Friday AM

7:30-8:15 Breakfast Buffet
8:15-8:30 Welcome and Introductory Comments
Topic 1: What information is encoded by PFC neurons? Focus on Dorsolateral PFC.
8:30-9:00 John Duncan
9:00-9:30 Tim Buschman
9:30-10:00 Thilo Womelsdorf
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 Break
Topic 1: What information is encoded by PFC neurons? Focus on the rat frontal cortex
10:30-10:50 Mark Laubach
10:50-11:10 Geoff Schoenbaum
11:10-11:30 Min Jung
11:30-11:50 Cliff Kentros
11:50-12:00 Discussion
12:00-12:30 Lunch (provided)
 
12:30-12:50 James Hyman
12:50-1:10 Stephen Cowen
1:10-1:30 Discussion

Friday PM

Topic 1: What information is encoded by PFC neurons? Focus on Anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex (with cash bar).
6:30-6:50 Stefan Everling
6:50-7:10 Emmanuel Procyk
7:10-7:30 Kevin Johnston
7:30-7:50 Jon Wallis
7:50-8:15 Discussion

Saturday AM

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Buffet
Topic 2: What types of encoding schemes are employed by PFC neurons?
8:30-8:50 Bruno Averbeck
8:50-9:10 Daniel Durstewitz
9:10-9:30 Dietmar Plenz
9:30-9:50 XJ Wang
9:50-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 Break
 
Topic 3: Neuroeconomics, decision-making and the PFC.
10:30-10:50 Chris Eliasmith
10:50-11:10 Daeyeol Lee
11:10-11:30 Loren Frank
11:30-11:50 Ben Hayden
11:50-12:00 Discussion
12:00-12:30 Lunch (provided)
12:30-1:30 Data blitz

Saturday PM

Topic 4: Genetic and modulatory control (with cash bar).
6:30-6:50 Torfi Sigurdsson
6:50-7:10 Adele Diamond
7:10-7:30 Aaron Gruber
7:30-7:50 Emili Balaguer-Ballester
7:50-8:10 Discussion

Sunday AM

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Buffet
Topic 5: Interactions with other brain regions.
8:30-8:50 Martin Pare
8:50-9:10 Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi
9:10-9:30 David Euston
9:30-10:00 Final Discussion