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

When:

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.