Program
Brain interfaces - bridging basic and translational neuroscience Program
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| 18:00-21:00 | Day 1 - January 2nd, 2018
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Registration & coffee
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| 19:00-21:00 |
Cocktail dinner at the David Lopatie Conference Centre lobby
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| 08:30-09:15 | Day 2 - January 3rd, 2018
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| 08:30-09:00 |
Registration & coffee
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| 09:00-09:15 |
Opening remarks by
Dr. Ofer Yizhar Prof. Benjamin Geiger Ms. Levia Passwell |
| 09:15-10:45 | Plenary session
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| 09:15-10:15 |
Joshua Gordon, MD Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Challenges and opportunities in translational neuroscience
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| 10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break
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| 10:45-18:30 | Session 1: Manipulating cognition, from humans to rodents
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| 10:45-11:15 |
Itzhak Fried , University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Tel-Aviv University and Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Invasive neuromodulation of memory circuits in humans
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Inbal Goshen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recent and remote traumatic memory - the contribution of glia and neurons
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| 11:45-12:15 |
Marie Carlen , Karolinska Institute
The control of attention - connectivity and function of inhibitory interneurons in the prefrontal cortex
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| 12:15-12:45 |
Antoine Adamantidis , University of Bern
Optogenetic control of sleep oscillations - circuit mechanism for cognition and stroke recovery
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| 12:45-13:00 |
Ben Shofty , Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Mapping original thinking by differential modulation of large-scale cortical networks: functional preservation of creativity in low-grade glioma patients
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| 13:00-14:30 |
Lunch and poster session
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| 14:30-16:15 | Session 2: Motivational circuits and their disruption in mood disorders
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Christian Luscher, University of Geneva
Optogenetic dopamine neuron self-stimulation: a novel addiction model
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Dinos Meletis, Karolinska Institute
The role of discrete habenula inputs in aversion
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| 15:30-15:45 |
Carolina Gutierrez , University of Bern
Multitasking properties of Hypothalamic inhibitory neurons: sleep and metabolism
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| 15:45-16:15 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:15-17:30 | Session 3: Focus on epilepsy: circuit adaptations and closed-loop approaches
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| 16:15-16:45 |
Itzhak Schiller, Technion Institute of Technology & Rambam Health Care Campus
Dynamics of excitatory pyramidal neurons and inhibitory interneurons during initiation of chemo-convulsant induced neocortical epileptic seizures in-vivo
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| 16:45-17:15 |
Jeanne Paz, University of California San Francisco
Bi-directional modulation of cortical rhythms by real-time switch in thalamic firing mode
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| 17:15-17:30 |
Frances Cho , UCSF/Gladstone Institutes
Transcriptomic analysis of reactive astrocytes and microglia in the thalamus reveals functional deficits linked to circuit excitability
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| 08:30-19:00 | Day 3 - January 4th, 2018
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| 08:30-09:00 |
Registration & coffee
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| 09:00-11:00 | Session 4 : New technologies for brain stimulation and recording
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| 09:00-09:30 |
Itamar Kahn, Technion Institute of Technology
From mapping to mechanisms: Whole-brain mouse fMRI in health and disease
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| 09:30-10:00 |
Polina Anikeeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Tools to Study the Nervous System
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Valentina Emiliani, Universite Paris-Descartes
Two-photon optogenetics with millisecond temporal precision and single cell resolution
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00-13:45 | Session 5: Circuits for behavioral control and disease-associated dysregulation
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Hagai Bergman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The sleeping basal ganglia ? It is time to wake up
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Eric Burguiere, Brain and Spine Institute (INSERM), Paris
Translational approach to study the neurophysiological basis of repetitive behaviors
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Panel discussion: Prospects for translating circuit-based neuroscience
discoveries
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| 12:30-13:45 |
Lunch
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| 13:45-15:30 | Session 6: Recording and manipulating fear and anxiety circuits
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| 13:45-14:15 |
Amit Etkin, Stanford University & VA Mental Illness Research Center
A Circuits-First Approach to Mental Illness
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| 14:15-14:45 |
Rony Paz , Weizmann Institute of Science
Models of maladaptive learning and the primate amygdala
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| 14:45-15:00 |
Nicolas Panayotis , Weizmann Institute of Science
Importin alpha5 Regulates Anxiety through MeCP2, LXR Nuclear Receptors and Sphingosine Kinase 1
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 15:30-18:00 | Session 7: Neural circuits for social cognition and autism-associated dysfunction
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Ziv Williams, Harvard University & Massachusetts General Hospital
Neural modulation of social behavior
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Doron Gothelf, Tel Aviv University & Sheba Medical Center
Pathways leading to psychosis in 22q11 deletion syndrome
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| 16:30-17:00 |
Daniel Salzman, Columbia University
Shared neural coding for social hierarchy and reward value in primate amygdala
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| 17:00-17:30 |
Boaz Barak, Tel Aviv University
Altered neuron-glia interactions as a novel pathophysiological approach in Williams syndrome
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| 17:30-18:00 |
Closing remarks
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