Neuroscience 2022 speaker Gina_Poe

Sleep for Cognition, Memory, and Mental Health in Females and Males Across the Lifespan
...functions of slow wave sleep, memory transfer mechanisms during sleep spindles, the potentiation power of P-waves, and circuit remodeling during REM sleep and mental health conditions affected by variations in sleep features

Integrative Physiology and Behavior

Gina R. Poe, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Nadine_Gogolla

Disentangling the Neural Basis of Emotion

...emotion states from their behavioral and bodily expressions, and revealing their neural basis in animal models...

Motivation and Emotion

Nadine Gogolla, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Ardem_Patapoutian

How Do You Feel? The Molecules That Sense Touch

... PIEZO1 and PIEZO2, pressure-activated cation channels. Genetic studies established that PIEZO2 is the principal mechanical transducer for touch, proprioception, baroreception, and bladder stretch, and that PIEZO1 mediates many mechanosensory roles throughout the body...

Sensory Systems

Ardem Patapoutian, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Kaoru_Inokuchi

Idling Brain: From Engram to Behavior

... how memory engram cells contribute to cognitive process during idling state, thereby highlighting the power of the idling brain in cognition...

Cognition

Kaoru Inokuchi, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Frank_Bradke

Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration

...Exploiting the underlying mechanisms of this process enables activating neuronal regenerative programs under pathological conditions, such as spinal cord injury....

Neurodegenerative Disorders and Injury

Frank Bradke, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Viviana_Gradinaru

Gene Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier for Precise and Minimally-Invasive Study and Repair of Nervous Systems
... By understanding how engineered capsids work and leveraging them as vehicles for targeted gene delivery via the vasculature, we are now closer to precise noninvasive study and repair of nervous systems...

Techniques

Viviana Gradinaru, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Kamran_Khodakhah

Cerebellar Interactions With the Basal Ganglia: Does This Thing Come With an Instruction Manual?

... The cerebellum and the basal ganglia are two brain regions.. recent evidence demonstrates the presence of a rich set of direct connections between these two regions...

Motor Systems

Kamran Khodakhah, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Huda_Akil

Neuroscience Redefines the Stress Concept: From "Fight or Flight" to Neuroplasticity and Affective Disorders

...Neuroscience has redefined the concept more broadly as an ongoing, adaptive process of assessing the environment, coping with it, and enabling the individual to anticipate and deal with future challenges...

History, Education, and Society

Huda Akil, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Amita_Sehgal

The Basis of Sleep: What We Are Learning From Small Animal Models

... The lecture will focus largely on advances made in Drosophila and the extent to which these inform our understanding of sleep...

Integrative Physiology and Behavior

Amita Sehgal, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Scott_Waddell

Drosophila Reveals Operational Principles of Memory Systems

.... This lecture will discuss findings that may illuminate general principles of memory systems...

Integrative Physiology and Behavior

Motivation and Emotion

Scott Waddell, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Hongkui_Zeng

Understanding Brain Cell Type Diversity

...These studies reveal extraordinary cellular diversity and underlying rules of brain organization and lay the foundation for unraveling mechanisms of circuit function...

Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia

Hongkui Zeng, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Silvia_Arber

Circuits for Body Movements

.... It will show that dedicated circuit modules in different regions of the brainstem and their interactions within the motor system play key roles in the generation of diverse actions...

Motor Systems

Silvia Arber, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Tiago_Branco

The Neurobiology of Escaping From Predators

...At the other, evading predators might rely on coordinating sensory, motor and memory systems to rapidly navigate to a known safe place...

Integrative Physiology and Behavior

Tiago Branco, MD, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Matteo_Carandini

Organization of Neuronal Activity Across the Brain

...signals related to engagement, movements, and navigation, which were thought to be localized, are distributed across the entire cortex or even the entire brain. Mathematical and transcriptomic techniques help understand how these brainwide signals interact with local signals...

Sensory Systems

Matteo Carandini, PhD

Neuroscience 2022 speaker Kafui_Dzirasa

Mapping and Rewiring Neural Circuits Underlying Emotions

...we developed a novel class of electrical synapses. We then validated these electrical synapses in vivo using C. elegans, and deployed them in mice to modify emotional behavior...

Motivation and Emotion

Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD