Program
Salk Institute Motor Symposium
November 2, 2018
| 7:30 a.m. | Bus pickup downtown | |
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Short Talk Session 1: Sensorimotor Circuits | |
| 9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Turgay Akay, Dalhousie University, Canada | Proprioceptive Control of Muscle Synergies during Normal and Cautious Walking |
| 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Aya Takeoka, KU Leuven, Belgium | Functional Local Proprioceptive Feedback Circuit Sustains Locomotor Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury |
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Sonia Paixao, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany | Identification of Spinal Neurons Contributing to the Dorsal Column Projection and Mediating Fine Touch and Corrective Motor Movements |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Graziana Gatto, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA | Dissecting the Organization and Logic of Spinal Circuits for Sensorimotor Coding |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Hendrik Wildner, University of Zurich, Switzerland | The Role of Inhibitory Pvalb Interneurons in Sensory Circuits |
| 10:30 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. | Yuanyuan Liu, Harvard Medical School, USA | Touch and Tactile Neuropathic Pain Sensitivity are set by Corticospinal Projections |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Short Talk Session 2: Interneurons, Motor Circuits and Breathing | |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Laurence Picton, Karolinska Institute, Sweden | Diversity of Glycinergic V0d Interneurons and their Function in the Zebrafish Locomotor Circuit |
| 11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Lora Sweeney, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA | Defining Inhibitory Neurons for Limb and Thoracic Movement |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Ngoc Ha, Drexel University, USA | Intrinsic Properties and Connectivity of Spinal Flexor and Extensor Rhythm Generating Neurons |
| 12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Simon Danner, Drexel University | Interactions between Spinal Circuits and Afferent Feedback to Control Locomotion at Different Speeds: Insights from Computational Modeling |
| 12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Sufyan Ashhad, University of California, Los Angeles, USA | Active Synchronization Underlies Rhythmogenesis in the preBötC Microcircuit |
| 12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Silvia Pagliardini, University of Alberta, Canada | Role of the Parafacial Respiratory Group in the Recruitment of Active Expiration During Sleep |
| 12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Lunch and Posters | |
| 2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Adam Hantman, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, USA | Neural Circuits of Dexterity |
| 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Short Talk Session 3: Supraspinal Systems and Behavior | |
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Shreyas M. Suryanarayana, Karolinska Institute, Sweden | Connectivity, Cytoarchitecture, Visual, Somatosensory and Motor Maps in the Lamprey Lateral Pallium – A Primordial Vertebrate Cortex |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Nicole Mercer Lindsay, University of California, San Diego, USA | Motor Cortex Descending Projections Drive Orofacial Behaviors through Specific Brainstem Premotor Networks |
| 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Spyridon Karadimas, University of Toronto, Canada | Sensory Cortical Control of Movement |
| 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Matthew Becker, University of Colorado, USA | Control of Reach Kinematics by the Cerebellum |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Teja Pratap Bollu, Cornell University, USA | Motor Cortex Inactivation Contracts Tongue and Forelimb Trajectories in Mice |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. | Past and Future Perspectives | |
| 5:15 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Drinks and Posters | |
| 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner | |
| 8:45 p.m. | Bus departs for downtown | |
