September 25th
Seminar Room A
(Hess CSM,
1470 Madison Ave)
Trainee half-day
4-7 pm
September 26th
Goldwurm Auditorium
(Icahn Medical Institute, 1425 Madison Ave)
Full-day conference
9am-5pm
The New York Memory Hub is a collaborative network of neuroscientists dedicated to advancing our understanding of memory through cross-institutional research, dialogue, and innovation. Our goal is to bridge institutions across New York City, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and foster new connections that drive scientific progress.
AGENDA
8:15 – 9:00 am | Breakfast
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9:00 – 9:30 am | Welcome Remarks – Denise Cai – Mount Sinai
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9:30 – 10:00 am | Lila Davachi – Columbia University – (Trainee Speaker) Victoria Schelkun – “Brainwide mechanisms of event coding”
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10:00 – 10:30 am | Dmitriy Aronov – Columbia University – (Trainee Speaker) Selmaan Chettih – “Neural code for episodic memories in food-caching chickadees”
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10:30 – 11:00 am | Data Blitz by trainees
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11:00 – 11:30 am | Coffee Break
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11:30 am – 12:00 pm | Azahara Oliva – Cornell University – (Trainee Speaker) Hongyu Chang – “Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay”
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12:00 – 12:30 pm | Arielle Tambini – NKI – (Trainee Speaker) Hyun-Woong Kim – “Spontaneous memory reactivation is shaped by ongoing global brain state fluctuations”
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12:30 – 1:30 pm | Catered lunch
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1:30 – 2:00 pm | Luke Sjulson – Albert Einstein College of Medicine – (Trainee Speaker) Elie de Oliveira – “Using sleep to reconcile sparse engrams with neural manifolds”
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2:00 – 2:30 pm | Cristina Savin – New York University – (Trainee Speaker) Ben Lyo – “Learning internal models of the world”
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2:30 – 3:00 pm | Data Blitz by trainees
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3:00 – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break
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3:30 – 4:00 pm | Peter Rudebeck – Mount Sinai – (Trainee Speaker) Zach Zeisler – “The neural circuits and mechanisms of short term memory during reward learning”
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4:00 – 4:30 pm | Ekaterina Likhtik – Hunter College, CUNY – (Trainee Speaker) Emma Denholtz – “Neuro-glial interactions regulating safety learning in the prefrontal cortex”
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4:30 – 5:00 pm | Conor Liston – Weill Cornell Medicine – (Trainee Speaker) Devin Rocks – “Molecular and circuit mechanisms of motivation in a chronic stress state”
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5:00 – 6:00 pm | Reception for everyone
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Talks moderated by André Fenton (NYU), Susana Mingote (CUNY ASRC) & Tristan Shuman (Mount Sinai)
Executive Board Members
Jayeeta Basu (New York University)
Nesha Burghardt (Hunter College)
Denise Cai (Mount Sinai)
Lila Davachi (Columbia University)
André Fenton (New York University)
Conor Liston (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Susana Mingote (CUNY Advanced Science Research Center)
Tristan Shuman (Mount Sinai)
Past New York Memory Hub Meetings
Speakers: Lila Davachi (Columbia University) & Conor Liston (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Moderator: Nesha Burghardt (Hunter College)
Speakers: Jayeeta Basu (New York University) & Nesha Burghardt (Hunter College)
Moderator: André Fenton (New York University)
Host: André Fenton & Jayeeta Basu
Speakers: Susana Mingote (CUNY Advanced Science Research Center) & Yadin Dudai (New York University, Center for Neural Science)
Moderator: Tristan Shuman (Mount Sinai)
Speakers: Tristan Shuman (Mount Sinai) & André Fenton (New York University)
Moderator: Jayeeta Basu (New York University)
Special thank you to Adam Shapiro and Jana Pasquel for their support.