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 the Faculty Club in the Atkinson Room 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 — Faculty Club, Atkinson Room

THURSDAY MORNING: 8:00 AM — 1:00 PM

  • 8:00–9:00 AM: Coffee
  • 9:00–9:05 AM: Welcome: Randy Bruno, Oxford University
Invited Talks
  • 9:05–9:35 AM: Krishna Jayant, Purdue University — Distinct projection-specific L5B dendritic reorganization as a function of value-based learning
  • 9:35–10:05 AM: Lucy Palmer, University of Melbourne — Cortical circuit dynamics during learning and memory

10:05–10:15 AM: Stretch Break

Short Talks
  1. 10:15–10:30 AM: Matthew W. Jacobs, John M. Ratliff, Alec L.R. Soronow, Jordan A. Nichols, Hylen T. James, Jorin A.G. Eddy, Adam M. Murray, Euiseok J. Kim, UC Santa Cruz — Structured and Target-Specific Development of Cortico-Cortical Connectivity in the Mouse Visual Cortex
  2. 10:30–11:00 AM: Kishore Kuchibhotla, Johns Hopkins University — Neural circuits for flexible auditory learning
  3. 11:00–11:15 AM: Yicong Huang, Ali Shamsnia, Mengze Chen, Shuang Wu, Tim Stamm, Sophie Medico, Farzaneh Najafi, Georgia Tech — Intrinsic interval timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex during passive behavior
  4. 11:15–11:30 AM: Atika Syeda, Miguel Nunez, Lin Zhong, Marius Pachitariu, Carsen Stringer, Janelia Research Campus — Impact of eye movements and orofacial movements on mouse visual cortex

11:30–11:45 AM: Coffee Break

Invited Talk

11:45 AM–12:15 PM: Hyeyoung Shin, Seoul National University — Neocortical mechanisms of visual perceptual inference

Short Talks
  1. 12:15–12:30 PM: Patrick D. Parker, Riley T. Bottom, Ulrich Müller, Dwight E. Bergles, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore — Emergence of tonotopically organized spontaneous activity in the brain after genetically induced hearing loss
  2. 12:30–12:45 PM: Katherine A Rivera Gómez, Victoria Bamwo, Ezekiel Willerson, Joshua C Brumberg, The Graduate Center & Queens College CUNY — Microglial-Orchestrated Remodeling of Perineuronal Nets in Response to Sensory Deprivation
  3. 12:45–1:00 PM: Brown ST, Holla MR, Land MA, Yang S, McDonald AJ, St-Pierre F, Raman IM, Northwestern University — High-speed voltage imaging of action potentials in molecular layer interneurons reveals sensory-driven synchrony that augments whisker movement

Lunch Break: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

THURSDAY AFTERNOON: 2:30 PM — 8:00 PM

Short Talk

2:30–2:45 PM: Andrew S. Blaeser, Mitchell Clough, Allison M. Ahrens, Jerry L. Chen, Boston University — Local and Global Neural Dynamics Underlying Stimulus and Choice Across Sensorimotor Cortex

Invited Talks
  • 2:45–3:15 PM: Nuno da Costa, Allen Institute — Inhibitory and excitatory specificity from a connectomics census in mouse visual cortex
  • 3:15–3:45 PM: Staci Sorensen, Allen Institute — Connecting single-cell transcriptomes to the projectomes in mouse visual cortex

3:45–4:00 PM: Coffee Break

Invited Talk

4:00–4:30 PM: Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute — A transcriptomic and epigenomic cell type atlas of the developing mouse visual cortex

Short Talks
  1. 4:30–4:45 PM: Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin–Madison — Imaging voltage in parvalbumin interneurons in slices of mouse somatosensory cortex
  2. 4:45–5:00 PM: Neeli Tummala, AL Fairhall, MJ Hartmann, Northwestern University & University of Washington — Natural scene statistics in touch: hands and whiskers

DINNER AND POSTERS: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Friday, November 14 — Tata Hall, Fred Kavli Auditorium

FRIDAY MORNING: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

  • 8:00–9:00 AM: Coffee
Invited Talks
  • 9:00–9:30 AM: Randy Bruno, Oxford University — Multi-modal representations in thalamus and cortex
  • 9:30–10:00 AM: Jesse Goldberg, Cornell University — The brainstem trigeminal nucleus represents tactile events in multiple reference frames

10:00–10:15 AM: Stretch Break

Short Talks
  1. 10:15–10:30 AM: Alanna E. Carey, Halley L. Dante, Kevin M. Delgado, David G. Lee, Rhea Singh, Noah Tan, Daisy E. Powers, Fani Memi, Kenny Roberts, Omer A. Bayraktar, Jerry L. Chen, Boston University & Wellcome Sanger Institute — Cell-type-specific genetic variation associated with individual differences in goal-directed learning
  2. 10:30–10:45 AM: Matias Mugnaini, Ben Gerhardt, Michael Brecht, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Max Planck School of Cognition — X-ray based wire-by-wire vibrissa to barrelette mapping
  3. 10:45–11:00 AM: C. Ivan Linares, Sofia E. Juliani, Jessie Yi, David J. Margolis, Rutgers University — Population codes supporting adaptive sensorimotor learning in the posterior dorsal striatum
  4. 11:00–11:15 AM: Hyein Park, Hayagreev Keri, Scott Pluta, Purdue University — Perceptual learning enhances the temporal integration of self-motion and touch in somatosensory cortex

11:15–11:30 AM: Coffee Break

Short Talks
  1. 11:30–11:45 AM: Hyesoo Jie, Emily Petrus, Nikorn Pothayee, Alan P. Koretsky, NINDS, NIH (Zoom presentation) — Reactivated thalamocortical plasticity alters neural activity in sensory-motor cortex during post-critical period
  2. 11:45–12:00 PM: Anda M. Chirila, David D. Ginty, Brown University — Flexible temperature-light touch interactions across subcortical somatosensory circuits
  3. 12:00–12:15 PM: Cornelius Schwarz, Ritu Roy Chowdhury, Kalpana Gupta, Yuyao Sun, Fransiska Gekeler, Shubhodeep Chakrabarti, University Tuebingen — Different functional neuronal systems modulate the brain’s own tactile input
  4. 12:15–12:30 PM: Angelina Lam, Edward Zagha, University of California Riverside — Lateral spread in sensory cortex as a novel gain mechanism in selective detection

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

End of Meeting

All requests for poster presentations were accepted. Registration will remain open until the end of the meeting. Researchers from all fields of rodent sensory-motor neuroscience are welcome.

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)