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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 |
Day 2, Wed June 23, 2021
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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 |
Day 3, Thursday June 24, 2021
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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 |
Selected Talks, Thursday June 24, 2021 (Parallel Streams)
Livestream only || Available only until June 30, 2021 on youtube || Available indefinitely on youtube
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 [email protected] 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 |