13th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research & INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat

Saturday, May 12, 2018
9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Continental Breakfast at 8:30am

University of California, San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center, Auditorium, Room EB211
10100 John Jay Hopkins Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

13th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research

Chair: Ralph Greenspan

9:00 a.m.	Ralph Greenspan, Associate Director, KIBM Introduction
9:15 a.m.	Duygu Kuzum, UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Neuro-Clear: Transparent Graphene Arrays for Multimodal Probing of Brain Circuits
9:30 a.m.	Chen-Min Yeh, Salk Identifying causality beyond correlation between neurons from the whole brain of larval zebrafish under hypoxic stress
9:45 a.m.	Richard Gao, UCSD Cognitive Science Spontaneous oscillatory network dynamics in developing human cortical organoids
10:00 a.m.	Tom Franken, Salk Thinking vision: Corticocortical Feedback in Figure-Ground Segregation
10:15 a.m.	Jen-Yung Chen, UCSD Neurobiology The organization principle of the peripheral olfactory system in Drosophila
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Sophie Aimon, Salk/ UCSD KIBM Studying the roots of agency in the Drosophila brain
11:00 a.m.	Anna Mai, UCSD Linguistics Using machine learning to discover acoustic cues for emotion in vocalizations
11:15 a.m.	Phil Kyriakakis, UCSD Bioengineering/Center for Neural Repair An optogenetic tool for polysynaptic connectomics
11:30 a.m.	Shyam Srinivasan, UCSD KIBM Robustness Strategies of the Olfactory Circuit
11:45 a.m.	Matthew Banghart, UCSD Neurobiology A novel platform for fluorescent sensors of neuropeptide signaling
12:00 p.m.	Lunch

Chair: Terrence Sejnowski, Co-Director of INC

1:30 p.m.	Bruce McNaughton, Keynote Speaker, Professor, UC Irvine Neurobiology - Hippocampal index theory revisited
2:30 p.m.	Stefan Leutgeb, Professor, UCSD Neurobiology - Dependence of memory on precisely timed oscillations
3:30 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks Chair: Eric Halgren, Professor of Radiology Robert Kim, UCSD Neurosciences, Predoctoral Fellow Dynamic subtypes of schizophrenia Ethan McBride, UCSD Neurosciences, Predoctoral Fellow Local and global influences of spatial selection and locomotion on mouse V1 Aaron Sampson, UCSD Neurosciences, Predoctoral Fellow Cross-Dynamical Delay Differential Analysis Reveals Information Flow During Hippocampal Ripples Tammy Tran, UCSD Neurosciences, Predoctoral Fellow Selective attention reduces the trial-by-trial variability of human EEG activity Kari Hanson, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation, Postdoctoral Fellow From genes to brains: correlating variation in structural anatomy with postmortem histology in Williams syndrome. Lyle Muller, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation / Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Traveling waves in cortex: spatiotemporal dynamics shape perceptual and cognitive processes Josh Nichols, UCSD Neurosciences / Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow Cortical microcircuit connectivity of inhibitory subtypes
4:45 p.m.	Terrence Sejnowski, Co-Director of INC Closing remarks

Sponsored by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind and the Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California, San Diego