Chen Institute Retreat 2019
The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech hosted its second annual Chen Institute Retreat on March 29 - 31, 2019 at the picturesque UCLA Conference Center in Lake Arrowhead. The retreat brought together the Caltech neuroscience community with a mix of scientific talks and social activities.
Attendees at the retreat included 11 Chen Graduate Fellows, past and present, 14
first-year graduate students, 23 faculty, 43 graduate students second year and above, 32
postdocs and 8 scientific staff lab members. Attendees represented 24 labs across 4 academic divisions providing a diverse range of neuroscience topics. Over 50 of the graduate students (year 2 and
above), postdocs and scientific staff presented a
poster during one of the retreat's two poster sessions. Click here for the posters presented.
Agenda
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Friday, March 29 |
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4:00PM |
Check-in begins |
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6:30PM |
DINNER |
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8:00PM |
Richard Mooney How Movement Modulates Hearing |
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8:30PM |
Poster Session with beer and wine social |
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10:30PM |
End of Day 1 |
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Saturday, March 30 |
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8:00AM |
BREAKFAST |
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9:05AM |
Pietro Perona Decisions, one spike at a time |
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9:30AM |
Kai Zinn Wiring the nervous system according to Roger Sperry: how do neuronal type- specific cell surface proteins control the assembly of neural circuits? |
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9:50AM |
Yuki Oka Functional interaction among appetite, satiation, and pleasure in the brain |
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10:10AM |
Sofia Sakellaridi Predicting learning performance in a brain-machine interface study with a tetraplegic human |
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10:30AM |
BREAK |
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11:15AM |
Grigorios Oikonomou Serotonergic regulation of sleep |
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11:35AM |
Daniel Wagenaar Neural activity and connectomics of motor control in the medicinal leech |
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12:00PM |
LUNCH |
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1:00PM |
FREE TIME |
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4:00PM |
Mikhail Shapiro Biomolecular Ultrasound for Neuroscience |
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4:20PM |
Betty Hong Lateral information flow at the earliest stages of sensory processing |
4:40PM |
Allan-Hermann Pool Function - cell-type mapping in the mammalian thirst circuit |
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5:00PM |
Azita Emami Machine Learning for Implantable BMI |
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5:30PM |
Poster Session with beer and wine social |
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6:30PM |
DINNER |
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8:00PM |
EVENING HIKE |
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8:30PM |
BONFIRE |
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10:30PM |
End of Day 2 |
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Sunday, March 31 |
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8:00AM |
BREAKFAST |
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9:10AM |
David Anderson Neural mechanisms underlying persistant internal states |
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9:30AM |
Anat Kahan Estrus cycle control via VIP neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in female mice |
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9:50AM |
Paul Sternberg Worm Neuroeconomics |
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10:10AM |
Caroline Charpentier Arbitration between imitation and emulation during human observational learning |
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10:30AM |
BREAK |
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11:00AM |
Cindy Hagan Elucidating the role of anxiety and introspective signaling in anorexia nervosa |
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11:20AM |
Valentine Svensson Methods for spatial transcriptomics analysis |
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11:40AM |
Colin Camerer Aversion to perceived losses in the brain and in behavior |
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12:00PM |
FAREWELL LUNCH |