2024 Barrels Meeting
Thursday Morning Session
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
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
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
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
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
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