Schedule

The full schedule will be available soon. Featured speakers include Scott Linderman, Tatyana Sharpee, Randall Beer, Kim Stachenfeld, Maurizio de Pittà, Michele Basso, Uygar Sümbül, Kim Ingraham, and Forrest Collman.

The Computational Neuroscience Center’s annual symposium, CoNectome (formerly NCEC) will be held May 13 and 14 2024 in Zillow Commons (CSE2). It will feature talks from invited speakers, UW faculty, and postdocs, as well as a poster session and panel on neuroethics.

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Schedule

Monday, May 13

11:00 – 12:30 Poster session and lunch
12:30 – 1:00 Michele A. Basso, Professor, Biological Structure

“A role for the primate midbrain in perceptual decision making”
1:00 – 1:15 David Bell (Fairhall lab)
1:15 – 1:30 Vaishnavi Mohan (Fine lab)
1:30 – 1:45 Zoe Steine-Hanson (Brunton/Rao labs)
1:45 – 2:05 Break
2:05 – 2:20 Katherine Perks (Orsborn lab)
2:20 – 2:35 Ziyu Lu (Shea-Brown lab)
2:35 – 2:50 Scott Sterrett (Fairhall and Gire labs)
2:50 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 3:45 Kim Ingraham (Assistant Professor, UW ECE)

“I like it like that: Understanding user preference in the control of robotic exoskeletons” 
3:45 – 4:45 Scott Linderman, Assistant Professor, Stanford University

“From behavioral syllables to a story of life: Whole lifespan behavioral modeling”
4:45 – 5:00 Break
5:00 – 6:00 CoNECT Ethics Panel

Tuesday, May 14

8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast and networking
9:00 – 9:30 Forrest Collman, Assistant Investigator,  Allen Institute for Brain Science
9:30 – 10:00 Uygar Sümbül, Associate Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science

“Evidence for the self-avoidance hypothesis in the cortex”
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 11:10 Maurizio de Pittà, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
11:10 – 11:25 Harsha Gurnani (Postdoctoral Fellow, Brunton lab)
11:25 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 Randall Beer, Professor, Indiana University

“Evolution and Analysis of Brain-Body-Environment Systems”
1:50 – 2:05 Fereshteh Lagzi (Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow)
2:05 – 2:20 Break
2:20 – 3:50 Panel: Connectomics in Neuroscience
3:50 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:00 Tatyana Sharpee, Professor, Salk Institute

“Hyperbolic geometry in neural networks during learning”
5:00 – 7:00 Reception