SFN 2018 Presentations by SCGB Investigators and Collaborators

SHORT COURSE 2: Functional, Structural, and Molecular Imaging, and Big Data Analysis

Speaker: Elizabeth Hillman
Time: 8:00am
Presentation Number: SPC03
Session: Scientific Short Courses
Location: SDCC 6C

Meet-the-Expert: Decision-Making in the Brain, the Lab, and Beyond

Speaker: Anne Churchland
Time: 9:30am
Presentation Number: SPC03
Session: Meet-the-Expert
Location: Hilton Bayfront: Sapphire Ballroom A

A slow drift of macaque V4 population activity: Implications for perceptual decision-making

Speaker: Benjamin Cowley
SCGB PI: Byron Yu
Time: 2:30pm
Presentation Number: 17.07
Session: Vision: Representation of Objects and Scenes
Location: SDCC 32

Escapes and hunting in larval zebrafish

Speaker: Florian Engert
Time: 1:35pm
Presentation Number: 5.02
Session: How to Get Out of Harm’s Way: New Insight Across Multiple Species Into the Neural Mechanisms of Visually Guided Collision Avoidance
Location: SDCC 6E

The Brain Bash: Celebrating the International Brain Initiative

Time: 6:30pm – 9pm
Location: Marriott Marquis, Marina Ballroom F
Join us for a short presentation to learn about the International Brain Initiative (IBI) and the launch of the IBI website. All are welcome to meet and mingle over drinks and food.

A derivative-like computations underlie dopamine prediction error coding based on dynamic sensory stimuli

Speaker: HyungGoo Kim
SCGB PI: Nao Uchida
Time: 10:00am
Presentation Number: 109.09
Session: Basal Ganglia Circuitry for Motivation and Reward
Location: SDCC 2

Categorical perception: Probing top-down signaling and predictive coding

Speaker: Bin Min
SCGB PI: XJ Wang
Time: 10:30am
Presentation Number: 111.11
Session: Decision Making: Circuits and Computations
Location: SDCC 7

Neural Data Science: Accelerating the Experiment-Analysis-Theory Cycle in Large-Scale Neuroscience

Speaker: Liam Paninski
Time: 10:00am
Presentation Number: 100
Session: Special Lecture
Location: SDCC Ballroom 20

BRAIN Initiative Town Hall with BRAIN Initiative Alliance Networking Event

Time: 6:30pm – 9pm
Session: Social
Location: Marriott Marquis, San Diego Ballrooms BC
This open event will solicit input on the planning efforts of the BRAIN Initiative Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) through a public town hall and networking session.

Aversive learning processes modulate attentional bias to threat

Speaker: Toby Wise
SCGB PI: Peter Dayan
Time: 10:15am
Presentation Number: 272.1
Session: Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms of Learning and Cognition
Location: SDCC 2

Neural signatures of model-free and model-based reinforcement learning in striatum and prefrontal cortex

Speaker: Bruno Miranda
SCGB PI: Peter Dayan
Time: 9am
Presentation Number: 273.05
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

A premotor circuit engaged in flexible sensory-action mapping

Speaker: Zheng Wu
SCGB PIs: Richard Axel and Ashok Litwin-Kumar
Time: 9:30am
Presentation Number: 273.07
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Sources and mechanistic explanations for spatial navigation deficits in old age

Speaker: Mattias Stangl
SCGB PI: Ila Fiete
Time: 10:15am
Presentation Number: 274.1
Session: Human Cognition and Behavior: Spatial Learning and Navigation
Location: SDCC 23

New Computational Perspectives on Serotonin Function

Speaker: Zachary Mainen
Time: 11:30am
Presentation Number: 265
Session: Special Lecture
Location: SDCC Ballroom 20

Imaging cortical dynamics from millimeter to micron scale during evidence based decision making in rats

Speaker: Benjamin Scott
SCGB PIs: Carlos Brody and David Tank
Time: 1:00pm
Presentation Number: 359.01
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Urgency-related neural population dynamics in the dorsal premotor cortex during a reach reaction time decision-making task

