Fall 2020 Symposium

Advances in Systems & Computational Neuroscience

Tuesday, October 5 | 9 am – Wednesday, October 6 | 1:30 pm

Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue*

Please note: In-person registration is full. We invite you to register for the Zoom option below
*Event may move to virtual if COVID protocols require. Participants will also have the option of attending virtually.

Highlights from systems neuroscience research happening in labs across Boston University, alongside guest lectures by world-leading computational neuroscientists.

5 Oct	Event
8:15 AM	Breakfast
9:05 AM	Welcome – Michael Hasselmo, Director CSN
9:20 AM	Nancy Kopell, Boston University “How Does Deep Brain Stimulation Work For Parkinson’s Disease?”
10:00 AM	Brent Doiron, University of Chicago “Cellular mechanisms for quenching neuronal variability”
10:40 AM	Coffee
11:30 AM	Sam Gershman, Harvard University “Dopamine prediction errors are dead, long live dopamine prediction errors!”
12:10 PM	Lunch
1:50 PM	Xue Han, Boston University “Calcium and voltage imaging analysis of neural network across spatiotemporal scales during behavior”
2:30 PM	Tatiana Engel, CSHL “Latent circuits in recurrent neural networks “
3:10 PM	Coffee
4:00 PM	Jennifer Luebke, Boston University “Diversity and selective vulnerability of cortical pyramidal neurons.”
4:40 PM	Kanaka Rajan, Mount Sinai “How Brain Circuits Function in Health and Disease: Understanding Brain-wide Current Flow”
5:30 PM	Reception


6 Oct
8:15 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM	Stefano Fusi, Columbia University “The role of hippocampus in memory compression”
9:40 AM	Ila Fiete, MIT “TBA”
10:20 AM	Coffee
10:50 AM	Demba Ba, Harvard University “Sparse Coding, Artificial Neural Networks, and the Brain: Toward “Substantive Intelligence”
11:30 AM	Jerry Chen, Boston University “CRACKing Neural Circuits Underlying Behavior”
12:10 PM	Closing Remarks Chand Chandrasekaran & Ben Scott
12:20 PM	Lunch