Brain Rhythms in Health & Disease Symposium

This symposium is designed to bring together experts in cellular, circuit, systems, and behavioral neuroscience to share and discuss the advances and challenges in the scientific study of oscillations and synchronized activity.

The symposium will allow speakers to present their emerging understanding of the mechanistic role of neuronal oscillations in brain dynamics, cognition, behavior, and in disease.

As part of the knowledge transfer mission of MIT, this symposium will provide opportunities for disseminating knowledge, shaping new areas of scientific interest, and providing fora for discussing the latest research.

Invited speakers and audience will be interdisciplinary in nature and will have the chance to propose, integrate, and communicate research to academic colleagues in order to facilitate close collaborations and shape concrete research directions for all participants.

*Registration is required*

Speakers:

Marie Carlen, Karolinska Institute, "Cortical PV interneurons, gamma oscillations, and attention"

Laura Colgin, UT Austin, "Gamma Oscillations in the Hippocampal Network"

Pascal Fries, Ernst Strüngmann Institute, "Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence"

Peter Jonas, IST Austria, "PV⁺ interneurons: Speed, energy efficiency and functional connectivity"

Nancy Kopell, Boston University, "Coordination of Brain Rhythms and Functional Implications"

Earl Miller, Picower Institute, MIT, "Working Memory 2.0"

Christopher Moore, Brown University, "What We've Been Missing: Fast-Spiking Cells that Lower Their Rate (Appear to) Regulate Pyramidal Timing During Successful Perception"

Jorge Palop, UCSF, "Network abnormalities and interneuron dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease"

Annabelle Singer, Georgia Tech, "Decoding Memory in Health and Alzheimer’s disease"

Wolf Singer, Ernst Strüngmann Institute, "Temporal dynamics and information processing in the cerebral cortex"

Vikaas Sohal, UCSF, "Prefrontal gamma oscillations and behavioral flexibility"

Host

Li-Huei Tsai

Organizer

Brittany Greenough