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Preliminary Program

Day One Thursday, November 13

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8:00-9:00am      Breakfast

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9:00-10:40am    Session 1: Identifying circuit dysfunction in epilepsy

  • Discussion Leader: John Huguenard, Stanford

  • Speakers:

    • Doug Coulter, Penn

      • TBD​

    • Joanna Mattis, U Michigan

      • Subcortical Neuromodulatory Networks In a Dravet Syndrome Model​

    • Jeanne Paz, UCSF

      •  A Dual Inhibitory Network in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus Delineated by Pallidal and Intra-Reticular Inhibition​

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10:40-11:00am    Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:40pm    Session 2:  Abnormal circuit development in epilepsy

  • Discussion Leader: Dr. Juliet Knowles, Stanford

  • Speakers: 

    • Gabrielle Devienne, Stanford

      • Prefrontal Cortex Maturation in Typical and Neurodevelopmental Conditions​

    • Xiaoming Jin, Indiana U​

      •  Homeostatic Plasticity in the Development and Treatment of Posttraumatic Epilepsy and Neuropathic Pain​

    • Mark Beenhakker, U of Virginia

      • Resolving global neuronal synchrony in childhood absence epilepsy​

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12:40-2:00pm    Lunch

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2:00-5:00pm      Rigor in Science & Poster session

  • Speakers: 

    • Anita Bandrowski, Founder and CEO at SciCrunch

      • Should electrophysiologists care about rigor and transparency?

  • Trainee Presentations

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6:00pm                 Dinner

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Day Two Friday, November 14

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8:00-9:00am      Breakfast

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9:00-10:40am    Session 3: Ion channel dysfunction in epilepsy

  • Discussion Leader: Mark Beenhakker

  • Speakers:

    • Ethan Goldberg, Penn

      • Ionic mechanisms underlying temperature-sensitive seizures​

    • Chris Makinson, Columbia

      • TBD​

    • Mike Gutnick, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

      • Half a century of spikes, circuits and pathology​

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10:40-11:00am   Coffee Break

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11:00-12:40pm   Session 4: Glial signaling and epileptogenesis

  • Discussion Leader: Ethan Goldberg, Penn

  • Speakers:

    • Juliet Knowles, Stanford

      • Maladaptive myelination promotes generalized epilepsy progression​

    • Annalisa Scimemi, SUNY Albany

      • Small Things Make Big Differences: Why Regulating Glutamate Escape Transforms Hippocampal Activity​

    • Chris Dulla, Tufts

      • ​Why does loss of GABA transport cause epilepsy?​​

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12:40-2:00pm     Lunch

 

2:00-3:40pm      Session 5: Mechanisms of co-morbidities in epilepsy

  • Discussion Leader: Brielle Ferguson

  • Speakers:

    • Vikaas Sohal, UCSF

      • Inhibitory circuit dysfunction and aberrant synchronization in neuropsychiatric disease​

    • Laura Ewell, UC Irvine

      • Interictal Spikes - Mechanisms and Impacts On Memory​

    • Trent Anderson, U Arizona

      • Head-Banging Neurons: Circuits Driving Post-Traumatic Headache​

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3:40-4:00pm     Coffee Break

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4:00-5:40pm     Session 6: New models of circuit dysfunction

  • Discussion Leader: Kevin Staley, Harvard

  • Speakers:

    • Jacob Hull, Stanford

      • ​Modeling Complexity: Interpretable Machine Learning Identifies a Multiregional Absence Seizure Mechanism

    • Omer Revah, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

      • From Organoids to Circuits: Novel Cortical Models for Understanding Neurodevelopmental Disorders​

    • Qian-Quan Sun, U Wyoming

      • ​Elucidating Epileptogenic Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Focal Cortical Dysplasia

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