16th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
Chairs: Ed Callaway and Gabe Silva

9:00 am -- 16th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research: Introduction
Yishi Jin, Co-Director, KIBM
Chair: Ed Callaway, Co-Director, KIBM

9:15am -- From worms to mice: protecting neuronal function under stress
Yue Sun, Biological Sciences / Erin Ritchie, Biomedical Sciences

9:30am -- Predicting infection outcome using nongenetic differences in brain structure
Robert Gallant, Salk & UCSD Biological Sciences

9:45am -- Microbiome and the associated neuroactive potential in brain health
Gajender Aleti, Psychiatry

10:00am -- Neural Sensitivity to Grammatical Structure
Arturs Semenuks, Cognitive Science

10:15am -- Bridging Electrophysiological Scales in a Rat Auditory Paradigm
Teryn Johnson, Cognitive Science

10:30am Break
Chair: Gabe Silva, Associate Director, KIBM

10:45am -- From neurotransmitter switching to behavior: optimizing imaging and
molecular biology tools to shed light on a missing link in neuroplasticity
Marta Pratelli, Neurobiology Section, Biological Science

11:00am -- Breathe slowly, and experience tranquility - bifurcate top-down breathing circuits
Jinho Jhang, Salk Institute, Peptide Biology Lab (PBL-H)

11:15am -- Characterization of the activity and roles of neurological disorder-linked chromatin regulators
Lauren Hodge, Bioengineering

11:30am -- Small changes in the genome, big leaps in brain structure for humankind: Contributions of uniquely human traits to brain development
Carolina Makowski, Radiology

11:45am -- Quantifying gut instincts: understanding the coupling between electrical signals from the gut and the brain during cognition
Pragathi Priyadharsini Balasubramani, Psychiatry

12:00 Break

INC Spring Retreat on Cognitive Neuroscience
Chairs: Eric Halgren and Terrence Sejnowski

12:25pm -- NIMH Training Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium
Chair – Eric Halgren

12:30 PM -- Jia Xiaoxuan
Tracking information flow in the mouse visual areas

1:30 PM -- Cris Neill
Cortical processing for natural vision

2:30 PM -- Break

2:40 PM -- Jordan Hamm
A circuit for deviance detection in primary visual cortex

3:40pm -- Blitz Talks by predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows, UCSD
> Mia Borzello - What is the Dentate Gyrus Good For? A Role in Spatial Pattern Separation
> Jacob Garrett - Spectral Correlates of Opioid Medication and Pain Relief in Intracranial EEG
> Christopher Gonzalez - Sleep spindle variability across the human cortex
> Tim Sainburg - Temporal context-dependence in the categorical perception of birdsong
> Tim Sheehan - The influence of sensory history on visual processing and perception
> Leila Fakhraei - Electrophysiological Correlates of Rodent Default-Mode Network Suppression
Revealed by Large-Scale Local Field Potential Recordings
> Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp - Phasor Networks for Biologically-Inspired AI

4:15pm -- Q & A Session with Blitz Talk Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows
4:30 pm -- Terrence Sejnowski, closing remarks

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