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Day 1, Wed May 20, 2020

Livestream only || Available only until May 31, 2020 on youtube || Available indefinitely on youtube
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

Day 2, Thur May 21, 2020

Livestream only || Available only until May 31, 2020 on youtube || Available indefinitely on youtube
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.​

Day 3, Fri May 22, 2020

Livestream only || Available only until May 31, 2020 on youtube || Available indefinitely on youtube
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​

Short Talks, Fri May 22, 2020 (Parallel tracks)

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
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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
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