2016 Society for Neuroscience Conference

On November 12, 2016, over 30,000 neuroscience researchers will arrive in San Diego for the 46th Annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Conference. Among those attendees will be many Stanford Neuroscience PhD students. SfN attendance among first and second year PhD students is high.

SfN is considered an ideal demonstration of the diversity that exists within the field of neuroscience, which is especially important exposure for first-year students in the midst of rotations and second-year students whom have just chosen a lab.  In addition to first and second year students, many senior students, postdocs, and faculty attend SfN to present their work to a wide audience and to receive useful feedback.

The following presentations feature our graduate students:


Methods for comparison of MRI and CLARITY data in human tissue specimen

*C. LEUZE1, M. GOUBRAN2, M. ASWENDT3, Q. TIAN2, B. HSUEH4, M. ZEINEH2, K. DEISSEROTH4,5,6, J. MCNAB2
1Stanford Univ. Dept. of Radiology, Stanford, CA; 2Radiology, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 3Neurosurgery, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 4Bioengineering, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 5Howard Hughes Med. Inst., Stanford, CA; 6Psychiatry & Behavioral Sci., Stanford, CA

 

Pathways to clinical CLARITY: Quantitative methodologies for transparent-volume analysis of irregular, soft, and heterogenous tissues in development and disease

*B. HSUEH1, V. BURNS1, P. PAUERSTEIN1, L. YE1, K. ENGBERG1, A.-C. WANG1, X. GU1, H. CHAKRAVARTHY1, E. ARDA1, G. CHARVILLE1, K. HOLZEM2, I. EFIMOV2,3, H. VOGEL1, S. KIM1, K. DEISSEROTH1
1Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA; 2Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO; 3The George Washington Univ., Washington, DC

 

Multimodal image registration and analysis via clarity-based light-microscopy (MIRACL)

*M. GOUBRAN1, C. LEUZE2, B. HSUEH2, M. ASWENDT2, L. YE2, Q. TIAN2, M. CHENG2, G. STEINBERG2, K. DEISSEROTH2, J. MCNAB2, M. ZEINEH2
1Dept. of Radiology, 2Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Diminished mitochondrial activity in myeloid cells in response to oligomer stimulation is associated with altered kynurenine pathway activity

*P. S. MINHAS, S. D. MHATRE, P. K. MOON, Q. WANG, C. A. TSAI, A. J. RUBIN, J. WANG, K. I. ANDREASSON; 
Dept. of Neurol. & Neurolog. Sci., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Stable, chronic two-photon imaging in awake, behaving rhesus macaque.

*X. SUN1, E. TRAUTMANN2, D. O'SHEA2, S. RYU1, J. MARSHEL1, W. ALLEN1, I. KAUVAR1, C. RAMAKRISHNAN1, K. DEISSEROTH3, K. SHENOY4
2Neurobio., 3Bioengineering, 4Electrical Engin., 1Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Entorhinal HCN1 sets the scale of spatial maps and enables rapid place learning

*C. S. MALLORY, J. BANT, K. HARDCASTLE, L. GIOCOMO; 
Neurobio., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Interaction of self-motion and vision in the entorhinal cortex

*M. G. CAMPBELL, C. S. MALLORY, L. M. GIOCOMO; 
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Understanding principles of encoding navigationally-relevant variables in medial entorhinal cortex

*K. HARDCASTLE1, N. MAHESWARANATHAN1, S. GANGULI2, L. M. GIOCOMO1
1Neurobio., 2Applied Physics, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA

 

Activated microglia induce neurotoxic reactive astrocytes via Il-1a, TNFa, and C1q

*S. A. LIDDELOW1, L. E. CLARKE1, W.-S. CHUNG3, M. L. BENNETT1, B. A. NAPIER2, A. E. MÜNCH1, K. A. GUTTENPLAN1, L. SCHIRMER4, D. H. ROWITCH5, D. K. WILTON6, A. FROUIN6, B. STEVENS6, B. A. BARRES1
1Neurobio., 2Microbiology and Immunol., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 3Biol. Sci., Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. and Technol., Daejeon, Korea, Republic of; 4Eli and Edythe Broad Ctr. of Regeneration Med. and Stem Cell Res., Univ. of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; 5Dept. of Paediatrics, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 6Neurol., Boston Children's Hosp., Boston, MA

 

Deep convolutional neural network models of the retinal response to natural scenes

*L. T. MCINTOSH1, N. MAHESWARANATHAN1, A. NAYEBI1, S. GANGULI2, S. A. BACCUS3
1Neurosciences Grad. Program, 2Applied Physics Dept., 3Neurobio. Dept., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

