INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat
INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat In conjunction with the KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
Saturday, May 12, 2018 -
8:45am - 5:15pm, Auditorium, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego.
Agenda:
KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
9:00am Ralph Greenspan, Associate Director, KIBM - Introduction
9:15am Duygu Kuzum, UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering - Neuro-Clear:
Transparent Graphene Arrays for Multimodal Probing of Brain Circuits
9:30am Chen-Min Yeh, Salk - Identifying causality beyond correlation between neurons from
the whole brain of larval zebrafish under hypoxic stress
9:45am Richard Gao, UCSD Cognitive Science - Spontaneous oscillatory network dynamics
in developing human cortical organoids
10:00am Tom Franken, Salk - Thinking vision: Corticocortical Feedback in Figure-Ground Segregation
10:15am Jen-Yung Chen, UCSD Neurobiology - The organization principle of the peripheral
olfactory system in Drosophila
10:30am Break
10:45am Sophie Aimon, Salk/ UCSD KIBM - Studying the roots of agency in the Drosophila brain
11:00am Anna Mai, UCSD Linguistics - Using machine learning to discover acoustic cues for
emotion in vocalizations
11:15am Phil Kyriakakis, UCSD Bioengineering/Center for Neural Repair - An optogenetic tool for
polysynaptic connectomics
11:30am Shyam Srinivasan, UCSD KIBM - Robustness Strategies of the Olfactory Circuit
11:45am Matthew Banghart, UCSD Neurobiology - A novel platform for fluorescent sensors of
neuropeptide signaling
12:00pm Lunch
INC Spring Retreat on Cognitive Neuroscience
1:30pm Bruce McNaughton, Keynote Speaker, Professor, UC Irvine Neurobiology -
Hippocampal index theory revisited
2:30pm Stefan Leutgeb, Professor, UCSD Neurobiology -
Dependence of memory on precisely timed oscillations
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks:
Chair: Eric Halgren, Professor, UCSD Radiology
Robert Kim, UCSD Neurosciences, Predoctoral Fellow - Dynamic subtypes of schozophrenia
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 in Macaque Motor Cortex
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
4:45pm Terrence Sejnowski, Co-Director, INC - 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 UCSD.
Previous Spring Retreats (link coming soon)