11th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
Eleventh Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research, with the 2016 INC Cognitive Neuroscience Retreat
Keynote Speaker: Mark Mayford, Psychiatry, UC San Diego
Saturday, May 7, 2016
8:45am - 4:30pm
Continental Breakfast at 8:30am
University of California, San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center, Auditorium, Room B211
10100 John Jay Hopkins Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
8:45am Nick Spitzer - Overview of KIBM and CBAM
9:00am Antonio Pinto-Duarte, The Salk Institute - Reading the Stars: Investigating Remote Memory in Mice with Impaired Astrocytic Calcium Signaling
9:15am Chun Chieh Fan, Cognitive Science - Polygenic Adaptation of Schizophrenia
9:30am Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science - How Much Do You Read Into It? Effects of Literacy on Language Comprehension Across the Adult Lifespan
9:45am Margot Wohl, USCD Neuroscience Graduate Program - Engineering Novel Molecular Tools to Manipulate Neuropeptide Signaling
10:00am Jinxing Li, NanoEngineering - Advancing Nanorobots for Neuron Targeting and Stimulation
10:15am AM Break
10:30am Mark Mayford, Professor, Psychiatry, Keynote Speaker - In Search of the Engram in the Era of Molecular Genetics
11:30am Jacob Olson, Cognitive Science - Axis and Analogy in the Subiculum
11:45am Angela Tsang, Division of Biological Sciences - 3D Reconstruction of a Genetically Labeled Neuron Using Serial Block-Face EM
12:00pm Marcelo Aguilar-Rivera, Bioengineering and Cognitive Science - Illuminating the Bridge Between Body and Mind: Optical Sensing and Modulation of Interoceptive Information from the Vagus Nerve
12:15pm Samuel Nummela, Psychology - Reconciling Mnemonic and Spatial Functions of the Hippocampus in Marmoset
12:30pm Daniel Gibbs, Neurosciences - Sonogenetics - A Novel, Non-invasive Approach to Manipulating Neural Activity
12:45 – 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00 - 4:00pm INC Annual Spring Retreat on Cognitive Neuroscience - Symposium: Prospects for Breakthroughs on Mental Health
