INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat in conjunction with the 15th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research

You are invited to join us for an upcoming event:

Cognitive Neuroscience Retreat [virtual via Zoom] In conjunction with the KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
Saturday, June 27, 2020 - 9:40 am – 4:15 pm - Please register here: https://kibminc2020.eventbrite.com
Keynote Speaker: Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the NIMH

0:00 NIMH Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium, Eric Halgren

2:00 Maria Margarita Behrens, Salk Institute, Neuronal epigenomics of perinatal brain development

1:00:49 Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology, UCSD, Dissecting molecular and circuit mechanisms underlying cocaine seeking after the withdrawal

2:05:20 Joshua Gordon, Director, NIMH, Challenges and opportunities in psychiatric neuroscience

3:28:26 Closing, Terry Sejnowski

Schedule
9:40am              15th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
                            Chair – Nick Spitzer

9:45am              Gerald Pao, Salk Institute
                            Downloading brain activity into low dimensional manifolds

10:00am            Amy Pribadi, UCSD Biological Sciences/Salk Institute
                           CaMPARI in C. elegans: monitoring temporal information flow

10:15am            Robert Loughnan, Cognitive Science, UCSD
                            Biologically Constrained Deep Learning Method to Predict Complex Human Traits from Genetic Data

10:30am            Dhruv Grover, KIBM, UCSD
                            Imaging brain activity during complex social behaviors in Drosophila

10:45am            Nick Gravish, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UCSD
                            Three-dimensional tracking of flying insects at high spatiotemporal resolution

11:00am            Ryan Place, Cognitive Science, UCSD
                            Subiculum neurons register multiple orientations to support spatial concepts during path-network navigation

11:15am            Charles Dickey, Neurosciences, UCSD
                            Cognitive control of word retrieval in speech production through cortical layers

11:30am            Burke Rosen, Neurosciences, UCSD
                            Expansion of higher-order cortical areas in humans versus chimpanzees reflects human transcriptional topography

12:00pm            Break

12:25pm           NIMH Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium
                           Chair – Eric Halgren

12:30pm           Maria Margarita Behrens, Salk Institute
                           Neuronal epigenomics of perinatal brain development

1:30pm              Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology, UCSD
                            Dissecting molecular and circuit mechanisms underlying cocaine seeking after the withdrawal

2:30pm             Joshua Gordon, Director, NIMH; Keynote Speaker
                           Title:  Challenges and opportunities in psychiatric neuroscience

3:30pm             Blitz Talks by predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows, UCSD   
                       
                          Kirsten Adam, Psychology
                          Goal- and history-driven modulations of population codes in early visual cortex 

                          Gina D’Andrea-Penna, Neurosciences
                          Neural and behavioral correlates of temporal processing across development and aging              

                          Charles Dickey, Neurosciences
                          Microphysiology of human memory consolidation

                          Anna Mai, Linguistics
                          Decoding the neural representation of language-specific phonological contrast
           
                          Kelsey Sundby, Psychology
                          Double blind disruption of right inferior frontal cortex with TMS erodes right frontal beta power for action-stopping

                          Helen Wang, Neurosciences
                          Contribution of genetically defined parallel inputs to speed tuning in mouse higher visual cortex

4:00pm             Terrence Sejnowski, closing remarks

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 UC San Diego.