Internal States of the Brain

Picower Institute Fall 2020 Symposium

This conference will be held virtually. Click here to register.

We invite you to join us for The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory's Fall 2020 Symposium, Internal States of the Brain, on October 6, 2020 from 9:00am - 5:45pm.

As animals navigate their environments, their nervous systems transition between a wide range of internal states that influence how sensory information is processed and how behaviors are generated. These states can be detected in virtually all animals, but the neural mechanisms that govern their generation remain poorly understood. The 2020 Picower Fall Symposium brings together a group of speakers who are tackling this problem using many different approaches.

Speakers:

David Anderson Eve Marder
^{California Institute of Technology Brandeis University}

Richard Axel Mala Murthy
^{Columbia University Princeton University}

Mario de Bono Mario Penzo
^{IST Austria National Institute of Mental Health}

Susan Dymecki Amita Sehgal
^{Harvard Medical School University of Pennsylvania}

Ila Fiete Bill Schafer
^{MIT McGovern Institute MRC LMB, Cambridge}

Steven Flavell
^{MIT Picower Institute}

Agenda:

9:00 - 9:05am	Opening Remarks, Li-Huei Tsai
Session 1	(Moderator: Steven Flavell)
9:05 - 9:40am	Eve Marder, Brandeis University	Differential Resilience to Perturbations of Circuits with Similar Performance
9:40 - 10:15am	Mario de Bono, IST Austria	Regulating the regulator
10:15 - 10:50am	Susan Dymecki, Harvard Medical School	Embracing differences: heterogeneity in the brain serotonergic system
10:50 - 11:20am	Break
Session 2	(Moderator: Li-Huei Tsai)
11:20 - 11:55am	Mala Murthy, Princeton University	Adjusting Behavior on the Fly: Internal States and Dynamic Social Interactions
11:55am - 12:30pm	Ila Fiete, MIT McGovern Institute	Mixed Modular Codes and Remapping for Highly Generalizable Learning and Inference
12:30 - 1:45pm	Lunch Break
Session 3	(Moderator: Matt Wilson)
1:45 - 2:20pm	David Anderson, California Institute of Technology	Hypothalamic control of social behavior and internal states
2:20 – 2:55pm	Amita Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania	Metabolic state determines the need for sleep in memory consolidation
2:55 – 3:30pm	Bill Schafer, MRC LMB, Cambridge	The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks
3:30 – 4:00pm	Break
Session 4	(Moderator: Troy Littleton)
4:00 – 4:35pm	Steven Flavell, MIT Picower Institute	A neural circuit for flexible control of persistent behavioral states
4:35 – 5:10pm	Mario Penzo, National Institute of Mental Health	The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus biases the selection of passive and active fear
5:10 – 5:45pm	Richard Axel, Columbia University	Order from Disorder: Internal Representations of the Olfactory World

This conference will be held virtually. Click here to register.

Host

Steven Flavell

Organizer

Brittany Greenough

Date/Time

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

9:00 am – 5:45 pm

Location

Zoom Webinar
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

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