Event Sessions
Introduction
Nick Spitzer, Co-Director of KIBM
How fly olfactory receptor neurons respond to odor mixtures
Chuck Stevens, The Salk Institute, UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
Decoding sensory-motor neural signals for vocal communication
Ezequiel Matias Arneodo, UCSD Biocircuits Institute
Structural neuroplasticity of identified microcircuits investigated by novel EM probe technology
Daniela Boassa, UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
Towards brain activity imaging with single cell resolution in freely behaving fruit flies
Dhruv Grover, UCSD Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
Rat-Robot Brain-Computer interfaces for dynamic interactions
Eric Leonardis, UCSD Cognitive Science
Intermission
Neural mechanisms of visual object recognition
Tatyana Sharpee, The Salk Institute
A Neural Circuit Controlling the Motivation to Move
Sage Aronson, UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program
The role of oscillations in basal forebrain control of cortical responsiveness
Douglas Nitz, UCSD Cognitive Science
Exploring the role of network pruning during cellular differentiation
Saket Navlakha, The Salk Institute
Using In Vivo Two-Photon Calcium Imaging to Study Temporal Pattern Separation
Matthew Shtrahman, UCSD Neurosciences
Assessing the role of behavioral pattern separation in alcoholism
Pai-Kai Huang, UCSD Cognitive Science
Lunch
Dendritic Spines in Alzheimer’s disease
Keynote Speaker: John Allman, Caltech
Institute for Neural Computation Annual Spring Retreat on Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium on Neural Circuit Dynamics
Terrence Sejnowski, Co-Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program
Imaging neural ensembles during learning
Takaki Komiyama, UCSD Biological Sciences
Making a world while we sleep
Eric Halgren, UCSD Radiology
Is sleep architecture optimal for memory consolidation?
Maxim Bazhenov, UCSD Medicine
Intermission
Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks
Eric Halgren, Radiology and Neuroscience, UCSD
Single Cell DNA Methylomes Reveal Distinct Neuronal Populations in Mouse and Human Cortex
Chris Keown, UCSD Cognitive Science, Predoctoral Fellow
Understanding the role of inhibition in attention and perception in the primate
Mike Avery, UCSD Neuroscience/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow
Spatiotemporal structure in cortical activity: from sleep oscillations to waking perception
Lyle Muller, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow
Characterizing theta oscillations in NREM human sleep
Chris Gonzalez, UCSD Neuroscience, Predoctoral Fellow
Cortical Circuit Computation Facilitated by Interneuron Subtype Connectivity
Joshua Nichols, UCSD Neuroscience/Salk Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow
Shared perceptual spaces for high-dimensional natural acoustic signals
Marvin Thielk, UCSD Psychology, Predoctoral Fellow
Neural substrates of hypersocial behavior in Williams syndrome
Kari Hanson, UCSD Anthropology, Predoctoral Fellow
Closing Remarks
Terrence Sejnowski, Co-Director of INC, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program