38th Annual Barrels Meeting

2025 Barrels Meeting

November 13–14, 2025

UC San Diego, La Jolla, California

The 38th Annual Barrels Meeting will be held at Atkinson Hall on Thursday, Nov 13, and Tata Hall (Fred Kavli Auditorium) on Friday, Nov 14. Researchers from all fields of rodent sensory-motor neuroscience are welcome. All poster submissions have been accepted, and registration remains open through the end of the meeting.

Thursday, November 13 – Atkinson Hall

Breakfast (8:00–9:00 AM)

Morning Session (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM)

Welcome and Introduction
Randy Bruno

Invited Talks (9:05–10:05)
  • Nuno da Costa, Allen Institute — Inhibitory and excitatory specificity from a connectomics census in mouse visual cortex
  • Staci Sorensen, Allen Institute — Connecting single-cell transcriptomes to the projectomes in mouse visual cortex

Stretch Break (10 minutes)

Invited Talk (10:15–10:45)

Kishore Kuchibhotla, Johns Hopkins University — Neural circuits for flexible auditory learning

Coffee Break (10:45–11:15)

Short Talks (11:15–12:15)
  1. Matthew W. Jacobs et al., UC Santa Cruz — Structured and Target-Specific Development of Cortico-Cortical Connectivity in the Mouse Visual Cortex
  2. Yicong Huang et al., Georgia Tech — Intrinsic interval timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex during passive behavior
  3. Atika Syeda et al., Janelia Research Campus — Impact of eye movements and orofacial movements on mouse visual cortex
  4. Patrick D. Parker et al., Johns Hopkins University — Emergence of tonotopically organized spontaneous activity in the brain after genetically induced hearing loss

Stretch Break (15 minutes)

Invited Talk (12:30–1:00)

Hyeyoung Shin, Seoul National University — Neocortical mechanisms of visual perceptual inference

Lunch & Business Meeting (1:00–3:00 PM)

Afternoon Session (3:00–5:00 PM)

Short Talks (3:00–3:30)
  1. Katherine A. Rivera Gómez et al., CUNY — Microglial-Orchestrated Remodeling of Perineuronal Nets in Response to Sensory Deprivation
  2. Brown ST et al., Northwestern University — High-speed voltage imaging of action potentials in molecular layer interneurons reveals sensory-driven synchrony that augments whisker movement

Stretch Break (15 minutes)

Invited Talk (3:45–4:15)

Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute — Continuous cell type diversification in the embryonic and postnatal mouse visual cortex development

Short Talks (4:15–4:45)
  1. Andrew S. Blaeser et al., Boston University — Local and Global Neural Dynamics Underlying Stimulus and Choice Across Sensorimotor Cortex
  2. Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin–Madison — Imaging voltage in parvalbumin interneurons in slices of mouse somatosensory cortex

Poster Session & Dinner (5:00–8:00 PM)

Friday, November 14 – Tata Hall (Fred Kavli Auditorium)

Breakfast (8:00–9:00 AM)

Morning Session (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM)

Short Talks (9:00–10:00)
  1. Neeli Tummala et al., Northwestern University & University of Washington — Natural scene statistics in touch: hands and whiskers
  2. Cornelius Schwarz et al., University Tübingen — Different functional neuronal systems modulate the brain’s own tactile input
  3. Angelina Lam & Edward Zagha, UC Riverside — Lateral spread in sensory cortex as a novel gain mechanism in selective detection
  4. Hyesoo Jie et al., NINDS, NIH — Reactivated thalamocortical plasticity alters neural activity in sensory-motor cortex during post-critical period

Coffee Break (10:00–10:30)

Invited Talks (10:30–11:30)
  • Jesse Goldberg, Cornell University — The brainstem trigeminal nucleus represents tactile events in multiple reference frames
  • Soohyun Lee, National Institutes of Health — How movement-sensitive neurons shape neural dynamics in the primary somatosensory cortex

Break

Short Talks (11:45–1:00 PM)
  1. Matias Mugnaini et al., Humboldt University & Max Planck School of Cognition — X-ray based wire-by-wire vibrissa to barrelette mapping
  2. C. Ivan Linares et al., Rutgers University — Population codes supporting adaptive sensorimotor learning in the posterior dorsal striatum
  3. Hyein Park et al., Purdue University — Perceptual learning enhances the temporal integration of self-motion and touch in somatosensory cortex
  4. Alanna E. Carey et al., Boston University & Wellcome Sanger Institute — Cell-type-specific genetic variation associated with individual differences in goal-directed learning
  5. Anda M. Chirila & David D. Ginty, Brown University — Flexible temperature-light touch interactions across subcortical somatosensory circuits

Lunch (1:00–2:30 PM)

Afternoon Session (2:30–4:30 PM)

  • Krishna Jayant, Purdue University — Distinct projection-specific L5B dendritic reorganization as a function of value-based learning
  • Lucy Palmer, University of Melbourne — Cortical circuit dynamics during learning and memory

Break (3:30–4:00)

Randy Bruno, Oxford University — Multi-modal representations in thalamus and cortex

Poster abstracts may still be submitted during registration until mid-October. Registration remains open until the end of the meeting.

The Barrels 2025 Organizers

Solange Brown (Johns Hopkins University), Josh Brumberg (CUNY), Randy Bruno (Oxford University), Dan Feldman (University of California, Berkeley), Mitra Hartmann (Northwestern University), Kate Hong (Carnegie Mellon University), Dieter Jaeger (Emory University), Krishna Jayant (Purdue University), David Kleinfeld (University of California, San Diego), Keerthi Krishnan (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Soohyun Lee (NIH/NIMH), Farzaneh Najafi (Georgia Tech University), Daniel O'Connor (Johns Hopkins University), Carl Petersen (EPFL), Scott Pluta (Purdue University), Robert Sachdev (Humboldt University of Berlin), Gordon Shepherd (Northwestern University), Jochen Staiger (Goettingen University), Edward Zagha (University of California, Riverside)