11th Annual Neural Microcircuits Training Program Symposium

11th Annual Neural Microcircuits Training Program Symposium – Dynamics of Neural Microcircuits
8:30-9:00 COFFEE & PASTRIES
9:00 – 9:10 Jack Feldman – Introduction
9:10 – 10:00 Ed Callaway (Salk Institute) – Organization and function of microcircuits in the visual cortex
10:00 ? 10:30 Linda Wilbrecht (UC Berkeley) – Maturation of the frontal cortex during adolescence
10:30 ? 11:00 BREAK
Chair: Dean Buonomano
11:00 – 11:30 Anna Molofsky (UCSF) – Astrocyte-microglial communication in developmental synapse remodeling
11:30? 12:00 Courtney Yaeger (UCLA Graduate Student & Training Grant Fellow ?Trachtenberg Lab) – Inversion of an inhibitory microcircuit at critical period closure
12:00 ? 2:00 LUNCH & POSTER SESSION
Chair: Kostya Bakhurin
2:00 – 2:30 John Reynolds (Salk Institute) – Spontaneous cortical waves in Area MT of the awake marmoset modulate neural and perceptual sensitivity
2:30 ? 3:00 Jason Moore (UCLA Graduate Student & Training Grant Fellow-Mehta Lab) – Dynamics of cortical dendritic membrane potential and spikes in freely behaving rats
3:00 ? 3:30 BREAK
Chair: Carlos Portera-Cailliau
3:30 ? 4:00 Vikaas Sohal (UCSF) – Inhibitory control of prefrontal rhythms and circuit function
4:00 – 4:30 Christopher Harvey (Harvard) -Dynamics of population codes across cortex during navigation-based decision tasks

If you wish to present a poster and for further information, please contact:
Cortney Wisneski ? cwisneski@mednet.ucla.edu

Sponsored bythe UCLA Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute/UCLA