2024 Symposium Schedule

Date: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
Location: Biomedical Research Building, Ground floor Lobby & Auditorium, 421 Curie Blvd., University of Pennsylvania, 19104 (map) (directions). This is an in-person event.

Register for free by September 25th, 2024. Attendees are also invited to submit a poster abstract for review along with their registration. Poster abstracts are due September 5th, 2024. For more details on poster submissions, click here.

8:15 AM — Breakfast

Enjoy a light breakfast with coffee and tea; Hang posters

9:00 AM — Welcome and Introduction

Opening remarks from the organizing committee.

9:15 AM - 11:45 AM — Morning P-SPINE Talks

9:15 AM - Budhaditya Chowdhury - “Molecular and neural correlates of homeostatic sleep and its effects on social behavior”

9:45 AM - JiaBei Lin - “Tailor Hsp104 therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases”

10:45 AM - Supriya Ghosh - “Tuning Attention: How Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Enhances Visual Sensitivity and Discrimination”

11:15 AM - Jonathan Borland - “Advances in understanding the neuronal mechanisms underlying the rewarding properties of social interactions”

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM — Catered Lunch

Make new friends and colleagues over lunch; Peruse the posters.

1:15 PM - 3:45 PM — Afternoon P-SPINE Talks

1:15 PM - Xuyu Qian - “Spatially Resolved Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Early Prenatal Specification of Human Cortical Layers and Areas”

1:45 PM - Yunlu Zhu - “From navigation to neurodegeneration: lessons from zebrafish vestibular circuits”

2:45 PM - Robyn St Laurent - “The intercalated amygdala's role in controlling negative reinforcement behaviors”

3:15 PM - Dah-eun (Chloe) Chung - “Big tau: a pathology-resistant isoform in health and disease”

3:45 PM — Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

Closing remarks from the organizing committee.

4:00 PM — Networking Happy Hour and Poster Session

Peruse posters and network with postdocs, faculty, graduate students, and other fellows over posters, snacks, beer and wine, and other refreshments.