SFN 2017 Presentations by SCGB Investigators and Collaborators

Traveling to the annual meeting in DC? Check out these talks.

  • Saturday, November 11, 2017plus--large

    Cortical state fluctuations predict the accuracy of visual spatial perception in mice

    Speaker: Anderson Speed
    Time: 1:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 16.01
    Session: Spatial and Feature-Based Attention
    Location: 156

    A diverse neural code gives rise to attentional preparation

    Speaker: Adam Snyder
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 16.05
    Session: Spatial and Feature-Based Attention
    Location: 156

  • Sunday, November 12, 2017plus--large

    Engineering hybrid genetically encoded voltage indicators incorporating Janelia Fluor dyes for In vivo voltage imaging

    Speaker: Ahmed Abdelfattah
    Time: 8:00 AM
    Presentation Number: 113.01
    Session: Optical Methods for Connectivity
    Location: 150B

    Multiphoton holographic silencing of neural population codes in behaving animals

    Speaker: Ian Oldenburg
    Time: 8:45 AM
    Presentation Number: 108.04
    Session: Somatosensory Cortex
    Location: 144A

    Whole brain neural dynamics and behavior in C. elegans

    Speaker: Andrew Leifer
    Time: 9:15 AM
    Presentation Number: 113.06
    Session: Optical Methods for Connectivity
    Location: 150B

    Hypothalamic switch of REM sleep

    Speaker: Kai-Siang Chen
    Time: 1:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 193.01
    Session: Sleep: Key Advances
    Location: 156

    Medial prefrontal cortex shapes hidden state inference in the midbrain dopamine system

    Speaker: Clara Starkweather
    Time: 1:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 195.01
    Session: Corticolimbic Circuits in Decision Making
    Location: 150B

    Recordings from macaque face and body patches in the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus reveal strong species selectivity

    Speaker: Liang She
    Time: 1:45 PM
    Presentation Number: 192.04
    Session: Representation of Faces and Bodies
    Location: 147B

    Hippocampal sequences and model-based planning in the rat

    Speaker: Kevin Miller
    Time: 2:30 PM
    Presentation Number: 195.07
    Session: Corticolimbic Circuits in Decision Making
    Location: 150B

    Evidence for distinct hippocampal representations of current location and distance to goal

    Speaker: Jeffrey Gauthier
    Time: 3:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 195.09
    Session: Corticolimbic Circuits in Decision Making
    Location: 150B

    BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social

    The event will offer the opportunity for BRAIN Initiative grantees, BRAIN Initiative Alliance members and others to meet and network with each other.
    Time: 6:30 PM
    Location: Marriott Marquis Salon 2,3,4

  • Monday, November 13, 2017plus--large

    Does the primate ventral stream need cortical feedback to compute rapid online image-by-image object identity?

    Speaker: Kohitij Kar
    Time: 8:00 AM
    Presentation Number: 277.01
    Session: Representation of Objects and Scenes
    Location: 150A

    Choice-selective sequential activity in prelimbic cortical neurons that project to the nucleus accumbens

    Speaker: Nathan Parker
    Time: 8:15 AM
    Presentation Number: 278.02
    Session: Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior
    Location: 143A

    State-dependent organization of population activity across the brain

    Speaker: Kenneth Harris
    Time: 1:35 PM
    Presentation Number: 350.02
    Session: State-Dependent Cortical Processing
    Location: 145B

    Parallel memory units in the mushroom body

    Speaker: Yoshinori Aso
    Time: 2:15 PM
    Presentation Number: 364.06
    Session: Network, Synaptic, and Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
    Location: 143A

    Visualizing neural activity in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus of awake mice

    Speaker: Liang Liang
    Time: 3:15 PM
    Presentation Number: 349.07
    Session: In Vivo Imaging of CNS Injury and Disease
    Location: Ballroom C

  • Tuesday, November 14, 2017plus--large

    Brain-machine interface guided movements share a common neural substrate with overt movements

    Speaker: Saurabh Vyas
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 550.05
    Session: Motor Control and Internal Representations
    Location: 147A

    Computational Neuroscience Social with Mark Goldman and Jonathan Pillow

    Speaker: Social
    Time: 6:45 PM
    Presentation Number: SOC22
    Session: Computational Neuroscience Social
    Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel: Congressional Ballrooms A and B

  • Wednesday, November 15, 2017plus--large

    Transcranial ultrasound impacts monkey choice behavior

    Speaker: Jan Kubanek
    Time: 8:45 AM
    Presentation Number: 647.04
    Session: Methods: Non-Invasive Stimulation
    Location: 152B

    The spatiotemporal organization of striatal direct- and indirect-pathway projection neurons encodes action space

    Speaker: Andreas Klaus
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Presentation Number: 735.05
    Session: Motivation: Subcortical Neurocircuitry
    Location: 146C

    Heterogeneous coding of sensory, motor, and cognitive variables in midbrain dopamine neurons

    Speaker: Ben Engelhard
    Time: 2:15 PM
    Presentation Number: 735.06
    Session: Motivation: Subcortical Neurocircuitry
    Location: 146C

    Motor cortex projection neurons underlying motor planning and movement

    Speaker: Nuo Li
    Time: 2:55 PM
    Presentation Number: 727.06
    Session: Deep-Layer Projection Neurons of the Neocortex: Specialized Subpopulations Exhibiting Distinct Integration and Output
    Location: 151B

For a spreadsheet listing all SCGB-related talks and posters, click here. Scroll through to see a list of presentations by day. Presentations by SCGB PIs are highlighted in yellow. Presentations by SCGB fellows are highlighted in green.

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