18th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research

Event Dates (Pacific Time):
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Venue Space:

Tata Hall – Fred Kavli Auditorium

KIBM held its annual symposium on Friday, May 12, 2023 featuring talks from Innovative Research Grant recipients, the first cohort of the Postdoctoral Scholars Program, and keynote speaker Julio Martinez-Trujillo from Western University.

Event Chairs:

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

Event Sessions

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Speakers
Media
Session Detials
Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 1:00pm
Speakers

Yishi Jin and Ed Callaway

UCSD and Salk Institute

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Opening Remarks

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 1:15pm
Speakers

Christina Gremel

Psychology, UCSD

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Freely-moving action control in the marmoset

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 1:30pm
Speakers

Ryan Place

Cognitive Science, UCSD

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Mapping sights and spaces: Investigating neural responses that coordinate top-down and first-person views

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 1:45pm
Speakers

Runqi Zhang

Neurobiology, UCSD

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How the size and shape of sensory dendrites influence olfactory function

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 2:00pm
Speakers

Diana Smith

Center for Human Development, UCSD

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Personalized “Avatars” for the brain: Genetically informed phenotype prediction

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 2:15pm
Speakers

Dimitri Deheyn

Marine Biology Research, UCSD

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Centralized versus peripheral processing of environmental information: learning from invertebrate cephalopods

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 2:30pm
Speakers

Ji-An Li

Cognitive Science, UCSD

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Automatic Discovery of Cognitive Strategies with Tiny Recurrent Neural Networks

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 2:45pm
Speakers

Ana Chkhaidze

Cognitive Science, UCSD

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What are thoughts made of? Dusting for neural fingerprints of internal representations using phenomenology, behavior, and brain imaging

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 3:00pm
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Intermission

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 3:15pm
Speakers

Julio Martinez-Trujillo

Western University

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Reverse engineering working memory circuits in the primate brain

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 4:00pm
Speakers

Donovan Ventimiglia

Salk Institute

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Dissecting the neural circuits regulating social conflict in Drosophila melanogaster

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 4:15pm
Speakers

Christopher Lee

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD

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Membrane mechanics of pearled axon morphologies

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 4:30pm
Speakers

Lisanne Schulze

Neurobiology, UCSD

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A new virtual reality system for studying brain-wide neural activity during sensorimotor behaviors in fish

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 4:45pm
Speakers

Jeffrey Jones

Salk Institute

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Isogenic patient derived neurons and tissue reveal metabolic and genomic alterations in age and Alzheimer’s disease

Date / Time: May 12, 2023 - 5:00pm
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Reception