Program

Shuttles from Marriott/Homewood to MPFI

Registration & Happy Hour (First floor lobby)

Welcome Remarks (Auditorium) - Madineh Sarvestani

Dinner & Networking (Second floor atrium/terrace)

Shuttles back to hotels are 20:00 and 20:30. 

Session 1: Tools & Techniques

• Hirofumi Nishizono (Virtual) : Trial of genetically modified tree shrew generation in Japan: Setting up a new tree shrew laboratory 

• Michael Arcaro : Preliminary report on a population template atlas of the tree shrew brain

• David Miller: Ultra-high resolution anatomical and functional imaging of the tree shrew retina using visible-light optical coherence tomography

• Coffee break (10:30 - 11:00)

• Marta Grannonico: In vivo imaging of tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) retina by visible-light optical coherence tomography fibergraphy

• Joseph Wekselblatt:  Functional ultrasound imaging and non-invasive acoustically targeted viral delivery in tree shrew 

Session 2: Anatomy & Physiology I

• Sangeetha Kandoi: Development of tree shrew iPSC-derived 3D-retinal organoid as a novel model system for studying inherited cone dystrophies and histological comparison to in vivo retina 

• Timothy Gawne: The Tree Shrew as an Animal Model of Myopia

• Rafael Grytz: Tree shrew–An ideal model to study interactions between myopia and glaucoma

• Coffee break (15:00 - 15:30)

• Alev Erisir: Of mice and tree shrews: Tastant sensitivity and central synaptic circuitry

• JC Cang: Mapping visual functions onto molecular cell types in the superior colliculus

Keynote: David Fitzpatrick

A shrewd approach to understanding the cortical circuits of vision

Session 3: Anatomy & Physiology II

• Steve Van Hooser (Virtual): Mixed representations of color and form in primary visual cortex

• Francesco Lanfranchi: A functional hierarchy across tree shrew visual cortex.

• Alexandra Gribizis: The rapid emergence of functional modular networks in developing tree shrew visual cortex

• Coffee break (10:30 -11:00) & time to put up posters

• Seiji Tanabe: Strong tuning for stereoscopic depth indicates orientation-specific recurrent circuitry in tree shrew V1

• Jad Barchini: Diversity and functional organization of responses to stimulus size in tree shrew V1

Poster Session (second floor atrium)

The poster boards are 46" tall by 71" wide. Your poster must fit within these dimensions. 

Session 4: Behavior

• Michael Harvey (Virtual): The LGN as a target for visual prosthesis in the tree shrew

• Michael Halassa: Thalamic regulation of frontal interactions in hierarchical reasoning

• Chuiwen Li: Tree shrews as a novel animal model for studying perceptual decision-making reveal a critical role of response timing in guiding behavior

• Coffee break (16:00 - 16:30)

• Gabriela Rodriguez: Dynamic cortical inhibition in tree shrew primary visual cortex (V1) during learning of a visual discrimination task

• Johanna Henry (Virtual): Behavioural repertoire, resource use, and locomotor activity of the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) within a captive laboratory-housing environment

Hands-on techniques training slots have been filled. We have the following people signed up: Sangeetha Kandoi, Lu Yang, Emily Meyer, Felicia Boynton, Elisabeth Artis, Amy Stahl, and Ari Coester.