Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium
Salk Institute, La Jolla
| 12:00 p.m. | Registration Opens in the Foyer |
| 12:30 p.m. | Opening Remarks – Nicola Allen |
| 12:35 p.m. | Daniel Bayless, Assistant Professor Dissecting the discrete brain circuits that temper aggressive impulses |
| 1:00 p.m. | David Acton, Staff Scientist, Goulding Lab A mechanism of somatosensory dysfunction during aging |
| 1:25 p.m. | Joe Herdy, Staff Scientist, Gage Lab Cytoplasmic DNA sensing links LINE-1 expression to neuronal senescence in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 1:50 p.m. | Lara Labarta Bajo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Allen Lab The Type I Interferon pathway drives astrocyte aging and motor decline |
| 2:15 p.m. | Ayesha Rustom Thanawalla, Senior Research Associate, Azim Lab Cerebellar outputs for rapid directional refinement of forelimb movement |
| 2:40 p.m. | Talmo Pereira, Assistant Professor Towards virtual neuroethology |
| 3:05 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Francis H. Crick Endowed Salk Symposium Keynote David Julius, UC San Francisco Structural energetics of temperature sensation Introduction by Greg Lemke |
| 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 4:45 p.m. | Reception in the Foyer |