2008 CNBC Retreat Schedule

 

Events held in Sunburst Room unless otherwise noted.

 

Friday, October 17

 

5:00 pm Check-in for Guests with Friday Arrivals

 

7:30 pm

 

Pizza/Soft Drinks
Seasons Room 1-3

 

8:00 pm

 

Student Data Blitz
Seasons Room 1-3

 

 

Saturday, October 18

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast, Seasons 4-5
Meeting, Sunburst Room

 

8:55 am

 

Welcome

Aaron Batista, Ph.D.

Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

 

9:00 am

 

Charles Kemp, Ph.D.
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Bayesian models of human learning
9:45 am

Karl Kandler, Ph.D.

Otolaryngology

University of Pittsburgh

Developmental refinement of inhibitory connections: Lessons from the auditory system
10:30am Break
10:45 am

David Lewis, M.D.

Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Cognitive dysfunciton in schizophrenia:  Developing new therapeutic interventions

 

11:30 am

 

Anna Fisher, Ph.D.
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Mechanisms of induction early in development:  Are kinds more important than looks?
12:15 pm

Box Lunch  &  Student /Faculty/Postdoc meetings

 

Faculty Lunch/Meeting in Wintergreen

PostDoc Lunch/Meeting in Hemlock

Student Meeting in Sunburst

(Students please pick up lunch in Seasons 4-5 and return to Sunburst for meeting)

 

1:30-4:30 pm

 

4:15 pm

 

Recreation/Free Time

 

Refreshment Break

Seasons 4-5

 

4:30 pm

Keynote Address:

Mickey E. Goldberg, Ph.D.

Columbia University

On the agnosticism of spikes:  Saccades and attention in the lateral intraparietal area of the monkey

Sunburst Room

 

6:00 pm

 

Buffet Dinner

Alpine Room
7:30-10:00 pm

Poster Session / Refreshments

Seasons 1-5

 

10:00-midnight

 

Hospitality, Fun and Games

Seasons 1-5

Sunday, October 19

 

8:30 am

 

Continental Breakfast
Seasons 4-5

 

9:00-9:45 am

 

Parallel Student/Post-Doc Presentation Sessions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:45 am

 

Session 1 - Sunburst Room

 

Linda Moya, Graduate Student, Behrmann lab
The time course of neural activity in object-based visual attention

 

Blair Armstrong, Graduate Student, Plaut lab
Computational and behavioral investigations of ambiguity effects in lexical semantic priming

 

Luke Hyde, Graduate Student, Hariri lab

Functional brain correlates of antisocial behavior in adolescents

 

Session 2 - Wintergreen Room

 

Matt Harrison, Postdoc, Kass lab

Quantifying the statistical significance of neural spiking patterns

 

Jason Middleton, Postdoc, Simons lab
Determining synchronous information streams with postsynaptic receptive field tuning

 

Elisabeth Ploran, Graduate Student, Wheeler lab

Decisions about studying decisions

 

Session 3 - Hemlock Room

 

Amanda Clause, Graduate Student, Kandler lab
The power of the template (or) Refinement of inhibitory circuits in the auditory brainstem depends on cholinergic transmission in the cochlea


Cathy Dunn, Graduate Student, Colby lab
I keep moving but the world stands still

 

Corey Flynn, Graduate Student, Crowley lab
From maps to molecules:  Differential proteomics on V1 ocular dominance columns

 

Break / **Check out (by 11:00 am)**

 

10:00 am

 

Erika Fanselow, Ph.D.

Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh

Conversing with the neocortex:  How to talk to a circuit

 

10:45 am

 

Carl Olson, Ph.D.

CNBC, Carnegie Mellon University
What neurons in monkey inferotemporal cortex can tell us about human visual perception

 

11:30 am

 

Departure