8:45-9:30 AM - Jeff Smith, NIH: “Unraveling brainstem respiratory circuits with electrophysiology, optogenetics, and modeling”
9:30-10:00 AM - Ryan Phillips, NIH: “Revisiting CAN currents and TRP channels in pre-Bötzinger complex circuits”
10:00 AM - Break
10:30-11:15 AM - Yaroslav Molkov, Georgia State U.: "Kolliker Fuse orchestrates timing of abdominal nerve bursting”
11:15-11:45 AM - William Barnett, Georgia State U.: "Glycinergic neurons in the respiratory CPG: optogenetics + modeling”
11:55AM-12:50 PM - Jonathan Rubin, Pitt: “Identifying timescales in respiratory bursting models” (in Thackeray 704 - also the Math Bio seminar for next week)
1:00 PM - Break
1:30-2:00 PM - Sam Wittman, Pitt: “A reduced modelling approach to mechanisms of Rett syndrome respiratory pathology and associated interventions”
2:00-2:30 PM - Jessica Ausborn, Drexel: "Neural interactions within and between the pre-Bötzinger and Bötzinger complexes: Insights from site- and respiratory phase-specific optogenetic activation of inhibitory neurons"
2:30-3:15 PM - Ilya Rybak, Drexel: "Problems with the current model of the respiratory CPG: A substantial revision is necessary”