Event Dates (Pacific Time):
Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 8:45 AM to 5:00 PMVenue Space:
San Diego Supercomputer Center – Auditorium
KIBM held its annual symposium in conjunction with INC spring retreat on Saturday, April 13, 2019 featuring talks from Innovative Research Grant recipients and keynote speaker, John Doyle from CalTech.
Event Chairs:
Nick Spitzer, University of California, San Diego
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute
Event Sessions
Introduction
Nick Spitzer, Co-Director of KIBM
Coding properties of olfactory circuits
Shyam Srinivasan, KIBM & Salk
Multifunctional nanoprobes for optical, electrical and chemical interrogation of brain circuits
Donald Sirbuly, Nanoengineering, UCSD
Decision-Making in a Social Multi-Armed Bandit: Behavior, EEG & Pupillometry
Julia Anna Adrian, Cognitive Science, UCSD
Transcription and RNA Decay Rates Defined in the Developing Olfactory System
Miles Wilkinson, UCSD
Keeping it “in mind”: the critical role of early-developmental de novo methylation on prefrontal-driven behavior
Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Salk
Intermission
Deciphering the role of leptin receptor neural circuits in mediating early life trauma-induced vulnerability to obesity
Sora Shin, Neurobiology section, Division of Biological Science, UCSD
Bridging the brain-mind gap in developmental brain disorders with iPSC-derived mdoel systems
Francesca Puppo, Department of Neurosciences, UCSD
A neural algorithm for novelty detection
Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute
Unrolling time in space: the basal ganglia and behavioral context
David Peterson, CNL, Salk Institute & INC, UCSD
Dissecting the neural control of fine movements: Novel high-density arrays for spinal recording and behavioral quantification
Andrew Bohannon, Azim Lab, Salk & Dayeh Lab, UCSD
Investigating rhythmic contributions to single-neuron activity during associate memory processing
Pamela Rivière, Cognitive Science, UCSD
Energizing the Neuronal Network Oscillations
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
Lunch
Universal laws and architectures in complex networks with applications to sensorimotor control and cognition
John Doyle, CalTech
Feedback Circuits for Dexterous Forelimb Movement
Eiman Azim, Salk Institute
Intermission
Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks
Eric Halgren, Radiology and Neuroscience, UCSD
Complementary visual and motor-based strategies for encoding information in working memory
Maggie Henderson, UCSD Neurosciences. Predoctoral Fellow
Using feedback-related brain activity to improve reliability of brain-computer interfaces
Mahta Mousavi, UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Predoctoral Fellow
EEG source imaging methods for developing mental health therapies based on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces
Alejandro Ojeda, UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Predoctoral Fellow
Genetic influences on human cortical variation
Burke Rosen, UCSD Neurosciences, Predoctoral Fellow
Disentangling top-down enhancement and suppression of visual information
Kirsten Adam, UCSD Psychology, Postdoctoral Fellow
Determination of main olfactory bulb cell types through the integration of transcriptomic and epigenomic data
Wayne Doyle, UCSD Cognitive Science, Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetic and phylogenetic contributions to human brain evolution
Kari Hanson, UCSD INC, Postdoctoral Fellow
Closing Remarks
Terrence Sejnowski