Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Dendrites on the Molecular Level
Discussion Leader: Diane Bissen (Brandeis University, United States)
3:15 pm - 3:25 pm
Prithviraj Rajebhosale (NIH, United States)
"An Axonal Signal for Dendritic Maturation: Role of Neuregulin1 Nuclear Back Signaling in Assembly of Hippocampal Circuits"
3:25 pm - 3:30 pm
Discussion
3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
Mikayla Voglewede (Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), United States)
"Polarity Protein Par3 Regulates Dendritic Spine Morphogenesis and Cognition In Vivo "
3:40 pm - 3:45 pm
Discussion
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Aicha Haji Ali (Max Planck of Neurobiology, Germany)
"How do Dendrites know in which Direction they should Grow? A Time-lapse Imaging Study on Drosophila T4 Neurons"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Dendritic Signal Processing and Computation
Discussion Leader: Justin O'Hare (Columbia University, United States)
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
5:35 pm - 5:50 pm
Noah Leibold (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Activity-Dependent Synapse Formation in the Hippocampus"
5:50 pm - 5:55 pm
Discussion
5:55 pm - 6:10 pm
Nizar Islah (Universite de Montreal & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Canada)
"A Functional Model of how Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites Integrate Top-Down Context Under Sensory Ambiguity"
6:10 pm - 6:15 pm
Discussion
6:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Léa Caya-Bissonnette (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"Eligibility Trace and Behavioral Timescale Plasticity"
6:30 pm - 6:35 pm
Discussion
6:35 pm - 6:50 pm
Courtney Yaeger (MIT, United States)
"Behavioral Timescale Plasticity in Adult Mouse Cortex"
6:50 pm - 6:55 pm
Discussion
6:55 pm - 7:10 pm
Cedric Galetzka (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan)
"Grasping the Tongue: Cerebellar Purkinje Cell Activity during Adaptive Tongue Movements in Mice"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Dendrites within Neural Circuits
Discussion Leader: Anna Schroeder (University of Freiburg, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:20 am
Peter Hogg (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Full-arbor In Vivo Imaging Reveals Activity-dependent Rules for the Development of Synaptic Topography in Visual Neurons"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Simon Chamberland (New York University School of Medicine, United States)
"Functional Specialization of Hippocampal Somatostatin-Expressing Interneurons"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Yuan Zhang (Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Dendritic Integration of Sensory, Choice and Context Information in Cortical Pyramidal Neurons During Flexible Decision-Making"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:20 am
Valerio Francioni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Vectorized Error Signals in Cortical Dendrites During a Brain-computer Interface Task"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Richa Sirmaur (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, India)
"Impact of Afferent and Recurrent Inputs Impinging on Hippocampal Active Basal Dendrites in the Emergence of Ripple-Frequency Oscillations"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Development Panel
Discussion Leader: Sara Moberg (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Global Opportunities for Neuroscientists
Nelson Spruston (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
Lucy Palmer (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Yiota Poirazi (Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Greece)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes