Salk Neuroscience Symposium Program
| 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast pastries / check in |
| 9:55 a.m. | Welcome Remarks Sam Pfaff and Ed Callaway, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 10:00 a.m. | Eve Marder, Brandeis University Cryptic changes to degenerate neurons and circuits elicited by environmental perturbations |
| 10:30 a.m. | Michael A. Thornton, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Gage Lab and Reynolds Lab) Towards precise population-wide plasticity in human biological neuronal networks |
| 10:50 a.m. | Sai Krishna Bhamidipati, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Callaway Lab) Cell-type-specific rules of fine-scale connectivity revealed by dense EM reconstruction of mouse visual cortex |
| 11:10 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11:30 a.m. | Weizhe Hong, UC Los Angeles The neuroscience of prosocial behavior: From helping and cooperation to social Al |
| 12:00 p.m. | Sounak Mohanta, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Tye Lab) Trust yourself or follow the group: neural and computational mechanisms of collective decision making |
| 12:20 p.m. | Kee Wui Huang, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Azim Lab) A pre-cerebellar hub for spinal efference copies enables predictive control for rapid and precise forelimb movement |
| 12:40 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Markus Meister, Caltech Rapid learning and life-long memory of a complex task |
| 2:00 p.m. | Eric Leonardis, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Pereira Lab) Musculoskeletal imitation and transfer learning of mouse forelimb reaching behavior |
| 2:20 p.m. | Lingyan Shi, UC San Diego Multimodal nanoscopy for studying lipid metabolic dynamics at subcellular resolution |
| 2:50 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:10 p.m. | Krissy Lyon, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Allen Lab) Astrocyte SEMAC reduction improves Rett Syndrome phenotypes |
| 3:30 p.m. | Xin Jin, Scripps Research Towards a functional brain genome |
| 4:00 p.m. | David Kleinfeld, UC San Diego What the brain vascular connectome does and does not inform us about neurovascular and flow dynamics |