SFN 2019 Presentations by SCGB Investigators, Fellows and Collaborators

SHORT COURSE 2: Quantifying Behavior as a Lens Into the Brain

Organizer: Bob Datta
SCGB Speakers: Anne Churchland, Andy Leifer
Time: 8am-6pm
Presentation Number: SPC02
Location: Room S100BC

SHORT COURSE 1: Neural Prosthetics and Brain Machine Interfaces

Speaker: Adrienne Fairhall
Time: 8:30am-6pm
Presentation Number: SPC03
Location: Room S100A

Meet-the-Expert: Seeing and Remembering What We’ve Seen

Speaker: Nicole Rust
Time: 9:30am
Presentation Number: SPC14
Location: Marriott Marquis – Great Lakes C

New tools for understanding distributed patterns of brain activity

Speaker: Loren Frank
Time: 2:15pm
Presentation Number: 7.04
Session: BRAIN Initiative: Cutting-Edge Tools and Resources for the Community
Location: Room S406A

Anticipation, imagination and information seeking via mid-brain, hippocampal, and prefrontal interactions

Speaker: Peter Dayan
Time: 3:45pm
Presentation Number: 18.12
Session: Neural Circuits, Memory, and Emotion
Location: Room S403

Plasticity of dopamine and PKA dynamics in the striatum during reward based learning

Speaker: Suk Joon Lee
SCGB PI: Bernardo Sabatini
Time: 4pm
Presentation Number: 12.13
Session: Neural Excitability: Regulating Synaptic Properties and Plasticity
Location: Room N426

Task-dependent changes in the large-scale dynamics and necessity of cortical regions

Speaker: Lucas Pinto
SCGB PI: David Tank/Carlos Brody
Time: 4pm
Presentation Number: 18.12
Session: Neural Circuits, Memory, and Emotion
Location: Room S403

The SCGB Postdoc Social

Time: 6pm – 10pm
Location: VU Rooftop, 133 EAST CERMAK ROAD, CHICAGO
*postdocs only*

Special Lecture: Theoretical Neuroscience: Decision Making and its Discontents

Speaker: Peter Dayan
Time: 9am
Presentation Number: 93
Location: Hall B

Professional Development: Navigating Team Science

Speaker: Anne Churchland
Time: 9am
Presentation Number: PDW08
Location: Room N227

Special Lecture: Comparative neurobiology of vocal communication

Speaker: Michael Long
Time: 1:30pm
Presentation Number: 176
Location: Hall B

Unsupervised learning of odor sequences in olfactory cortex

Speaker: Andrew Fink
SCGB PI: Richard Axel
Time: 1:15pm
Presentation Number: 192.02
Session: Information Seeking From Flies to Human
Location: Room N426

Information seeking in mice: A behavioral paradigm and imaging studies of neural circuits for the desire to know

Speaker: Jennifer Bussell
SCGB PI: Richard Axel
Time: 1:30pm
Presentation Number: 192.03
Session: Information Seeking From Flies to Human
Location: Room N426

Primates seek information to learn states of complex environments

Speaker: David Barack
SCGB PI: Daniel Salzman
Time: 2pm
Presentation Number: 192.05
Session: Information Seeking From Flies to Human
Location: Room N426

BIA SOCIAL: Tools & Tech: A BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social

Interested in cutting-edge neuroscience tools & technology? Come ‘talk shop’ with some of the leading toolmakers funded by the US BRAIN Initiative. Through the BRAIN Initiative, a broad array of these tools and resources are becoming available to the research community. This informal and interactive social is open to all SfN attendees.
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place , Regency Ballroom CD

Evidence accumulation in astrocytes for behavioral state transitions

Speaker: Yu Mu
SCGB PI: Misha Ahrens
Time: 8:15am
Presentation Number: 266.02
Session: Astrocyte Networks Controlling Brain Function and Behavior
Location: Room S103

Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience: From Neural Dynamics to Artificial Agents

Session Chair: Maneesh Sahani
Time: 8:30am
Presentation Number: 261
Location: Room S406A

Identifying internal states that guide natural behavior

Speaker: Adam Calhoun
Time: 8:30am
Presentation Number: 269.03
Session: Neural Mechanisms for Controlling Continuous Action
Location: Room S403

Unsupervised and continuous mapping of behavioral variation

Speaker: Ryan York
SCGB PI: Thomas Clandinin
Time: 8:45am
Presentation Number: 269.04
Session: Neural Mechanisms for Controlling Continuous Action
Location: Room S403

Multi-area mechanisms of flexible behavior

Speaker: Marlene Cohen
Time: 10:15am
Presentation Number: 259.07
Session: Insights Into Neural Coding and Behavior From Large-Scale Population Recordings Across Cortical Areas
Location: Room S406B

The flexible generation of a stable heading representation in diverse visual scenes

Speaker: Sung Soo Kim
SCGB PI: Shaul Druckmann
Time: 10:15am
Presentation Number: 271.1
Session: Learning and Memory: Genes and Signaling
Location: Room S104

Special Lecture- Neural Mechanisms of Short-Term Memory and Motor Planning

Speaker: Karel Svoboda
Time: 10:30am
Presentation Number: 255
Location: Hall B

Teaching Computation in Neuroscience

Speaker: Adrienne Fairhall
Time: 12pm
Presentation Number: PDW16
Session: Professional Development Workshops
Location: Room N227

Midbrain dopamine neurons contribute to spatial working memory during the delay period

Speaker: Jung Yoon Choi
SCGB PI: Ilana Witten
Time: 1:45pm
Presentation Number: 359.04
Session: Subcortical Circuitry in Reward, Motivation, and Aversion
Location: Room S505

Medial and lateral VTA DA neurons have distinct temporal control during fear extinction

Speaker: Lili Cai
SCGB PI: Ilana Witten
Time: 2pm
Presentation Number: 359.05
Session: Subcortical Circuitry in Reward, Motivation, and Aversion
Location: Room S505

A macroscopic gradient of value and choice representations in a large-scale model of the multi-regional mammalian cortex

Speaker: Ulises Pereira
SCGB PI: Xiao-Jing Wang
Time: 3pm
Presentation Number: 361.09
Session: Decision Making
Location: Room S404

Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture- Neural Learning Rules in the Cerebellum

Speaker: Jennifer Raymond
Time: 3:15pm
Presentation Number: 350
Location: Hall B

Designing genetically encoded voltage indicators for in vivo imaging

Speaker: Ahmed Abdelfattah
SCGB PI: Misha Ahrens, Karel Svoboda
Time: 1:45pm
Presentation Number: 547.04
Session: New Technologies for Imaging Neuronal Structure and Activity
Location: Room S106

Event segmentation reveals working memory forgetting rate

Speaker: Anna Jafarpour
SCGB PI: Beth Buffalo
Time: 2pm
Presentation Number: 546.05
Session: Working Memory: Mechanisms II
Location: Room S402

Special Lecture: Extracting Function from Structure: Lessons from the Fly Connectome

Speaker: Gerald Rubin
Time: 12pm
Presentation Number: 708
Location: Hall B