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: Evolution of Thalamocortical Networks and Their Role in Sensation, Action, and Cognition
Session in honor of Drs. Ray Guillery and Vivien Casagrande.
Discussion Leader: John Huguenard (Stanford University, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm
Leah Krubitzer (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Evolution of Thalamocortical Relationships"
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm
Murray Sherman (University of Chicago, USA)
"A View of Cortex from the Thalamus"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Development and Plasticity of Neural Circuits Interconnecting Thalamus and Cortex
Discussion Leader: Sonja Hofer (University College London, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Matthew Colonnese (George Washington University, USA)
"Thalamic Origins of Fetal Brain Activity"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Alessio Delogu (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"The Mesencephalon Is a Source of Thalamic GABA Interneurons"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Tomomi Shimogori (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
"Thalamocortical Input Controls Cell Diversity in Somatosensory Cortex"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
James Bourne (Monash University, Australia)
"Transient Visual Pathway Critical for Normal Development of Primate Grasping Behaviour"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Hey-Kyoung Lee (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Cross-Modal Recovery of Thalamocortical Plasticity in Adults"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Judith Hirsch (University of Southern California, USA)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Genetic and Molecular Variability of Thalamic Cells and Nuclei
Discussion Leader: Alessio Delogu (King's College London, United Kingdom)
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Songhai Shi (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"Ontogenetic Development and Organization of the Mouse Thalamus"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Troy Hackett (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA)
"Transcriptome-Guided Identification of Cellular Phenotypes in the Auditory Forebrain"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Guoping Feng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Molecular, Cellular and Functional Diversity of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus"
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sensory Information Transfer
Discussion Leader: David Fitzpatrick (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Santiago Rompani (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"Modulation of Visual Information in the Thalamus by a Novel Axo-Axonal Synapse"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Randy Bruno (Columbia University, USA)
"Modulation of Primary Somatosensory Cortex by Secondary Thalamus"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Thalamic Functions in Head-Whisker Perceptual Coordination"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Heather Read (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Advantages of Parallel Thalamocortical Pathways for Classifying Sounds"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, USA)
"Computational Strategies for Processing and Communicating Sensory Information"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General 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
Cortical Processing of Thalamic Information
Discussion Leader: Judith Hirsch (University of Southern California, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Arianna Maffei (Stony Brook University, State University of New York, USA)
"Synaptic Dynamics of Thalamocortical Inputs in Sensory Cortical Circuits"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
David Fitzpatrick (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
"Synaptic Architecture for Functional Selectivity in Visual Cortex"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Kenneth Harris (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling of Thalamocortical Dynamics"
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 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
"Top Down" Influences of Thalamocortical Activity
Discussion Leader: Farran Briggs (University of Rochester, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Kathleen Rockland (School of Medicine, Boston University, USA)
"Network Topologies of Corticothalamic Projections"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Barry Connors (Brown University, USA)
"Synaptic and Intrinsic Mechanisms of Corticothalamic Regulation"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Zoltan Molnar (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Cortical Layer with No Known Function"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Anita Luthi (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"The Cortical States of Non-REM Sleep: Insights from an Infra-Slow Oscillation in Cortical Sleep Spindle Activity"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Antoine Adamantidis (University of Bern, Switzerland)
"Thalamic Dual-Control of Sleep and Wakefulness"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General 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
Thalamic Function and Its Alteration in Diseased States
Discussion Leader: Jeanne Paz (Gladstone Institutes / University of California, San Francisco, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:05 pm - 6:25 pm
Christoph Kellendonk (Columbia University, USA)
"Thalamo-Prefrontal Interactions in Working Memory"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Judith Ford (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Thalamic Dysconnectivity in Schizophrenia and in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Schizophrenia"
6:50 pm - 6:55 pm
Discussion
6:55 pm - 7:15 pm
Patricia Maness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Regulation of Inhibitory Perisomatic Synapses by NCAM and EphrinA/EphA3 in Prefrontal Cortical Circuits"
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Vincenzo Crunelli (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
"Thalamic Firing During Absence Seizures"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 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
Contributions of Thalamus to Motor Function
Discussion Leader: Freek Hoebeek (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
Dora Angelaki (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
"A Three-Dimensional Compass in the Anterior Thalamus"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Marc Sommer (Duke University, USA)
"Thalamic Role in Coordinating Saccades and Vision"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Adriana Galvan (Emory University, USA)
"Cortical Modulation of Motor Thalamus Activity in Awake Monkeys"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Anatol Kreitzer (Gladstone Institutes / University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Motor Thalamus Is Required for Stable Reinforcement Learning"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
David Kleinfeld (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Sensory and Internal Signals for Brainstem Control of Active Sensing"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General 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
Non-Classical Thalamic Functions
Discussion Leader: Michael Halassa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Mario Penzo (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA)
"Inhibitory Control of a Thalamic Stress Circuit"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Melanie Wilke (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany)
"Contribution of the Pulvinar to Spatial Decisions"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Xiaoke Chen (Stanford University, USA)
"Orchestrating the Formation and Maintenance of Opioid-Associated Memory in the Thalamic Circuits"
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure
