April 18, 2022
All Day
WelcomeRemarks: 9:00-9:05 Alcino Silva (UCLA)
Session 1 (9:05-10:35 AM)- Chair: Kate Wassum (UCLA)
Patricia Janak (Hopkins): Basal ganglia circuits for updatingreward value
Melissa Sharpe (UCLA): The cognitive basis of intracranialself-stimulation of dopamine neurons
David Clewett (UCLA) Dynamic arousal andhippocampal states organize memories of coherent events
Session 2 (11:00-12:30 PM)-Chair: Dean Buonomano (UCLA)
Yang Dan (Berkeley): A motor theory of sleep control
Gina Poe (UCLA): Sleep Essentials to Build andRefine Brain Circuits
Anne Churchland (UCLA): Decisions, movements and the brain
Session 3 (2:30- 4:00 PM)- Chair: Tad Blair (UCLA)
Denise Cai (Mt Sinai): The brain in motion – how ensemblefluidity supports memory-updating
Inbal Goshen (Hebrew U): Astrocytes, the stars of memory
Mayank Mehta (UCLA): Deconstructing place cells using virtualreality and math
Session 4 (4:30- 6:00 PM)- Chair: Michael Fanselow (UCLA)
Ryohei Yasuda (Max Plank): Neuronal intracellular signalingunderlying synaptic, circuit and behavioral plasticity
Daniel Aharoni (UCLA): Developing new tools for imaging networkdynamics in freely behaving animals
Karl Deisseroth (Stanford): Innerworkings of channel rhodopsinsand brains