2016 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat And 11th Annual KIBM Symposium On Innovative Research

When:

  • Saturday, May 7, 2016
    8:45am to 4:30pm
    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

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MARK MAYFORD, PSYCHIATRY, UC SAN DIEGO

Agenda

8:30am

Welcome Continental Breakfast

8:45am

Nick Spitzer - Overview of KIBM and CBAM

9:00am

Antonio Pinto-Duarte, The Salk Institute
Reading the Stars: Investigating Remote Memory in Mice with Impaired Astrocytic Calcium Signaling

9:15am

Chun Chieh Fan, Cognitive Science
Polygenic Adaptation of Schizophrenia

9:30am

Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science -
How Much Do You Read Into It? Effects of Literacy on Language Comprehension Across the Adult Lifespan

9:45am

Margot Wohl, USCD Neuroscience Graduate Program
Engineering Novel Molecular Tools to Manipulate Neuropeptide Signaling

10:00am

Jinxing Li, NanoEngineering
Advancing Nanorobots for Neuron Targeting and Stimulation

10:15am

AM Break

10:30am

Mark Mayford, Professor, Psychiatry, Keynote Speaker
In Search of the Engram in the Era of Molecular Genetics

11:30am

Jacob Olson, Cognitive Science
Axis and Analogy in the Subiculum

11:45am

Angela Tsang, Division of Biological Sciences
3D Reconstruction of a Genetically Labeled Neuron Using Serial Block-Face EM

12:00pm


Marcelo Aguilar-Rivera, Bioengineering and Cognitive Science
Illuminating the Bridge Between Body and Mind: Optical Sensing and Modulation of Interoceptive Information from the Vagus Nerve

12:15pm

Samuel Nummela, Psychology
Reconciling Mnemonic and Spatial Functions of the Hippocampus in Marmoset

12:30pm

Daniel Gibbs, Neurosciences
Sonogenetics - A Novel, Non-invasive Approach to Manipulating Neural Activity

12:45 – 2:00pm

Lunch Break


INC Annual Spring Retreat on Cognitive Neuroscience
Symposium: Prospects for Breakthroughs on Mental Health

2:00pm


Robert Malinow, UCSD Division of Biological Sciences
Compartmentalized Disappointment? Unusual Transmission Onto a Nucleus in the Reward Circuit

2:30pm


Jonathan Sebat, UCSD Department of Psychiatry
DNA technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of autism

3:00pm

Break

3:15pm


Neal Swerdlow, UCSD Department of Psychiatry
Neuropsychiatric disorders of impaired sensorimotor gating: Translational models and evolving therapeutics

3:45pm

Greg Light, UCSD Department of Psychiatry
Accelerating the pace of CNS therapeutic development: Fortifying our translational bridges

4:15pm Terry Sejnowski, Neurobiology and CNL/Salk Institute -
State of the Brain


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.