Program
Sensorimotor circuits for limb control
March 5 - 8, 2024, OIST Sydney Brenner Lecture Theater*access to the venue
Program and event summary
| Day 1 | |
| March 5 | Chair: Yutaka Yoshida (OIST and Burke Neurological Institute/Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| 9:10 - 9:15 | Opening remarks: Yutaka Yoshida |
| 9:15 - 9:55 | Tadashi Isa (Kyoto University) |
| Large-scaled network reorganization during recovery from partial spinal cord injury in primates | |
| 9:55 - 10:35 | Sten Grillner (Karolinska Institutet) |
| The brain in motion - evolutionary conserved control strategies | |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Jay Bikoff (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) |
| Brain-wide mapping of descending inputs to spinal V1 interneurons | |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:55 | Kazuhiko Seki (National Institute of Neuroscience, Japan) |
| Somatosensory gain modulation in primate hand movement | |
| 11:55 - 12:10 | Marito Hayashi (Harvard Medical School) |
| Intestinal sensory cells that differentially regulate gut motility and feeding behavior | |
| 12:10 - 12:25 | John Barrett (Northwestern University) |
| Grab a quick bite and chew it over: hand-jaw coordination as mice eat | |
| 12:25 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| Chair: Ariel Levine (NIH/NINDS) | |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Peter Osseward (Salk) |
| Temporal Generation of Neuronal Subtypes in the Mouse Spinal Cord | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Yutaka Yoshida (OIST and Burke Neurological Institute/Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| Descending motor circuits to control skilled movements | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Niccolo Zampieri (Max Delbruck Center) |
| Propriospinal circuits for sensory and motor control | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Claudia Kathe (University of Lausanne) |
| Spinal Gateways enable epidural electrical stimulation to restore walking after paralysis | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Samuel Pfaff (Salk) | |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Andrew Pruszynski (Western University) |
| Somatosensory predictions are directly embedded in the neural activity that controls reaching movements | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Vibhu Sahni (Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| Developmental molecular diversification of subcerebral projection neurons | |
| 16:40 - 16:55 | Helen Yang (Harvard Medical School) |
| Fine-grained descending control of steering in walking Drosophila | |
| 16:55 - 17:10 | Coffee break |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Ole Kiehn (University of Copenhagen) *online |
| 17:50 - 18:05 | Abdulraheem Nashef (University of Colorado) |
| A dual Purkinje cell rate and synchrony code sculpts movement kinematics | |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| Day 2 | |
| March 6 | Chair: Martyn Goulding (Salk) |
| 9:15 - 9:55 | Ariel Levine (NIH/NINDS) |
| 9:55 - 10:35 | Samuel Pfaff (Salk) |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Marylka Yoe Uusisaari (OIST) |
| More than a decoration: how mice use tails for balancing | |
| 10:55 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Eiman Azim (Salk) |
| Sensorimotor circuits for dexterous movement | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Sonia Paixao (Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence) |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Nishtha Ranawat (Burke Neurological Institute/ Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| Anatomical and functional analysis of cervical spinal projection interneurons | |
| 12:20 - 12:35 | Lina Carmona (Columbia University) |
| 12:35 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Chair: Tadashi Isa (Kyoto University) | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Aya Takeoka (NERF/KU Leuven) |
| Spinal circuit plasticity for movement generation | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Francisco Valero-Cuevas (University of Southern California) |
| An α-MN collateral to γ-MNs can mitigate velocity-dependent stretch reflexes during voluntary movement: A computational study | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Edmund Hollis (Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| Task-specific modulation of corticospinal neuron activity during motor learning | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee break |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | George Z. Mentis (Columbia University) |
| Mechanisms involved in the control of mammalian locomotor behavior | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Turgay Akay (Dalhousie University) |
| Spinal circuitry underlying inhibitory crossed reflex | |
| 16:40 - 16:55 | Joshua Chalif (Brigham and Women's Hospital) |
