2nd RIKEN CBS Co-Creation International Conference and Brain Medical Science Collaboration Division The 2nd Joint Poster Presentation for Young Scientists

2nd RIKEN CBS Co-Creation International Conference
& Brain Medical Science Collaboration Division, The 2nd Joint Poster Presentation for Young Scientists

Program

The following schedule is subject to change. Abstracts and other information are coming soon. There will be no online streaming.



Tuesday, October 24

8:45-9:00 Registration
9:05-9:10 Opening remarks
9:10-10:10 Talk 1

  • Dr. Keri Martinowich (Lead Investigator, Lieber Institute for Brain Development
    Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
    “Cell type-specific and spatially-resolved multiomic approaches for understanding human brain disorders”

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10:10-11:10 Talk 2
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Poster session 1
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:45 Short talk 1: Rie Ako (The University of Tokyo)
“Activity of cerebellar-thalamocortical pathway regulates delayed movement timing”
13:45-14:00 Short talk 2: Takumi Nakamura (Laboratory for Molecular Pathology of Psychiatric Disorders, RIKEN CBS)
“Heterozygous mutant mice of a histone methyltransferase show transcriptomic dysregulation in early neural differentiation and autistic-like behaviors rescued by an LSD1 inhibitor”
14:00-15:00 Talk 3

  • Dr. Tarjinder Singh (Assistant Professor of Computational and Statistical Genomics (in Psychiatry) Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York)
    “Insights on the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders and complex traits from genetic analyses of tens of thousands of individuals”

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15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-15:50 Talk 4

  • Dr. Atsushi Takata (Team leader, Molecular Pathology of Psychiatric Disorders, RIKEN CBS)
    “Where should we go after identifying single genes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders with large effect sizes”

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15:50-16:50 Talk 5

Wednesday, October 25

8:45-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Talk 6

  • Dr. Simon Chen (Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier II, uOttawa Brain and Mind Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa)
    “Probing the Dysfunctional Noradrenergic System During Delayed Motor Learning in the 16p11.2 Deletion Mouse Model of Autism”

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10:00-11:00 Talk 7

  • Dr. Matthew Larkum (Professor “Neuronal Plasticity” (W3), Department of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin)
    “The Context-Sensitive Brain: Understanding Neuropsychiatric Disorders through Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites”

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11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Poster session 2
12:30-13:30 Lunch & poster viewing
13:30-13:45 Short talk 3: Ruixiang Li (Laboratory for Brain Development and Disorders, RIKEN CBS)
“Probing Functional Brain Network in the Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome by Wide-field Calcium Imaging”
13:45-14:00 Short talk 4: Shinichiro Tsutsumi (Laboratory for Multi-scale Biological Psychiatry, RIKEN CBS)
“Thalamo-frontal circuit mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder”
14:00-14:30 Talk 8
14:30-14:40 Break
14:40-15:40 Talk 9

  • Dr. Hiroaki Wake (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University
    Professor, Division of Multicellular Circuit Dynamics, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institute of Natural Sciences)
    “Glia for multi-sensory modality and their holographic manipulation”

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15:40-15:50 Poster award
15:50-16:00 Closing message