Members of the Washington University in St. Louis community are invited to register for the 2024 Computational Neuroscience Next Generation (CNNG) Symposium at the WashU School of Medicine scheduled for Sept. 16, 2024. Join us for an exciting day of talks and poster presentations at the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building.
Registration ends Aug. 30.
Highlights
The CNNG Symposium @ WashU is a prestigious symposium sponsored by the Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at Washington University. Selected postdocs who are using primarily theoretical and computational techniques to study the principles of brain organization and function will be brought to St. Louis to present their thesis work and expand their scientific network at WashU. CNNG participants will engage with researchers at CTCN-participating departments over three days, including:
- Presenting their work during a symposium featuring CNNG speakers and WashU neuroscientists.
- Meeting one-on-one with faculty.
- Engaging in informal discussions with the Washington University computational and theoretical neuroscience community.
- Exploring St. Louis, Gateway to the West.
2024 Symposium Program of Events
Talks in Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium/Poster session in building atrium)
Session One
9-9:30 a.m.
Traveling waves as a computationally beneficial inductive bias
T. Anderson Keller, PhD
Research Fellow, Kempner Institute, Harvard University
9:30-10 a.m.
Bridging natural and artificial intelligence with neural
network models
Christopher Cueva, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10-10:15 a.m.
Vision in evolved brains and trained networks
Ralf Wessel, PhD
Professor of Physics, Washington University
10:15 a.m.
Tea break
Session Two
10:45-11:15 a.m.
Impact of dendritic non-linearities on the computational capabilities of neurons
Clarissa Lauditi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
11:15-11:30 a.m.
Molecular ballet: decoding biochemical signaling dynamics in the brain
Yao Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Washington University
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Lunch and poster session
Session Three
1:30-2 p.m.
Architectural foundations of robust and flexible motor control in mammalian brains
Laureline Logiaco, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2-2:30 p.m.
Multiregional mechanisms of cognitive control
Agrita Dubey, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2:30-3 p.m.
A theoretical account of information gathering
Juvenal Bosulu, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
3-3:15 p.m.
A neural circuit for economic choices
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Washington University
3:15 p.m.
Tea break