1 BARRELS XX X Program November 9 th and 10 th 20 17 Glass Pavilion at the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Registration is still open at www.regonline.com/barrels30 Thursday, November 9 9:00 9:05 Welcome : Joshua Brumberg , The Graduate Center & Queens College, CUNY Cortical GABAergic interneurons: New insights into classification and function 9 : 05 9 : 15 Introduction/Overview: Jochen Staiger , University of G öttingen 9:15 9:45 Alvar Prönneke , University of Göttingen Diversity of VIP neurons in the mouse barrel cortex 9:45 10:15 Xiaolong Jiang , Baylor College of Medicine Dissecting cortical microcircuit: From cell type, connectivity principles to cell - type specific functions 10:15 10:45 Hillel Adesnik, University of California Berkeley Complementary subnetworks of cortical somatostatin interneurons 10: 45 1 1 : 15 Bernardo Rudy , New York University Structure and function of enigmatic layer 1 11:15 11:35 Discussion 11:35 12:00 Coffee Break Short Platform Talks 1 ( Moderator: Solange Brown ) 12:00 12 : 20 Hang Hu , Arial Agmon , West Virginia University Direct t halamo - cortical d rive onto s omatostatin - c ontaining i nterneurons 12:20 12:4 0 C. Waiblinger, P. Y. Borden, M. F. Bolus, G. B. Stanley , Georgia Institute of Technology Pushing the perceptual boundary towards optimal performance in a detection task with changing stimulus statistics 12:40 1:00 Daniel Udvary, Vincent J. Dercksen , Robert Egger, Bert Sakmann, Marcel Oberlaender , Research Center Caesar Sources of wiring specificity in a connectome model of rat barrel cortex 1:00 2:30 Lunch Break
2 Role of Rapid ‘Inhibitory’ Dynamics in Perception and Motivation 2:30 2 : 40 Introduction/Overview : Christopher Moore , Brown University 2:40 3:10 Christopher Deister , Brown University Implications for inhibitory neuron heterogeneity in shaping pyramidal cell firing rate and correlations that predict sensory detection 3:10 3:40 Yeka Aponte , NIDA Glutamatergic fast - spiking parvalbumin neurons in the lateral hypothalamus regulate feed ing 3:40 4:10 Shankar Sachidhanandam , University of Bern Sensory perception at the posterior parietal cortex 4:10 4:40 Kate Hong , Columbia University Sensation, movement, and learning in the absence of barrel c ortex 4: 4 0 5 : 00 Discussion 5:00 5:10 Barrels 30 Award Rec ognizing Tom Woolse y (Presented by Josh ua Brumberg) 5:10 5:30 Break 5: 3 0 8:00 Poster Session 6:30 Dinner Friday , November 10 Short Platform Talks 2 ( Moderator : Robert Sachdev ) 9:00 9: 20 Shubhodeep Chakrabarti, Cornelius Schwarz , University of Tubingen Top down gating: cortical modulation of sensory flow during active touch 9:20 9:4 0 Arash Fassihi, Alessandro Toso, Sebastian Reinartz , Sara Sorella, Frances ca Pulecchi, Mathew E. Diamond, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Vibrotactile intensity vs. duration perception in rats and humans 9:4 0 10:00 R icardo P. Montesinos, Frederick Schwaller, Annapooran i Udhayachandran, Gary R. Lewin, James F.A. Poulet, Max Delbruck Center and Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin Sensory afferent coding of non - nox ious thermal perception in mice 10:0 0 10:20 M. A. Goldin, E. R. Harrell, L. Estebanez, D. E. Shulz , UNIC Gif Sur Yvette Spatio - temporal coding representations i n the rat primary and secondary
3 somatosensory cortical areas 10:2 0 10:4 0 Coffee Break Short Platform Talks 3 ( Moderator: Garrett Stanley ) 10:4 0 11:0 0 Mostafa A. Nashaat, S ina Dominiak, Amin Nasr, Keisuke Sehara, Hatem Oraby , Matthew. E. Larkum, Robert N. Sachdev , Humboldt Universitaets Berlin Bilateral whisker movement predicts decision - m aking in mice solving Air - Track plus maze 11:0 0 11:2 0 Christian R. Lee , James M. T epper, David J. Margolis Rutgers, The S tate University of New Jersey Distinct effects of corticostriatal inputs from S1 and M1 on behavior via differential circuit activation of dorsal striatum 1 1 : 2 0 11 : 4 0 Keven J Laboy - Juarez, Sei Ahn, Daniel E. Feldman , University of California Berkeley Selectivity for multi - whisker stimuli by single neurons in mouse somatosensory cortex 11:40 12:00 Noa Bar, Erez Gugig, Rony Azouz , Ben - Gurion University of the Negev Differential coding schemes in the trigeminal system 12:0 0 1:3 0 Lunch Break Short Platform Talks 4 ( Moderato r: Randy Bruno ) 1 : 3 0 1:5 0 Akiva N Rappaport and Ilan Lampl , W e i zmann Institute of Science Externally induced arousal state modifies spontaneous and evoked synaptic activities in the somatosensory cortex 1:50 2:1 0 A . Che, R . Babij, A . Iannone, R . N . Fetcho, M . Ferrer, C . Liston , G . Fishell and N . V . De Marco Garcia , Weill Cornell Medical College Sensory inputs control network dynamics in the developing somatosensory C ortex 2:10 2:3 0 Maxime Chev é e and Sol a n ge Brown , Johns Hopkins University Variation in activity state, axonal projection, and position define the transcriptional identity of individual neocortical projection neurons 2 : 3 0 2:5 0 Coffee Break Orofacial Sensing and Circuitry 2:5 0 3 :0 0 Introduction/Overview : David Kleinfeld , University of California San Diego 3:0 0 3:3 0 Kevin Yackle , University of California San Francisco
4 Molecularly defined breathing control center neurons with dedicated, specific and surprising roles in breathing 3:3 0 4:0 0 Fan Wang , Duke University Whisking premotor oscillator neurons and their connectivity 4:0 0 4:3 0 Daniel O’Connor , Johns Hopkins University What non - vibrissa primary afferents tell the mouse about whisking 4:3 0 5:0 0 Martin Deschênes , Laval University Visual tactile integration in rats and underlying neuronal mechanisms 5 : 0 0 5:20 Discussion 5:2 0 Adjourn