Causes and Implications of Representational Drift
Representational drift poses the question of how sensory perception, memory, motor behavior, and task performance are maintained over time, and provides a window into the adaptive properties of neural circuits on long timescales. Elucidating the underlying causes and implications of this phenomenon may be crucial to our understanding of how neuronal function underlies basic sensory, motor, and cognitive processes. Proper characterization of drift across the nervous system, both in terms of its function and underlying mechanism, will require concerted effort and cooperation on both experimental and theoretical fronts. This conference will spur these efforts across species, brain regions, cell types and behaviors, and provide a forum for experimentalists and theorists to debate the causes and implications of drift as well as formulate promising directions to gain traction on this question. The format will include long and short talks, posters, breakout sessions and ample formal and informal discussion time.
Applications are closed.
Organizers
Andrew Fink, Columbia University
Sue Ann Koay, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Leenoy Meshulam, University of Washington
Timothy O’Leary, University of Cambridge
Carl Schoonover, Columbia University
Invited Participants
Mark Andermann, Harvard University
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Denise Cai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure
Dmitri Chklovskii, Flatiron Institute
Laura Driscoll, Stanford University
Lea Duncker, Stanford University
Michale Fee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
James Fitzgerald, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Stefano Fusi, Columbia University
Michael Goard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher Harvey, Harvard Medical School
Mark Hübener, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology
Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Clifford Kentros, Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience, NTNU
Sandra Kuhlman, Carnegie Mellon University
Albert Lee, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
David Leopold, National Institute of Mental Health/NINDS
Jill Leutgeb, University of California, San Diego
Yonatan Loewenstein, Hebrew University
Wolfgang Maass, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science (TU Graz)
Jeffrey Magee, Baylor College of Medicine
Eve Marder, Brandeis University
Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, University of Bonn
Stefan Mihalas, Allen Institute
Bence Ölveczky, Harvard University
Cengiz Pehlevan, Harvard University
Dhruva Raman, University of Cambridge
Sandro Romani, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Tobias Rose, University of Bonn
Alex Roxin, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Michael Rule, University of Cambridge
Simon Rumpel, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz
Sara Solla, Northwestern University
Alex Williams, Flatiron Institute
Noam Ziv, Technion
Yaniv Ziv, Weizmann Institute
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