Conference Description
ATTENTION: The GRC bus picks up and drops off at the Florence Airport (FLR) only. GRC no longer has bus service to / from the Pisa Airport.
The Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits and Behavior GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by March 23, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: From Gene Delivery to Functional Circuit Interrogation
Discussion Leaders
Speakers
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Denise Cai (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States)
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Viviana Gradinaru (California Institute of Technology, United States)
Optogenetics 2.0: New Tools and Delivery Techniques
Discussion Leaders
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Olivia Masseck (University of Bremen, Germany)
Speakers
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Elena Govorunova (McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health, United States)
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Georg Nagel (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
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J. Simon Wiegert (University Heidelberg, Germany)
Optical Readouts of Neural Activity: Beyond Calcium!
Discussion Leaders
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Anna Beyeler (French Institute of Health, INSERM, France)
Speakers
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Tommaso Patriarchi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
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Christina Kim (University of California, Davis, United States)
Precision Optogenetics
Discussion Leaders
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Ian Oldenburg (Rutgers University, United States)
Speakers
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Rosa Cossart (INMED Inserm u1249, France)
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Valentina Emiliani (Vision Institute, CNRS, France)
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Mark Histed (National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, United States)
Interpreting Neural Manipulations
Discussion Leaders
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Kanaka Rajan (Kempner Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States)
Speakers
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Mehrdad Jazayeri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
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Claudia Clopath (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
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Bing Brunton (University of Washington, United States)
Neural Circuits for Complex Behavior
Discussion Leaders
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Moriel Zelikowsky (University of Utah, United States)
Speakers
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Ilana Witten (Princeton University, United States)
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Camilla Bellone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
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Robert Froemke (New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States)
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Hugo Tejeda (National Institute of Mental Health, United States)
Brain-Body Optogenetics
Discussion Leaders
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Li Ye (Scripps Research Institute, United States)
Speakers
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Yoav Livneh (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Nadine Gogolla (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)
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Sung-Yon Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
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Ritchie Chen (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
From Moments to Engrams
Discussion Leaders
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Yaniv Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Speakers
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Gisella Vetere (ESPCI, Paris, France)
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Kazumasa Tanaka (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan)
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Inbal Goshen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Keynote Session: Found in Translation: Clinical Applications of Optogenetics
Discussion Leaders
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Christian Lüscher (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Speakers
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Botond Roska (Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, Basel, Switzerland)
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Karine Fenelon (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Bianca Jones Marlin (Columbia University, United States)
