The 22^nd Annual Barrels Meeting will be held Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16,

in Evanston , IL on the campus of Northwestern University. This is just prior to the annual

Society for Neuroscience meeting, which is held in nearby Chicago, IL. .

 

We invite all participants to deliver a short platform presentation and/or present a poster.

Those wishing to give platform presentations must register by September 1;

acceptance of the talk will be communicated by September 30.

BARRELS XXII

October 15-16, 2009

Norris University Center , Northwestern University

Sponsored by NINDS

 

Thursday, October 15

9:00 - 9:05                   Welcome                                Joshua C. Brumberg, Queens College , CUNY

Introduction to local area         Mitra Hartmann, Northwestern University

 

9:05 – 11:30                Molecular development and developmental plasticity in (barrel) cortex

9:05 - 9:15                   Introduction/Overview            Patricia Gaspar, INSERM

9:15 - 9:45                   Tomomi Shimogori               Unit Leader, RIKEN BSI
Input from the thalamus to shape the barrel cortex

9:45 - 10:15                 Cathy Leamey                        The University of Sydney

Novel molecular regulators of sensory pathway development

10:15 - 10:45               Reha Erzurumlu                    University of Maryland Medical School , Baltimore

Glutamatergic and serotonergic modulation of the developing barrel circuitry

10:45 – 11:15              Discussion

      

11:15 – 11:45              Coffee break

 

11:45 –12:30               SHORT PLATFORM TALKS 1

                                    Moderator: Daniel Simons, University of Pittsburgh

11:45–12:00                *Qian-Quan Sun

                                    University of Wyoming

Experience-dependent intrinsic plasticity in inhibitory networks of barrel cortex layer IV.

12:00 –12:15               *Ayan Ghoshal, Ford Ebner

                                    Vanderbilt University

Rearing conditions alter cross-sensory responsiveness in barrel cortex     

12:15 –12:30               *Chia-Chien Chen¹, Adesh A. Bajnath², Sara Marie Clark³, Fiona Inglis³, Joshua C. Brumberg¹²⁴

¹Neuropsychology Ph.D. Subprogram, The Graduate Center, CUNY  ²Neuroscience Program, Queens College, CUNY  ³Cell & Molecular Biology, Tulane University ⁴Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY. 

Morphological development of dendritic spines is influenced by sensory activity.

12:30 –12:45               Chia-Shan Wu, Shan Wang, Shen-Ju Chou, Dennis O'Leary, Giovanni

Marsicano, Andrea Conrad, Beat Lutz, Ken Mackie, *Hui-Chen Lu

Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Salk Institute, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, AVENIR INSERM, Gill Center and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University,.
The Role of endocannabinoid system in the thalamocortical pathway

 

12:45-1:00                   Discussion

 

1:00 – 3:00                  Lunch Break   

 

2:45 - 3:00                   Annual Business Meeting (Joshua C. Brumberg, Queens College , CUNY)

 

3:00-3:30                     Data Blitz #1

                                    Moderator: Mary Ann Wilson, Johns Hopkins University

 

3:30 – 5:00                  SHORT PLATFORM TALKS 2

                                    Moderator: Daniel Shulz, CNRS

3:30 - 3:45                   *B. M. Hooks^1,2, S. Andrew Hires¹, Leopoldo Petreanu¹, Karel Svoboda¹,

Gordon M. G. Shepherd^1,2

¹Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ²Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine , Northwestern University.

