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: Organization and Function of hippocampal and neocortical circuitries
Discussion Leaders: Gordon Fishell (Harvard Medical School, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm
Gina Turrigiano (brandeis university, United States)
"Reconfiguration of visual cortical circuits during prey capture learning"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm
Ivan Soltesz (Stanford University, United States)
"Organization and control of hippocampal circuits"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Excitation Inhibition Balance In Developing and Mature Circuits
Discussion Leader: Rosa Cossart (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INMED), France)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Sonia Garel (Ecole Normale Superieure / College de France, France)
"Transient neurons and immune cells in the early development of cortical interneurons"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Linda Van Aelst (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States)
"Shedding Light on Chandelier Cell Development and Connectivity"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Natalia De Marco Garcia (Weill Cornell Medical College, United States)
"Mechanisms of GABAergic circuit assembly in the somatosensory cortex"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Renata Batista-Brito (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States)
"Long-range inhibitory neurons coordinate state-dependent cortical network synchronization"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Group Photo / 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: Rosa Cossart (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée (INMED), France)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Functional and Structural Plasticity of GABAergic Cells
Discussion Leader: Alberto Bacci (ICM - Paris Brain Institute, France)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Elly Nedivi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Heterogeneity of inhibitory dendritic innervation"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Juan Burrone (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"The emergence and plasticity of axo-axonic synapses at the axon initial segment"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Simon Chen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"Functionally distinct NPAS4-expressing somatostatin interneuron ensembles critical for motor learning"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Hillel Adesnik (UC Berkeley, United States)
"Precise synaptic architecture in cortical inhibitory circuits mediates image segmentation"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Inhibition and Sensory Information Processing
Discussion Leader: Alison Barth (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Ivo Spiegel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Sensory-induced genomic mechanism that maintain visual processing by normalizing E/I-ratio"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Carl Petersen (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
"Contributions of cortical GABAergic neurons for whisker sensorimotor processing"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Daniel Feldman (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Do VIP interneurons signal reward to sensory cortex?"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:20 am
James Poulet (Max Delbrück Center, Germany)
"Cortical encoding of temperature"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 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
Inhibition and Network Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Decision-Making, Enhanced Attention and Gambling
Discussion Leader: Attila Losonczy (Columbia University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University Vienna, Austria, Austria)
"Cortical inhibition for cognitive flexibility and decision making"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Adam Kepecs (Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA, United States)
"Neuron types encode single decision variables"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Marie Carlen (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
"Functional maps of the mouse prefrontal cortex, with a focus on inhibition"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Vikaas Sohal (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"The role of prefrontal PV neuron-generated gamma synchrony in cognitive flexibility"
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
Inhibitory Subnetworks During Learning
Discussion Leader: Liset Menendez de la Prida (ES-Q-2818002D, Instituto Cajal, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Hannah Monyer (Heidelberg University, Germany)
"The Long and the Short of Inhibition"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
David Dupret (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Neuronal firing dynamics in CA1 superficial layers."
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Johannes Letzkus (University of Freiburg, Germany)
"Inhibitory top-down control of neocortical threat memory"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Lisa Topolnik (Laval University, Canada)
"Hippocampal VIP Interneurons Detect Novelty in the Environment and Regulate Encoding of Recognition Memory"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 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
Modulation of Inhibition, Metabolic States, Memory and Sleep
Discussion Leader: Imre Vida (Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Nathalie Rochefort (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
"The ‘Low-Power Mode’ of neocortex: energy use and coding precision during food scarcity"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Liping Wang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China)
"Modulation of Fear and Sleep"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Gábor Nyiri (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary)
"Brainstem Control of the Memory of Negative Experience"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Dilja Krueger-Burg (Mainz University Medical Center, Germany)
"Inhibitory synapse diversity in the modulation of defensive behaviors"
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
Influence of Inhibition on Network Activity and Behavior in Diseases
Discussion Leader: Chris McBain (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Carlos Portera-Cailliau (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, United States)
"Cortical inhibitory interneurons and sensory processing in Fragile X Syndrome."
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Claudia Bagni (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Mechanisms underlying behavioural inflexibility in FXS"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Peyman Golshani (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"Voltage imaging reveals cell-specific interneuron dynamics during working memory"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Jorge Palop (Gladstone Institutes / University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"Network abnormalities and interneuron dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 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
Inhibition in Human: Molecular Programs, Circuitries and Networks
Discussion Leader: Zoltan Nusser (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Nenad Sestan (Yale University, United States)
"Development and evolution of human neural circuits"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Caroline Robertson (Dartmouth, United States)
"A retinotopic push-pull dynamic structures perceptual-mnemonic interactions in the human brain"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Dimitri Kullmann (University College London, United Kingdom)
"When inhibition fails: circuits, synaptopathies and seizures"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Kenneth Fish (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"GABAergic cell type, region, and layer specific alterations in schizophrenia"
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