Program
November 15, 2025
| 7:30 a.m. | Shuttle departs from downtown San Diego | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:55 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks: Martyn Goulding | |
| Opening Talk | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Ole Kiehn | Motor circuits prioritizing safety-seeking |
| Session I: Feedforward and Feedback Control | ||
| 9:45 a.m. | Teja Bollu | The cervical spinal cord constructs a neural geometry for forelimb proprioception |
| 10:00 a.m. | Akito Kosugi | Optogenetic manipulation of peripheral sensory nerve activity during reaching in non-human primates |
| 10:15 a.m. | Ayesha Thanawalla | Cerebellar outputs for rapid directional refinement of forelimb movement |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| Session II: Dynamics, Transformations, and Coordination | ||
| 11:00 a.m. | Stefan Lemke | Selective coupling and decoupling coordinate distributed brain networks for precise action |
| 11:15 a.m. | Massimo Trusel | Holistic motor control of zebra finch song syllable sequences |
| 11:30 a.m. | Evgeny Bondarenko | Subthreshold oscillations of preBötzinger Complex VGluT2+ neurons enable instantaneous modulation of inspiratory rhythm generation in vivo |
| 11:45 a.m. | Yongjie Gao | Coordinate transformation in the brainstem trigeminal nucleus |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Session | |
| Session III: Development, Diversity, and Evolution | ||
| 1:45 p.m. | Katherina Rees | Congenital loss of corticospinal connectivity in mice reveals an ancestral role in motor control beyond skilled movement |
| 2:00 p.m. | Kelsey Tyssowski | Evolutionary expansion of the corticospinal tract is linked to motor skill and flexibility |
| 2:15 p.m. | Timothy Woo | Atlasing of adult mouse spinal cord identifies dually projecting spinothalamic and spinocerebellar neurons and shared genes in injury and aging |
| 2:30 p.m. | Stavros Papadopoulos | Development and evolution of rostrocaudal spinal networks for limb vs torso control |
| Session IV: Sensorimotor Models | ||
| 2:45 p.m. | Surabhi Simha | The muscle spindle behaves as a tunable feedback controller during perturbed locomotion |
| 3:00 p.m. | Andrew Lockhart | A neurorobotic model for exploring locomotor control after recovery from thoracic spinal cord injury |
| 3:15 p.m. | Alessandro Marin Vargas | Imitation learning of dexterous hand control reveals muscle-level encoding in primate motor and somatosensory cortex |
| 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| Session V: Injury and Recovery | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | Erynn Sorensen | Regaining dexterous motor control after stroke via non-monosynaptic cortico-spinal pathways with neurostimulation |
| 4:15 p.m. | Reona Yamaguchi | Large-scaled plasticity in the motor networks involved in motor recovery from severe spinal cord injury in macaques |
| Closing Talks | ||
| 4:30 p.m. | Henrik Jörntell | Imprinting of body dynamics in the sensorimotor control circuitry |
| 5:00 p.m. | Gerald Loeb | The stuff between cortex and muscles |
| 5:30 p.m. | Reception and Poster Session | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Dinner | |
| 8:15 p.m. | Shuttle departs from Salk | |