2023 Annual Retreat
September 26 - 28, 2023
Wrightsville Beach, NC
2022 Annual Retreat
September 28 - 30, 2022
Wrightsville Beach, NC
2021 Annual Retreat
After the beach trip was canceled, we improvised a small, (masked) local retreat at The Cotton Room in Durham's Golden Belt. We missed the guest speakers and ocean views, but still had a great time sharing science. We also managed to squeeze in an outdoor happy hour at the nearby Ponysaurus brewery, enjoyed by all!
2019 Annual Retreat
September 25 - 27, 2019
Wrightsville Beach, NC
2019 Retreat Award Winners
Talks:
- Caley Burrus, Graduate Student, Eroglu Lab, "Striatal Projection Neurons Require Huntingtin for Synaptic Connectivity and Longevity"
- Elizabeth Fleming, Graduate Student, Hull Lab, "Evaluating Pattern Separation in the Cerebellar Granule Cell Layer"
- Yael Grossman, Postdoc, Dzirasa Lab, "State-Specific Control of Complex Social Behavior using Closed-Loop Optogenetics"
- Miaomiao Jin, Graduate Student, Glickfeld Lab, "Perceptual Roles of Mouse Higher Visual Areas"
- Xin Luo, Postdoc, Ji Lab, "Macrophage-Neuron Interactions Differentially Regulate Pain in Male and Female Mice"
- Suva Roy, Postdoc, Field Lab, "Mosaic Organization in the Mammalian Retina"
- Alex Vaz, Graduate Student, Brunel Lab, "Replay of Cortical Spiking Sequences Mediates Human Memory Retrieval"
Posters:
- Emily Griffith Burke, Lab Affiliate, Glickfeld Lab, "Understanding the Neural Basis for Orientation Discrimination"
- Mariah Hazlett, Graduate Student, Anne West Lab, "Epigenome Editing at a Fos Enhancer Modulates Activity-dependent Fos Induction in the Hippocampus"
- Ashley Martfeld, Postdoc, Grandl Lab, "Understanding the Effects of Human Diseasing-Causing Mutations on Piezo Function"
- Caitlin Paisley, Graduate Student, Kay Lab, "Mechanisms Underlying the Developmental Death of Retinal Astrocytes"
- Miranda Scalabrino, Postdoc, Field Lab, "How Faking Retinal Gene Therapy can Inform us About Real Gene Therapy"
- Meredith Schmehl, Graduate Student, Groh Lab, "Probing the Auditory Periphery with McGurk Stimuli"
- Divya Subramanian, Graduate Student, Sommer Lab, "Discriminative Rather than Bayesian Models are Used for the Categorical Judgment of Visual Stability Across Saccades"
- Jun Takato, Postdoc, Wang Lab, "Neural Circuit Mechanism of Whisking Rhythm Generation"
2018 Annual Retreat
September 27, 2018
Durham, NC
2018 Retreat Award Winners
- Best Poster, Graduate Student: Aashutosh Vihani - Semiochemical detection in the mouse main olfactory system exhibits experience-dependent plasticity
- Best Poster, Postdoc: Amanda Lewis, Ph.D. - Structural determinants of inactivation in mechanically activated Piezo ion channels
- Graduate Student Talk: Shataakshi Dube - Chemicogenetic analysis of the presynaptic cytoskeleton
- Graduate Student Talk: Maxwell Gillett - Unsupervised learning of sequential activity with temporally asymmetric Hebbian learning rules
- Graduate Student Talk: Matthew Kearney - An actor critic circuit in the songbird enables vocal learning
- Postdoc Talk: Maya Kaelberer, Ph.D. - Transduction of a gut sense
- Postdoc Talk: Kevin Bolding, Ph.D. - Recurrent cortical circuits implement concentration-invariant odor coding
- Best Faculty Talk: Eva Naumann, Ph.D. - Neural architecture for visual motion processing in the zebrafish
- Ig Nobel Prize Talk: Anne West, M.D., Ph.D.
2017 Annual Retreat
September 27 - 29, 2017
Wrightsville Beach, NC
2017 Retreat Award Winners
- Best Grad Student Talk: Jake Heffley - A New View of Cerebellar Learning
- Best Grad Student Poster: Matt Kearney - The songbird VTA integrates opponent evaluative signals for vocal learning
- Best Postdoc Talk: Amanda Lewis, Ph.D. - Transduction of repetitive mechanical stimuli by Piezo1 and Piezo2 ion channels
- Best Postdoc Poster: Lupin Yin, Ph.D. - The songbird VTA integrates opponent evaluative signals for vocal learning
- Best Grad Student Talk Runner Up: Janani Sundararajan - Circuit mechanisms of movement‐related changes in auditory detection
- Best Grad Student Poster Runner Up: Miaomiao Jin - Role of mouse higher visual areas in detecting orientation and contrast changes
- Best Postdoc Poster Runner Up: Thomas Ray, Ph.D. - Sequencing and proteomic approach illuminates mRNA and protein isoform diversity and their contributions to neural development and disease
- Best Lab Participation: Field Lab
2016 Annual Retreat
September 28 - 30, 2016
Wrightsville Beach, NC
2016 Retreat Award Winners
- Best Postdoc Poster: Joseph Rittner, Ph.D.
- Best Postdoc Talk: Katie Tschida, Ph.D.
- Best Student Poster: Janai Sundararajan
- Best Student Talk: Jeff Stogsdill
- Best Lab Participation: Calakos Lab
- Best 2nd Year Student Poster: Shataakshi Dube
- Best Interactive Poster: Jonnathan Singh Alvarado
- Most Creative Student Talk: Erin Hisey
- Most Creative Talk Introduction: Anne West, M.D., Ph.D.