2025 Fiji Schedule

Symposia

The Richard F. Thompson New Concepts Session
Chair: Catherine Kaczorowski
Participants: Open to all participants. Five minute PowerPoint presentations on new ideas, findings or techniques. All participants in the New Concepts session MUST load their presentation on the conference computer prior to this session. While you may bring your flash drive or memory stick to the meeting room one hour prior to the session, you are strongly encouraged to email your PowerPoint presentation prior to the meeting to the WCNP office at: wcnpmeet@gmail.com

• The Dynamic Engram in Health and Disease
  Chair: Denise Cai
  Participants: Denise Cai, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Peyman Golshani, Laura Colgin, Kay Tye.

• Plasticity vs Stability in Memory Encoding and Storage
  Chair: Jason Shepherd
  Participants: Megha Segal, Ulli Bayer, Kari Hoffman, Mazen Kheirbek and Jason Shepherd.

• Neuromodulatory Control of Internal States
  Chair: Moriel Zelikowsky
  Participants: Moriel Zelikowsky, Tina Kim, Larry Zweifel, and Ismail Ahmed.

• Shaping the Brain: Impact of Early-life Insults on Lifelong Plasticity and Behavior
  Chair: Catia M. Teixeira
  Participants: Catia M. Teixeira, Anne Wheeler, Derya Sargin, Jonathan Epp, Christoph Anacker.

• New Views of the Hippocampal Formation and the Cognitive Map
  Chair: Beth Buffalo
  Participants: Beth Buffalo, Azahara Oliva Gonzalez, Doug Nitz, Yi Gu, and Cory Miller.

• A Whole New World: How Novel Sensory Experience Guides Future Behavior
  Chair: Ames Sutton Hickey
  Participants: Monica Dus, Bianca Jones Marlin, Brian Dias, and Paule Joseph

• Neural Mechanisms of the Enhancement of Memory by Value
  Chair: Barbara Knowlton
  Participants: Arne Ekstron, Salman Qasim, Barbara Knolwton, Alison Preston, and Joey Dunsmoor

• Dendritic Mechanisms Underlying Plasticity
  Chair: Jayeeta Basu
  Participants: Huan Ma, Lucy Palmer, Sonia Gasparini, and Rishikesh Narayanan

• Applying Precision Medicine Approaches to the Study and Improvement of Age-Related Cognitive Impairment
  Chair: Carol Barnes
  Participants: Matthew Huentelman, Lee Ryan, Emily Rogalski, Bryan Strange, and Meredith Hay

• Beyond Dopamine: Multi-Neuromodulator Interactions in Striatal Circuits
  Chair: Kauê M. Costa
  Participants: Kauê M. Costa, Raffaella Tonini, Jun Ding, and Tianyi Mao