SCHEDULE OVERVIEW

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2023

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM		Registration and Breakfast
Poster Set-Up
8:00 AM - 8:15 AMOpening Remarks
8:15 AM - 8:45 AMForty Years of Memory
9:00 AM - 9:50 AMJames L. McGaugh Distinguished Lecture
Kafui Dzirasa, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University
"Discovering and regulating internal affective states in health and disease"
10:00 AM - 11:50 AMSymposium Session 1.2
12:00 PM -1:00 PMLunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PMPoster session
2:30 PM - 4:20 PMFeatured Research Symposium: Future of the Brain Initiative
Moderator: Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D.
Panelists: John Ngai, Ph.D., Michelle Jones-London, Ph.D., Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D.
4:30 PM - 5:20 PMPlenary Lecture
Jelena Radulovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Representation of stressful experiences in memory circuits"
6:00 PMWelcome Reception
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023
7:00 AM - 8:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
Poster Set-Up
8:00 AM - 8:50 AMPlenary Lecture
Marcelo Wood, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
"Examining how the intersection of epigenetics, exercise and metabolism affects memory formation in the adult and aging brain"
9:00 AM - 9:50 AMPlenary Lecture
Alicia Izquierdo, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
"Frontocortical circuits in reward learning and value-based decision making"
10:00 AM - 11:50 AMLightning Talk Session
12:00 PM -1:00 PMLunch
1:00 PM - 2:20 PMPoster session
2:30 PM - 4:20 PMSymposium Session 2.5
4:30 PM - 5:20 PMPlenary Lecture
Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D.
Hospital for Sick Children
"Neuronal allocation to a spatial memory in mice"
5:30 PM - 6:20 PMPlenary Lecture
Steve Ramirez, Ph.D.
Boston University
"How moments turn to engrams in the brain"
7:00 PM - 9:00 PMScientific Communication Skills Workshop
Bri McWhorter
Registration required
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023
7:00 AM - 8:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
Poster Set-Up
8:00 AM - 8:50 AMKeynote Lecture
Kay Tye, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute
"Associative learning: Solving the valence assignment problem"
9:00 AM - 9:50 AMPlenary Lecture
Charan Ranganath, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
"A paradigm shift in our understanding of episodic memory"
10:00 AM - 11:50 AMOpen Papers Session
12:00 PM -1:00 PMLunch
1:00 PM - 2:20 PMPoster session
2:30 PM - 4:20 PMSymposium Session 3.5
4:30 PM - 5:20 PMPlenary Lecture
Saul Villeda, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
"Systemic mechanisms of cognitive rejuvenation"
5:30 PM - 6:20 PMPlenary Lecture
Sara Burke, Ph.D.
University of Florida
"Targeting metabolism to enhance cognitive resilience during aging"
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023
7:00 AM - 8:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
Poster Set-Up
8:00 AM - 9:50 AMSymposium Session 4.1
10:00 AM - 11:50 AMSpecial Event: Live Review
Frontiers for Young Minds
12:00 PM -1:00 PMLunch
1:00 PM - 2:20 PMPoster session
2:30 PM - 4:20 PMSymposium Session 4.4
4:30 PM - 5:20 PMKeynote Lecture
Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Monitoring and controlling the level of unconsciousness under general anesthesia"
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM80's Movie Night
Back to the Future
Screening, popcorn, hot dogs, and movie theater candy! Families are welcome to join.
SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2023
7:00 AM - 8:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
Poster Set-Up
8:00 AM - 8:50 AMPlenary Lecture
Christine Gall, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
"Sex differences in synaptic plasticity and learning"
9:00 AM - 9:50 AMPlenary Lecture
Jeffrey Zacks, Ph.D.
Washington University, St. Louis
"Prediction error and memory updating"
10:00 AM - 11:50 AMSymposium Session 5.3
12:00 PM -1:00 PMLunch
1:00 PM - 2:20 PMPoster session
2:30 PM - 4:20 PMSymposium Session 5.5
4:30 PM - 5:20 PMPlenary Lecture
Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D.
Columbia University
"How memory guides value-based decisions"
5:30PMClosing Remarks

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