September 17, 2024 to September 18, 2024
All Day
Venue
NRB 132
UCLA-Weizmann Neuroscience Symposium
“Brain Health & Disease: Molecules & Mechanisms”
September 17
“Neural Targets of Serotonin and Psychedelics”
Takashi Kawashima, WIS
“States of Engagement During Perceptual Decision-Making”
AnneChurchland, UCLA
“Topographic Organization of Direction- and Orientation-Selective Responses in the Mouse Visual Thalamus”
Michal Rivlin,WIS
“Neural Basis of Pro-Social Behavior”
Weizhe Hong, UCLA
“New Approaches for Optogenetic Silencing of Synaptic Terminals”
Ofer Yizhar, WIS
“Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Specificity”
Larry Zipursky, UCLA
“Evolution of Cortical Plasticity”
Joshua Trachtenberg, UCLA
“Spatiotemporal Regulation of Neuronal Remodeling”
Oren Schuldiner, WIS
“How Do Microglia Shape Circuit Function Throughout the Lifespan?”
Lindsay De Biase, UCLA
“RNA Control of Neuronal Growth”
Mike Fainzilber, WIS
“Brain Growth Programs for Repair”
Tom Carmichael, UCLA
September 18
“Cortical Adaptation and Gain Control”
Dario Ringach, UCLA
“Beyond Mapping of the Human Brain: Moving Forward with Brain-Behavior Correlations”
Michal Ramot, WIS
“Developmental Dysconnectivity in a Genetic Risk Model for Schizophrenia”
Carrie Bearden, UCLA
“BehavioralState-Dependent Modulation of Sensory Processing and Plasticity in the Cortex”
Ivo Spiegel, WIS
“Developmentally Distinct Architectures inTop-Down Circuits”
Laura DeNardo, UCLA
“Gating Nociception by Axonal Pruning”
Avraham Yaron, WIS
“Understanding Cell Type Specification in the Developing Human Brain”
Aparna Bhaduri, UCLA
“Representational Drift in the Hippocampus and Cortex”
Yaniv Ziv, WIS
“How to Build Brains with a Small Number of Design Principles”
Elad Schneidman, WIS
“Neuropeptide Modulation Underlies Experience-Dependent, Sexually Dimorphic Learning”
Meital Oren-Suissa, WIS
“Modulation and Representation of Negative Value in the Primate Amygdala”
Rony Paz, WIS
In-Person Event
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) 132 – Auditorium (Registration)
For more information, please contact Laura Schreiber at LSchreiber@mednet.ucla.edu.