopulations with Distinct Roles in Stress-Related Behavior"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 11:50 am |
Sofia Beas (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA)
"Noradrenergic Modulation of the Midline Thalamus Drives Food Seeking Behavior"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:20 pm |
Oxana Eschenko (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
"Phasic Activation of the Locus Coeruleus: From Local and Distal Effects to Whole-Brain Mapping and Implications for Behavior"
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12:20 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address challenges women face in science and issues of diversity and inclusion. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Jocelyn Richard (University of Minnesota, USA)
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Catecholamines and Neurotransmission
Discussion Leader: Veronica Alvarez (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:50 pm |
Sara Jones (Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA)
"How the Accumbal Dopamine System Adapts and Recovers After Cocaine Self-Administration"
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7:50 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 8:20 pm |
Pascal Kaeser (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Architecture and Function of Striatal Dopamine Release Sites"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:30 pm - 8:50 pm |
Mark von Zastrow (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Ultrafast Imaging of Neuronal Neuromodulatory Dynamics with Genetically Encoded Sensors"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm |
Discussion
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9:00 pm - 9:20 pm |
Colleen McClung (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Regulation of Dopaminergic Transmission by Cellular Metabolism and the Circadian Clock"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Tuesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Group Photo
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Catecholamines in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
Discussion Leader: Meaghan Creed (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:20 am |
Thomas Hnasko (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Role of Glutamate Co-Release in Selective Dopamine Neuron Vulnerability"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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9:30 am - 9:50 am |
Mary Kay Lobo (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA)
"Dendritic Complexity in Dopaminoceptive Neurons Underlies Stress Vulnerability"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 10:50 am |
Aryn Gittis (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
"Cell-Specific Pallidal Intervention Induces Long-Lasting Recovery of Movement in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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11:00 am - 11:20 am |
Gul Dolen (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Social Reward: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Oportunities"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 11:50 am |
David Weinshenker (Emory University School of Medicine, USA)
"Modulation of Addiction and Affective Disorders by Locus Coeruleus-Derived Galanin"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:20 pm |
Lex Kravitz (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Dopaminergic Control of Stimulant Induced Hyperactivity"
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12:20 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Catecholamines in Stress, Anxiety and Aversion
Discussion Leader: Matthew Wanat (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:50 pm |
Michael Bruchas (University of Washington, USA)
"Decoding Locus Coeruleus Circuits in Stress-Induced Behaviors"
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7:50 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 8:20 pm |
Joshua Johansen (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
"Modular Organization of the Locus Coeruleus Noradrenaline System Balances Emotional and Flexible Behavior"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:30 pm - 8:50 pm |
Zoe McElligott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Under Pressure: Adaptation in Noradrenergic Circuitry"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm |
Discussion
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9:00 pm - 9:20 pm |
Jose Moron-Concepcion (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Dissecting the Neural Circuits Mediating Pain-Induced Negative Affect"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Wednesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Expanding Views of Dopamine in Learning
Discussion Leader: David Lovinger (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:20 am |
Yoshi Aso (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
"Cotransmitters of Dopaminergic Neurons Diversify Memory Dynamics in the Mushroom Body"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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9:30 am - 9:50 am |
Ilana Witten (Princeton University, USA)
"Specialized and Spatially Organized Dopaminergic Functions in Learning and Decision Making"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 10:50 am |
Jesse Goldberg (Cornell University, USA)
"The Ventral Pallidum Sends Performance Error Signals to Dopaminergic Midbrain in Singing Birds"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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11:00 am - 11:20 am |
Melissa Sharpe (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Lateral Hypothalamic Modulation of the Dopamine Prediction Error During Associative Learning"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 11:50 am |
Sam Gershman (Harvard University, USA)
"Rethinking Dopamine as a Generalized Prediction Error"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:20 pm |
Arif Hamid (Brown University, USA)
"Dopamine Waves Assign Spatio-Temporal Credit to Dorsal Striatal Specialist"
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12:20 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Catecholamine Circuits, Learning and Attention
Discussion Leader: Lex Kravitz (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:50 pm |
Michael Frank (Brown University, USA)
"Dynamic Dopaminergic Signals Underlying Task State Inference"
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7:50 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 8:20 pm |
Mara Mather (University of Southern California, USA)
"How the LC-NE System Increases Neural Gain and Attentional Selectivity in Younger vs. Older Adults"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:30 pm - 8:50 pm |
Vanessa Ruta (The Rockefeller University, USA)
"Neuromodulatory Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in Drosophila"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm |
Discussion
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9:00 pm - 9:20 pm |
Saleem Nicola (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
"Learning to Approach Reward Requires NMDA Receptor-Dependent Plasticity in the Nucleus Accumbens"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Thursday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Catecholamines in Addiction and Reward
Discussion Leader: Robert Malenka (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:20 am |
Charlotte Boettiger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Probing Frontal Dopamine Function in Humans"
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9:20 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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9:30 am - 9:40 am |
Natale Sciolino (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA)
"A Role for the Locus Coeruleus in the Modulation of Feeding"
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9:40 am - 9:45 am |
Discussion
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9:45 am - 9:55 am |
Alfred Kaye (Yale University / VA National Center for PTSD, USA)
"Prefrontal Noradrenergic and Cholinergic Dynamics Define Global Arousal After Stress"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 10:50 am |
Christian Luscher (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Optogenetic Dopamine Neuron Self Stimulation as a Model for Drug Addiction"
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10:50 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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11:00 am - 11:20 am |
Stephanie Borgland (University of Calgary, Canada)
"State Dependent Changes in Plasticity of VTA Dopamine Neurons"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 11:50 am |
Nadia Chaudhri (Concordia University, Canada)
"Distinct Ventral Striatal Targets for Dopamine Neurons Support Reward-Seeking in Different Contexts"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:20 pm |
Philippe Faure (CNRS, France)
"Social Modulation of Dopaminergic Activity: Consequences on Individual Traits and Vulnerabilities"
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12:20 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Poster Session
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5:30 pm - 7:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Dopamine Actions in the Striatum in Relation to Motivation and Addiction
Discussion Leader: Michael Bruchas (University of Washington, USA)
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5:30 pm - 5:45 pm |
Michelle Corkrum (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Astrocytes Mediate Dopamine Signaling in the Nucleus Accumbens Core"
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5:45 pm - 5:50 pm |
Discussion
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5:50 pm - 6:05 pm |
Rebekah Evans (National Institutes of Health, USA)
"A Dendrite-Specific Striatonigral Circuit Facilitates Dopamine Rebound"
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6:05 pm - 6:10 pm |
Discussion
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6:10 pm - 6:20 pm |
Introduction by Discussion Leader
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6:20 pm - 7:20 pm |
Paul Phillips (University of Washington, USA)
"Exploring the Role of Phasic Dopamine Transmission in Drug Addiction"
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7:20 pm - 7:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Dinner
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Friday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am |
Departure
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