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In keeping with these fancy new Internet trends, I will attempt to do some live-blogging from the Society for Neuroscience 2005 Annual Meeting that starts on Saturday in DC. The big event is of course the Dalai Lama’s talk on Saturday afternoon. I give my poster presentation pretty early on (Sunday morning- D22, come say hi), so I should be able to find some time to blog.

I’ll be flying out tomorrow to DC but, until the real action kicks off, those curious can look at my itinerary. If you know of any cool posters/talks that I’ve missed, post it in the comments. My full itinerary after the jump…

Saturday, Nov. 12 (PM) - Platform Presentations

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Saturday, Nov. 12, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 1 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D J.L.Noebels Dept Neurology, Baylor Col. of Medicine PROFILING ION CHANNEL DISORDERS IN THE BRAIN Saturday, Nov. 12, 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM 12.9 Slide Washington Convention Center - Room 144A Y.Loewenstein1,2; J.L.Wang2; S.Song2*; H.Seung1,2 Howard Hughes Med. Inst. STOCHASTIC CHOICE AND OPERANT MATCHING IN A NEURONAL MODEL Saturday, Nov. 12, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM 8 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D Dalai Lama Mind and Life Institute THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEDITATION

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Saturday, Nov. 12, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 28.19 Poster C5 j.li; R.Shi* Biomedical Engineering, purdue Univ. BIOCOMPATIBLE MICRO-PATTERNED THIN FILM SUBSTRATES FOR IN VITRO CELL CULTURE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL TISSUE SCAFFOLDS Saturday, Nov. 12, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 71.19 Poster GG8 D.Schiller; G.Gal; I.Weiner* Tel Aviv Univ. THE ROLE OF LIMBIC-VENTRAL STRIATAL CIRCUITRY IN RESPONDING TO STIMULI WITH CONFLICTING MEANINGS Saturday, Nov. 12, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 74.14 Poster HH13 N.Schweighofer1,2*; K.Shishida3; Y.Okamoto3; S.Tanaka2,4; S.Yamawaki3; K.Doya2,5 Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Univ. of Southern California REWARD VALUE IS EXPONENTIALLY DISCOUNTED AT SHORT-TIME SCALES AND MODULATED BY SEROTONIN IN HUMANS Saturday, Nov. 12, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 104.1 Poster UU7 F.J.Courtois1; E.Landry3; M.Gauthier1; S.Bergeron1; M.Belanger2* Sexologie, UQAM ORGASMIC PREDICTION MEASURES WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY SUBJECTS

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Sunday, Nov. 13, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM 117 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D Y.Miyashita Dept Physiology, Univ. of Tokyo, School of Medicine COGNITIVE MEMORY SYSTEM IN PRIMATES: LOCAL CIRCUITS AND GLOBAL NETWORKS

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Sunday, Nov. 13, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 146.12 Poster D21 D.Mortimer1*; P.Dayan2; G.J.Goodhill1 Queensland Brain Institute and Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Queensland GROWTH CONE GRADIENT DETECTION: A BAYESIAN ANALYSIS Sunday, Nov. 13, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 146.13 Poster D22 N.E.Sanjana1*; A.Siddiqui2; J.Choi3; D.Freeman2; S.Seung1,3 Dept Brain & Cognitive Sci, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology NEURAL CELL CULTURE IN A MICROFLUIDIC CHAMBER FOR LONG-TERM STUDIES OF AXON GROWTH AND CHEMOTAXIS IN A CHEMICAL GRADIENT Sunday, Nov. 13, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 160.4 Poster L10 D.Dieguez, Jr.*; R.B.Goertz; B.E.Derrick Cajal Neuroscience Inst. and Dept. of Biology, The Univ. of Texas at San Antonio SEROTONIN RELEASE FROM THE MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS CONTRIBUTES TO DENTATE GYRUS LTP IN BEHAVING RATS Sunday, Nov. 13, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 160.5 Poster M1 H.Koseki1; M.Matsumoto2*; K.Tachibana2; K.Fukushima1; M.Yoshioka2 Department of Oral Pathobiological Science, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido Univ. MODULATION OF SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPO–MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX PATHWAY: POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF SEROTONERGIC AND NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM Sunday, Nov. 13, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 179.3 Poster CC19 D.H.O’Connor1,3*; D.V.Sarkisov2,3; S.Shoham1,3; S.S.-H.Wang1,3 Molecular Biology, Princeton Univ. INTEGRATION OF DISTRIBUTED GRANULE CELL SYNAPTIC INPUTS BY PURKINJE CELL DENDRITES Sunday, Nov. 13, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 227.12 Poster VV81 J.E.Toalston; Z.A.Rodd; S.M.Oster; J.M.Murphy*; R.L.Bell; W.J.McBride Psychology, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, Purdue Univ. ACTIVATING SEROTONIN-3 RECEPTORS IN THE POSTERIOR VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA IS REINFORCING AND REQUIRES STIMULATION OF DOPAMINE NEURONS Sunday, Nov. 13, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 228.16 Poster WW7 A.M.Taylor1*; M.Blurton-Jones2; S.Rhee1; B.Vahidi1; J.Park1; C.W.Cotman2; N.Jeon1 Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine A MICROFLUIDIC CULTURE PLATFORM FOR CNS AXONAL INJURY, REGENERATION, AND TRANSPORT

