Speakers & Schedule

Schedule 2025

* Posters are up from 11 AM to 4:30 PM.

Day 1: Thursday, November 13th, 2025

7.45-8.30 Registration and light breakfast

8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introduction

8:45-10:15 Session 1: Learning and Memory (regular talks) Chair: TBD

8:45-9:15 Nanthia Suthana (Duke University): "Goal-Dependent Neural Dynamics in Ambulatory Humans During Navigation and Memory"

9:15-9:45 Kareem Zaghloul (NIH/NINDS): "Human anterior temporal lobe neurons underlie navigation in semantic space"

9:45-10:15 Jie Zheng (University of California, Davis): "Tracking the Flow of Experience: Neuronal Markers of Event Order in Memory"

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 Session 2: Neural Geometries -- Theory and Function (regular talks) Chair: TBD

10:45-11:15 SueYeon Chung (NYU/Flatiron Institute): "Neural Population Geometry: From Variability to Efficient Untangling of Concepts"

11:15-11:45 Stefano Fusi (Columbia University): "The geometry of abstraction: theory and non-human primates"

11:45-12:15 Ueli Rutishauser (Caltech/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center): "The geometry of abstraction in humans"

12:15-2:30 Lunch/Posters

2:30-4:00 Session 3: Memory (short talks) Chair: TBD

2:30-2:45 Daria Kussovska (Columbia University): "Neural heterogeneity shapes the temporal structure of human working memory"

2:45-3:00 Natalia Kurilenko (Cedars-Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences): "Ground-truth memory signal in human hippocampal neurons facilitates behavioral and neuronal pattern separation"

3:00-3:15 Wenxuan Jiang (Duke University): "Single-neuron recordings during a contextual navigation and memory task in freely moving humans"

3:15-3:30 Marcelo Armendariz (Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School): "Single-neuron encoding of rapidly learned visual information reshapes perception in the human brain"

3:30-3:45 Soraya Dunn (UCLA): "Decoding specific memory retrieval from human neural recordings"

3:45-4:00 Fabian Schwimmbeck (Christian Doppler University Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Austria; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany): "Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit"

4:00-4:30 Break

4:30-6:00 Session 4: Large-scale Recordings (regular talks) Chair: TBD

4:30-5:00 Tirin Moore (Stanford University): "Short-term Coding of Remembered Stimuli: Lessons from Large-Scale Electrophysiology in the Primate Brain"

5:00-5:30 Bijan Pesaran (University of Pennsylvania): "Multiregional calcium imaging in the primate brain"

5:30-6:00 Angelique Paulk (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University): "High-Resolution Insights into Brain Tumor Neurophysiology and Network Disruption"

6:30 Reception/Dinner at the Athenaeum

Day 2: Friday, November 14th, 2025

8.00-8.30 Registration and light breakfast

8:30-10:30 Session 5: Language and Semantics (regular talks) Chair: TBD

8:30-9:00 Itzhak Fried (University of California, Los Angeles): "A Decade of Human Single-Neuron Research: Time, Space, and Memory — Quo Vadis?"

9:00-9:30 Edward Chang (University of California, San Francisco): "Single cell coding of fluent speech articulation" 

 9:30-10:00 Sameer Sheth (Baylor College of Medicine): "Learning and language in the unconscious human hippocampus"

10:00-10:30 Florian Mormann (University of Bonn, Germany): "Semantic tuning of single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe"

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Session 6: Brain-machine Interfaces (regular talks) Chair: TBD

11:00-11:30 Richard Andersen (Caltech): "Consciousness and driving: new adventures in neuroprosthetic research"

11:30-12:00 Sergey Stavisky (University of California, Davis): "Restoring lost speech by decoding spiking activity from precentral gyrus" 

12:00-12:30 Giacomo Valle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Chicago): "Biomimetic approaches to bionic touch through a brain interface"

12:30-2:30 Lunch/Posters

2:30-4:00 Session 7: BCI, Executive, Language (short talks) Chair: TBD

2:30-2:45 Rony Paz (Weizmann Institute of Science): "Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration during aversive learning"

2:45-3:00 Hristos Courellis (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA): "Frontal cortical task context representations inherit the compositional geometry of language-based instructions during generalization"

3:00-3:15 Celia Bougou (Caltech): "Context-Dependent Encoding of Observed and Intended Actions in Human Parietal and Motor Cortex"

3:15-3:30 Elizabeth Mickiewicz (Baylor College of Medicine): "Semantic Processing in Anesthetized and Awake Patients"

3:30-3:45 David Bjånes (Caltech): "Single neuron encoding of cognitive variables shared across the fronto-parietal network"

3:45-4:00 Mohsen Jamali (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital): "Columnar topography of language processing in the human cortex at a cellular scale"

4:00-4:30 Break

4:30-6:00 Session 8: New Approaches (regular talks) Chair: TBD

4:30-5:00 Gabor Tamas (University of Szeged, Hungary): "New tools identify Hebbian assemblies in the human cortex in vitro and in vivo"

5:00-5:30 Carlos Brody (Princeton University): "Towards using large-scale, cross-brain neuronal recordings to identify the brain’s internal signals"

5:30-6:00 Nicole Rust (University of Pennsylvania): "The representation of mood in primate anterior insula"