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9:30 AM Breakfast reception
10:00 AM Introduction
10:05 AM Rudy Behnia (Columbia University) - Wavelength processing and spectral opponency in Drosophila
10:45 AM Elise Savier (University of Virginia) - Locomotion-independent encoding of visual motion in the superior colliculus
11:00 AM Mahmut Demir (Yale University) - Visualized odor encounters show how navigation is driven by whiff timing
11:15 AM Coffee Break reception
11:45 AM Priya Rajasethupathy (The Rockefeller University) - Prefrontal contributions to memory processing
12:25 PM Estefania Azevedo (The Rockefeller University) - The role of Drd2 hippocampal neurons in context-dependent food intake
12:40 PM Gonzalo Otazu (New York Institute of Technology) - Odor identification in the presence of novel background odors: olfactory captchas
12:55 PM Lunch Break reception / Poster Session / Exhibitors visit
3:00 PM Adrián Rodriguez-Contreras (The City College of New York) - Developmental plasticity in the auditory brainstem: From neural cells
to blood vessels, and why you should care
3:40 PM Arnab Barik (National Institutes of Health) - A brainstem-spinal circuit controlling nocifensive behavior
3:55 PM Erin Glennon (New York University) - Neuromodulation enhances plasticity in a rodent model of cochlear implant use
4:10 PM Coffee Break reception
4:40 PM David Schneider (New York University) - Neural activity in mouse auditory cortex reflects expectations and violations
5:20 PM Nikolai M. Chapochnikov (Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation) - Does the fly know PCA? Evidence for whitening from connectomics
and neural activity in olfaction
5:35 PM Chris Rodgers (Columbia University) - The sensorimotor strategies and neuronal representations of whisker-based object recognition in mice
5:55 PM Closing Remarks
6:15 PM Reception at Albion Bar (575 2nd Avenue between 31st and 32nd street - MAP)