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Sunday, Nov. 13, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 231 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D D.D.Ginty Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine GROWTH AND SURVIVAL SIGNALS CONTROLLING PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Sunday, Nov. 13, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 274.13 Poster O11 J.Kwag; E.O.Mann; D.McLelland; O.Paulsen Univ. Laboratory of Physiology, Univ. of Oxford EXCITATORY AND INHIBITORY PHASE RESPONSE CURVES IN HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS DURING OSCILLATIONS Sunday, Nov. 13, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 274.20 Poster P6 P.Lau*; Y.Zhang; G.Bi Dept of Neurobio, Univ. of Pittsburgh ROLES OF MEMBRANE EXCITABILITY AND SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION IN REVERBERATORY ACTIVITY IN CULTURED NEURONAL NETWORKS Sunday, Nov. 13, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 274.21 Poster P7 G.Bi*; P.Lau Neurobiol., Univ. of Pittsburgh DYNAMICS AND PLASTICITY OF REVERBERATORY ACTIVITY IN A PROTOTYPE HEBBIAN CELL ASSEMBLY Sunday, Nov. 13, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 317.14 Poster RR13 S.L.Cowen*; M.L.Ruiz Luna; J.P.Martin; S.N.Burke; B.L.McNaughton NSMA, Univ. of Arizona DELAY ACTIVITY IN THE MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX OF THE RAT DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN STIMULUS SEQUENCES THAT PREDICT FUTURE REWARD

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Monday, Nov. 14, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM 343 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D C.Cirelli Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison GENES AND SLEEP: FROM MECHANISM TO FUNCTION Monday, Nov. 14, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 350 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D T.H.Murray The Hastings Ctr. THINKING BETTER? THE ETHICS OF COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT Monday, Nov. 14, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 351 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D S.B.Nelson Dept Biol MS#008, Brandeis Univ. PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF NEOCORTICAL CIRCUITS: A CALL TO ARMS

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Monday, Nov. 14, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 367.1 Poster A8 H.Yamanami1*; K.Homma1; H.Ogawa2; Y.Kitamura2; K.Hotta1; K.Oka1 Ctr Life Sci & Technol, School of Sci. and Technol. ANALYSIS OF CYTOSKELETEL DYNAMICS OF GROWTH CONES IN CHICK DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA BY FLUORESCENT SPECKLE MICROSCOPY Monday, Nov. 14, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 383.3 Poster F14 A.C.Kreitzer*; R.C.Malenka Dept Psych & Behav Sci, Stanford Univ. DOPAMINE MODULATION OF STATE-DEPENDENT ENDOCANNABINOID RELEASE AND LTD IN THE STRIATUM

