CoNECTOME (formerly Neural Computation and Engineering Connection) is an annual symposia hosted by the CNC, featuring talks from invited speakers, UW faculty, and postdocs, as well as a poster session and panel on neuroethics.
Registration is now closed, but walk ins are welcome. Please note we may have limited food for attendees that didn’t register in advance.
This year’s event is happening Thursday May 21 – Friday May 22. Both days will take place at UW South Campus Center, Room 316 (1601 NE Columbia Rd, Seattle, WA 98195).
Additional workshops:
Wednesday May 20, 1:30 – 5:30 pm: The team from Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics will host the sixth CNC-AIND Hackacollabathon. This will cover exciting new Dynamic Routing data. Full details and registration are available here.
Thursday May 21, 11:00 – 12:00 pm: Lightning Pose 3D workshop presented by Lenny Aharon (Columbia). Register here.
Schedule
Workshops
| Wednesday, May 20 1:30 - 5:30pm SOCC 316 | CNC-AIND Collabahackathon on Dynamic Routing | Info and registration |
| Thursday, May 21 11:00 - 12:00pm SOCC 301 | Lightning Pose 3D: A Guided Tour through Multi-View Animal Pose Estimation | Info and registration |
Thursday, May 21
| 12:30 PM | Welcome remarks | |
| 12:35 PM | Carl Schoonover Senior Scientist Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics | A network mechanism for perceptual learning |
| 1:05 PM | Madison Martin Graduate Student mentor Michael Bruchas | Noradrenergic modulation of basolateral amygdala activity enhances population synchrony in an anxiogenic state |
| 1:20 PM | Alexander Ladd Graduate Student mentor Nick Steinmetz | The brain-wide representational geometry of multi-timescale behavior |
| 1:35 PM | Derrick Tang Graduate Student mentor Fritzie Arce-McShane | Neural Population Dynamics During Feeding |
| 1:50 PM | Faeze Aminmansoor Graduate Student mentors Adrienne Fairhall and Karel Svoboda | Latent behavioral states in a dynamic foraging task |
| 2:05 PM | Break | |
| 2:15 PM | Harshil Sharma Visiting Scientist mentor Stefan Mihalas | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cell Types in Describing Neuronal Physiological Features |
| 2:30 PM | Zihan Zhang Graduate Student mentor Eric Shea-Brown, Stefan Mihalas | A generative model of mouse cortical connectivity |
| 2:45 PM | Panel: AI tools for neuroscience across species and scales | |
| 3:45 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad Associate Professor UW Bioengineering | Engineering neuroprotection and neuroplasticity in primate cortex |
| 4:30 PM | Keynote: Alex Williams Assistant Professor NYU and Flatiron Institute | Tracking the Fidelity of Internal Neural Representations |
| 5:30 PM - 7 PM | Poster Session |
Friday, May 22
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | Uygar Sümbül Associate Investigator Allen Institute | Robust online learning in recurrent networks with neuromodulatory feedback |
| 9:30 AM | Ali Shojaie Professor Statistics | Statistical machine learning for dynamic functional connectivity networks |
| 10:00 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | Will Dabney Research Team Lead DeepMind | On The Relationship Between Cognition, Computation, and Agency |
| 11:00 AM | Benjamin Grannan Assistant Professor UW Neurological Surgery | Probing mechanisms of language prediction and inference in the human brain |
| 11:30 AM | Natasha Jaques Assistant Professor UW Computer Science and Engineering | Social Reinforcement Learning |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:25 PM | Shanahan Fellow Introductions | |
| 1:40 PM | Shuchen Wu Shanahan Fellow mentors Rajesh Rao and Carl Schoonover | Structured Neural Dynamics in Artificial Cognitive Systems |
| 1:55 PM | Tiffany Ona and Scott Sterrett Postdoctoral Fellow mentors Cindy Poo and Laura Driscoll | Adaptive Behavior in a Dynamic Patch Foraging Environment |
| 2:10 PM | Weston Fleming Postdoctoral Fellow mentor Garret Stuber | Parabrachial cholinergic neurons solve the temporal credit assignment problem in postingestive learning |
| 2:25 PM | Break | |
| 2:45 PM | Panel: Navigating collaborations across academia and industry | |
| 3:55 PM | Keynote: Ann Kennedy Associate Professor Scripps Research | Modulating neuronal physiology for flexible control of behavior |
| 5:00 PM | Reception | Portage Bay Area + Terrace |
Thank you to our organizing committee!
Denis Turcu
Elliot Abe
Shuchen Wu
Nancy MacKenzie
Po-Chen Kuo
Ziyu Lu