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: Sensing and Sustaining the Brain: Mechanotransduction, Metabolic Flux, and Vascular Control
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm
"Piezo Ion Channels in Mechanosensory Biology"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Neuro-Vascular Interactions in the CNS"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Metabolic and Mitochondrial Plasticity in Neurons"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Molecular and Dynamic Architecture of the Synapse
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Phase Separation and Synapse Formation/Function"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Membrane Deformation as a Regulatory Signal in Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 am
"Spatial Transcriptomic Signatures of Memory Across Mouse, Human, and Brain Organoid Networks"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
"Planar Cell Polarity Proteins in the Assembly, Maintenance, and Plasticity of Glutamatergic Synapses"
11:35 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
Molecular Logic of Synapse Formation and Circuit Assembly
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Molecular Mechanisms of Building a Complex Dendritic Arbor in Vivo"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Assembly of Cortical Neurons in a Dynamic Circuit"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:35 pm
"Control of Cortical Circuit Assembly by Spontaneous Neuronal Activity in Primary Visual Cortex"
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 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
Neural Dynamics of Action and Movement
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"Revealing the Missing Map for Smell"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
"Seeing From the Blind Eyes: Artificial Vision Empowered by Nanowire Arrays"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Syncopated Development: Building Left–Right Differences for Parallel Auditory Processing"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"New Kids on the Block - Corticostriatal Axonal Plasticity in Motor Learning and Memory"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General 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
Circuit Plasticity and the Control of Adaptive Behavior
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"From Hormones to Circuits: How Development Shapes Sexually Dimorphic Brain Functions"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Dissecting the Neural Circuitry Underlying Motivated Behavior & Metabolic Regulation"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"Heartbeat Signals in the Brain: Insular Encoding of Cardiac Interoception and Emotion"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Neural Circuits for Early Postnatal Social Behavior"
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
Resolving Brain Structure and Function Across Scales
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"The Connectome of a Cortical Column"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
"Transcriptomes, Connectomes, and Neuromodulation"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Imaging Second Messenger Signaling Underlying Circuit Regulation in Behavior"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Translating 3D Molecular Atlas in Brain Function and Dysfunction"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General 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
Development, Connectivity, and Function
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:05 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:35 pm
"Two-Photon Holographic Optogenetics: Playing the Piano With Neural Circuits and Dendritic Spines"
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
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
Understanding Degeneration: Mechanisms of Vulnerability in the Aging and Diseased Brain
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"Lipid Metabolism Disruption: A Key Driver Of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Genes"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
"Beyond Waste Basket: How Microglia Shape and Stabilize Circuit Plasticity?"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
"Neuron-to-Glia Communication via Semaphorin-6A Reverse Signalling Controls Radial Glia Morphology and Neuron Migration"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Determinants of Selective Vulnerability in Parkinson’s Disease"
11:55 am - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General 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
Keynote Session: Molecules, Light, and Circuits: Technologies for Probing Neural Dynamics
6:00 pm - 6:35 pm
"The How and Why of Sleep"
6:35 pm - 6:45 pm
Discussion
6:45 pm - 7:05 pm
"Lights, Camera, Action: Watching the Brain at Work with Voltage Imaging"
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:35 pm
"Sensitive Genetically Engineered Light Sensors for Tracking a Broad Spectrum of Physiological Neurotransmitter Signaling"
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure