Conference Program
September 26th – AM
Session 1
9:15 – Welcome breakfast, badge pick-up
9:45 – Event Introduction – S. Bouret
10:00 – Chemogenetic imaging: monitoring and manipulating neural
circuits in monkeys – T. Minamimoto
10:30 – Manipulation of primate neural networks by
means of modified viral vectors – K. Inoue
11:00 – Disscussions
12:00 – Lunch & Poster
September 26th – PM
Session 2
13:30 – Challenges to Apply Gene Transfer Technologies to
Neuropsychiatric Diseases – S. Palfi
14:30 – Break
15:00 – Chemogenetic agents for causal manipulation of primate
behavior – B. Richmond
15:30 – Delivering viral vectors and monitoring expression in non-
human primate brain – M. Eldridge
16:00 – Disscussions
17:00 – Wine, Cheese & Posters
September 27th – AM
Session 3
9:30 – Breakfast
10:00 – CAV-2, a neurobiologist’s best friend – B. Beucher
10:30 – First steps and strategy to study macaque prefrontal cortical interactions with DREADDs – E. Procyk
11:00 – Disscussion
12:00 – Lunch & Poster
September 27th – PM
Session 4
13:30 – Chemogenetic over-activation of area 25 in primate subgenual anterior cingulate cortex reveals a causal role in anhedonia and anxiety – L. Alexander
14:30 – Break
15:00 – Optogenetic interrogation of selective spatial attention:
linking behavior to single cell and brain-wide networks
changes in monkeys – W. Vanduffel
15:30 – Optogenetic analysis of repetition suppression in
macaque inferotemporal cortex – R. Vogels
16:00 – Disscussions
17:00 – Closing remarks
Poster Session
After a fruitful set of lectures let’s have casual moments where everyone can discuss with the speakers, chat about where the field is going, and present their ongoing work on posters…
Posters will be presented during the lunch breaks and the cocktail. Poster presenters have to register for this session (the frames are portrait oriented – 170cm tall and 90cm wide).