Society for Neuroscience 2019
Meet scientists from the Allen Institute for Brain Science at this year's Society for Neuroscience conference. Visit us at booth #401, attend our talks and events, register for our Satellite Workshops, and stop by one of our posters.
Exploring brain cell type diversity with the Allen Brain Explorer and Cell Types Database
The Allen Brain Atlas includes a suite of tools and datasets that provide comprehensive access to human and mouse cell types, including standardized transcriptomic, electrophysiological, and morphological data. Allen Institute scientists will review the scientific background that motivated creation of these datasets, experimental methodologies, and lead an interactive demonstration on how to access new tools and more data.
Please plan to bring a computer with you to the event.
Please note that this workshop and "Exploring the mouse visual system: the Allen Brain Observatory" will run concurrently.
Saturday, October 19, 8:00-10:30am
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
Exploring the mouse visual system: the Allen Brain Observatory
The Allen Brain Observatory is an open resource featuring physiological activity in the visual cortex of the awake behaving mouse. Allen Institute scientists will review the scientific background that motivated creation of these datasets, experimental methodologies, and will lead an interactive demonstration on how to access, visualize, and analyze the data. Some experience with Python is recommended.
Please plan to bring a computer with you to the event.
Please note that this workshop and "Exploring brain cell type diversity with the Allen Brain Explorer and Cell Types Database" will run concurrently.
Saturday, October 19, 8:00-10:30am
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
Sessions
Attend one of our presentations to learn about the latest research taking place at the Allen Institute.
Monday, October 21
Nanosymposium 275: Single-Cell Analysis of Cortical Cell Type Diversity.
Time: 8:00-10:15am
Location: S404
Chair: Bosiljka Tasic
Presentation 275.01: Cross areal cellular diversity in human cortex.
Speaker: Trygve Bakken
Time: 8:00-8:15am
Wednesday, October 23
Nanosymposium 638: Genomic Engineering Using Enhancers or CRISPR.
Time: 8:00-10:30am
Location: S404
Chair: John Mich
Presentation 638.01: Human single neuron epigenetics delineates enhancers for specific AAV targeting and cell type-disease mapping.
Speaker: John Mich
Time: 8:00-8:15am.
Presentation 638.03: Neocortical cell class-specific gene expression from AAVs using novel human enhancers.
Speaker: Yi Ding
Time: 8:30-8:45am.
Presentation 638.06: Comparison and optimization of peak calling software for human temporal cortex single nucleus ATAC-seq data.
Speaker: Saroja Somasundaram
Time: 9:15-9:30am.
Minisymposium 712: Cell-type specificity, strength, and dynamics of long-range synaptic input.
Time: 1:30-4:00pm
Location: S406A
Chair: Gabe Murphy
Presentation 712.07: High-throughput characterization of synaptic input to transcriptomically-defined cell types.
Speaker: Gabe Murphy
Time: 3:10-3:35pm.
Special events
Attend these special events to learn more from Allen Institute for Brain Science and collaborators.
Sunday, October 20
Professional Development Workshop 11: Neuroscience Departments and Programs Workshop - Hiring and Promoting Faculty in the Era of Team Science.
Time: 2:30-5:00pm
Location: N227
Speaker: Saskia de Vries
SfN Satellite Social: Tools and Tech: A BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Regency Ballroom CD
Featured toolmakers: Yazan Billeh, Josh Siegle, Nathan Gouwens