| Electrical Coupling in Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract Neurons is Essential for Locomotor Behavior During Postnatal Development | |
| 16:55 - 17:35 | Graziana Gatto (University Hospital of Cologne) |
| Sensation to action: a spinal perspective | |
| 17:35 - 17:55 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Abigail Person (University of Colorado) | |
| 17:55 - 18:10 | Jen Shadrach (Stanford University) |
| Sall3 is Required for GABAergic Presynaptic Circuit Formation in the Mouse Spinal Cord | |
| 18:10 - 18:25 | Tajapratap Bollu (Salk) |
| Neural basis for forelimb proprioception in the cervical spinal cord | |
| 18:25 - 18:40 | Shiro Egawa (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan) |
| High-density neural recording reveals populational dynamics of the cervical spinal cord in rats performing target-reaching task | |
| 18:40 - 18:55 | Simon Gosgnach (University of Alberta) |
| Functional identification of the neurons involved in mammalian locomotor rhythmogenesis | |
| 19:00 | Dinner + Poster Session (at Yun-Taku restaurant) |
| Day 3 | |
| March 7 | Chair: Aya Takeoka (NERF/KU Leuven) |
| 9:15 - 9:55 | John Martin (CUNY) *online |
| Leveraging activity-dependent processes to produce durable plasticity after spinal cord injury | |
| 9:55 - 10:15 | Laskaro Zagoraiou (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens) |
| CART Peptidergic Modulation of Motor Output | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Patrick Whelan (University of Calgary) |
| Zona incerta regulation of exploratory locomotion | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Jianing Yu (Peking University) |
| A role of the striatum in continuous control of action sequence in a reaction time task | |
| 10:45 - 11:05 | Coffee break |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Kajana Satkunendrarajah (Medical College of Wisconsin) |
| Sensation to Stride:Exploring a Novel Cortical Target for Restoring Walking after Spinal Cord Injury | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Martyn Goulding (Salk) |
| Motor control: moving beyond the CPG | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Prasong Mekdara (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) *online |
| Characterizing the nociceptive limb withdrawal reflex in mice | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Jason Keller (HHMI Janelia Research Campus) |
| Dynamic heterarchical control of mouse hindlimb extension | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 19:00 |
Free time or Excursion (details and registration form) |
| 19:00 | Dinner + Poster Session (at Yun-Taku restaurant) |
| Day 4 | |
| March 8 | Chair: Graziana Gatto (University Hospital of Cologne) |
| 9:15 - 9:55 | Samuel Sober (Emory University) *online |
| Spiking codes for locomotor control | |
| 9:55 - 10:10 | Akira Nagamori (Salk) |
| Flexible roles for a spinal premotor interneuron network during goal-directed forelimb movement | |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Joanna Chang (Imperial College London) |
| Preserved neural dynamics across animals performing similar behavior | |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Michiaki Suzuki (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science ) |
| Chemogenetic enhancement of motor and somatosensory functions in macaque monkeys | |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Windsor Ting (Columbia University) |
| Key Inputs for Spinal Cord Associative Plasticity | |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 11:55 | Masanori Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo) |
| Cerebellar-thalamocortical pathway for motor timing | |
| 11:55 - 12:35 | Yukio Nishimura (Tokyo Metropolitan of Medical Science) |
| 12:35 - 13:40 | Lunch |
| Chair: Marylka Yoe Uusisaari (OIST) | |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Francisco Alvarez (Emory University) |
| Foxp2-V1 inhibitory interneurons and limb coordination | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Gerald Pao (OIST) |
| Manifolds that map brain activity dynamics to motor outputs | |
| 14:40 - 15:15 | Farin Bourojeni (McGill University/IRCM) / Artur Kania (McGill University/IRCM) |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Eiman Azim (Salk) | |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | Mei Zhen (University of Toronto) |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Abigail Person (University of Colorado) |
| Towards an algorithm for cerebellar control of movement accuracy | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Brian Corneil (University of Western Ontario) |
| Responding when time is of the essence: a subcortical substrate for rapid visually-guided reaching | |
| 16:45 - 17:25 | Mackenzie Mathis (EPFL) *online |
| 17:25 - 17:30 | Closing remarks: Eiman Azim (Salk) |
| 18:00 | Dinner (move to the restaurant by taxi) |