The Adaptive Brain

Monday, January 25

EST 09:00 AM / IL 04:00 PM
Welcoming Remarks
Rui Costa, Director
Columbia University, Zuckerman Inst.
Alon Chen, President
Weizmann Institute of Science
James S. Gertler, Trustee
Zuckerman Institute

EST 09:30 AM / IL 04:30 PM
Sarah Woolley
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
Learning to Listen: tuning the auditory system for social communication

EST 10:15 AM / IL 05:15 PM
Meital Oren
Weizmann Institute of Science
Sex and the circuitry: The development of sexually-dimorphic neuronal circuits

EST 11:00 AM / IL 06:00 PM
Coffee Break

EST 11:30 AM / IL 06:30 PM
Randy Bruno
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
The many layers of touch

EST 12:15 PM / IL 07:15 PM
Michal Schwarz
Weizmann Institute of Science
The immune system holds the key to beat Alzheimer’s disease and age-related dementia

Tuesday, January 26

EST 09:00 AM / IL 04:00 PM
Takashi Kawashima
Weizmann Institute of Science
Serotonergic mechanisms of motor learning in zebrafish

EST 09:45 AM / IL 04:45 PM
Nate Sawtell
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
Neural mechanisms for predicting the sensory consequences of action

EST 10:30 AM / IL 05:30 PM
Coffee Break

EST 11:00 AM / IL 06:00 PM
Michal Rivlin
Weizmann Institute of Science
Mechanisms underlying dynamic computations in retinal circuits

EST 11:45 AM / IL 06:45 PM
Rudy Behnia
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
An evolutionarily convergent circuit for color vision in Drosophila

EST 12:30 PM / IL 07:30 PM
Ivo Spiegel
Weizmann Institute of Science
State-dependent regulation of sensory processing and plasticity in cortical circuits

Wednesday, January 27

EST 09:00 AM / IL 04:00 PM
Rafi Malach
Weizmann Institute of Science
A structuralist perspective on brain mechanisms of human perception and memory

EST 09:45 AM / IL 04:45 PM
Michael Shadlen
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
A cortical-subcortical circuit for forming and terminating a decision

EST 10:30 AM / IL 05:30 PM
Coffee Break

EST 11:00 AM / IL 06:00 PM
Stefano Fusi
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
The geometry of neural representations in biological and artificial neural networks

EST 11:45 AM / IL 06:45 PM
Elad Schneidman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Learning probabilistic representations with randomly connected neural circuits

EST 12:45 PM / IL 07:45 PM
Elizabeth Hillman
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
Real-time imaging of whole-brain activity

Thursday, January 28

EST 09:00 AM / IL 04:00 PM
Keynote: Richard Axel
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
Introductory Remarks by Yadin Dudai
Weizmann Institute of Science

EST 10:00 AM / IL 05:00 PM
Nachum Ulanovsky
Weizmann Institute of Science
Neural codes for natural behaviors in flying bats

EST 10:45 AM / IL 05:45 PM
Coffee Break

EST 11:15 AM / IL 06:15 PM
Yaniv Ziv
Weizmann Institute of Science
Stability and dynamics of hippocampal neural codes for long-term memory

EST 12:00 PM / IL 07:00 PM
Dmitriy Aronov
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
Using food-caching birds to study the neuroscience of episodic memory

EST 12:45 PM / IL 07:45 PM
Concluding Remarks
Daphna Shohamy
Columbia | Zuckerman Inst.
Rony Paz
Weizmann Institute of Science