Monday, Nov. 14 (AM) - Poster Presentations

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Monday, Nov. 14, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 384.1 Poster F29 B.L.Bloodgood*; B.L.Sabatini Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Med. School NON-LINEAR CALCIUM SIGNALING IN INDIVIDUAL DENDRITIC SPINES Monday, Nov. 14, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 384.2 Poster F30 Y.Cai1*; J.Gavornik1,2; H.Z.Shouval1,2 Dept Neurobiol Anat, Univ. of Texas, Houston, Med. School SIMULATION OF SPIKE TIMING-DEPENDENT SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY INDUCED BY SPIKE TRIPLETS WITH STOCHASTIC TRANSMITTER RELEASE Monday, Nov. 14, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 384.3 Poster F31 M.A.Farries*; A.L.Fairhall Dept. of Physiol. and Biophysics, Univ. of Washington REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH MODULATED SPIKE TIMING-DEPENDENT SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY Monday, Nov. 14, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 384.11 Poster F39 R.C.Gerkin1,2,3*; P.Lau2; D.W.Nauen1,2,3; Y.Wang4,5; G.Bi1,2,3 Center for Neuroscience, Univ. of Pittsburgh NMDA RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE SPIKE-TIMING-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY VIA INTRASYNAPTIC COMPETITION Monday, Nov. 14, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 384.14 Poster F42 T.Aihara*; M.Uchida; Y.Uchikune; D.Shiun; Y.Fukushima; M.Tsukada Info-Communication Engineering, Tamagawa Univ. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING IN THE PROXIMAL AND THE DISTAL DENDRITE IN THE HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 NETWORK Monday, Nov. 14, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 384.17 Poster G2 V.Pawlak*; G.Kohr Dept. Molecular Neurobiology, MPI for Med. Research SPIKE-TIMING DEPENDENT PLASTICITY IN HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 NEURONS Monday, Nov. 14, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 429.15 Poster PP24 M.Wiksten*; R.Liebkind; A.J.Väänänen; P.Liesi Biological/Environmental Sciences, The Brain Laboratory 1 LAMININ IN HUMAN ALS AS COMPARED TO ALS MICE IS LAMININ THE KEY? Monday, Nov. 14, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 439.4 Poster SS70 J.H.Huang*; R.F.Groff; J.Zhang; B.Pfister; E.Zager; D.H.Smith Dept. Neurosurg., Univ. of Penn SURROGATE NERVOUS TISSUE SURVIVES AND INTEGRATES IN HOST NERVE

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Monday, Nov. 14, 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM 476.10 Slide Washington Convention Center - Room 204A K.Shen*; G.Laurent Computation and Neural Systems, California Inst. of Technology POPULATION CODING OF ODOR MIXTURES OF INCREASING COMPLEXITY BY PRINCIPAL NEURONS OF THE ANTENNAL LOBE Monday, Nov. 14, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM N/A Social Event Washington Convention Center - Room149A M.Shapiro* HIPPOCAMPUS SOCIAL

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Monday, Nov. 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 482.8 Poster C1 T.Masuda1*; M.Taniguchi2; K.Kobayashi3; K.Kobayashi3; H.Yaginuma1 Department of Anatomy, Fukushima Med. Univ., School of Medicine INVOLVEMENT OF LAMININ-1 IN SENSORY AXONAL RESPONSE TO CHEMOATTRACTIVE GUIDANCE CUES IN HIGHER VERTEBRATE EMBRYOS Monday, Nov. 14, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 499.2 Poster K11 K.N.Hartman2*; P.K.Sumon1; V.N.Murthy1 Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Med. School ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT REGULATION OF GABAERGIC SYNAPSES IN A DEVELOPING NEURAL CIRCUIT IS NOT CELL AUTONOMOUS Monday, Nov. 14, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 503.17 Poster S7 A.I.Hernandez*; J.P.Wolk; T.Kurosu; D.F.Hernandez; J.H.Schwartz Ctr Neurobiol & Behav, Columbia Univ. CHARATERIZATION OF APLYSIA IMMEDIATE EARLY GENES DURING SEROTONIN TREATMENT Monday, Nov. 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 519.8 Poster CC24 S.Retterer1; K.L.Smith2; C.Bjornsson2; D.L.Martin2*; J.N.Turner2; M.S.Isaacson3; W.Shain2 Cornell Univ. DELIVERY OF COMPOUNDS TO THE CNS BY LOW FLOW INFUSION USING MICROFLUIDICS DESIGNED FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROSTHETIC DEVICES Monday, Nov. 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 569.20 Poster WW22 M.Mogri*; L.Milescu; K.Ptak; J.C.Smith Laboratory of Neural Control, NINDS, NIH A FAST, WINDOWS-BASED DYNAMIC CLAMP Monday, Nov. 14, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 569.21 Poster WW23 C.Muniz1; S.Arganda2; F.B.Rodriguez1; G.de Polavieja2; P.Varona1* Grupo de Neurocomputacion Biologica, Dpto. de Ingenieria Informatica, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid ADVANCED DYNAMIC-CLAMP SOFTWARE FOR THE STIMULATION OF EXCITABLE CELLS

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Tuesday, Nov. 15, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM 579 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D M.E.Greenberg Div. of Neurosci., Children’s Hospital A NEURONAL ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT GENE PROGRAM THAT REGULATES SYNAPSE DEVELOPMENT AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION Tuesday, Nov. 15, 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM 593.14 Slide Washington Convention Center - Room 209A A.B.Stepanyants1*; I.Ballesteros-Yañez2; R.Benavides-Piccioneand2; J.DeFelipe2 Physics, Northeastern Univ. IS THE CORTEX OPTIMALLY DESIGNED TO STORE INFORMATION IN SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY PATTERNS?

