October 22
Hosted by MCCS
Li-Huei Tsai, Chair, Past-President of MCCS; MIT
All times are in Eastern USA Daylight Time (UTC-4).
11:00 am Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Rejuvenation
Saul Villeda, University of California, San Francisco
11:20 am Mitochondria-lysosome contact sites in neuronal homeostasis and disease.
Yvette Wong, Northwestern University
11:40 am Proteolytic processing of TGFβ provides a mechanism for precise temporal orchestration in long term memory formation
Paige Miranda, New York University
12:00 pm Heterogeneity in synaptic dynamics as a substrate for sub-second timers within neural circuits
David DiGregorio, Institut Pasteur
12:20 pm A Thalamic Orphan Receptor Drives Variability in Short Term Memory
Katie Kuangfu Hsiao, Rockefeller University
12:25 pm Intrinsic neuronal properties represent song and error in zebra finch vocal learning
Arij Daou, American University of Beirut
12:30 pm Adult-born Neurons Inhibit Developmentally-born Neurons
Alyssa Ash, University of British Columbia
12:35 pm BREAK
12:45 pm Characterizing RNA Granule-Associated Stalled Polysomes
Mina N. Anadolu, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
1:05 pm Genome folding, unfolding, and refolding in the mammalian brain.
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, University of Pennsylvania
1:25 pm Activity-dependent remodeling of chromatin and genome architecture over the lifespan of engram cells
Asaf Marco, MIT