18th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research

Event Dates (Pacific Time): 
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 1:00pm to 6:00pm
Event Chairs:

Yishi Jin, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Edward Callaway, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

KIBM will hold its annual symposium on Friday, May 12, 2023 featuring talks from this year's Innovative Research Grant recipients, keynote speaker Julio Martinez-Trujillo, and the first cohort of the Postdoctoral Scholars Program. 

Registration: https://kibmsymposium23.eventbrite.com

Event Sessions

Time (Pacific) Speakers Session Title
1:00pm

Yishi Jin
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Edward Callaway
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Opening Remarks by KIBM Co-Directors Yishi Jin and Ed Callaway
1:15pm

Christina Gremel
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Freely-moving action control in the marmoset
1:30pm

Ryan Place
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Mapping sights and spaces: Investigating neural responses that coordinate top-down and first-person views
1:45pm

Runqi Zhang
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
How the size and shape of sensory dendrites influence olfactory function
2:00pm

Diana Smith
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Personalized “Avatars” for the brain: Genetically informed phenotype prediction
2:15pm

Dimitri Deheyn
Scripps Research Institute; University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Centralized versus peripheral processing of environmental information: learning from invertebrate cephalopods
2:30pm

Ji-An Li
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Automatic Discovery of Cognitive Strategies with Tiny Recurrent Neural Networks
2:45pm

Ana Chkhaidze
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
What are thoughts made of? Dusting for neural fingerprints of internal representations using phenomenology, behavior, and brain imaging
3:00pm Intermission
3:15pm

Julio Martinez-Trujillo
Western University
Keynote Presentation: Reverse engineering working memory circuits in the primate brain
4:00pm

Donovan Ventimiglia
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Dissecting the neural circuits regulating social conflict in Drosophila melanogaster
4:15pm

Christopher Lee
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Membrane mechanics of pearled axon morphologies
4:30pm

Lisanne Schulze
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
A new virtual reality system for studying brain-wide neural activity during sensorimotor behaviors in fish
4:45pm

Jeffrey Jones
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Isogenic patient derived neurons and tissue reveal metabolic and genomic alterations in age and Alzheimer’s disease
5:00pm Reception