San Diego Cognitive Neuroscience Community


2006 Annual Spring Retreat for Cognitive Neuroscience in San Diego

"MOLECULES TO MIND"

 

Saturday, June 3, 2006
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Trustees Room, East Building
The Salk Institute

Registration Deadline: May 26, 2006
Preliminary Schedule:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Recent Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience in San Diego
Participants are invited to give a talk -
Give title when you register

11:00 AM Keynote Address:
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science, UCSD
"The UCSD Science of Learning Center"

12 Noon Mediterranean Lunch and Posters
(Lunch is free to registered participants)
http://inc2.ucsd.edu/springretreat2006/index.html

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Kavli Symposium
"From Brains to Minds: Innovative Research
Supported by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind"

1:30 PM Scott Makeig, Howard Poizner, Terrence Sejnowski
Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD
"Dynamics of Reaching Behavior"

1:45 PM Ji-Eun Kim, Anirvan Ghosh, Massimo Scanziani
Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
"A Genetic Mechanism for Silencing Neurons in Mice to
Explore the Role of GABAergic Systems on Development and Function"

2:00 PM Brad Aimone, Fredy Gage, J. Wiles
The Salk Institute/UCSD
"Adult Neurogenesis and the Coding of Time in Memories"

2:30 PM Rita Ceponiene
Cognitive and Neural Development, Center for Research and Language, UCSD
"Development as Indexed by Brain's Responses to Action and Non-Action Sounds"

2:45 PM Break

3:00 PM Dennis Garlick and Terrence Sejnowski
The Salk Institute/UCLA
"Bridging the Gap Between Brain Research and Human Intelligence"

3:15 PM John Lewis, Rebecca J. Theilmann, Jeanne Townsend, Marissa Westerfield, and Scott Makieg
Cognitive Science and Institue for Neural Computation, UCSD
"Relating Functional and Physical Long-Distance Connectivity in Development"
3:30 PM C.C. King and Theodore Friedmann,
Pediatircs, UCSD
"Molecular Genetic Characterization of the Lesch Nyhan Disease - A Cognitive and Behavioral Disorder?"

3:45 PM V.S. Ramachandran
Psychology, UCSD
"Uniqueness of the Human Brain"
4:00 PM Closing remarks:
Terry Sejnowski, UCSD and Salk

If you plan to attend, please register
no later than May 26, 2006 in order to reserve a lunch.
http://inc2.ucsd.edu/springretreat2006/index.html


This retreat is sponsored by the NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program of
the Institute for Neural Computation
and co-sponsored by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD.


comments to: lpalacio@crl.ucsd.edu