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Tuesday, Nov. 15, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 655.10 Poster MM28 T.Shomrat1; N.Feinstein1; M.Klein2; B.Hochner1* Dept of Neurobiology, Inst Life Sciences , Hebrew Univ. THE INVOLVEMENT OF SEROTONIN AND OCTOPAMINE IN SHORT- AND LONG-TERM PLASTICITY IN THE OCTOPUS VERTICAL LOBE Tuesday, Nov. 15, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 689.13 Poster WW42 H.Suzuki1*; N.Schweighofer2; Y.Hirata1; K.Fujiwara1; Y.Katori3; H.Shimokawa3; K.Aihara1,3; M.Kawato4; K.Doya4; T.A.Blenkinsop5; E.J.Lang5 Department of Mathematical Informatics, Univ. of Tokyo CAN ELECTRICAL COUPLING INDUCE CHAOS IN INFERIOR OLIVE NEURONS? EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE Tuesday, Nov. 15, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 689.25 Poster WW54 Y.Mishchenko*; A.Koulakov; D.Chklovskii Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory AUTOMATED 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF NEURONAL CIRCUITRY FROM SERIAL ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Tuesday, Nov. 15, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM N/A Social Event Washington Convention Center - Room 149A C.McBain* SYNAPSES SOCIAL

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Tuesday, Nov. 15, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 732.12 Poster P4 B.Lim; M.Poo* Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley POTENTIAL MODULATORY FUNCTION OF EPHRINB-EPHB BI-DIRECTIONAL SIGNALING IN SYNAPTOGENESIS Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 734.13 Poster S9 C.Lien*; M.Poo Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of California, Berkeley HETEROSYNAPTIC LTD OF GABAERGIC SYNAPSES IN A DEVELOPING RETINOTECTAL SYSTEM Tuesday, Nov. 15, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 735.5 Poster T3 Q.Wen*; D.B.Chklovskii Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory A COST-BASED ANALYSIS OF AXON AND DENDRITE MORPHOLOGY

Tuesday, Nov. 15 (PM) - Poster Presentations

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Tuesday, Nov. 15, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 753.15 Poster EE30 D.Z.Jin1*; F.M.Ramazanoglu2; H.Seung3,4 Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State Univ. A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF SEQUENCE GENERATION WITHIN SONGBIRD NUCLEUS HVC Tuesday, Nov. 15, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 779.12 Poster RR60 S.C.Tanaka1,2*; K.Shishida3; N.Schweighofer2,4; Y.Okamoto3; S.Yamawaki3; K.Doya1,2,5 Bioinformatics and Genomics, NAIST SEROTONIN AFFECTS TEMPORAL CREDIT ASSIGNMENT IN DELAYED STIMULUS-OUTCOME ASSOCIATION LEARNING

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Wednesday, Nov. 16, 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM 823.3 Slide Washington Convention Center - Room 209A O.J.M.Coenen1*; M.Bezzi1; A.Arleo1; T.Nieus2; A.D’Errico2; E.D’Angelo2 Dept Neurosci, Sony Computer Sci Lab QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF INFORMATION TRANSMISSION IN A SINGLE NEURON

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM 931 Featured and Special Lectures Washington Convention Center - Hall D K.G.Pearson Dept Physiol, Univ. of Alberta ANIMAL LOCOMOTION: FROM NEURAL CIRCUITS TO ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Is In Itinerary Day / Time Prog # Presentation Type Location Authors 1st Author 1st Affiliation Title (Click to View Abstract) Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 965.17 Poster P6 D.B.Chklovskii1*; L.R.Varshney1,2 Theoretical Neurobiology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory NOISY SYNAPSES AND INFORMATION STORAGE Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 981.10 Poster CC17 U.Rokni; A.Richardson; E.Bizzi; H.Seung* Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT A GRADIENT LEARNING MODEL OF ADAPTATION OF TUNING CURVES TO FORCE FIELDS Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 1029.1* Poster VV34 H.A.Geerts*; A.Spiros; R.Carr Scientific Liason Officer, In Silico Biosciences THE TEMPORAL DIFFERENCE REINFORCEMENT MODEL AND ADDICTION: PHARMACOLOGY MANIPULATION IN SILICO

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