FENS Forum 2018: Presentations by SFARI Investigators

A selection of presentations that will be given by current and former SFARI Investigators at the 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Berlin, Germany (July 7-11) is highlighted below.

Rui Costa, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Symposium lecture:
Corticostriatal dynamics encode the refinement of task-relevant variability during skill learning

Sandeep Robert Datta, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
Symposium lecture:
Population representations of the olfactory world

Gord Fishell, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)
Symposium lecture:
The developmental trajectories of GABAergic projection and interneurons: Insights from single-cell analysis

Arnold Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, San Francisco)
Symposium lecture:
Human brain development; modeled by cerebral organoids?

Bo Li, Ph.D. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Symposium lecture:
The amygdala circuits in stress and anxiety

Oscar Marin, Ph.D. (King’s College London)
Symposium lecture:
Progenitor cell diversity underlying the generation of cortical interneurons

Beth Stevens, Ph.D. (Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Plenary lecture:
Immune mechanisms of synapse loss in disease: Lessons from development

Mriganka Sur, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Symposium lecture:
Ca2+ microdomain signals in visual cortex astrocytes in vivo, and their relationship to neuronal synapses, circuits and processing

Sam Wang, Ph.D. (Princeton University)
Symposium lecture:
Cerebellar loops with the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia

Ofer Yizhar, Ph.D. (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Symposium lecture:
Deciphering the roles of prefrontal long-range connections in learning and cognitive control

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