PROGRAM

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June 27, 2018 (UW Kane Hall)

6:00 pm Welcome reception (Walker Ames Room)

7:00 pm Public Lecture (Kane 130): The Neuroscience of Decision Making: How we make decisions and how those decisions go wrong, David Redish (U. Minnesota)

 

June 28, 2018 (UW Tower, 4th floor)

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

8:25 am Welcome (Sheri Mizumori, UW)

 

Innovations in Neurotechnology (Session Chair: Rad Roberts, UW)

• 8:30 am Keynote: Closed-loop brain-to-brain interfaces, Andrea Stocco (UW)

• 8:55 am Wireless data and power systems for neurotechnology applications, Josh Smith (UW)

• 9:10 am Wireless platform for least invasive neuromodulation of visceral targets, Alex Yeh (Neuspera)

• 9:25 am Building Voyageur for the Nervous system, Heather Orser (Medtronic)

• 9:40 am Toward closed loop DBS for essential tremor, Andrew Ko (UW)

• 9:55 am Open Discussion

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10:10 am Break

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Neural plasticity: From synapse to system (Session Chair: Tim Murphy, UBC)

• 10:30 am Sparse recurrent excitatory connectivity in the cortical microcircuit of the adult mouse and human, Tim Jarsky (AIBS)

• 10:45 am Neural plasticity induced in vivo with activity-dependent stimulation: past and future, Eb Fetz (UW)

• 11:00 am Neuromodulation of The Spinal Cord - Restoring Function After Paralysis, Nick Terrafranca (Neurorecovery Tech)

• 11:15 am Microglia polarization: myth and reality, Fabio Rossi (UBC)

• 11:30 am Open Discussion 

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11:45 pm Lightning pitches for poster presenters

12:15 pm Lunch (cafeteria) and poster session 1

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Cognitive and Emotional Systems (Session Chair: Sheri Mizumori, UW)

• 1:45 pm Keynote: Anxiety as a disorder of action computation by the prefrontal cortex, Bita Moghaddam (OHSU)

• 2:10 pm Neural landscape of fear, Jeansok Kim (UW)

• 2:25 pm Keynote: Linking memories across time, Denise Cai (Mt. Sinai)

• 2:50 pm Functional connectivity MRI in presymptomatic and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease, Tom Grabowski (UW)

• 3:05 pm Open Discussion

 

3:20 pm Break

 

3:40 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Future Challenges for the Neuroscience of Complex Behaviors (Chair: Sheri Mizumori, UW)

4:10 pm OPEN SCIENCE: Cross-Border Open Data Sharing and Mozak - Citizen Neuroscience in Action, Jane Roskams (UBC)

 

5:30-7:30 pm Reception at the Burke Museum Lobby

 

June 29, 2018 (UW Tower, 4th floor)

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

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Representing experience: Sensory processing and control circuits (Session Chair: Amy Bernard, Allen Institute)

• 8:30 am Keynote: Neural circuits of dexterity, Adam Hantman (Janelia)

• 8:55 am The state space for top-down control of auditory processing, Stephen David (OHSU) 

• 9:10 am Neural activity and behavior in an image change detection task. Marina Garrett (AIBS)

• 9:25 am Olfactory modulation and learning in the disease vector Aedes aegypti, Jeff Riffell (UW) 

• 9:40 am Open Discussion 

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9:55 am Break

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Rhythms & Structures in the Brain (Session Chair: Bill Rooney, OHSU)

• 10:15 am Keynote: Neural mechanisms of optimal state for performance, David McCormick (U Oregon)

• 10:40 am Dynamic basis of rhythm generation in neocortex and brainstem microcircuits, Nino Ramirez (Seattle Children’s Research)

• 10:55 am The Allen mouse brain common coordinate framework, Quanxin Wang (AIBS)

• 11:10 am Open Discussion 

 

11:25 pm Lightning pitches for poster presenters

11:55 pm Lunch (cafeteria) and poster session 2

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Understanding bad decisions (Session Chair: Alex Stevens, OHSU)

• 1:25 pm Keynote: Avoiding regret: consequences of multiple decision systems and the sunk-cost fallacy in mice, rats, and humans, David Redish (U Minnesota)

• 1:50 pm Circuitry involved in delayed reward discounting: Considerations when translating between rodents and humans, Suzanne Mitchell (OHSU)

• 2:05 pm Dynamic changes in dopamine signaling during substance use, Paul Phillips (UW)

• 2:20 pm New addiction therapeutics based on functional selectivity of opioid receptor signaling, Charles Chavkin (UW)

• 2:35 pm Open Discussion 

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2:50 pm Break

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Towards Neural repair: Clinical frontiers (Session Chair: Jeff Ojemann, UW)

• 3:10 pm Using the CHIMERA (Closed Head Impact Model of Engineered Rotational Acceleration) animal model platform to understand how traumatic brain injury affects neuronal circuitry, Cheryl Wellington (UBC)

• 3:25 pm Prosthetic stimulation of the ear: anatomic differences may underlie differential responses to cochlear and vestibular stimulation, Jay Rubinstein (UW)

• 3:40 pm The Dual amino acid and splicing codes: how mutations in cone opsin genes cause vision loss and retinal degeneration, Maureen Neitz (UW)

• 3:55 pm Neurons and circuits in health and disease, Costas Anastassiou (AIBS)

• 4:10 pm Keynote: How Fundamental Molecular Discoveries are Enabling Understanding and Repair of Neural Circuits, Ed Boyden (MIT)

• 4:35 pm Open Discussion 

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4:50 pm  Poster awards and closing comments (Sheri Mizumori, UW)

5:15 pm      Conclusion

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