2023 INSPIRE Symposium
INSPIRE is a prestigious symposium sponsored by the Department of Neuroscience at WashU Medicine devoted to advancing research excellence in the early stages of a scientist’s career. Senior graduate students are brought to St. Louis to present their thesis work and expand their scientific network at WashU.
The 2023 INSPIRE Symposium was held on May 8.
Speakers
Maria Ahmed
Advisor: Eleanor “Josie” Clowney, PhD, University of Michigan
Hacking development to test models of sensory coding
Priscilla Ambrosi
Advisor: Talia N. Lerner, PhD, Northwestern University
Striatonigrostriatal circuits for disinhibition of dopamine signaling: New evidence challenges habit formation mechanism
David Brann
Advisor: Sandeep R. Datta, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
A transcriptional rheostat couples past activity to future sensory responses
Salwan Butrus
Advisor: Karthik Shekhar, PhD, UC Berkeley
Vision-dependent specification of cell types and function in the developing cortex
Alex Chen
Advisors: Florian Engert, PhD, Harvard University, and Misha Ahrens, PhD, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Astrocyte-neuron interactions mediating behavioral state transition and fast antidepressant action
Nghia Nguyen
Advisor: Mark Andermann, PhD, Harvard University
Cortical reactivations predict future sensory responses
Julie Ouellette
Advisor: Baptiste Lacoste, PhD, University of Ottawa
Metabolic defects in 16p11.2-deficient mouse brain endothelial cells
I-Hao Wang
Advisor: Paul Greer, PhD, University of Massachusetts
Spatial transcriptomic reconstruction of the mouse olfactory glomerular map suggests principles of odor processing