2017 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat And 12th Annual KIBM Symposium On Innovative Research

When:

Saturday, May 13, 2017
8:45AM – 5:15PM
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Where:

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

Keynote Speaker: John Allman, Allen Institute for Brain Science: Dendritic Spines in Alzheimer’s disease

Agenda

Twelfth Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research Chair: Nick Spitzer
8:45am	Nick Spitzer, UCSD Overview of KIBM and CBAM
9:00 am	Chuck Stevens, The Salk Institute, UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind How fly olfactory receptor neurons respond to odor mixtures
9:15 am	Ezequiel Matias Arneodo, UCSD Biocircuits Institute Decoding sensory-motor neural signals for vocal communication
9:30 am	Daniela Boassa, UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Structural neuroplasticity of identified microcircuits investigated by novel EM probe technology
9:45 am	Dhruv Grover, UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Towards brain activity imaging with single cell resolution in freely behaving fruit flies
10:00 am	Eric Leonardis, UCSD Cognitive Science Rat-Robot Brain-Computer interfaces for dynamic interactions
10:15 am	AM Break
10:30 am	Tatyana Sharpee, The Salk Institute Neural mechanisms of visual object recognition
10:45 am	Sage Aronson, UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program A Neural Circuit Controlling the Motivation to Move
11:00 am	Douglas Nitz, UCSD Cognitive Science The role of oscillations in basal forebrain control of cortical responsiveness
11:15 am	Saket Navlakha, The Salk Institute Exploring the role of network pruning during cellular differentiation
11:30 am	Matthew Shtrahman, UCSD Neurosciences Using In Vivo Two-Photon Calcium Imaging to Study Temporal Pattern Separation
11:45 am	Pai-Kai Huang, UCSD Cognitive Science Assessing the role of behavioral pattern separation in alcoholism
12:00 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 pm	Keynote Speaker: John Allman, Allen Institute for Brain Science Dendritic Spines in Alzheimer’s disease
2:30 pm	Break
Institute for Neural Computation Annual Spring Retreat on Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium on Neural Circuit Dynamics Chair: Terrence Sejnowski
2:45pm	Takaki Komiyama, UCSD Biological Sciences Imaging neural ensembles during learning
3:15pm	Eric Halgren, UCSD Radiology Making a world while we sleep
3:45pm	Maxim Bazhenov, UCSD Medicine
4:15pm	Break
Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks Chair: Eric Halgren
4:30 pm	Chris Keow, UCSD Cognitive Science, Predoctoral Fellow Single Cell DNA Methylomes Reveal Distinct Neuronal Populations in Mouse and Human Cortex
4:35 pm	Mike Avery, UCSD Neuroscience/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Understanding the role of inhibition in attention and perception in the primate
4:40 pm	Lyle Muller, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Spatiotemporal structure in cortical activity: from sleep oscillations to waking perception
4:45 pm	Chris Gonzalez, UCSD Neuroscience, Predoctoral Fellow Characterizing theta oscillations in NREM human sleep
4:50 pm	Joshua Nichols, UCSD Neuroscience/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Cortical Circuit Computation Facilitated by Interneuron Subtype Connectivity
4:55 pm	Marvin Thielk, UCSD Psychology, Predoctoral Fellow Shared perceptual spaces for high-dimensional natural acoustic signals
4:50 pm	Joshua Nichols, UCSD Neuroscience/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Cortical Circuit Computation Facilitated by Interneuron Subtype Connectivity
5:00 pm	Kari Hanson, UCSD Anthropology, Predoctoral Fellow Neural substrates of hypersocial behavior in Williams syndrome

	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.