Excitatory local circuits in vibrissal motor and sensory cortical areas

3:45– 4:00                   Qizong Yang¹, Raddy L. Ramos², Chia-Chien Chen³, *Joshua C. Brumberg^1,3

¹Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, ²Department of Neuroscience and Histology, NYCOM, ³ Neuropsychology Subprogram, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Intrinsic Properties and Synaptic Inputs onto Identified Corticothalamic Neurons

4:00 – 4:15                  * J. T. Ritt¹, J. H. Siegle¹, J. A. Cardin¹, M. Carlen², K. Meletis², K. Deisseroth³,

L.-H. Tsai², C. I. Moore¹

¹ McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ² Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ³Bioengineering Department, Stanford University

Optogenetic stimulation of barrel cortex subnetworks during active touch in awake mice: influence of and perturbations to ongoing network states

4:15 - 4:30                   Discussion

                                   

4:30 – 5:00                  Break

 

5:00                             Poster Session

 

6:30                             Dinner

 

 

Friday October 16

8:35 – 10:35                Optical analysis of barrel cortex function

8:35 – 8:45                  Introduction/Overview            Randy Bruno, Columbia University   

8:45 – 9:15                  Carlos Portera-Cailliau        University of California Los Angeles   

2-photon imaging of barrel cortex structure and function in neonatal mice

9:15 – 9:45                  Karel Svoboda                      Janelia Farms

Optical mapping of thalamocortical and cortico-cortical circuits

9:45 -10:15                  Fritjof Helmchen                   University of Zurich

Imaging single-cell and population responses to whisker stimulation in barrel cortex

10:15 – 10:45              Discussion

 

10:45 – 11:15              Coffee Break

 

11:15 – 12:00              SHORT PLATFORM TALKS 3

                                    Moderator:  Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington

11:15-11:30                 *Tony Prescott¹, Ben Mitchinson¹, Sean Anderson¹, Mat Evans¹, Stuart Wilson¹, Martin Pearson², Tony Pipe²

¹Active Touch Laboratory at Sheffield (ATL@S), University of Sheffield , ² Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Universities of Bristol and of the West of England .

Whisking with robots: from rat vibrissae to biomimetic technology for active

touch

11:30 - 11:45               Shashank Tandon, Hisham Mohammed, Niranjan Kambi and *Neeraj Jain

                                    National Brain Research Centre, Manesar , India

Organization of the motor cortex and its plasticity following dorsal funiculus lesions in adult rats.

11:45 - 12:00               Discussion

 

12:00 - 1:30                 Lunch

 

1:30 – 2:00                  Data Blitz #2

                                    Moderator: Daniel Feldman, UC Berkley

 

2:00 – 2:30                  Coffee Break

 

2:30 – 4:40                  Coding of touch

2:30 --2:40                   Introduction/Overview                         Mitra Hartmann, Northwestern University

2:40 – 3:10                  Fan Wang                                           Duke University

Molecular genetic dissection of the barrelette circuit

3:10 – 3:40                  David Kleinfeld                                 University of California San Diego

The transformation from body-centered to trajectory-based coordinates

3:40 – 4:10                  Ilan Lampl                                          Weizmann Institute

Shifts in the balance between excitation and inhibition during adaptation: short term synaptic depression and its counterbalancing mechanisms

4:10 - 4:40                   Carl Olson                                         Carnegie Mellon University

How the brain represents object-centered space

 

4:40 - 5:00                   Discussion

5:00                             Adjourn

   

Registration: Early registration is available until September 1 ($100 fee for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, $200 for faculty members); after September 1 a $50 late fee will be added.

 

Online registration is now open at www.regonline.com/barrels22.

 

Housing: We have secured rooms at the Omni Orrington Hotel ( 1710 Orrington Ave. ,

Evanston , IL , 888.677.4648, http://www.hotelorrington.com/), within walking distance to the meeting site. Mention “Barrels Meeting” to get the negotiated rate of $159/night (rooms released on September 16).

 

Further information: Contact Joshua C. Brumberg at joshua.brumberg@qc.cuny.edu.

 

The Barrels XXII Organizing Committee:

Joshua C. Brumberg, Ph.D.; Queens College , CUNY
Randy Bruno, Ph.D.; Columbia University
Mitra Hartmann, Ph. D. Northwestern University
David Kleinfeld, Ph.D.; University of California San Diego
Jochen Staiger, M.D.; Albert-Ludwigs-Universitδt Freiburg,