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.

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, 10:30 – 11:30 am: Lightning Pose 3D workshop presented by Lenny Aharon (Columbia). Register here.

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Schedule

Workshops
Wednesday, May 20
1:30 - 5:30pm
SOCC 316		CNC-AIND Collabahackathon on Dynamic RoutingInfo and registration
Thursday, May 21
10:30 - 11:30am
SOCC 301		Lightning Pose 3D: A Guided Tour through Multi-View Animal Pose EstimationInfo and registration

Thursday, May 21

12:30 PMWelcome remarks
12:35 PMCarl Schoonover
Senior Scientist
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics		A network mechanism for perceptual learning
1:05 PMMadison Martin
Graduate Student
mentor Michael Bruchas
1:20 PMAlexander Ladd
Graduate Student
mentor Nick Steinmetz		The brain-wide representational geometry of multi-timescale behavior
1:35 PMDerrick Tang
Graduate Student
mentor Fritzie Arce-McShane
1:50 PMFaeze Aminmansoor
Graduate Student
mentors Adrienne Fairhall and Karel Svoboda
2:05 PMBreak
2:15 PMHarshil Sharma
Visiting Scientist
mentor Stefan Mihalas		The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cell Types in Describing Neuronal Physiological Features
2:30 PMZihan Zhang
Graduate Student
mentor Eric Shea-Brown, Stefan Mihalas
2:45 PMPanel: AI tools for neuroscience across species and scales
3:45 PMBreak
4:00 PMAzadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad
Associate Professor
UW Bioengineering
4:30 PMKeynote:
Alex Williams
Assistant Professor
NYU and Flatiron Institute
5:30 PM - 7 PMPoster Session

Friday, May 22

8:00 AMBreakfast
9:00 AMUygar Sümbül
Associate Investigator
Allen Institute		Robust online learning in recurrent networks with neuromodulatory feedback
9:30 AMAli Shojaie
Professor
Statistics
10:00 AMBreak
10:30 AMWill Dabney
Research Team Lead
DeepMind
11:00 AMBenjamin Grannan
Assistant Professor
UW Neurological Surgery
11:30 AMNatasha Jaques
Assistant Professor
UW Computer Science and Engineering
12:00 PMLunch
1:25 PMShanahan Fellow Introductions
1:40 PMShuchen Wu
Shanahan Fellow
mentors Rajesh Rao and Carl Schoonover
1:55 PMTiffany Ona
Postdoctoral Fellow
mentors Cindy Poo and Laura Driscoll
2:10 PMWeston Fleming
Postdoctoral Fellow
mentor Garret Stuber
2:25 PMPanel: Navigating collaborations across academia and industry
3:25 PMBreak
3:55 PMKeynote:
Ann Kennedy
Associate Professor
Scripps Research
5:00 PMReceptionPortage Bay Area + Terrace

Thank you to our organizing committee!
Denis Turcu
Elliot Abe
Shuchen Wu
Nancy MacKenzie
Po-Chen Kuo
Ziyu Lu