Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
Society for Neuroscience Satellite Symposium
November 13-14, 2014
Thursday, November 13th Oasis Room, Almas Temple, 1315 K Street, NW
12:00-4:30pm MCCS Course: “Tools to integrate and plan experiments in neuroscience”
Thursday, November 13th Sphinx Grand Ballroom, Almas Temple, 1315 K Street, NW
6:30-9:30pm Poster Session
Friday, November 14th
9:00 - 9:05
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 207A 9:00am-5:00pm Symposium
Eric Klann, MCCS President (NYU)
Session I. Chair: Marcelo Wood (UC Irvine)
9:05 - 9:25
Rui Costa (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) “Learning new actions and shifting to automatic”
9:25 - 9:45
Denise Cai (UCLA) “Hippocampal memory allocation mechanisms link contextual memories across time”
9:45 - 10:05 Susanne Ahmari (University of Pittsburgh) “Using new technologies to dissect neural circuits underlying abnormal
repetitive behaviors”
10:05 - 10:25 Fabricio Do-Monte (University of Puerto Rico) “Post-training reorganization of the fear retrieval circuit”
10:30 – 11:00 Break
Session II. Chair: Yi-Shuian Huang (Academica Sinica)
11:00 - 11:20 Nicola Grissom (University of Pennsylvania) “Male-specific deficits in natural reward learning in a mouse genetic
model of autism”
11:20 - 11:40 Maiken Nedergaard (University of Rochester Medical Center) “Global changes in astrocytic functions in response to
chronic pain”
11:40 - 12:00 Takashi Kitamura (Riken-MIT) “New excitatory input from the entorhinal cortex into the hippocampus inhibits the
associations of temporally discontinuous events”
12:00 - 12:20 Dan Geschwind (UCLA) “Oxytocin treatment of Cntnap2 KO mice reveals an important developmental window”
12.20 – 2:00 Break
Session III. Chair: Jayeeta Basu (NYU)
2:00 - 2:20 Leslie Griffith (Brandeis) “The anatomical basis of the linkage between sleep and memory consolidation in Drosophila”
2:20 - 2:40 Susana Correia (MIT) “An amygdala-nucleus accumbens circuit regulates the persistence of fear extinction”
2:40 - 3:00 Minmin Luo (NIBS-Beijing) “Encoding reward signals by neurons in the dorsal raphe”
3:00 - 3:20 Emin Ozkan (Scripps-Florida) “The impact of pathogenic Syngap1 mutations on brain development”
3:20 - 3:40 Break
Session IV. Chair: Gary Bassell (Emory)
3:40 - 4:00 Carmen Sandi (EPFL) “Synaptic cell adhesion molecules link stress with alterations in social behaviors and cognition”
4:00 - 4:20 Alessio Attardo (Stanford) “Impermanence of dendritic spines in live adult CA1 hippocampus”
4:20 - 4:40 Thu Huynh (NYU) “Differential translational control mechanisms mediating the persistence of memory”
4:40 - 5:00 Lennart Mucke (Gladstone-UCSF) “Neuronal and glial mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits in models of
Alzheimer’s disease”
MANY THANKS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIMH, NICHD, NINDS, NIA, AND NIDA), SCIENCE
SIGNALING AND AAAS, LEARNING & MEMORY AND COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY PRESS, AND
NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING & MEMORY AND ELSEVIER FOR SUPPORTING THIS MEETING