Volen National Center for Complex Systems

September 26, 2019

4:00 PM (Arrival and Snacks)

5:00 PM 

• Erin Clark, PhD
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nelson Lab
  “Poised genes in the adult mouse brain”
• Srinivas Gorur Shandilya, PhD
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Marder Lab
  “Compensation of size change coexists with sensitivity to perturbations in a model of neuronal homeostasis"

6:00 PM (Dinner)

7:00 PM Poster Sessions A and B

9:00 PM (Social Hour)

September 27, 2019

8:00 AM (Breakfast)

9:30 AM

• Linnea Herzog (Katz and Jadhav Labs)
  “Reorganization and reactivation of a preexisting taste-responsive hippocampal network”
• Brian Cary (Turrigiano Lab)
  “Brain state modulation of synaptic plasticity: role for sleep in homeostasis and the segregation of plasticity”
• Roshan Nanu (Katz and Jadhav Labs)
  “Contribution of the BLA and Stk11 to the learning of taste aversion” 

• Chloe Greppi (Garrity Lab)
  “Ionotropic receptor function in Anopheles gambiae”

• Alejandro Torrado Pacheco (Turrigiano Lab)
  “Sleep drives downward firing rate homeostasis in V1 neurons”

• Johanna G. Flyer-Adams (Griffith Lab)
  “Pigment dispersing factor (PDF) signaling: A novel pathway for memory regulation by the circadian clock”

• Raul Ramos (Turrigiano Lab)
  “The role of homeostatic plasticity in associative learning and memory”

• Daniel Powell, (Marder Lab)
  “Interactions between two rhythmic circuits with distinct periods are maintained over a range of temperatures”

10:30 AM (Break)

10:45 AM (Color War)

12:30 PM (Lunch)

1:30 PM

• Michael O'Donnell, PhD 
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sengupta Lab)
  Brandeis University
  “Modulation of sensory behavior and food choice by an enteric bacteria-produced neurotransmitter”
• Willem Laursen, PhD
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Garrity Lab
  Brandeis University
  “A molecular driver for mosquito heat-seeking”

2:30 PM (Break)

3:00 PM

• Karla Kaun, PhD (Keynote)
  Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
  Department of Neuroscience, Brown University
  “How alcohol influences memory circuits to induce cravings”