09:00 Neurodata Without Borders Data Standard and DANDI Archive for Neurophysiology Data Tutorial yan Ly, Ben Dichter, Laura Green, Edoardo Balzani, Alison Comrie

11:00 Learn to Use the International Brain Laboratory (IBL) Brainwide Map Dataset Hannah Bayer, Gaelle Chapuis, Mayo Faulkner

12:30--16:30 Foundations of Transformers in Neuroscience Eva Dyer
Cosyne 2025 Tutorial sponsored by the Simons Foundation

14:00 Registration opens

16:45 Welcome reception

19:00 Opening remarks

Session 1

Session chairs: Tatiana Engel, Kevin Franks

19:15 (Invited) The Five Breakthroughs in the 600-Million-Year Evolution of Human Intelligence: A Useful First Approximation Max Bennett

20:00 Poster Session 1

Session 2: Circuit formation

Session chair: Klaus Wimmer

09:00 (Invited) Shaping structure and function via synaptic plasticity Julijana Gjorgjieva

09:45 Experience-dependent connectivity of inhibitory neurons in the olfactory cortex. Samuel Muscinelli, Andrew Fink, Shuqi Wang, Marcus Hogan, Courtney Kim, Daniel English, Richard Axel, Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Carl Schoonover

10:00 Learning dynamics in development-defined microcircuits is rooted in inhibitory connectivity. Roman Huszar, Artem Kirsanov, Griffin Henze, Dhananjay Huilgol, Josh Huang, Gyorgy Buzsaki

10:15 Coffee break

Session 3: Learning and plasticity

Session chair: Lea Duncker

10:45 (Invited) Homeostasis of plasticity and metabolism gives rise to neural function Tim Vogels

11:30 Facilitating insights: the role of short-term plasticity in flexible behavior. Chloe Le Moing, Alex Sonneborn, Anna Bowman, Milana Krush, Atheir Abbas, Skyler Jackman

11:45 Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuits. David Bell, Alison Duffy, Adrienne Fairhall

12:00 Emergence of robust persistent activity in premotor cortex across learning. Catherine Wang, Taiga Abe, Shaul Druckmann, Nuo Li

12:15 Lunch break

13:15 Poster Session 2

15:45 Coffee break

Session 4: Systemic control of behavior

Session chair: Ann Duan

16:15 (Invited) Cortical substrates for body schema representation and action awareness. Fan Wang

17:00 Hormone-mediated multi-day reorganization of cortical dynamics during female social choice. Meenakshi Asokan, Lucy Sirrs, Stefan Oline, Annegret Falkner

17:15 Projection-specific cortical processing of vocalizations. Amy LeMessurier, Gurket Kaur, Julia Paraiso, Janaye Stephens, Ayat Agha, Robert Froemke

17:30 Periaqueductal Gray Neurons are All-or-none Threat Gates Modulated by Escape Experience. Yaara Lefler, Alex Fudge, Yeqing Wang, Goncalo Ferreira, Tiago Branco

17:45 Coffee break

Session 5: Dynamic cognitive computations

Session chair: Juan Alvaro Gallego

18:15 Hidden state inference guides formation of hippocampal cognitive maps during learning. Weinan Sun, Johan Winnubst, Maanasa Natrajan, Chongxi Lai, Koichiro Kajikawa, Arco Bast, Michalis Michaelos, Rachel Gattoni, Carsen Stringer, Daniel Flickinger, James Fitzgerald, Nelson Spruston

18:30 Flexible decision-making engages generalizable spiraling dynamical motifs in prefrontal cortex. Xulu Sun, Alison Comrie, Emily Monroe, Ari Kahn, Abhilasha Joshi, Jennifer Guidera, Lulu Tong, Eric Denovellis, Timothy Krausz, Joshua Berke, Nathaniel Daw, Loren Frank

18:45 Orthogonal line attractors in the monkey frontoparietal cortex and RNNs support hierarchical decisions. Yue Liu, Isabella Rischall, Braden Purcell, Xiao-Jing Wang, SueYeon Chung, Roozbeh Kiani

19:00 (Invited) Towards a unified view of hippocampal function Beth Buffalo

20:00 Simons Foundation Social (Salon ABC at the Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, 1201 René-Lévesque Blvd W)

Session 6: Neural network theory

Session chair: Alex Williams

09:00 (Invited) Statistical Physics Perspective on Understanding Learning with Artificial Neural Networks Lenka Zdeborova

09:45 An Analytical Theory of Cognitive Control of Learning. Valentina Njaradi, Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, Andrew Saxe

10:00 Inferring stochastic low-rank recurrent neural networks from neural data. Matthijs Pals, A Erdem Sagtekin, Felix Pei, Manuel Gloeckler, Florian Mormann, Stefanie Liebe, Jakob Macke

10:15 Shanahan Foundation coffee break (Parc Mont Royal)

