KITP Conference: Olfaction

KITP Conference: Olfaction
(Jul 7-10, 2015)
Coordinators: Sandeep R. Datta, Anne-Marie M. Oswald

Tuesday, Jul 07, 2015
	Odor-Guided Behaviors, Chair: Anne-Marie Oswald (U Pitt)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley)	The PROUST hypothesis: the evolution of the olfactory and vomeronasal systems and their complementary functions in tracking odors across space and time
9:45am	David Gire (U Washington)	Mice develop efficient strategies for foraging and navigation using turbulent odor plumes[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Ellisa Hallem (UCLA)	Olfactory circuit modulation in free-living and parasitic nematodes
11:45am	Dimitri Chklovskii (Simons Ctr)	Similarity matching: a new framework for neural computation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Odor-Guided Behaviors "cont.", Chair: Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley)
2:00pm	Gloria Choi (MIT)	Oxytocin mediates entrainment of sensory stimuli to social cues of opposing valence
2:45pm	Ian Davison (Boston U)	Mating-dependent plasticity in the female accessory olfactory bulb[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break

4:00pm	Lisa Stowers (Scripps)	A sensory rational for the unpredictable nature of female behavior[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	POSTER SESSION
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, Jul 08, 2015
	Early Odor Processing, Chair: Bob Datta (Harvard)
9:00am	Hitoshi Sakano ( U Fukui)	Neural Map Formation in the Mouse Olfactory System[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Tim Holy (Washington U)	Ligogenetics: where do we stand on exhaustive functional typology of sensory neurons?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Gilad Barnea (Brown U)	trans-Tango: Transsynaptic Mapping and Manipulation of Neural Circuits
11:45am	Stavros Lomvardas (Columbia U)	Olfactory Receptor Gene Choice[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Early Odor Processing "cont.", Chair: Tim Holy (Washington U)
2:00pm	Joel Mainland (Monell Institute)	The role of a single receptor in human odor perception.[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Chakra Chennubhotla (U Pitt)	Designing a computational similarity metric for categorizing odors[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break

4:00pm	Ron Yu (Stowers Institute)	Specific receptors and lousy sensors[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Vikas Bhandawat (Duke U)	Independently controlled behavioral primitives underlie behavioral response to odors[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, Jul 09, 2015
	Higher-Order Odor Processing, Chair: Kevin Franks (Duke U)
9:00am	John Bekkers (ANU)	Functional calcium imaging of spontaneous and odor-evoked activity in the piriform cortex in vivo[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Glenn Turner (CSH)	Olfactory Signaling in Mushroom Body Output Neurons: Neural Coding as a Circuit Converges[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Alex Fleischmann (Coll. de France)	Neural identity and odor coding in the piriform cortex
11:45am	Anne-Marie Oswald (U Pitt)	Spatial Profiles of Inhibition in piriform cortex[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Higher-Order Odor Processing "cont.", Chair: David Gire ( U Washington)
2:00pm	Kevin Franks (Duke U)	Piriform cortex is necessary and sufficient to normalize its own output[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Brent Doiron (U Pitt)	Assembly formation in the face of spontaneous cortical dynamics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break

4:00pm	Charles Stevens (Salk Institute)	What the fly's nose tell the fly's brain.[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Bob Datta (Harvard)	New Behavioral Methods for Olfaction
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, Jul 10, 2015
	Descending Control of Odor Processing, Chair: Venkatesh Murthy (Harvard)
9:00am	Andreas Schaefer (MRC, UK)	Inhibition in the mouse OB[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Dinu Florin Albeanu (CSH)	An interglomerular circuit gates glomerular output and implements gain control in the mouse olfactory bulb[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Stephen Shea (CSH)	"Top-down" and neuromodulatory influences on granule cell activity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Hermann Riecke (Northwestern)	Cortical control of network structure and odor discrimination[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Descending Control of Odor Processing "cont.", Chair: Bob Datta (Harvard)
2:00pm	Matthias Bethge ( U Tuebingen)	Practical tools for complex data: predicting spikes from stimulus and calcium imaging signals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Venki Murthy (Harvard U)	Serotonergic influence on odor coding - modulation or computation?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	CONFERENCE END
3:45pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Jul 07, 2015

Odor-Guided Behaviors, Chair: Anne-Marie Oswald (U Pitt)

Odor-Guided Behaviors "cont.", Chair: Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday, Jul 08, 2015

Early Odor Processing, Chair: Bob Datta (Harvard)

Early Odor Processing "cont.", Chair: Tim Holy (Washington U)

Thursday, Jul 09, 2015

Higher-Order Odor Processing, Chair: Kevin Franks (Duke U)

Higher-Order Odor Processing "cont.", Chair: David Gire ( U Washington)

Friday, Jul 10, 2015

Descending Control of Odor Processing, Chair: Venkatesh Murthy (Harvard)

Descending Control of Odor Processing "cont.", Chair: Bob Datta (Harvard)