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Saturday
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| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm |
The Functional Organization of Thalamocortical Interactions in Primates
Discussion Leader: Stacey Seidl (University of California, Davis, USA)
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| 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
Vinod Kumar (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
"Functional Anatomy of the Human Thalamus"
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| 3:30 pm - 3:35 pm |
Discussion
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| 3:35 pm - 3:50 pm |
Aidan Murphy (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA)
"The Primate Thalamus in High-Level Vision: A Comparison of Visually Selective Single-Units in the Primate Inferotemporal Cortex and Pulvinar Nuclei"
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| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm |
Discussion
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| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Poster Session
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| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm |
Sensorimotor Thalamocortical Interactions
Discussion Leader: Mike Hasse (University of Rochester School of Medicine, USA)
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| 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm |
Santiago Rompani (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"Modulation of Visual Information in the Thalamus by a Novel Axo-Axonal Synapse"
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| 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm |
Discussion
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| 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm |
Sebastian Vasquez-Lopez (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Functional Micro-Architecture of the Auditory Thalamocortical Projection and Its Contribution to Spectral Integration in Cortex"
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| 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm |
Bianca Sieveritz (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
"Motor Thalamic Afferents to Prelimbic Cortex: A Role in Decision-Making?"
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| 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm |
Discussion
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| 7:00 pm - 7:20 pm |
David Collins (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
"Parallel Circuits Linking the Prefrontal Cortex with Dorsal and Ventral Thalamus"
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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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Sunday
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| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Development, Plasticity, and Disease
Discussion Leader: Ayan Ghoshal (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA)
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| 9:00 am - 9:20 am |
Peter Campbell (University of Louisville, USA)
"Formation and Maturation of Intrathalmic Connections Between TRN and dLGN"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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| 9:30 am - 9:50 am |
Stephanie Holden (University of California, San Francisco / Gladstone Institutes, USA)
"Thalamocortical Function After Traumatic Cortical Injury"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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| 10:00 am - 10:20 am |
Jaclyn Durkin (University of Michigan, USA)
"State-Dependent Thalamocortical Activity Is Crucial for Visual System Plasticity"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am |
Discussion
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| 10:30 am - 10:50 am |
Alon Tenzer (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Evidence for Involvement of Vibrissal Sensory Thalamus in the Control of Head Motion"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Mentorship Component: Academic Transitions
Early Career Scientists will provide their experiences and advice on academic transitions from graduate student to post docs to faculty members.
Discussion Leader: Naomi Charalambakis (University of Louisville School of Medicine, USA)
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| 1:30 pm - 1:35 pm |
Opening Remarks
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| 1:35 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Academic Transitions
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Farran Briggs (University of Rochester, USA)
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Matthew Colonnese (George Washington University, USA)
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Santiago Rompani (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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| 3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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