Speaker: Chandramouli Chandrasekaran
SCGB PI: Krishna Shenoy
Time: 1:15pm
Presentation Number: 359.02
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Population dynamics of choice representation in dorsal premotor and primary motor cortex

Speaker: Diogo Peixoto
SCGB PIs: Krishna Shenoy and Bill Newsome
Time: 2:00pm
Presentation Number: 359.05
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Cortical computation of an economic reference point

Speaker: Christine Constantinople
SCGB PI: Carlos Brody
Time: 2:30pm
Presentation Number: 359.07
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Local and global neural correlates of a decision-making task in the mouse brain

Speaker: Nicholas Steinmetz
SCGB PIs: Matteo Carandini and Kenneth Harris
Time: 2:45pm
Presentation Number: 359.08
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Multi-dimensional, dynamic encoding, decoding, and decision making in prefrontal cortex

Speaker: Mikio Aoi
SCGB PIs: Valero Mante and Jonathan Pillow
Time: 3:15pm
Presentation Number: 359.1
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Decision Making: Prefrontal Cortex I
Location: SDCC 25

Featured Presentation: Neural Sequences in Memory and Cognition

Speaker: David Tank
Time: 3:15pm
Presentation Number: 351
Session: ALBERT AND ELLEN GRASS LECTURE: Neural Sequences in Memory and Cognition
Location: SDCC Ballroom 20

The Hippocampus Social

Co-Chair: Beth Buffalo
Time: 6:45pm
Presentation Number: SOC14
Session: Social
Location: Marriott Marquis: Grand Ballroom 8

Naturalistic texture selectivity and functional architecture in macaque visual cortex

Speaker: Corey Ziemba
SCGB PI: Tony Movshon
Time: 8:00am
Presentation Number: 450.01
Session: Vision: Contrast, Form, and Color
Location: SDCC 33

Interpretability of dynamic FC based on concurrent neuronal and hemodynamic measures

Speaker: Elizabeth Hillman
Time: 2:45pm
Presentation Number: 530.04
Session: The Dynamic Brain: Signatures of Fast Functional Reconfiguration, Their Interpretability, and Clinical Value
Location: SDCC 6B

SCGB Postdoc Meeting

Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Location: Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Coronado Room and Terrace
We will have presentations from two postdoc speakers, followed by food and beverages. Registration required; please register before November 1.

Imposing structure on odor representations during learning in OFC and mPFC

Speaker: Cristian Boboila
SCGB PI: Richard Axel
Time: 9:00am
Presentation Number: 630.05
Session: The Chemical Senses : Dynamics and Plasticity of Olfactory and Gustatory Coding
Location: SDCC 23

The coding of valence and identity in the mammalian taste system

Speaker: Li Wang
SCGB PI: Daniel Salzman
Time: 10:00am
Presentation Number: 630.09
Session: The Chemical Senses : Dynamics and Plasticity of Olfactory and Gustatory Coding
Location: SDCC 23

Probing variability in a cognitive map using manifold inference from neural dynamics

Speaker: Ryan Low
SCGB PI: David Tank
Time: 9:45am
Presentation Number: 633.08
Session: Animal Cognition and Behavior: Learning and Memory: Cortical-Hippocampal Interactions II
Location: SDCC 1

Engineering chemigenetic voltage indicators for in vivo voltage imaging

Speaker: Ahmed Abdelfattah
SCGB PIs: Misha Ahrens and Karel Svoboda
Time: 2:00pm
Presentation Number: 723.05
Session: Molecular, Biochemical, and Genetic Techniques: Molecular Techniques
Location: SDCC 25

Dopaminergic modulation at multiple time-scales in Drosophila

Speaker: Vanessa Ruta
Time: 8:35am
Presentation Number: 615.02
Session: Multiple Axes of Dopamine Systems for Behavioral Controls: From Fly Via Rodent to Monkey
Location: SDCC 6A