An In vitro fusion assay utilizing endogenous excitatory synaptic vesicles

*J. LEITZ1,2, J. J. PETERS1,2, A. L. WANG1,2, R. A. PFUETZNER1,2, J. DIAO3, A. T. BRUNGER1,2
1Cell. and Mol. Physiol., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 2Howard Hughes Med. Inst., Stanford, CA; 3Cancer Biol., Univ. of Cincinnati Col. of Med., Cincinnati, OH

 

Electrical microstimulation in primate premotor cortex hijacks local neural activity

*D. J. O'SHEA1, K. V. SHENOY2
1Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 2Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Neurobiology, HHMI, Stanford Univ., Stanford University, CA

 

Decoding kinetic information from PMd and M1 during reaching

*E. TRAUTMANN, S. STAVISKY, J. KAO, S. RYU, K. SHENOY; 
Stanford Neurosciences, San Francisco, CA

 

Mechanisms of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma invasion of the subventricular zone

*E. Y. QIN1, D. COOPER1, S. NAGARAJA1, A. MACKAY2, C. JONES2, M. MONJE1
1Neurol., Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., Stanford, CA; 2The Inst. of Cancer Res., Sutton, United Kingdom

 

Spatial working memory enhances visual cortical representations

*B. NOUDOOST1, Y. MERRIKHI3, T. MOORE4, K. CLARK1, E. ALBARRAN4, M. PARSA2
1Cell Biol. and Neurosci., 2Computer science, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT; 3Sch. of cognitive sciences, Inst. for Res. In Fundamental Sci. (IPM), Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of; 4Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Defining the neural circuits that provide emotional significance to what we see

*L. D. SALAY1, N. ISHIKO1, P. L. NGUYEN2, E. YAGHOUB2, A. D. HUBERMAN1,3
1Dept. of Neurobio., Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., Palo Alto, CA; 2Neurosciences Dept., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; 3Salk Inst. for Biol. Studies, La Jolla, CA

 

New tools for studying microglia in the mouse and human CNS

*M. L. BENNETT1, F. C. BENNETT2, B. A. BARRES2
1Neurobio., Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., Stanford, CA; 2Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA

 

Exploring the maturation of human iPSC-derived astrocytes in 3D cerebral cortical cultures

*S. A. SLOAN1, S. DARMANIS2, N. HUBER3, F. BIREY3, C. CANEDA1, S. R. QUAKE2, B. A. BARRES1, S. P. PASCA3
1Neurobio., 2Bioengineering, 3Psychiatry, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA

 

Activity-dependent CLARITY whole brain analysis reveals long-range wiring and molecular signatures of prefrontal ensembles mediating positive or negative valence experience

*L. YE1,2,3, W. ALLEN1,4, K. THOMPSON1, Q. TIAN5, B. HSUEH1, C. RAMAKRISHNAN1, A.-C. WANG1, J. JENNINGS1, A. ADHIKARI1, C. HALPERN6, I. WITTEN1, A. L. BARTH7, L. LUO2,4, J. A. MCNAB5, K. DEISSEROTH1,2,3
1Bioengineering, 2Howard Hughes Med. Inst., 3Psychiatry & Behavioral Sci., 4Biol., 5Radiology, 6Neurosurg., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 7Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

 

Striatum represents bayesian surprise, not reward prediction error, in rule learning.

*I. C. BALLARD1, S. M. MCCLURE2
1Psychology, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 2Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

 

Subcellular imaging of voltage signals reveals neural processing In vivo

*H. H. YANG1, F. ST-PIERRE2, M. Z. LIN1, T. R. CLANDININ1
1Dept. of Neurobio., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 2Dept. of Neurosci. and Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engin., Baylor Col. of Med. and Rice Univ., Houston, TX

 

The fine temporal structure of neural spike trains impacts motor behavior

*H. L. PAYNE1, R. LI1, C. C. GUO2, J. L. RAYMOND1
1Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 2QIMR Berghofer, Brisbane, Australia

 

Proliferation of macromolecular tissue in human cortex underlies development of face processing

*J. GOMEZ1, M. BARNETT1, V. NATU1, A. MEZER2, K. S. WEINER1, K. AMUNTS3, K. ZILLES4, K. GRILL-SPECTOR1
1Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; 2Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; 3C. & O. Vogt Inst. for Brain Res., Heinrich-Heine Univ. Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; 4RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

 

A causal role for theta-phase alignment during episodic memory encoding

*A. GONZALEZ, V. Y. VILDAVSKI, A. M. NORCIA, A. D. WAGNER; 
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

 

Innate immune cell circadian rhythms in aging and Alzheimer’s disease

*C. TSAI, K. I. ANDREASSON; 
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA