| Sunday |
| 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution and Function of Thalamocortical Interactions in Primates |
| Discussion Leader: William Guido (University of Louisville, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Jon Kaas (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Understanding the Pulvinar Complex in Primates" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Robert Wurtz (National Eye Institute, NIH, USA)
"Thalamic Contributions
to the Two Grand Illusions of Primate Vision" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Monday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Thalamic Circuits |
| Discussion Leader: William Guido (University of Louisville, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Judith Hirsch (University of Southern California, USA)
"Thalamic Contributions to Vision" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Martha Bickford (University of Louisville, USA)
"Visual Thalamus Circuit Diversity: Does the Superior Colliculus Act as a "Backseat Driver"?" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Chinfei Chen (Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Mechanisms of Sensory-Dependent Retinogeniculate Remodeling" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Michael Beierlein (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
"Cholinergic Control of Thalamic Circuits" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Lee Cox (Michigan State University, USA)
"Complex Regulation of Inhibition in Thalamocortical Circuits" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Thalamocortical Processing |
| Discussion Leader: William Guido (University of Louisville, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Francisco Clasca (Autonomous University of Madrid School of Medicine, Spain)
"Thalamic Projection Neurons Axonal Architectures: Seeing the Trees and the Forest" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | W. Martin Usrey (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Refinement of Visual Information en Route to Primary Visual Cortex" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Jose-Manuel Alonso (State University of New York College of Optometry, USA)
"Functional Organization of ON and OFF Pathways in Visual Cortex" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| Tuesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Corticothalamic Processing |
| Discussion Leader: Vivien Casagrande (Vanderbilt University Medical School, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Farran Briggs (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA)
"Corticogeniculate Feedback and the Timing of Visual Responses" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Helen Barbas (Boston University, USA)
"What Does the Amygdala Tell the Mediodorsal Thalamus and Prefrontal Cortex?" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Solange Brown (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Intracortical Circuits of Corticothalamic Neurons" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Massimo Scanziani (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"From Thalamus to Cortex and Back: The Superhighway of Visual Processing" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Laszlo Acsady (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
"Nucleus Specificity of Thalamocortical Processing" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Computation and Theory |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Shea-Brown (University of Washington, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Fritz Sommer (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Recoding of Visual Information in Thalamus" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute, USA)
"Thalamocortical Traveling Waves in Humans" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Larry Abbott (Columbia University, USA)
"Basal Ganglion Modulation of Thalamocortical
Loops for Motor Sequence Generation" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Ken Miller (Columbia University, USA)
"Recent Results on the Stabilized Supralinear Network" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Wednesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Thalamus and Schizophrenia |
| Discussion Leader: John Csernansky (Northwestern University, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Alan Anticevic (Yale University, USA)
"Examining
Thalamic Connectivity in Chronic Schizophrenia, Clinical High Risk and
Following NMDAR Antagonism" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Monte Buchsbaum (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Thalamus Connectivity in Schizophrenia Assessed with Multimodal Imaging with 18F-Fallypride,
18F-Deoxyglucose, and Fractional Anisotropy" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Anthony Grace (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Nucleus Reuniens Controls Hippocampal Gating of VTA Dopamine Neuron Activity: Relevance to Schizophrenia" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | John Lisman (Brandeis University, USA)
"Causal Role of Abnormal Thalamic Low Frequency Oscillations in Schizophrenia" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Thalamus and Epilepsy |
| Discussion Leader: John Lisman (Brandeis University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | John Huguenard (Stanford University, USA)
"Inhibition in the Thalamus: An Activity-Dependent Seizure Regulatory System" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Nathalie Leresche (Pierre and Marie Curie University, France)
"T Current and GABA, a Bidirectional Relationship" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Jeanne Paz (Gladstone Institutes / University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Bi-Directional Control of Epileptic Networks by
the Thalamus" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jason Maclean (University of Chicago, USA)
"Local Changes in Neocortical Circuit Dynamics Coincide with the S of Seizures to Thalamus in a Model of Epilepsy" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 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 | Thalamocortical Interactions and Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: Tania Pasternak (University of Rochester, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Sonja Hofer (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland)
"Diverse Contextual Signals Conveyed by Thalamus to Visual Cortex" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Harvey Swadlow (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Corticogeniculate Information Flow and the Vast Range of Corticothalamic Axonal Conduction Times" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Yogita Chudasama (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA)
"The Executive Thalamus" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | William Guido (University of Louisville, USA)
"Form and Development of Nonretinal Circuits in Visual Thalamus" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Michael Halassa (New York University, USA)
"Thalamic Inhibition as a Mechanism of Attentional Allocation" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Behavioral Correlates of Higher Order Thalamic Relays |
| Discussion Leader: Tania Pasternak (University of Rochester, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Anna Mitchell (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"The Influence of the Mediodorsal Thalamus in Cognition: Evidence from Behavioral and Cognitive Studies, Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging Using Animal Models and Humans" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | David Leopold (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA)
"High-Resolution Mapping of Electrophysiological Responses in the Pulvinar" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Sabine Kastner (Princeton University, USA)
"Network Dynamics for Attentional Selection in the Primate Brain" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| Friday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
