2015 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat And 10th Annual KIBM Symposium On Innovative Research

When:

Saturday, May 9, 2015
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Continental Breakfast at 8:30am

Where:

University of California, San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center (Auditorium- Room B211)
10100 John Jay Hopkins Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0523

Registration is closed.

https://kavlisymposiumincretreat.eventbrite.com

Deadline (04/30/2015)

Guidelines for the INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks (5-minute presentations):

Your presentation will be required to be submitted as a pdf file with a maximum of 3 pages/slides (excluding the title/opening slide).
Please submit your presentation in PDF file format to:
Luis Palacios (lpalacio@ucsd.edu) no later than Wednesday, May 6th.

Guidelines for the Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research.

Presenters are expected to bring their presentations pre-loaded on their personal laptops.

Full agenda and more details can also be found here: https://kavlisymposiumincretreat.eventbrite.com

Agenda

8:30 am	Welcome Continental Breakfast

9:00 am	Nick Spitzer, Ralph Greenspan Overview of KIBM and CBAM
9:15 am	Ben D. Amsel, Cognitive Science Grapheme-color Synesthesia: A Window into The Interface Between Perception and Knowledge
9:30 am	Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science and Program in Neuroscience Do You Feel What I Feel: Building a Toolbox for Studying Sociality and Interoception
9:45 am	Shyam Srinivasan, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Principles of Scaling of Olfactory Systems
10:00 am	Takeo Katsuki, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Probing the Mind of Mating Flies: The Neuronal Mechanisms of Behavioral Exclusivity During Drosophila Sexual Behavior
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Keynote Speaker Larry Swanson, Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section University of Southern California Talk Title: Old and New Ideas About the Cerebral Cortex
11:30 am	Christopher Keown, Cognitive Science Gender-specific Regulation of DNA Methylation in Mouse Frontal Cortex
11:45 am	Mieko Ueno, Cognitive Science The Basal Ganglia and Language: Investigations into Syntactic Processing in Parkinson's Patients
12:00 pm	Todd Coleman, Bioengineering Light Controlled Gene Expression
12:15 pm	Andrew Alexander, Cognitive Science Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of a Novel Rodent Spatial Insight Paradigm
12:30 pm	Yimin Zou, Neurobiology Novel Signaling Mechanisms Regulating Glutamatergic Synapse Formation

12:45 - 2:00	Lunch Break

Symposium: Connectomics Chair: Eric Halgren
2:00 pm	Larry Frank Deciphering DTI Data
2:30 pm	Harvey Karten Evolutionary connectomics: Conservation of Microcircuitry and Natural Selection
3:00 pm	Terrence Sejnowski What is the precision of synaptic strengths
3:30 pm	PM Break

INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks (5-minute presentations) Chair: Terry Sejnowski

3:45 pm	Amanda Casale State-dependent Synchronization of Specific Cell Types to Cortical Oscillatory Activity
3:50 pm	Neil Cohn Electrophysiology of Prediction in Visual Event Comprehension
3:55 pm	Zhisen Urgolites Neural Correlates of True and False Memories
4:00 pm	Monika Jadi How SOM+ and PV+ Inhibitory Neurons Could Differentually Modulate Surround Suppression of Cortical Neurons.
4:05 pm	Branka Hrvoj-Mihic Pyramidal Neurons in Social Brain Areas in Williams Syndrome
4:10 pm	Krista Perks Mechanisms of Diverse, State-dependent Input Operations in Single Underlying Object-Recognition
4:15 pm	Thomas Sprague Reconstructions of Information in Visual Spatial Working Memory Degrade with Memory Load
4:20 pm	Closing Remarks: Terrence Sejnowski

This retreat is sponsored by the NIMH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program for the Institute for Neural Computation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, at UCSD.