2022 Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Annual Meeting

America/New_York
160 5th Avenue

160 5th Avenue

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 Fifth Ave, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010
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Welcome


Dear Investigators,

We are very excited to gather everyone together in person for our first Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain annual meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began.  The SCGB has adapted to the changing needs of our scientific community. We transitioned our workshops and meetings to virtual formats and are now shifting back to in-person meetings (like this annual meeting) as public health conditions allow. We’ve extended research and fellowship awards with an extra year of funding, responding to the stresses placed on labs and projects due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

We strive to continue to facilitate deep and insightful collaborations among our Investigators. Importantly, we’ve kept our scientific focus on expanding our understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, thereby discovering the nature, role and mechanisms of the neural activity that produces cognition. Our new Pilot Awards further push the cutting edge of the field with a focus on how neural coding and dynamics in multiple brain regions work together. By thinking together and working together, SCGB Investigators are making great progress in understanding the neural computations underlying cognition.

We also seek to train and support the next generations of systems and computational neuroscientists focused on understanding neural coding and dynamics at the single-cell level.  We’ve made investments in junior faculty through the new Independence Awards and are introducing talented undergraduates to the field through our new SCGB Undergraduate Research Awards. We continue to make our postdoctoral programming an integral part of the scientific landscape for junior SCGB researchers through regular postdoc meetings in New York, California, Boston and a new virtual collaboration-wide global meeting. These meetings provide useful feedback to junior researchers sharing their work and create a network of early career collaborators.

We continue to fund courses organized and taught by SCGB Investigators across the globe: Romania, China, the United States, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. The IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo in South Africa focuses on purely computational training while also promoting computational neuroscience in Africa.  The Neurobridges course focuses on the neural basis of decision-making in sensory-motor tasks while also bringing together Mediterranean and Middle Eastern scientists to promote international scientific cooperation among young researchers from Israel and Palestine. We are extremely proud of the diversity of courses and the global and collaborative community the SCGB is building. 

We hope this meeting will continue to foster collaboration and discussion on work vital to the SCGB mission. Thank you for contributing your time and expertise to these efforts.

David Tank, SCGB Director
Alyssa Picchini Schaffer, Senior Scientist and Administrative Director, Neuroscience Collaborations
Laura Long, Scientist, SCGB
Kelsey Martin, Director, SFARI and Neuroscience Collaborations
Gerry Fischbach, Distinguished Scientist, Simons Foundation
Larry Abbott, SCGB Executive Committee
Anne Churchland, SCGB Executive Committee
Marlene Cohen, SCGB Executive Committee
Adrienne Fairhall, SCGB Executive Committee
Tony Movshon, SCGB Executive Committee

    • 4:00 PM
      Welcome Reception 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Opening Remarks Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Jim Simons, Chairman, Simons Foundation
      David Tank, Director, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
      Gerry Fischbach, Distinguished Scientist and Fellow, Simons Foundation

      Conveners: David Spergel (Simons Foundation), David Tank
    • Keynote: Mala Murthy, Princeton University Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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    • 6:30 PM
      Dinner 19 E 26th Street (Blackbarn)

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    • 8:15 AM
      Breakfast 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Opening Remarks Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Jim Simons, Chairman, Simons Foundation
      David Tank, Director, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain
      Gerry Fischbach, Distinguished Scientist and Fellow, Simons Foundation

      Conveners: David Tank, Kelsey Martin (Simons Foundation)
    • Talk: Flygenvectors: Reconciling neural activity across spatial and temporal scales Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Larry Abbott
    • Talk: Direct measurement of whole-brain functional connectivity in C. elegans Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Andy Leifer
    • Talk: Representational geometry of perceptual decisions in the monkey parietal cortex Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Roozbeh Kiani
    • Talk: Introductions to Pilot Projects Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Conveners: Amy Orsborn, Andrew Miri, Annegret Falkner, Gal Mishne, Lucas Pinto, Matthew Kaufman, Sadegh Ebrahimi, Sergey Stavisky, Winrich Freiwald
    • 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Talk: Neurobiological mechanisms of behavioral chunking Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Michael Long
    • Talk: Deep network models of the deep network mechanisms of human visual intelligence Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Jim DiCarlo
    • BTI Short Talk: Computation and broadcasting of sensorimotor prediction errors in the cortex Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Rebecca Jordan
    • BTI Short Talk: Cortical circuits for olfactory behavior Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Cindy Poo
    • BTI Short Talk: BTI Short Talk 3 Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Agostina Palmigiano
    • BTI Short Talk: Moving Songs: The Neurobiology of Multitasking in Drosophila Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Osama Ahmed
    • 12:10 PM
      Lunch 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Talk: Discovering repeating neural motifs representing sequenced behavior Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Bob Datta
    • Talk: Mesoscale Activity Map (MAP) project Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Conveners: Nuo Li, Shaul Druckmann
    • Talk: Flexible communication to enable flexible behavior Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Marlene Cohen
    • Talk: Courses and Conferences/SURF/TTI Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Conveners: Alyssa Picchini Schaffer, Laura Long
    • Concluding Remarks Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: David Tank
    • 3:00 PM
      Poster Session 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • 6:00 PM
      Reception 25 W 40th Street (Bryant Park Grill)

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    • 6:45 PM
      Dinner 25 W 40th Street (Bryant Park Grill)

      25 W 40th Street

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    • 8:15 AM
      Breakfast 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Talk: Visuomotor learning and the routing of visual signals to striatum and prefrontal cortex Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Matteo Carandini
    • Talk: A unified framework for dopamine signals across timescales Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Nao Uchida
    • 9:40 AM
      Poster Session 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Talk: Individual variability and neural mechanisms of flexible decision-making Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Carlos Brody
    • Talk: Contributions of the primate hippocampus to single-exposure visual memory behavior Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Nicole Rust
    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Talk: Neural dynamics of memory formation in the monkey hippocampus Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Beth Buffalo
    • Talk: Systems consolidation as temporal integration in synaptic weight space Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Mark Goldman
    • Talk: Attempted handwriting BCIs: From human neuroscience to clinical translation Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Krishna Shenoy
    • Talk: The International Brain Laboratory: lessons learned in building a large scale collaboration Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Conveners: Anne Churchland, Hannah Bayer, Michael Hausser
    • 2:30 PM
      Coffee Break 160 Fifth Avenue/2-Simons Foundation - 2nd Floor Promenade

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    • Talk: Talk 19 Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Ilana Witten
    • Talk: Experience-dependent tuning of the timing rules for synaptic plasticity to the feedback delays in a circuit Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Jennifer Raymond
    • Talk: Rapid learning of complex tasks: from phenomena to algorithms Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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      Convener: Markus Meister
    • Concluding Remarks Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA

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