December 6
Hosted by MCCS-Asia
Satoshi Kida, Chair, President of MCCS-Asia; University of Tokyo
All times are in Eastern USA Daylight Time (UTC-4).
8:00 pm Welcome
Jennifer Raymond, President of MCCS; Stanford University
8:05 pm A neural circuit for visuomotor transformation in the frontal cortex
Seung-Hee Lee, KAIST, South Korea
8:25 pm The roles of REM sleep in brain maintenance
Yu Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
8:45 pm Growth regulatory mirnas in neuroplasticity and development
Mollie Meffert, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
9:05 pm Mechanisms underlying the ontogeny of episodic-like memory in mice
Adam Ramsaran, University of Toronto, Canada
9:25 pm Ensemble encoding of conditioned fear by prefrontal somatostatin interneurons
Kirstie A Cummings, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
9:30 pm Regulation of gene expression in neurons by bivalent chromatin marks
Celeste B. Greer, Vanderbilt University, USA
9:35 pm BREAK
9:45 pm Mineralocorticoid receptors are required for the development and maintenance of CA2’s molecular profile and for CA2-dependent behavior
Serena M. Dudek, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, USA
10:05 pm Gating of hippocampal rhythms and memory by synaptic plasticity in inhibitory interneurons
Huan Ma, Zhejiang University, China
10:25 pm Molecular optogenetics: tool development and applications to neuroscience
Won Do Heo, KAIST, South Korea
10:45 pm Anterior thalamic dysfunction underlies cognitive deficits in psychiatric disease models
Dheeraj Roy, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA