Motivational Circuits in Natural and Learned Behaviors
The neural circuits underlying motivation have been an important question in neuroscience for over 100 years. Multiple approaches have been applied to study motivation, focusing on circuits for both natural and learned behaviors. This conference brought together researchers with diverse perspectives on this topic. We discussed different approaches and outlooks on motivation in order to better understand the circuits underlying behavioral intent and intensity.
Organizers
Robert Malenka, Stanford University School of Medicine
Scott Sternson, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
David Anderson, HHMI/California Institute of Technology
Kent Berridge, University of Michigan
Antonello Bonci, National Institutes of Health
Jeremiah Cohen, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rui Costa, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Karl Deisseroth, HHMI/Stanford University
Gul Dolen, Johns Hopkins University
Joshua Dudman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Howard Fields, University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey Friedman, Rockefeller University
Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ulrike Heberlein, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Lora Heisler, University of Aberdeen
Okihide Hikosaka, National Institutes of Health
Tamas Horvath, Yale University
Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University
Julie Kauer, Brown University
Paul Kenny, Scripps Research Institute - Florida
Anatol Kreitzer, University of California, San Francisco
Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva
Andreas Lüthi, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford
Richard Palmiter, HHMI/University of Washington
Bernardo Sabatini, HHMI/Harvard University
Wolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge
Kristin Scott, HHMI/University of California, Berkeley
Nirao Shah, University of California, San Francisco
Ron Stoop, Universite de Lausanne
Garret Stuber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University
Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH
Scott Waddell, University of Oxford
Charles Zuker, HHMI/Columbia University
Available to grad students and postdocs whose labs do not have travel funding and who would otherwise be unable to attend. Interested applicants must register and note their request for travel support on the registration site.