2022 Program

Program for the 2022 Meeting

November 11, 2022. All times are relative to San Diego time (Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8)

Masks are encouraged but not required

In person at Cobalt Room 501, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 1 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

Virtually at (Zoom link): https://zoom.us/j/91775380864 (password emailed)

  • 08:30 - 09:00 Registration

  • 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and sponsor recognition

  • 09:15 - 10:30 Trainee Talks (Format: 12 minutes, 3 minutes questions)

    • Sophie Griswold – Brandeis – Premature vision and the development of receptive field properties in visual cortex

    • Sigrid Traegenap – Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies – Experience drives the development of novel, reliable cortical sensory representations from endogenously structured networks

    • Dallas Khamiss – Johns Hopkins – Impact of visual experience on development of the ferret motion pathway

    • Nate Powell – U Minnesota – Cortex is Cortex is Cortex: The universality of modular correlated networks across the developing neocortex in the ferret

    • Allison Murphy - U Rochester – Rules of connectivity between ferret corticogeniculate and lateral geniculate nucleus neurons

  • 10:30 - 11:00 - Break

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Faculty talks (Format: 12 minutes, 3 minutes questions)

    • Roberto Toro - Institut Pasteur – Role of mechanical morphogenesis in the development of the organisation of the ferret neocortex

    • Hiroshi Kawasaki - Kanazawa University - Molecular mechanisms underlying the folding and expansion of the cerebral cortex

    • Ben Scholl – Penn – Mapping functional synaptic networks in ferret visual cortex

    • Matthias Kashube – Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies - Building cortical representations

    • Richard Smith – Northwestern – The voltage-gated sodium channels shape human and ferret gyrification

  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and Barbara Chapman Award

  • 14:00 - 15:30 - Tech panel (Format: 5 minute presentation, 10-15 minutes discussion)

    • Soraya Dunn – UCL – Neuropixels

    • Gordon Smith – U Minnesota – Viruses

    • Farran Briggs and Wentao Hu – Ultrasound imaging

    • Steve Van Hooser – Brandeis – Eye tracking

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Poster Session

  • 17:00 Dinner – we will all walk to Basic Pizza (410 10th Ave San Diego, CA, 92101)