2018 Weill Neurosciences Symposium

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dean Augustine M.K. Choi, MD; Sandy & Joan Weill

Current State of Psychiatry
Francis Lee, MD, PhD & Matthew State, MD, PhD

Neuronal Cell Biology

Timothy Ryan, PhD | Metabolic Vulnerability of Your Brain’s Communication System

Mark von Zastrow, MD, PhD | The Cellular Landscape of Neuromodulation: New Therapeutic Opportunities

 Neuronal Circuits

Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD | Rhythms in the Human Brain That Encode Real-Time Changes in Mood

Conor Liston, MD, PhD | Sustained Rescue of Prefrontal Circuit Dysfunction by Antidepressant-Induced Synapse Formation

Lisa Gunaydin, PhD | Fronto-Striatal Control of Approach-Avoidance Behavior

Joshua Levitz, PhD | Optical Interrogation of Synaptic G Protein-Coupled Receptors

Mazen Kheirbek, PhD | Hippocampal Circuits Supporting Emotional Behavior

 Autism Spectrum Disorders

Rebecca Jones, PhD, MPhil | The Social Brain in Autism

So Hyun “Sophy” Kim, PhD | Charting the Symptom and Developmental Trajectories of Autism in Early Childhood: Clinical and Research Implications

Stephan Sanders, BMBS, PhD | Genomic Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder

Jeremy Willsey, PhD | The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: Identifying Convergent Functional Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, PhD | Chromatin Regulation in Cortical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Helen Willsey, PhD | Identifying Phenotypic Convergence Among Autism Risk Genes Using CRISPR in Frogs

Closing Remarks
Costantino Iadecola, MD & Stephen Hauser, MD