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to connect with the Shanahan fellows in an informal setting. Whether you're curious about their groundbreaking work or seeking similar opportunities, this casual networking session promises valuable connections.
The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience, funded, in part, by the Shanahan Family Foundation, was created to bring diverse, non-neuroscience perspectives to the neuroscience field. This is a collaborative program between the Allen Institute and the University of Washington. Fellows will work with mentors to develop novel research programs using the Allen Institute’s large data banks to push the boundaries of both data and neuroscience. (https://alleninstitute.org/shanahan-foundation-fellowship/)

Session 7: Reinforcement and active sensing

Session chair: Alex Cayco Gajic

10:45 (Invited) Sequential predictive learning is a unifying theory for hippocampal representation and replay. Blake Richards

11:30 Humans forage for reward in classic reinforcement learning tasks. Meriam Zid, Veldon-James Laurie, Alix Levine-Champagne, Akram Shourkeshti, Dameon Harrell, Alexander B Herman, Becket Ebitz

11:45 A computational framework for decoding active sensing. Benjamin Cellini, Burak Boyacioglu, Stanley Stupski, Floris van Breugel

12:00 Integration of corollary discharge and sensory feedback signals in somatosensory cortex. Xinyue An, Raeed Chowdhury, Kyle Blum, Lee Miller, Joshua Glaser

12:15 Lunch break

13:15 Poster Session 3

15:45 Coffee break

Session 8: Neural coding

Session chair: Laura Driscoll

16:15 (Invited) Efficient coding and early visual processing: new insights into signal processing and cell type diversity. Greg Field

17:00 Information-preserving modulation as a principle of sensory coding during locomotion across species. Jonathan Gant, Wiktor Mlynarski

17:15 Visual objects refine head direction coding. Emilie Mace, Dominique Siegenthaler, Henry Denny, Sofia Skromne Carrasco, Johanna Luise Mayer, Adrien Peyrache, Stuart Trenholm

17:30 Expectation-modulated temporal dynamics in a sensory neural population during behavior. Julia Gorman, Tim Gentner, Timothy Sainburg, Trevor McPherson

17:45 Coffee break

Session 9: Building blocks of cognition

Session chair: Joe Paton

18:15 Neural substrates of a symbolic action grammar in primate frontal cortex. Lucas Tian, Kedar Garzon, Daniel Hanuska, Xiao-Jing Wang, Joshua Tenenbaum, Winrich Freiwald

18:30 Discrete actions are a unit of both behavior and evolutionary selection. Tim Sainburg, Andi Kautt, Hopi Hoekstra, Sandeep Datta

18:45 A shared code for perceiving and recalling objects in single neurons in human ventral temporal cortex. Varun Wadia, Chrystal Reed, Jeffrey Chung, Lisa Bateman, Adam Mamelak, Ueli Rutishauser, Doris Tsao

19:00 (Invited) The neural coding of affective internal states underlying social behaviors David Anderson

Session 10: Neuroethology

Session chair: Annegret Falkner

09:00 (Invited) New views into visual computation from the mouse and octopus Cris Niell

09:45 Neural representations of real world places and societies. Saikat Ray, Shaked Palgi, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky

10:00 Walking fruit flies use directional memory in olfactory navigation. Minni Sun, Andrew Siliciano, Chad Morton, Larry Abbott, Vanessa Ruta

10:15 Coffee break

Session 11: From structure to function

Session chair: Ashok Litwin-Kumar

10:45 A spike-by-spike account of dynamical computations on the latent manifolds of excitatory-inhibitory spiking networks. William Podlaski, Christian Machens

11:00 State modulation in spatial networks with three interneuron subtypes. Chengcheng Huang, Madeline Edwards, Jonathan Rubin

11:15 Balanced two-photon holographic bidirectional optogenetics defines the mechanism for stimulus quenching of neural variability. Kevin Sit, Brent Doiron, Chengcheng Huang, Hillel Adesnik

11:30 Testing the power and limitations of predictive connectomics in the fly visual system. Timothy Currier, Thomas Clandinin

11:45 Lunch break

11:45 Mentoring and Networking Lunch (registration required)

Session 12: Sensorimotor transformations

Session chair: Marie Suver

13:45 A computational map of flight control in Drosophila melanogaster. Serene Dhawan, Bradley Dickerson, Jasper Phelps, Wei-Chung Lee, John Tuthill

14:00 Differential computations across multiple brain regions underlying dexterous movements. Ahmet Arac, Sanjay Shukla, Erica Nagase, Alan Yao, Nicolas Jeong Lee, Kate Santoso, Emily Stenzler, Kasey Kim, David Lipkin, Angela Kan, Christina Abdishoo

14:15 (Invited) Computations in the Drosophila central complex. Gaby Maimon

15:00 Closing remarks

15:30--17:30 Transfer to Mont-Tremblant