Fall 2021 Symposium

Advances in Systems & Computational Neuroscience

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

Registration is required to attend in person!