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Virtual Schedule at a Glance

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8

7:30–8:30 a.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos
8:30–9:30 a.m. CST	Presidential Special Panel — COVID and the Brain Panelists: Igor Koralnik, MD, and Serena Spudich, MD
9:30–10:30 a.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
10–10:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — Dentate Gyrus Circuits for Encoding, Retrieval, and Discrimination of Episodic Memories Lecturer: Marlene Bartos, PhD
10–10:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — Learning From Prediction Error Lecturer: Reza Shadmehr, PhD
10:45–11:45 a.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
11–11:45 a.m. CST	Clinical Neuroscience Lecture — Expanding Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets for Neurodegenerative Disease Lecturer: Aaron Gitler, PhD
11–11:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — The Assembly and Function of Hippocampal Circuits Lecturer: Rosa Cossart, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Then and Now Panel — A Conversation About 40 Years on Different Routes to the Same Destination 50th Moderator: Elizabeth Phelps, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Celebration of Women in Neuroscience Session 50th Moderator: Diane Lipscombe, PhD
1–3:30 p.m. CST	Graduate School Fair
1–3:30 p.m. CST	Poster Session Group Discussions
1–3:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Exhibits
3:30–4:30 p.m. CST	Presidential Special Lecture — Spinal Cord Gateways to Restore Neurological Functions Lecturer: Gregoire Courtine, PhD
4:30–5:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

7:30–8:30 a.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos
8:30 a.m.–noon CST	Graduate School Fair
8:30 a.m.–noon CST	Poster Session Group Discussions
8:30 a.m.–noon CST	Virtual Exhibits
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Then and Now Panel — What Makes a Model Nervous System? 50th Chair: Michael Yartsev, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Dual Perspectives — What Does Dopamine Encode? Moderator: Patricia Janak, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
1:15–2:15 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
1:30–2:15 p.m. CST	David Kopf Neuroethics Lecture — The Law and Neuroprosthetics Lecturer: Jennifer Chandler, JD, LLM
1:30–2:15 p.m. CST	Special Lecture — Watching the Brain in Action — Creating Tools for Functional Analysis of Neural Circuitry Lecturer: Lin Tian, PhD
2:30–3:15 p.m. CST	Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture — From the Neuroscience of Individual Variability to Climate Change Lecturer: Eve Marder, PhD
2:30–3:15 p.m. CST	Special Lecture — The Mysteries of Sleep — Toward the Molecular Substrate for "Sleepiness" Lecturer: Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD
2:30–3:30 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
3:30–4:30 p.m. CST	Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society — Life of a Neuron Lecturer: Sandro Kereselidze
4:30–5:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

7:30–8:30 a.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos
8:30– 9:30 a.m. CST	Presidential Special Lecture — From Development to Repair — How Growth Factors and Stem Cells Build the Brain Lecturer: Freda Miller, PhD
9:30–10:30 a.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
10–10:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — Themes and Variations — Circuit Mechanisms of Behavioral Evolution Lecturer: Vanessa Ruta, PhD
10–10:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — Lineage-Dependent Assembly of the Neocortex Lecturer: Song-Hai Shi, PhD
10:45–11:45 a.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
11–11:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — Proteins, Synapses, and Memory — Local Translation of mRNAs in Neurons Lecturer: Erin Schuman, PhD
11–11:45 a.m. CST	Special Lecture — Neuronal Mechanisms of Value-Based Decision-Making — A Brain-Machine Interface Approach Lecturer: Joni Wallis, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Dual Perspectives — Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Provide a Theoretical Framework For Understanding the Brain or Is It Too Far Removed From Physiology To Be Useful? Moderator: Anthony M. Zador, MD, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
Noon–1:30 p.m. CST	*Storytelling Session — Oh Sht — Great Scientists Tell Stories About Their Greatest Failures 50th** Chair: Megan Hagenauer, PhD
Noon–1:30 p.m. CST	Peter and Patricia Gruber Lecture — Neurogenetics — From Perception to Cognition Lecturers: Christine Petit, MD, PhD, and Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD
1–4:30 p.m. CST	Poster Session Group Discussions
1:30–2:30 p.m. CST	SfN Members' Business Meeting
1:30–4:30 p.m. CST	Graduate School Fair
1:30–4:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Exhibits
4:30–5:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

7:30–8:30 a.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos
8:30 a.m.–noon CST	Poster Session Group Discussions
8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. CST	Graduate School Fair
8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Exhibits
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Dual Perspectives — Studying Human Neurodevelopment and Diseases Using 3D Organoids 50th Moderator: Marina Picciotto, PhD
Noon–1 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
1–3:30 p.m. CST	Poster Session Group Discussions
1:15–2:15 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
1:30–2:15 p.m. CST	Special Lecture — Stress Contagion, Shadows, and Synaptic Imprinting Lecturer: Jaideep Bains, PhD
1:30–2:15 p.m. CST	Special Lecture — Itchy and Scratchy — Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Acute and Chronic Itch Lecturer: Diana Bautista, PhD
2:30–3:15 p.m. CST	History of Neuroscience — A New Department, a New Transmitter Compound, a War and a Movement — The 1960s to the Present of a Neurobiology Career 50th Lecturer: Edward Kravitz, PhD
2:30–3:15 p.m. CST	Special Lecture — Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Vulnerability for Compulsive Drug Use Lecturer: Veronica Alvarez, PhD
2:30–3:30 p.m. CST	Symposia/Minisymposia Panel Discussions and Q&A
3:30–4:30 p.m. CST	Presidential Special Lecture — Integration of Mind and Metabolism Lecturer: Dana Small, PhD
4:30–5:30 p.m. CST	Virtual Networking Events and Virtual Product Demos

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