Schedule

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Day 1, Wed May 20, 2020

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Session 1	Moderator: Benjamin Saunders (University of Minnesota) Co-Moderator: Ben Engelhard (Princeton University)
9:45-10am	Introduction
10-10:30 am	Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University) Dissociating reward prediction error and value in dopamine signals
10:30-11am	Jesse Goldberg (Cornell University) Male songbirds turn off their self evaluation system when they perform for females
11am- Noon	Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge) Dopamine: from movement via reward to rational choice
12-12:30pm	Breakout Session

Session 2	Moderator: John Williams (OHSU) Co-Moderator: Polina Kosillo (UC Berkeley)
12:30-1pm	Carmen Canavier (SU Health Sciences Center) What Constrains the Maximum Firing Rate in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons?
1-1:30pm	Jennifer Whistler (UC Davis) Post-endocytic sorting of D2 dopamine receptors underlies drug induced changes in synaptic and behavioral plasticity
1:30-3pm	Poster Session

Session 3	Moderator: Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy (Northwestern University) Co-Moderator: Lindsay Cameron (UC Davis)
3-4pm	Margaret Rice (NYU) Somatodendritic Dopamine Release: New Insights into Long-Standing Questions
4-4:30pm	Lin Tian (UC Davis) Multiplex interrogation of dopamine signaling with genetically encoded indicators
4-30:5pm	Ilana Witten (Princeton University) Dopamine neurons: heterogeneity, Ca++ & inferred spikes

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Session 4	Moderator: Vincent Seutin (University of Liège) Co-Moderator: Rebekah Evans (NIH/NINDS)
9:30-10am	David Kleinfeld (UCSD) Reinforcement learning will link spontaneous dopamine transients to a reward
10-10:30 am	Pascal Kaeser (Harvard University) Mechanisms for fast dopamine signaling
10:30-11am	Louis-Eric Trudeau (University of Montreal) Exploring the synaptic and non-synaptic connectivity of dopamine neurons
11am- Noon	Stephanie Cragg (University of Oxford) Axonal gating of striatal dopamine transmission
12-12:30pm	Breakout Session

Session 5	Moderator: David Lovinger (NIH/NIAAA) Co-Moderator: Didi Mamaligas (UCSF/Gladstone)
12:30-1pm	Zayd Khaliq (NIH/NINDS) GABA receptor mediated control of spiking and transmitter release from dopaminergic neuron axons
1-1:30pm	David Sulzer (Columbia University) Dopamine synapses and the regulation of synapses during behavior
1:30-3pm	Poster Session

Session 6	Moderator: Howard Fields (UCSF) Co-Moderator: Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
3-4pm	Yael Niv (Princeton University) Model-based predictions for dopamine
4-4:30pm	Joshua Dudman (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI) Dopamine modulates policy learning during associative conditioning
4-30:5pm	Josh Berke (UCSF) Dopamine firing versus dopamine release during motivated behavior.

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Session 7	Moderator: Jocelyn Richard (University of Minnesota) Co-Moderator: Alexa D'Ambra (UC Davis)
9:30-10am	Michael Frank (Brown University) Striatal dopamine computations in learning about agency
10-10:30 am	Talia Lerner (Northwestern University) Dorsal Striatal Dopamine Circuits for Habit and Compulsion
10:30-11am	Alexandra Nelson (UCSF) Striatal Mechanisms of Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
11am- Noon	Veronica Alvarez (NIH/NIAAA) Dopamine modulation of striatal microcircuitry and its behavioral implications
12-1pm	Social Hour

Session 8	Moderator: Nic Tritsch (NYU) Co-Moderator: Ali Mohebi (UCSF)
3-4pm	Vanessa Ruta (Rockefeller University) Dissecting the diverse roles of dopaminergic modulation in Drosophila
4-4:30pm	Ashok Litwin-Kumar (Columbia University) Heterogeneous dopamine signaling in the Drosophila mushroom body
4-30:5pm	Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University) Population codes and prediction errors

Track 1	Moderator: Yao Chen (Washington University) Co-Moderator: Kristen Delevich (UC Berkeley)
1:00 pm	Katlin Silm (UCSF) Storage in functionally different synaptic vesicles enables cotransmitters to encode distinct information
1:20 pm	Yanfeng Zhang (University of Oxford) Coincidence of cholinergic pauses, dopaminergic activation and depolarization drives synaptic plasticity in the striatum
1:40 pm	Sho Yagishita (University of Tokyo) Disinhibitory gating of discrimination learning and spine enlargement by dopamine D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens
2:00 pm	Elizabeth Holly (University of Pennsylvania) Striatal low-threshold spiking interneurons locally gate dopamine to facilitate goal-directed learning
2:20 pm	Christopher Vaaga (Northwestern University) Cerebellar activation of vlPAG dopamine neurons modulates synaptic inputs to freezing-related neurons.
2:40 pm	Alec Condon (Oregon Health & Science University) Heterologous plasticity and superlinearity in nigral D2 signaling

Track 2	Moderator: Jeff Beeler (CUNY) Co-Moderator: Luke Coddington (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI)
1:00 pm	Armin Lak (Oxford University of Oxford) Dopamine signals for confidence-dependent choice updating
1:20 pm	Ryan Hughes (Duke University) Ventral tegmental dopamine neurons control the impulse vector during motivated behavior
1:40 pm	Marta Blanco-Pozo (University of Oxford) Internal models of task structure shape both mesolimbic and dorsomedial striatal dopamine signals
2:00 pm	Jonnathan Singh (Duke University) Exploration to exploitation: Rapid control of motor variability by the songbird basal ganglia
2:20 pm	Johannes de Jong (UC Berkeley) Decoding neural activity in the nucleus accumbens underlying reward seeking and impulse control
2:40 pm	Andrew Kayser (UCSF) Augmenting frontal dopamine tone enhances maintenance over gating processes in working memory

Track 3	Moderator: Josh Plotkin (Stony Brooks University) Co-Moderator: Kurt Fraser (Johns Hopkins University)
1:00 pm	Nan Li (MIT) Molecular fMRI for Deciphering the Midbrain Reward System
1:20 pm	James Daniel (Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine) Imaging dopamine release from varicosities with high temporal and spatial resolution using AndromeDA nanosensor arrays
1:40 pm	Jace Jones-Tabah (McGill University) Development of FRET photometry to track dopamine receptor-dependent protein kinase signalling in Parkinson’s disease and L-DOPA induced dyskinesia
2:00 pm	Taylor Stowe (Wake Forest School of Medicine) Time-of-Day Variation in Learning, Reward-Associated Behaviors, and Rapid Dopamine Signaling
2:20 pm	Tamara Markovic (Washington University, St. Louis) Pain induces somatic adaptations in Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine neurons to drive anhedonia-like behavior
2:40 pm	Kristin Scaplen (Brown University) Circuits that encode and guide alcohol-associated preference