February 10, 2023
9:00 Welcome
Harel Shouval, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston and Suzanne Tomlinson, Gulf Coast Consortia
Session I
Moderator: Xaq Pitkow, Rice Univ./Baylor College of Medicine
9:10-10:00 Flexible Identification of Cognitive Computations from Spikes
Tatiana Engel, Princeton Univ.
10:00-:10:40 Under Pressure: The Role of PIEZO ion Channels in Interoception
Kara Marshall, Texas Children’s Hospital
10:40-10:55 Break
Session II
Moderator: Kreso Josic, Univ. of Houston
10:55-11:45 Neural Mechanism of Optimal Performance
Luca Mazzucato, Univ. of Oregon
11:45-12:25 Electrophysiologically-anchored Analysis of Synaptic Dysfunction and Cognitive Deficits in the Continuum of Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Syndrome
Agenor Limon, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
12:25-1:25 Lunch Break & networking
Session III
Moderator: Itzel Olivos Castillo, Rice Univ.
1:25-2:15 The Origins of Irregular Spiking in the Neocortex
Nicholas Priebe, Univ. of Texas
2:15-2:55 A Lens into Cognition: The Geometry and Topology of Neural Systems
Evelyn Tang, Rice Univ.
Session IV
Moderator: Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine
2:55 – 3:15 Poster highlights
Phase Transitions in When Feedback is Useful
Lokesh Boominathan, Rice University Poster 2
Pattern Dynamics of Brain Waves affected by Alzheimer’s Disease
Clarissa Hoffman, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston Poster 5
Bounded Rational Control When Confidence is Costly
Itzel Olivos Castillo, Rice University Poster 8
Role of Inactivating Potassium Current in Contrast-Dependent Collision Detection
Gil Shaulsky, Baylor College of Medicine Poster 9
A Deep Learning Approach to Naturalistic Tunings
Mitchell Slapik, McGovern Medical School Poster 11
Cholinergic Modulation Of Firing Rate In CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Via TRPM4 Channel
Activation: A Combined Modeling And Electrophysiology Approach
Carol Upchurch, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Poster 12
Conditioning with Mixed Representations in Heteroassociative Neural Networks Trained with Three-Factor Predictive Plasticity
Pantelis Vafidis, Caltech Poster 13
Intentional Activation of Arbitrary Hippocampal Place Cells in Rats
Yan Yu, Baylor College of Medicine Poster 14
Long-term Large-scale Tracking of Same Neuron Populations with Ultraflexible Oversampling Electrode Array in Mice Visual Cortex
Hanlin Zhu, Rice University Poster 15
3:15 – 4:05 Posters (event hall)
Moderator: Harel Shouval, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston
4:10-5:00 The Pervasiveness of Abstract Disentangled Representational Geometry in the Brain
Stefano Fusi, Columbia Univ.
5:00 Closing Remarks-reception