2024 Barrels Meeting

Thursday Morning Session

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Welcome

Outline of Discussion for a White paper - Randy Bruno


9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Invited Talk: Barrel cortex interactions with posterior parietal cortex

Adrian Roggenbach, Shuting Han, Fritjof Helmchen, University of Zurich


Short Talks

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Disruption of Efficient Maternal Behavior Through Cortical PNN Manipulation

Joseph D. Martin, Keerthi Krishnan, Billy Y. B. Lau, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Perceptual decision-making correlates in the primary somatosensory cortex

Alex G. Armstrong & Yurii A. Vlasov, University of Illinois


Invited Talk

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Long-lasting, subtype-specific regulation of SST neurons during sensory learning

Alison L. Barth et al., Carnegie Mellon University


10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

Thursday Late Morning Session

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Invited Talk

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Coordinated development of inhibitory and excitatory networks

Natalia De Marco García, Weill Cornell Medicine


Short Talk

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Cortical circuits for context-dependent sensory processing

Pol Bech-Vilaseca et al., EPFL, University of Manchester


11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Stretch Break


12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

White Paper Discussion

Brain loops - David Kleinfeld

Thalamocortical loops - Simone Russo

Motor control - Farzaneh Najafi

Thursday Afternoon

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Short Talks

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM: The role of primary somatosensory cortex and the superior colliculus in tactile detection

Alice Y. Nam et al., Carnegie Mellon University

5:15 PM – 5:30 PM: JEDI-1P wide-field cortex voltage imaging during a forelimb reaching task reveals task-related network processing

Dieter Jaeger and Yunmiao Wang, Emory University

5:30 PM – 5:45 PM: A cortical network for tongue control in probabilistic motor sequences

Jeong Jun Kim, Daniel H. O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University

5:45 PM – 6:00 PM: Traveling waves support dynamic rerouting of communication subspaces across the motor cortical hierarchy

Hammad F. Khan et al., Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering; Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience; Elmore School of Electrical and Computer Engineering


6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

DINNER AND POSTERS

Friday Morning

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Invited Talk

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Network influence determines the impact of cortical ensembles on stimulus detection

Hayley Bounds, Hillel Adesnik, UC Berkeley Department of Neuroscience


Short Talks

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Behavioral relevance shapes motor cortical representation of bilateral tactile space

Hayagreev V.S. Keri et al., Purdue University; Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Purdue Institute of Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Single-branch preference in thalamocortical axodendritic synaptic targeting

A. Agmon and Y. Kubota, Dept. of Neuroscience, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV and Section of Electron Microscopy, National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Nonuniform NMDA Expression in L2/3 dendrites Allows Differential Processing of Bottom-up and Top down Inputs

Viktor J Olah & Matthew JM Rowan, Emory University

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Understanding the Role of Neural Synchrony in Motor Control Using Holographic Optogenetics

Ian Anton Oldenburg, Rutgers University


10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

Friday Late Morning Session

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

Invited Talk

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM: Neural circuits of thermal perception

James Poulet, Max Delbrück Center (MDC), Berlin


Invited Talk

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Population codes across cortex: Generalization and specialization in inhibitory microcircuits

Caroline A. Runyan, University of Pittsburgh


Short Talks

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM: Context representation in mouse frontal cortex during a short-term memory task

Parviz Ghaderi et al., EPFL, Switzerland

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM: Consequences of individual PV and VIP interneuron firing on the output of postsynaptic SST neurons in mouse barrel cortex

F. Preuß et al., University Medical Center Goettingen, Department of Neuroanatomy, Goettingen, Germany

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM: Real world neuroscience

Saikat Ray, Weizmann Institute of Science


1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Stretch Break

Friday Afternoon

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Short Talks

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM: Simultaneous Targeting of Layer 2/3 and Layer 5 Cortical Neurons using an Enhancer-AAV Only Approach

Matthew JM Rowan et al., Emory University

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM: Three-dimensional architecture and linearized mapping of vibrissa follicle afferents

Ben Gerhardt, Michael Brecht, BCCN Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM: Dopaminergic Signaling Drives Rapid Increases in BBB Permeability

Kevin L Turner et al., Department of Neuroscience, Brown University; Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University; Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Depth-dependent variations in morphoelectric properties reveal the molecular identity of cortical interneurons

Felipe Yáñez et al., Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Parvalbumin interneurons regulate circuit plasticity in the healthy and injured somatosensory cortex

Baruc Campos et al., Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA


3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee and Cookies


Short Talks

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Learning enhances behaviorally relevant representations in apical dendrites

Sam E. Benezra et al., University of Oxford

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Representation of Body State in the Barrel Cortex of Freely Moving Mice

L. Gantar et al., University of Manchester


4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

White Paper Discussion

Brain loops

Internal models

Perception of touch

Disease models

Recap