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: Gene Delivery and Miniature Microscopy for Functional Circuit Interrogation
Discussion Leader: Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Ilana Witten (Princeton University, United States)
"Mapping Learning Algorithms onto Brain Circuitry"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
Denise Cai (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States)
"Memory Stability and Flexibility Across the Lifetime"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Optics, Genetics, and Optogenetics
Discussion Leader: Olivia Masseck (University of Bremen, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Elena Govorunova (McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health, United States)
"The Development of Channelrhodopsin-Based Inhibitory Optogenetic Tools"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
J. Simon Wiegert (University Heidelberg, Germany)
"A New Look at an Old Concept: Optogenetic Investigation of Brain Stem-Driven Pupil Dynamics"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Tommaso Fellin (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
"Aberration Correction in GRIN Microendoscopes through Three-Dimensional Printed Polymer Microlenses"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Valentina Emiliani (Vision Institute, CNRS, France)
"All-Optical Holographic Manipulation of Neuronal Circuits"
11:50 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
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: Thiago Arzua (Columbia University, United States)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Optical Readouts of Neural Activity: Beyond Calcium
Discussion Leader: Anna Beyeler (French Institute of Health, INSERM, France)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Tommaso Patriarchi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"Next-Generation Optical Tools to Probe Neuromodulators In Vivo"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Christina Kim (University of California, Davis, United States)
"Molecular Probes for Activity-Dependent Protein Tagging in the Brain"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, United States)
"Imaging and Manipulating Synaptic Plasticity"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:40 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
Brain-Body Optogenetics
Discussion Leader: Li Ye (Scripps Research Institute, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:35 am
Yoav Livneh (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Non-Invasive Gut Optogenetics Reveal Interoceptive Sensations and Predictions"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:05 am
Ritchie Chen (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"Heartfelt Emotions: How Cardiac Sensations Influence Affective Behavior"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:05 am
Sung-Yon Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
"How Does Ingestion Rapidly Shape Motivation?"
11:05 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Nadine Gogolla (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)
"Neuromodulation in the Visceral Insular Cortex Gates Fear Extinction Balance"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
12:00 pm - 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
Interpreting Neural Manipulations
Discussion Leader: Kanaka Rajan (Kempner Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Mehrdad Jazayeri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"A Calculus for Detecting Neural Perturbations without a Homunculus"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Bing Brunton (University of Washington, United States)
"Quantity Has a Quality All its Own: On Developing Quantitative Predictive Models of Perturbations with Feedback"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Claudia Clopath (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Interpreting Neural Manipulations"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:40 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
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Neural Circuits for Complex Behavior
Discussion Leader: Moriel Zelikowsky (University of Utah, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Robert Froemke (New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States)
"Love, Death, and Oxytocin: The Challenges of Mouse Maternity"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Valery Grinevich (Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Germany)
"Distinctiveness of Neuroendocrine Cells Revealed by Optogenetics: Oxytocin Neuron as an Example"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Camilla Bellone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Dissecting the Role of Ventral Striatum in Social Threat Avoidance"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Hugo Tejeda (National Institute of Mental Health, United States)
"Prefrontal Cortical Neuropeptidergic Control of Threat Processing"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Tatiana Korotkova (University of Cologne, Germany)
"State-Dependent Regulation of Nutritional and Social Needs by Inputs from Prefrontal Cortex to the Lateral Hypothalamus"
11:50 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
Precision Optogenetics
Discussion Leader: Ian Oldenburg (Rutgers University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Rosa Cossart (INMED, INSERM u1249, France)
"Shedding Light on the Functional Wiring of the Hippocampus"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Mark Histed (National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, United States)
"Recurrent Networks of the Cerebral Cortex: Patterned Inputs, Computations, and Sequences"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Dmitry Rinberg (Neuroscience Institute, New York University , United States)
"Probing Perception with Optogenetics"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:40 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; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Circuit Dynamics Transforming Moments to Engrams
Discussion Leader: Yaniv Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Gisella Vetere (ESPCI, Paris, France)
"Memory Engram Dissection Reveals Distinct Ensembles Recruited at Encoding"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Laura DeNardo (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"Temporal Evolution of Cortical Ensembles Promoting Remote Memory Retrieval"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Inbal Goshen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Engram Stability and Maturation During Systems Consolidation Underlies Remote Memory"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Kazumasa Tanaka (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan)
"Heterogeneous Representations in the Hippocampus"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Anna Gillespie (University of Washington, United States)
"Hippocampal Replay of Experience"
11:50 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
Keynote Session: Clinical Applications of Optogenetics
Discussion Leader: Christian Lüscher (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
Botond Roska (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, Basel, Switzerland)
"Restoring Vision"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Karine Fenelon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States)
"Deciphering Brainstem Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Prepulse Inhibition of Startle Relevant to Schizophrenia"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Aryn Gittis (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
"Circuit-Inspired Strategies to Improve Treatments for Parkinson’s Disease"
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