Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Equilibrium in the Brain: Lessons from Balance Disorders
Discussion Leader: Roy Sillitoe (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Opening Remarks
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
"Equilibrium in the Brain: Lessons from Balance Disorders"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Development and Patterning
Discussion Leader: Mary Beth Hatten (The Rockefeller University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Suzana Herculano-Houzel (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"The One and Many Ways to Build and Fold a Cerebellum"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Alexandra Joyner (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"Developmental Scaling of Neurons in the Cerebellum"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Margaret McCarthy (University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA)
"A Hidden Sensitive Period in Cerebellar Development"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Fekrije Selimi (College de France / UMR7241, CNRS, France)
"Molecular Identity of Purkinje Cell Excitatory Synapses"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
Michael Hausser (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Bidirectional Control of Purkinje Cell Output by Molecular Layer Interneurons"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Philippe Isope (CNRS, France)
"Toward a Causal Link Between Synaptic Map Organization and Behavior"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Group Photo / Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address challenges women face in science and issues of diversity and inclusion. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Indira Raman (Northwestern University, USA) and Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Theories of Cerebellar Function
Discussion Leader: Daniel Wolpert (Columbia University, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Natasha Cayco Gajic (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Dimensionality of Parallel Fiber Population Activity in Awake Mice"
6:15 pm - 6:20 pm
Discussion
6:20 pm - 6:40 pm
Michael Mauk (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Cerebellar Adaptations to Cope with Noisy Inputs"
6:40 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Boris Barbour (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
"Cerebellar Learning Using Perturbations"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Mitsuo Kawato (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan)
"Cerebellar Learning from a Small Sample"
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Motor Control in Health and Disease
Discussion Leader: Alanna Watt (McGill University, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Nadia Cerminara (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
"Cerebellar Cortical Microzones: An Action Based Map?"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Timothy Ebner (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Reassessing the Roles of Purkinje Cell Simple Spike and Complex Spike Discharge in Movements and Error Processing"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Dana Cohen (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
"Local and Global Computations in the Cerebellar Nuclei"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Susan Ackerman (University of California, San Diego / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
"mRNA Translation Defects and Neuronal Function"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Heather Snell (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
"Disruption of Purkinje Cell Pacemaking Underlies Attacks in Episodic Ataxia Type 2"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Collin Anderson (University of Utah, USA)
"Deep Cerebellar Stimulation Reduces Ataxic Motor Symptoms in the Shaker Rat"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Sheng-Han Kuo (Columbia University, USA)
"Cerebellar Circuitry of Tremor"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Insights from Cerebellum-Like Structures
Discussion Leader: Brandon Stell (CNRS, France)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Larry Trussell (Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University / Vollum Institute, USA)
"Control of Spontaneous Firing in Unipolar Brush Cells"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Helen Hou (Columbia University, USA)
"Sensing on the Move: Linking Circuit to Behavior in a Mammalian Cerebellum-Like Structure"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Nate Sawtell (Columbia University, USA)
"Learning in a Multi-Layer Network of an Electric Fish"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Johannes Felsenberg (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"Opposing Memory Modules in the Drosophila Mushroom Body"
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Circuits for Motor Learning
Discussion Leader: Stephen Lisberger (Duke University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Chris Miall (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
"Detection of Learning-Related Signals in the Human Cerebellum"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Shane Heiney (University of Iowa, USA)
"Predictive Control of a Learned Defensive Motor Synergy by the Cerebellum"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Jason Christie (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
"Neural Circuit Mechanisms for Constraining Plasticity and Learning in the Cerebellum"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
"Tuning of Synaptic Learning Rules"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Yue Yang (Northwestern University, USA)
"Epigenetic Programming of Cerebellar Motor Learning"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Jimena Frontera (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
"Cerebellar Bidirectional Control of Fear Memories Through the Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Grey"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Chris De Zeeuw (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands)
"Cerebellar Organization into Up-Bound and Down-Bound Modules for Learning"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Cerebellar Nuclei
Discussion Leader: Dieter Jaeger (Emory University, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Erik Carlson (University of Washington, USA)
"Genetic Dissection Reveals Different Roles for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Catecholaminergic Innervation of the Cognitive Cerebellum"
6:15 pm - 6:20 pm
Discussion
6:20 pm - 6:40 pm
Albert Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Functional Dissection of Cerebellar Output Circuits"
6:40 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:10 pm
Sascha du Lac (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Diversity of Cerebellar Output Modules"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Indira Raman (Northwestern University, USA)
"Correlates of Cerebellar Synaptic Mechanisms In Vivo "
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Social and Cognitive Functions
Discussion Leader: Laure Rondi-Reig (Sorbonne Université / CNRS, France)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Esther Becker (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cerebellar Disorders"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Stephanie Rudolph (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Cerebellum-Specific Deletion of the GABAA Receptor Delta Subunit Causes Diverse Non-Motor Deficits"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Peter Tsai (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
"Cerebellar-Cerebro Cortical Circuits in Autism"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:10 am
Aleksandra Badura (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands)
"Purkinje Cell Activity in Monkey Lateral Cerebellum Predicts Anti-Saccade Task Performance"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:35 am
Zhenyu Gao (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands)
"Anatomy and Function of the Cortico-Cerebellar Circuits for Motor Planning"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
Court Hull (Duke University, USA)
"Classical Conditioning Drives Learned Reward Prediction Signals in Climbing Fibers Across the Lateral Cerebellum"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
Masaki Tanaka (Hokkaido University, Japan)
"Subcortical Signals for Temporal Prediction of Periodic Events"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Therapeutic Perspectives
Discussion Leader: Brad Margus (A-T Children's Project / Cerevance, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Harry Orr (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Cholecystokinin 1 Receptor (Cck1R) Activation Is Protective to Purkinje Cells in SCA Mice"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Catherine Stoodley (American University, USA)
"Neural and Behavioral Effects of Cerebellar tDCS"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Amy Bastian (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA)
"Can Intact Motor Control and Learning Mechanisms Help People with Ataxia?"
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
General Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Closing Remarks
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure