ALL TIMES BELOW ARE PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES)
9:00 - 9:05
Carlos Portera-Cailliau, Iryna Ethell and Anis Contractor
9:05-9:35
Synaptic specificity and developmental disorders
Beatriz Rico
King's College, London, UK
9:35 - 10:05
The anatomical properties of interneurons in autism
Verónica MartÍnez Cerdeño
UC Davis
10:05- 10:30
Rico and MartÍnez Cerdeño
Moderator: Dr. Carlos Portera-Cailliau10:30 - 11:00
Mechanisms of GABAergic circuit assembly in the somatosensory cortex
Natalia De Marco GarcĂŤa
Weill Cornell Medical College
11:00 - 11:30
Developmental dynamics of bottom-up and top-down input integration onto L1 interneurons in the sensory cortex
Gord Fischell
Harvard University
11:30 - 12:00
De Marco GarcĂŤa and Fishell
Moderator: Dr. Carlos Portera-CailliauDay 1, session 2: (please forgive us if we forgot to press "record" right away)
(includes talks by Drs. De Marco GarcĂŤa and Fishell, plus discussion #2)
Break 12:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 17:00 TRAINEE TALKS (10+5 min each)
* Clara AMEGANDJIN (Univ of Montreal)
Tara DEEMYAD (Univ of Pittsburgh)
Lara EID (Univ of Montreal)
Swetha GODAVARTHI (UC San Diego)
* Gabrielle POUCHELON (Harvard Univ)
* Samantha SUTLEY (UC Riverside)
* Wendy WANG (Univ of Toronto)
(* indicates winner of best presentation)
ALL TIMES BELOW ARE PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES)
9:00 - 9:30
Multi-modal correspondence and classification of interneurons in mouse visual cortex
Nathan Gouwens
Allen Institute
9:30 - 10:00
Conservation and innovation in primate interneuron repertoire
Fenna Krienen
Harvard University
10:00 - 10:30
Krienen and Gouwens
Moderator: Anis ContractorDay 2, sessions 1 and 2:
(includes talks by Drs. Gouwens and Krienen, plus discussion #3 followed by talks by Drs. McBain and Gandal, plus discussion #4)
10:30 - 11:00
Emergence of non-canonical parvalbumin-containing interneurons in hippocampus of a murine model of Type I lissencephaly
Chris McBain
NICHD, NIH
11:10 - 11:30
Systems-level genomic characterization of interneuron dysfunction in ASD brain
Michael Gandal
UCLA
11:30 - 12:00
McBain and Gandal
Moderator: Anis ContractorDay 2, sessions 1 and 2:
(includes talks by Drs. Gouwens and Krienen, plus discussion followed by talks by Drs. McBain and Gandal, plus discussion)
15:00 - 17:00 TRAINEE TALKS DAY 2 (10+5 min each)
* Samuel BARTH (Wake Forrest Univ)
Sara CASTAGNOLA (Univ Cote d'Azur)
Aaron GORDON (UCLA)
* Marisol JOLIN (Univ Montreal)
* Viktor OLAH (Emory Univ)
Genoveva UZUNOVA (Albert Einstein Coll of Med)
(* indicates winner of best presentation)
ALL TIMES BELOW ARE PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES)
9:00 - 9:30
Here and There, Present and Past: Who's in Control of the Hippocampus Spatial Memory System of Fmr1-null mice
Andre Fenton
New York University
9:30 - 10:00
GABAergic contributions to Rett Syndrome
Jessica Cardin
Yale University
10:00 - 10:30
Fenton and Cardin
Moderator: Iryna Ethell10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
Dissecting dysfunctional interneuron dynamics in sensory discrimination in Fragile X mice
Anu Goel
UC Riverside
11:00 - 11:30
Effects of reduced inhibition in autism on circuit function and sensory coding in mouse somatosensory cortex
Dan Feldman
UC Berkeley
11:30 - 12:00
Goel & Feldman
Moderator: Iryna Ethell11:30 - 12:00
15:00 - 17:00 TRAINEE TALKS DAY 3 (10+5 min each)
*Gabriela CARRILLO (Virgina Tech)
Trishala CHARI (UCLA)
* Tristan GELLER (Columbia)
* Lingjie HE (Baylor)
* Nazim KOURDOUGLI (UCLA)
Rosalia PATERNO (UCSF)
Carolyn SWEENEY (Harvard Univ)
(* indicates winner of best presentation)
17:00 - 18:00 Virtual Wine & Cheese for Speakers