Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
The Thalamus in Sleep
Discussion Leader: Drew Willoughby (UCSF/Gladstone, United States)
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
3:50 pm - 4:05 pm
Zoe Atherton (Florida State University, United States)
"Intra-Thalamic Neuronal Dynamics During Memory Processing in Slow Wave Sleep"
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Gergely Komlosi (Institute of Experimental Medicine, HUN-REN, Hungary)
"Brain State-Dependent Activity Patterns of Dorsal Medial Thalamic Neurons"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Thalamic Contribution to Injury and Disease and the Role of Thalamus in Multimodal Cognition
Discussion Leaders: Rui Liu (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, United States) and Xinxin Yin (Allen Institute, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Rodrigo Paz (University of California, San Francisco , United States)
"Gait Encoding in Ventromedial Thalamus of Parkinsonian Mice"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Jayashri Viswanathan (Stanford University, United States)
"Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Absence Seizures: cAMP Physiology in Thalamic Relay Neurons"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Anna Kimata (Brown University, United States)
"Circuit-Based Treatment of Epilepsy: Lessons from Thalamocortical Interactions of the Pulvinar Nucleus"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Felix Moll (Universtity of Tuebingen, Germany)
"Thalamus Drives Vocal Onsets in a Songbird’s Courtship Song and its Potential Role for Non-Vocal Skilled Songbird Behavior"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Eleonora Lomi (University College London , United Kingdom)
"Spatial and Theta Processing in the Anteroventral Thalamus: Retrosplenial Cortex Circuit"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Ryan Thorpe (Brown University, United States)
"Layer-Specific Inhibitory Competition Mediates Deviance Detection in the Neocortical Column"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Thalamic Circuits in Sensory Processing
Discussion Leader: Chuyi Su (Columbia University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Matthew Adusei (University of Rochester , United States)
"Beyond a Relay Nucleus: The LGN as a Hub for Visual Information"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Joao Moreira (Suny Downstate Health Sciences University , United States)
"Investigating The Role of a Direct Feedback Loop Between Thalamocortical and L6A Corticothalamic Neurons Using a Computational Model of the Mouse Whisker Thalamocortical Pathway"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Chanmi Park (Yonsei University, South Korea)
"Alterations in Neuronal Feature Selectivity Induced by Sensory Input in the Somatosensory Thalamus"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Anh-Tuan Trinh (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (NTNU), Norway)
"Thalamocortical-Like Circuits Transform and Integrate Sensory Information in the Zebrafish Forebrain"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Lex Gomez (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Multisensory Processing in Primate Vestibular Cortex"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Fiona Muellner (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Switzerland)
"A Tale of Thalamic Interneurons and What They See"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Thinking Outside the Box: Stories of Diverse Career Paths
Discussion Leader: Frances Cho (Stanford University, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Stories of Diverse Career Paths
Emilie Marcus (University of California, Los Angeles , United States)
Brielle Ferguson (Boston Children's Hospital, United States)
Carolyn Dundes (Genentech, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes