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Program
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11
November 20
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Brain and Creativity Institute
University of Southern California
,
Los Angeles
Thursday,
November
10
9:00
–
9:05
Welcome
:
Joshua
Brumberg
, Queens College, CUNY
Thalamocortical Interactions in Motor Control
9
:
0
5
–
9
:
15
Introduction/Overview:
Garrett Stanley
,
Georgia Tech
9:15
–
9:45
Carl Petersen
EPFL
Neural circuits for goal
-
directed sensorimotor transformation
9:45
–
10:15
Bernardo Sabatini
, Harvard
Signaling in the cortex
-
basal ganglia
-
thalamus loop dur
ing action selection
10:15
–
10:45
Naoki Yamawaki
, Northwestern
Thalamo
-
cortico
-
thalamic circuits in the motor system
10:
45
–
1
1
:
15
Dieter Jaeger
, Emory
Neural circuits for goal
-
directed sensorimotor transformation
11:15
–
11:45
Discussion
1
1
:
45
–
12:0
0
Coffee Break
Short Platform Talks 1
(
Moderator:
A
lison Barth
)
12:00
–
12:15
Christian Ebbesen
,
Guy Doron
,
Constanze Lenschow
&
Michael
Brecht,
Ber
stein
and Humboldt
-
Universität
Vibrissa motor cortex activity suppress
es contralateral whisker touch.
1
2:15
–
12:30
Edward Zagha
, U
C
Riverside
Modulation of sensory processing by cortical feedback pathways
12:30
–
12:45
Julian H
ofmann, Bettina Joachimsthaler &
Cornelius Schwarz
,
Tübingen
The role of mouse barrel cortex in tactile trace eye blink conditionin
g
12:45
–
1:00
Discussion
1:00
–
2:30
Lunch Break
Touch in Rodent, Monkey, and Man
2:30
–
2
:
40
Introduction/Overview
:
Andrew Pruszynski
,
Western University, Canada
Feature extraction in the human tactile peripher
y
2:40
–
3:10
Silman Bensmaia
,
Chicago
The neural basis of texture perception in primates
3:10
–
3:40
Mitra Ha
rtmann
, Northwestern
“
Grasping"
with whiskers
3:40
–
4:10
Gerald Loeb
,
USC and SynTouch
Understanding human
haptics by building robotic systems
4:10
–
4:40
Andrew Pruszynski
, Western University, Canada
Feature extraction in the human tactile peripher
y
4:
4
0
–
5
:
00
Discussion
5:10
–
5:30
Break
5:
3
0
–
8:00
Poster Session
6:30
Dinner
Friday
,
November 11
Short Platform Talks 2
(
Moderator
:
Randy Bruno
)
9:00
–
9:
1
5
Naoya Takahashi &
Matthew
Larkum
,
Humboldt University
Dendritic dynamics in senso
ry perception
9:
1
5
–
9:
30
William Muñoz, Robin Tremblay, Daniel Levenstein
&
Bernardo Rudy
,
NYU
Layer
-
specific reorganization of neocortical dendritic inhibition during active
wakefulness
.
9:
30
–
9:45
Jianing Yu, Ariel Agmon &
Karel Svoboda
,
HHMI Janelia
Cell
-
type
-
specific temporal dynamics of GABAergic interneurons in mouse barrel
cortex during active sensation
.
9:45
–
10:
00
Mirko Witte, Florian Walker, Dirk Schubert, M
ichael Feyerabend, Martin
Möck &
Jochen Staiger
,
University Medicine Göttingen
Tempo
rally distinct inhibitory control of Martinotti cells by PV
-
and VIP
-
cells
10:00
–
10:15
Shane
Crandall, Saundra
Patrick, Scott
Cruikshank &
Barry
Connors
,
B
rown
Infrabarrels: Ensembles of structurally and functionally distinct neurons in layer
6a of mouse
somatosensory cortex.
10:
15
–
1
0
:
30
Discussion
1
0
:
30
–
11:
00
Coffee Break
Short Platform Talks 3
(
Moderator:
Jochen Staiger
)
1
1
:
0
0
–
11:
1
5
Sunmee Park,
Akhil Ban
di, Christian Lee & David
Margolis,
Rutgers
New ways to wiggle whiskers: optogenetic contr
ol of whisker movement and
active sensation
.
11:
1
5
–
11:30
Yan Yu*
,
Matthew
Graff*
,
Chris
Bresee
, Yan
Man
&
Mitra Hartman
n,
Northwestern
Rat whiskers are used in airflow sensing
1
1
:
30
–
1
1
:
4
5
Mostafa Nashaat, Hatem Oraby, Laura Blanco, Sina Dominiak, Matt
hew
Larkum
&
Robert Sachdev
,
Humboldt Universität
Pixying Behavior: Real time optical tracking of whisker motion in a real
-
world
floating maze.
11:45
–
12:00
Discussion
12:00
–
12:30
Directed Discussion:
Idea
s, Theories, Techniques
.
12:30
–
2:00
Lu
nch Break
Cortical Multisensory Computations
2:00
–
2:1
0
Introduction/Overview
:
Nader Nikbakht
,
SISSA
2:10
–
2:4
0
Brice Bathellier
, CNRS
Uni and multisensory processing of looming and receding stimuli in mouse cortex
2:40
–
3:10
Jan Drugowitsch
, Har
vard
Optimal multisensory integration under time pressure
3:10
–
3:4
0
Conrad Lee
, Australian National University
Neuronal correlates of sensory prioritization in rats
3:40
–
4:10
Nader Nikbakht, Davide Zoccolan
&
Mathew
Diamond
,
SISSA
Visual tactile int
egration in rats and underlying neuronal mechanisms
4:
10
–
4:30
Discussion
4:30
Adjourn
-
Andrew Hires Party
or travel to
SfN
at
San Diego