Conference Program

All talks will be streamed via Zoom. If you'd like to watch virtually at any time, please use the following link: https://umn.zoom.us/j/97845647112

August 20th, 2024

Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center

Registration/Breakfast
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Welcome
Time: 9:00 - 9:15 AM

Keynote
Time: 9:15 - 10:00 AM
Speaker: Jonathan Winawer, PhD - Understanding Circuits in the Human Visual Cortex through Analysis of Field Potentials

Break
Time: 10:00 - 10:15 AM

Session 1: Speech/Language Decoding/Auditory

Session Chair: Gordon Smith, PhD
Intro: 10:15 - 10:20 AM

  • 10:20 AM: Cross-lingual semantic representations in the human brain - Fatma Deniz, PhD
  • 10:40 AM: Deep Neural Networks Explain Spiking Activity in Auditory Cortex - Joseph Makin, PhD
  • 11:00 AM: Neural Speech Decoding Leveraging Deep Learning and Speech Synthesis - Yao Wang, PhD
  • 11:20 AM: Auditory computation is constrained and organized by diverse, specialized, and time-limited integration windows - Samuel Norman-Haigneré, PhD (Virtual)

Lunch
Time: 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM

Session 2: Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation 

Session Chair: Alexander Opitz, PhD
Session Intro: 12:40 - 12:45 PM

  • 12:45 PM: Single pulse white matter stimulation modulates neural responses in human visual cortex - Dora Hermes, PhD
  • 1:05 PM: Understanding the function of state-regulated cholinergic neuromodulation for hippocampal memory consolidation - Sara Aton, PhD
  • 1:25 PM: Brain Stimulation Modeling at the Microscopic Scale - Gregory Noetscher, PhD
  • 1:45 PM: NeMo-TMS: Multiscale Neuron Modeling for TMS, from field induction to electrical and biochemical cellular responses - Gillian Queisser, PhD

Break
Time: 2:05 - 2:35 PM

Session 3: Vision 

Session Chair: Dora Hermes, PhD
Session Intro: 2:35 - 2:40 PM

  • 2:40 PM: Deciphering the evolution of cell type in the vertebrate retina - Karthik Shekhar, PhD
  • 3:00 PM: Population encoding of stimulus features: cortex and retina - Steven Zucker, PhD
  • 3:20 PM: Increase in dimensionality and sparsification of neural activity over development across diverse cortical areas - Matthias Kaschube, PhD
  • 3:40 PM: Understanding the time course and spatial biases of natural scene segmentation - Ruben Coen-Cagli, PhD

Break
Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM

Poster Session + Reception
Time: 4:30 - 7:00 PM

 

August 21st, 2024

Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center

Registration/Breakfast
Time: 8:00 - 8:30 AM

Funders Discussion
Time: 8:30 - 9:15 AM

Speakers:

  • ANR - Tia Maurice, PhD (Virtual)
  • BMBF - Sophia Schach, PhD & Jessica Rosenberg, PhD (Virtual)
  • NICT - Hiroshi Ban, PhD (Virtual)
  • NIH - Siavash Vaziri, PhD (Virtual)

  • NSF - Kenneth Whang, PhD

     

Keynote
Time: 9:15 - 10:00 AM
Speaker: Caterina Stamoulis, PhD - Sparse Control of the Developing and Developed Human Connectome

Break
Time: 10:00 - 10:30 AM

Session 4: Neural Networks and Encoding 

Session Chair: Dora Hermes, PhD
Session Intro: 10:30 - 10:35 AM

  • 10:35 AM: How cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic subnetworks can shift decision policies to maximize reward rate - Timothy Verstynen, PhD
  • 10:55 AM: Coordinating learning by top-down gating of plasticity in dendrites - Aaron Milstein, PhD
  • 11:15 AM: Analysis and modeling of traveling wave patterns in human LFP - Bard Ermentrout, PhD
  • 11:35 AM: Biologically-Realistic Spiking Neural Networks for Neuromorphic Computing Hardware - Gina Adam, PhD

Lunch
Time: 11:55 AM - 12:55 PM

Session 5: Brain Signals, Analysis 

Session Chair: Gordon Smith, PhD
Session Intro: 12:55 - 1:00 PM

  • 1:00 PM: Neural Sequences as an Optimal Dynamical Regime for the Readout of Time - Sotiris Masmanidis, PhD
  • 1:20 PM: Integrative explanatory modeling for modern systems neuroscience - Mikail Rubinov, PhD
  • 1:40 PM: Trained models of animal behavior in complex tasks - Cristina Savin, PhD
  • 2:00 PM: Disentangling signal and noise in neural responses through generative modeling - Kendrick Kay, PhD

Break
Time: 2:20 - 2:50 PM

Session 6: Brain Structure; Brain Atlas 

Session Chair: Prodromos Daoutidis, PhD
Session Intro: 2:50 - 2:55 PM

  • 2:55 PM: Differential Structural and Functional Connectivity in Sulci and Gryi - Moo Chung, PhD
  • 3:15 PM: Circuit neuroscience in zebrafish with next-generation brain atlas resources - Herwig Baier, PhD
  • 3:35 PM: A novel model to capture the flexibility of goal-directed decision-making - Amitai Shenhav, PhD
  • 3:55 PM: Exploring Neural Pathways: AI Methods in DIPY for Advanced Neuroanatomical Studies - Eleftherios Garyfallidis, PhD

Closing
Time: 4:15 - 4:25 PM