Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
The Functional Organization of Thalamocortical Interactions in Primates
Discussion Leader: Stacey Seidl (University of California, Davis, USA)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Vinod Kumar (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
"Functional Anatomy of the Human Thalamus"
3:30 pm - 3:35 pm
Discussion
3:35 pm - 3:50 pm
Aidan Murphy (National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA)
"The Primate Thalamus in High-Level Vision: A Comparison of Visually Selective Single-Units in the Primate Inferotemporal Cortex and Pulvinar Nuclei"
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Sensorimotor Thalamocortical Interactions
Discussion Leader: Mike Hasse (University of Rochester School of Medicine, USA)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm
Santiago Rompani (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
"Modulation of Visual Information in the Thalamus by a Novel Axo-Axonal Synapse"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Sebastian Vasquez-Lopez (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Functional Micro-Architecture of the Auditory Thalamocortical Projection and Its Contribution to Spectral Integration in Cortex"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Bianca Sieveritz (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
"Motor Thalamic Afferents to Prelimbic Cortex: A Role in Decision-Making?"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
David Collins (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
"Parallel Circuits Linking the Prefrontal Cortex with Dorsal and Ventral Thalamus"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Development, Plasticity, and Disease
Discussion Leader: Ayan Ghoshal (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Peter Campbell (University of Louisville, USA)
"Formation and Maturation of Intrathalmic Connections Between TRN and dLGN"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Stephanie Holden (University of California, San Francisco / Gladstone Institutes, USA)
"Thalamocortical Function After Traumatic Cortical Injury"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Jaclyn Durkin (University of Michigan, USA)
"State-Dependent Thalamocortical Activity Is Crucial for Visual System Plasticity"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Alon Tenzer (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Evidence for Involvement of Vibrissal Sensory Thalamus in the Control of Head Motion"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
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: Academic Transitions
Early Career Scientists will provide their experiences and advice on academic transitions from graduate student to post docs to faculty members.
Discussion Leader: Naomi Charalambakis (University of Louisville School of Medicine, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:35 pm
Opening Remarks
1:35 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Academic Transitions
Farran Briggs (University of Rochester, USA)
Matthew Colonnese (George Washington University, USA)
Santiago Rompani (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
