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TITLE: Neuromodulators- Key Regulators of Brain and Behavior


DATE: Tuesday May 16, 2017

TIME: 8:30am – 5:00pm


LOCATION: MIT Bldg 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium)

QUESTIONS? Naomi Berkowitz | naomiber@mit.edu | 617.715.5396


Registration is required and space is limited.

 

PROGRAM

8:30 am
 
Continental Breakfast Served in Atrium

9:00 am – 9:10 am
 
GLORIA CHOI, McGovern Institute

Welcoming Remarks

Session I (Chair: Yingxi Lin, McGovern Institute)

9:10 am 
TALI KIMCHI, Weizmann Institute of Science
Neurobiology of sex differences in social behavior


9:50 am
MINMIN LUO, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
Reward processing by the dorsal raphe
 
10:30 am
Break

10:50 am
NAOSHIGE UCHIDA, Harvard University 
Multiple dopamine systems
 
11:30 am
GERALD RUBIN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus 
Learning and memory in drosophila
 
12:10 pm
Lunch in Atrium
 
Session II (Chair: Mark Harnett, McGovern Institute)
 
01:00 pm
JEFFREY FRIEDMAN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University
TBA

01:40 pm
JONATHAN KIPNIS, University of Virginia
Meningeal lymphatics: a 'route' for behavioral modulation

02:20 pm
SUSAN DYMECKI, Harvard Medical School
Mapping molecular and functional subtypes of brain serotonergic neurons: from breathing to behavior
 

03:00 pm 

Break
 
03:20 pm
RICHARD PALMITER, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington
Deciphering a neuronal circuit that mediates threats

04:00 pm
YANG DAN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley 
Neural circuits controlling sleep

04:40 pm
BOB DESIMONE, McGovern Institute

Closing Remarks

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Reception