APAN Agenda 2025

8:00

Registration, Poster Session set-up, Light Breakfast

9:00

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

9:10

TDT Keynote Lecture (Chair: Ross Williamson)

Dan Polley, Harvard, Adaptive plasticity in the auditory cortex: The fine line between recovery and disorder

10:00

Poster Teaser Session I (Chair: Matt McGinley)

Tomas Suarez Omedas, U Pittsburgh. Canonical cortical architecture supports the emergence of noise-invariant auditory representations.

Aneesh Bal, Johns Hopkins U. Compositional inference in the continual learning mouse playground.

Mackenna Wollet, NYU. Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the mouse auditory cortex.

10:15

Poster Session 1 (even posters) and Coffee Break

12:00

Slide Session I (Chair: Justin Yao)

12:00 – 12:15 Aysegul Aydin, Rutgers U. Whispers of dementia from the auditory brain in a preclinical model of a novel early biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease risk.

12:15 – 12:30 Xinyi Zou, Chinese Institute for Brain Research. Auditory cortical sensitivity to infant vocalizations underlying caregiving behavior in marmoset fathers.

12:30 – 12:45 Rajvi Agravat, UT Austin. Direct brain recordings showing neural prioritization of speech over music in children.

12:45

Lunch and mentoring sessions

2:00

Junior Faculty Spotlight I (Chair: Kishore Kuchibhotlan)

Melissa Caras, U Maryland. Extracellular matrix plasticity enables and stabilizes auditory perceptual learning

2:30

Slide Session II (Chair: Chris Rodgers)

2:30 – 2:45 Hemant Srivastava, Baylor U. Divergent principles of state-dependence between early brainstem and central auditory circuits.

2:45 – 3:00 Satyabrata Parida, Oregon Health and Science U. A general neural manifold for natural sounds in auditory cortex.

3:00 – 3:15 Allan Muller, Institut Pasteur. The geometry of cortical sound processing in slow wave sleep.

3:15

Break

3:25

TDT Keynote Lecture II (Chair: Kerry Walker)

Jennifer Linden, UCL. From mice to models to humans: Investigating the role of sound-offset responses in hearing.

4:15

Poster Teaser Session II (Chair: Maria Geffen)

Joel Ward, U Oxford. Pitch-based selective attention is impaired in older “healthy” listeners.

Donghyeok Lee, UCSF. Pre-stimulus network dynamics track trial-by-trial behavioral uncertainty during auditory learning.

Yaneri Ayala, U Iowa. Laminar information flow for auditory working memory and language.

4:30

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

6:00

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

6:10

Registration, Poster Session set-up, Light Breakfast

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

TDT Keynote Lecture (Chair: Ross Williamson)

Dan Polley, Harvard, Adaptive plasticity in the auditory cortex: The fine line between recovery and disorder

Poster Teaser Session I (Chair: Matt McGinley)

Tomas Suarez Omedas, U Pittsburgh. Canonical cortical architecture supports the emergence of noise-invariant auditory representations.

Aneesh Bal, Johns Hopkins U. Compositional inference in the continual learning mouse playground.

Mackenna Wollet, NYU. Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the mouse auditory cortex.

Poster Session 1 (even posters) and Coffee Break

Slide Session I (Chair: Justin Yao)

12:00 – 12:15 Aysegul Aydin, Rutgers U. Whispers of dementia from the auditory brain in a preclinical model of a novel early biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease risk.

12:15 – 12:30 Xinyi Zou, Chinese Institute for Brain Research. Auditory cortical sensitivity to infant vocalizations underlying caregiving behavior in marmoset fathers.

12:30 – 12:45 Rajvi Agravat, UT Austin. Direct brain recordings showing neural prioritization of speech over music in children.

Lunch and mentoring sessions

Junior Faculty Spotlight I (Chair: Kishore Kuchibhotlan)

Melissa Caras, U Maryland. Extracellular matrix plasticity enables and stabilizes auditory perceptual learning

Slide Session II (Chair: Chris Rodgers)

2:30 – 2:45 Hemant Srivastava, Baylor U. Divergent principles of state-dependence between early brainstem and central auditory circuits.

2:45 – 3:00 Satyabrata Parida, Oregon Health and Science U. A general neural manifold for natural sounds in auditory cortex.

3:00 – 3:15 Allan Muller, Institut Pasteur. The geometry of cortical sound processing in slow wave sleep.

Break

TDT Keynote Lecture II (Chair: Kerry Walker)

Jennifer Linden, UCL. From mice to models to humans: Investigating the role of sound-offset responses in hearing.

Poster Teaser Session II (Chair: Maria Geffen)

Joel Ward, U Oxford. Pitch-based selective attention is impaired in older “healthy” listeners.

Donghyeok Lee, UCSF. Pre-stimulus network dynamics track trial-by-trial behavioral uncertainty during auditory learning.

Yaneri Ayala, U Iowa. Laminar information flow for auditory working memory and language.

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

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

Business Meeting (Open to all)