ViDA 2021 Schedule

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Day 1, Tue June 22, 2021

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Session 1	Moderator: Naoshige Uchida (Harvard University) Co-Moderator: Sarah Starosta (Washington University in St. Louis)
9:20-9:30am	Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00 am	Melissa Warden (Cornell University) Ramping activity in midbrain dopamine neurons signifies the use of a cognitive map
10-10:30am	Mark Walton (University of Oxford) What you see is not always what you get: Asymmetric reporting and updating of value by dopamine during inference-guided choice
10:30-11am	Anne Collins (UC Berkeley) One-shot intrinsic reward valuation in humans
11-Noon	Roshan Cools (Radboud University Medical Center) Chemistry of the adaptive mind: lessons from dopamine
Noon-12:30pm	Break
12:30-2pm	Poster Session (Gathertown)

Session 2	Moderator: David Sulzer (Columbia University) Co-Moderator: Laura Grima (HHMI/Janelia Research Campus)
2-3pm	Okihide Hikosaka (NIH/NEI) Dopamine neurons prepare actions based on objects and environments
3-3:30pm	Nicolas Tritsch Neuroscience (NYU School of Medicine) State-dependent synchrony patterns striatal neuromodulation
3:30-4pm	Stephanie Borgland (University of Calgary) Optogenetic stimulation of lateral hypothalamic orexin inputs to the VTA active dopamine neurons in a circuit-specific manner to drive reward-seeking
4-4:30pm	Garret Stuber (University of Washington) Molecular and Functional Phenotyping of Habenula Circuitry
4:30-5pm	Stephan Lammel (UC Berkeley) A pain pathway that links the spinal cord to the midbrain dopamine system

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Session 3	Moderator: Paul Middlebrooks (Brain Inspired) Co-Moderator: Tim Krausz (UCSF)
9:30-10am	Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind) Deep reinforcement learning and its neuroscientific implications
10-11 am	Panel Discussion Featuring Panelists: Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind) Ilana Witten (Princeton University) Ida Momennejad (Microsoft) Ashok Litwin-Kumar (Columbia University) Armin Lak (University of Oxford) With moderator Paul Middlebrooks (creator of the Brain Inspired podcast) What can artificial intelligence teach us about how the brain uses dopamine to learn?
11-Noon	Bernardo Sabatini (Harvard Medical School) Dopaminergic control of cellular state and action selection Moderator: Rafaella Tonini (IIT) Co-Moderator: Dennis Burke (NIAAA/NIH)
Noon-12:30pm	Break
12:30-2pm	Poster Session (Gathertown)

Session 4	Moderator: Paul Philips (University of Washington) Co-Moderator: Tamara Markovic (Washington University in St. Louis)
2-3pm	Ann Graybiel (MIT) A Circuit For Controlling Dopamine
3-3:30pm	David Lovinger (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) Dopamine, Dope and Sleep
3:30-4pm	Mary Kay Lobo (University of Maryland School of Medicine) Ventral pallidum transcriptome adaptations after cocaine self-administration
4-4:30pm	Aryn Gittis (Carnegie Mellon University) Cell-Based Strategies To Promote Long-Lasting Motor Recovery Following Dopamine Depletion
4:30-5pm	Anissa Abi-Dargham (Stony Brook University) Dopamine in schizophrenia: from molecules to behavior

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Session 5	Moderator: Veronica Alvarez (NIH/NIAAA) Co-Moderator: Polina Kosillo (UC Berkeley)
9-9:30am	Jochen Roeper (Goethe University Frankfurt) Pacemaker mechanism and plasticity of DA SN neurons
9:30-10am	Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy (Northwestern University) Dopamine system dynamics and plasticity in aversive learning
10-10:30am	Bryan Roth Pharmacology (UNC Chapel Hill Medical School) * New insights into dopamine function at the molecular level *
10:30-11am	Ehud Isacoff MCB (UC Berkeley) * MP-D: cell-specific molecular gating of dopamine circuits*
11-Noon	Marisela Morales (National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIH) Diverse control of Dorsal Raphe over dopamine neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area

Session 6	Moderator: Louis Eric Trudeau (University of Montreal)
1-3pm	Selected Talks*
3-3:30 pm	Break
3:30-4:30pm	Roy Wise (NIH/NIDA) A Dopamine History
4:30-5pm	Closing Remarks

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Stream 1	Moderator: Ada Eban-Rothschild (University of Michigan) Co-Moderator: Ryan Cho (Princeton University)
1:00 pm	Miriam Matamales (University of New South Wales - Sydney) Local D2- to D1-neuron transmodulation in the striatum and its role in goal-directed learning
1:20 pm	Gabriela Izowit (Jagiellonian University) Brain state dependent responses of midbrain dopaminergic neurons’ to the aversive stimulus
1:40 pm	Kamil Pradel (Jagiellonian University) Superior colliculus controls the activity of dopaminergic system in an asymmetrical manner via both direct and indirect pathway
2:00 pm	Priscilla Ambrosi (Northwestern University) Striato-nigro-striatal Loop and Spiral Circuits Differ in their Ability to Regulate Dopamine Neuron Function
2:20 pm	Rudolf Faust (City University of New York - Queens College) Open-loop striato-nigro-striatal circuits from limbic and sensorimotor striatum trigger dopamine release in the associative striatum
2:40 pm	Vikram Gadagkar Columbia University vg2481@columbia.edu Stream 1, Talk 6 Dopamine Neurons Evaluate Natural Fluctuations in Performance Quality

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Stream 2	Moderator: Jesse Goldberg (Cornell University) Co-Moderator: Shelley Warlow (UCSD)
1:00 pm	Julie Chouinard (OIST) Striatal dopamine in time and space: effects of methylphenidate
1:20 pm	Katharina Schmack (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Striatal Dopamine Mediates Hallucination-like Perception in Mice
1:40 pm	Stephen Zhang (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Hypothalamic dopamine neurons control the motivation to mate via persistent cAMP-PKA signaling
2:00 pm	Belgin Yalcin (Stanford University) Dopaminergic Neuron Activity-regulated Myelination Modulates Reward-related Behavior
2:20 pm	Zachary Brodnik (NIH/NIDA IRP) Dopamine and GABA release from combinatorial neurons in the zona incerta play distinct but complimentary roles in threat response behavior
2:40 pm	Kim Blackwell (George Mason University) Enhancing reinforcement learning models by including direct and indirect pathways

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Stream 3	Moderator: Margaret Rice (NYU) Co-Moderator: Katlin Silm (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
1:00 pm	Ben Hobson (Columbia University) Subcellular mRNA Localization in Dopamine Neurons
1:20 pm	Robert Philips (University of Alabama at Birmingham) An atlas of transcriptionally defined cell populations in the rat ventral tegmental area
1:40 pm	Paul Kramer (NINDS) Axonal membrane potential dynamics during spontaneous and evoked cholinergic transmission onto striatal dopaminergic terminals
2:00 pm	Changliang Liu (Harvard Medical School) An ectopic firing mechanism for broadcasting dopamine signaling
2:20 pm	Yvette Fisher (University of California, Berkeley) Dopaminergic modulation of plasticity in the Drosophila compass network
2:40 pm	Alexey Ostroumov (Georgetown University) Enhanced excitability of VTA GABA circuitry facilitates phasic dopamine signaling and reward-related learning