APAN Agenda 2024

Registration, Poster Session set-up, Light Breakfast

Opening Remarks (Kerry Walker, Ross Williamson; Program Committee Co-Chairs)

TDT Keynote Lecture (Chair: Kerry Walker)

Dan Sanes, NYU. Solitary and social experience shapes the emergence of auditory skills

Poster Teaser Session I (Chair: Matt McGinley)

• Benedikt Zoefel, CNRS Toulouse. Entrainment echoes in the cerebellum.

• Shailee Jain, UCSF. Deep neural networks reveal context-sensitive speech encoding in single neurons of human cortex.

• Yukai Xu, Chinese Institute for Brain Research. Distinct neural dynamics underlying context-dependent vocal production in marmoset prefrontal cortex.

Poster Session 1 and Coffee Break

Slide Session I (Chair: Andrea Hasenstaub)

12:00 – 12.15 Jennifer Lawlor, Johns Hopkins U. Spatially clustered neurons encode vocalization categories in the bat midbrain.

12:15 – 12:30 Lucas Vattino, Harvard U. Recurrent Inhibitory Networks in Layer 1 of the Mouse Primary Auditory Cortex.

12:30 – 12:45 Alexandria Lesicko, U Pennsylvania. The representation of somato-motor signals in the inferior colliculus.

Lunch and mentoring sessions

NIDCD Announcements (Amy Poremba)

Junior Faculty Spotlight I (Chair: Maria Geffen)

Liberty Hamilton, University of Texas at Austin. The speaking and listening brain.

Side Session II (Chair: Kishore Kuchibhotla)

2:30 – 2:45 Nathan Schneider, U Pittsburgh. Deep-layer projection neurons develop representations of perceptual categories and behavioral choice.

2:45 – 3:00 Megan Kirchgessner, NYU. Longitudinal monitoring of developmental plasticity in the mouse auditory cortex.

3:00 – 3:15 Joel Berger, U Iowa. Human single neuron activity modulated during auditory working memory and at event boundaries.

Break

Junior Faculty Spotlight II (Chair: Ross Williamson)

David Schneider, NYU. Cortical error detection enables skilled acoustic behaviors.

Poster Teaser Session II (Chair: Jennifer Resnik)

• Stuart Washington, Howard U. Chiropteran Neuroimaging: Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Pale Spear-Nosed Bat Brain.

• Jenna Blain, U Connecticut. Predicting spectrotemporal selectivity and auditory midbrain responses to natural sounds using a spiking Gabor receptive field model with contrast adaptation.

• Nishan Shettigar, HHMI Janelia. Mice hunting crickets using sound in a large ambiguous environment.

Poster Session 2 and open beer/wine/soft drink bar

Travel Awards and Other Announcements (Kerry Walker, Ross Williamson)

Business Meeting (Open to all)