DFG International Event
'Subcortico-cortical loops in sensory processing and perception'
- Hybrid Conference -
June 8th to 10th 2022
Physical location: Hörsaal der Nervenklinik, Bonhoefferweg 3, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin
Virtual location: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/loops-seminars/
WEDNESDAY
9:00
Opening Remarks
Session 1 Chair: Philipp van Kronenberg, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
9:20
James Poulet
Max Delbrueck Center, Berlin, Germany
'Neural circuits of thermal perception'
10:00
Huizhong Tao
Keck School of medicine, USC, Los Angeles, USA
'Modulation of Visual Cortical Processing by a Higher-Order Thalamic Nucleus'
10:40
Matthew Larkum
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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11:20
Break
11:40
Markus Rothermel
Dept. Chemosensation, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
'Influence of cortical and neuromodulatory loops on sensory information processing and perception in the mouse olfactory system'
12:20
Mathieu Wolff
Aquitaine Inst. Cog. & Integrative Neurosc., Bordeaux Univ., France
'Thalamocortical circuits from neuroanatomy to cognitive processes'
13:00
Lunch
Session 2 Chair: Clarissa Whitmire, Max Delbrueck Center, Berlin, Germany
15:00
Marcel Oberlaender
Research Center caesar, Bonn, Germany
'Top-down modulation of cortical output is gated by the thalamus'
15:40
Julio Hechavarria
Inst. for Cell Biology & Neurosci., Goethe Univ., Frankfurt, Germany
'Neural correlates of vocal control in the fronto-striatal network'
16:20
Break
16:40
Alexander Groh
Inst. of Phys. and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg University, Germany
‘A cortico-collicular pathway for defense suppression'
17:20
Li Zhang
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA
‘Innate Defense Circuits of the Auditory System'
18:00
Dinner/Discussion
THURSDAY
Session 3 Chair: Malinda Tantirigama, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
9:00
Sonja Hofer
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
'Thalamocortical interactions during predictive processing of sensory information'
09:40
Ehud Ahissar
Dept. of Neurobiology, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel
'Coordination of thalamo-cortical loops and global motor-sensory-motor loops in perception'
10:20
Tania Barkat
Dept. of Biomedicine, Basel University, Switzerland
'Temporal processing in the auditory thalamocortical system'
11:00
Break
11:20
Wolfgang Kelsch
Dept. of Psychiatry, Mainz U. and Central Inst. of Mental Health, Heidelberg U., Germany
'Olfactory memory formation in cortico-subcortical loops'
12:00
Jens Kremkow
Neurosci. Research C., Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
​'Entering the visual loop: functional organization of the retino-collicular connections'
12:40
Lunch
Session 4 Chair: Ava Kiai, Inst. for Cell Biology & Neurosci., Goethe Univ., Frankfurt
15:00
Livia de Hoz
Neurosci. Research C., Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
'Learning correlates in auditory midbrain'
15:40
Henning Sprekeler
Technical University, Berlin, Germany
'Invariant neural subspaces maintained by feedback modulation'
16:20
Break
16:40
Alexander Heimel
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
'Interactions between visual cortex and superior colliculus'
17:20
Tatyana Sharpee
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, la Jolla, USA
'Minimizing information loss in neural circuits with spike-timing dependent plasticity, modulation, and inhibitory neurons'
18:00
Dinner/Discussion
FRIDAY
Session 5 Chair: Luciana López-Jury, Inst. for Cell Biology & Neurosci., Goethe Univ., Frankfurt
9:00
Ziad Hafed
Werner Reichardt C. for Integrative Neurosci., Tübingen, Germany
‘Sensory tuning in neuronal movement commands’
09:40
Fleur Zeldenrust
Donders Inst. for Brain, Cog. & Behav., Radboud Univ., Netherlands
'Information transfer in (barrel) cortex: from single cell to network'
10:20
Victoria Bajo
Dept. of Phys., Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
'Targeting Neural Plasticity by Optogenetic Silencing in the Auditory Cortex'
11:00
11:20
12:00
Break
Valery Grinevich
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Uni. of Heidelberg, Germany
'Sensory modalities driving social behavior via the central oxytocin system'
Laura Busse
Div. of Neurobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Uni. München, Germany
'Effects of Corticothalamic Feedback on Geniculate Responses to Naturalistic and Artificial Visual Stimuli'
12:40
Closing remarks