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
Neuromodulation of Social Behavior
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"To Care or Not To Care: Sex- and State-Dependent Modulation of Social Interactions"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Chemical Tools for Dissecting Neuropeptide Control of Social Behavior and Physiology"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Natural Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Signaling Causes Widespread Changes in Brain Transcription: A Link to Innate Immunity?"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Neural Plasticity in Motivated Behaviors
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Anger Management: Long-Term Modulation of Aggression by Short-Term Interference with Hypothalamic Circuits Controlling Social Behavior"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Hypothalamic Regulation of Male Mating Behaviors in Mice"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
"Accumbal Calcium-Permeable AMPA Receptors Orchestrate Neuronal Ensembles Underlying Social Attachment"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Trajectories of Behavioural and Neural Activity Adaptations in Depression"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am
"Spatially Resolved Single-Cell Genomics and Cell Atlases of the Brain"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
"Hypothalamic Plasticity for Alloparenting in Male Mice"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
"Hormonal Modulation of the Neural Circuitry Driving Innate Behaviours"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Group Photo / Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Neuromodulation of Innate Behavior in Invertebrates
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Neuromodulators that Control a Context-Dependent Action Choice During Aggressive Interaction"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Neuropeptide Regulation of Mosquito Host-Seeking and Blood Feeding Behaviors"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"From Stimulus to Action: How the Brain Balances Reproductive and Survival Needs"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Sensitive Genetically Engineered Light Sensors for Tracking a Broad-Spectrum of Physiological Neurotransmitter Signaling"
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
Neural Mechanisms of Social Communication
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Love, Death, and Oxytocin: The Challenges of Mouse Maternity"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Coding Properties and Underlying Synaptic Connections of Insular - Amygdala Networks in Fear Learning"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
"Molecular and Neural Activity Signatures of Claustrum Neurons in Stress and Vigilance Behaviors"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Neural Computation Gives Rise to Geometrical Principles of Spatial Decision-Making"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am
"Neural Codes for Space in Social Groups of Bats and in Bats Navigating Outdoors on a Remote Oceanic Island"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
"Neuromodulatory Organization of Stochastic Behavioral Individuality Across Development"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
"Implications of Retrospective Causal Learning"
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
Affective Behavior Modulation and Learning
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"High-Dimensional Integration of Neuromodulatory Signals"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Olfactory Tubercle Mediates Adaptive Social Behavior through Distinct Control of Threat Assessment and Memory Updating"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"The Habenula-Interpeduncular Pathway as a Possible Regulator of Allostasis and Resilience"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Impaired Cortical Oxytocin Signaling Prevents Mice from Entering Stable Social Cliques"
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
Behavioral and Neural Network Dynamics
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Mechanisms of Memory Stabilization Over Long Time-Scales"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Top-Down Modulation Shapes Cortical Dynamics Timescales"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
"VTA Dopaminergic Neuronal Activity During NREM Sleep is Modulated by Learning and Necessary for Memory Consolidation"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Active Sensing Modulates Pheromone Perception and Behavior"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am
"The Brain's Maps for Navigational Goals"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
"Wired for Care: PVN-PFC Oxytocin Circuit Restores Social Empathy in FTD Mice"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
"Prevention of Compulsive Grooming in a Mouse Model of OCD Using Long Term Circuit Modulation with Engineered Gap Junctions"
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
Principles Underlying Neural Circuit Operation
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"GPCR Voltage Dependence and the Prevention of Type I and Type II Errors in the Brain"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Neural Networks for Navigation"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm
"ATP-Mediated Control of Sleep/Wake States"
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:35 pm
"Combinatorial Dynamics of Multiple Neuromodulatory Systems Primes Brain State for Adaptive Behavioral Strategies"
7:35 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
"Adenosine Signaling in Glia Modulates Metabolic State-Dependent Behavior"
7:55 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; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tools to Uncover Neuromodulation
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Thalamo-Hippocampal Pathway Determines Aggression and Self-Harm"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Molecular Ballet: Decoding Neuromodulator Signaling Dynamics"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
"Fast Multiplexed Magnetogenetics Technology for Non-Invasive Neuromodulation"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Targeted Circuit Modulation in the Primate Brain"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am
"Concept Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe as Semantic Building Blocks of Episodic Memory"
11:40 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
"Cholinergic Modulation of Dopamine Release Drives Effortful Behavior"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
"Tracking the Neural and Cognitive Trajectory Across the Lifespan in Mouse and Marmoset"
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
Systemic Neuromodulation: Brain-Body-Axis
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"The Many Roles of Dopamine – Identifying Subcircuits in the Dopaminergic System that Modulate Motivated Behaviour"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Mutants with Pleiotropic Behavior Defects Highlight a Quality Control Mechanism for Biogenesis of GPCRs"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"Sleep Regulation by Neuropeptide Signaling in C. Elegans "
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Circuits and Behavior in Addiction and Related Disorders"
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