WCNP 2025

The Richard F. Thompson New Concepts
Chair: Catherine Kaczorowski
Participants: Open to all participants. Five minute PowerPoint presentations on new ideas, findings or techniques.

The Dynamic Engram in Health and Disease
Chair: Denise Cai
Participants: Denise Cai, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Peyman Golshani, Laura Colgin, Kay Tye.

Plasticity vs Stability in Memory Encoding and Storage
Chair: Jason Shepherd
Participants: Megha Segal, Ulli Bayer, Kari Hoffman, Mazen Kheirbek and Jason Shepherd.

Neuromodulatory Control of Internal States
Chair: Moriel Zelikowsky
Participants: Moriel Zelikowsky, Tina Kim, Larry Zweifel, and Ismail Ahmed.

Shaping the Brain: Impact of Early-life Insults on Lifelong Plasticity and Behavior
Chair: Catia M. Teixeira
Participants: Catia M. Teixeira, Anne Wheeler, Derya Sargin, Jonathan Epp, Christoph Anacker.

New Views of the Hippocampal Formation and the Cognitive Map
Chair: Beth Buffalo
Participants: Beth Buffalo, Azahara Oliva Gonzalez, Doug Nitz, Yi Gu, and Cory Miller.

A Whole New World: How Novel Sensory Experience Guides Future Behavior
Chair: Ames Sutton Hickey
Participants: Monica Dus, Bianca Jones Marlin, Brian Dias, and Paule Joseph

Neural Mechanisms of the Enhancement of Memory by Value
Chair: Barbara Knowlton
Participants: Arne Ekstron, Salman Qasim, Barbara Knolwton, Alison Preston, and Joey Dunsmoor

Dendritic Mechanisms Underlying Plasticity
Chair: Jayeeta Basu
Participants: Huan Ma, Lucy Palmer, Sonia Gasparini, and Rishikesh Narayanan

Applying Precision Medicine Approaches to the Study and Improvement of Age-Related Cognitive Impairment
Chair: Carol Barnes
Participants: Matthew Huentelman, Lee Ryan, Emily Rogalski, Bryan Strange, and Meredith Hay

Beyond Dopamine: Multi-Neuromodulator Interactions in Striatal Circuits
Chair: Kauê M. Costa
Participants: Kauê M. Costa, Raffaella Tonini, Jun Ding, and Tianyi Mao