Program
*Subject to change
Program Schedule
14:00 – 17:00
Pre-Conference PI Summit
SANS INVESTIGATORS SUMMIT ON FUNDING AND RESOURCES
$95 – Advanced registration
Social and affective neuroscience is at a crossroads. We are facing funding cuts for core questions in our field. At the same time, advances in rigor for cutting edge research require strong funding support. The Funding and Resources Summit is designed to bring SANS investigators together to collectively confront these challenges. Key questions motivating the Summit include:
- What questions and themes should guide the field over the next 5 years?
- How do we build new datasets and collaborations when funding is limited?
- How can we pursue research lines that are being censored?
- How do we prepare for the real costs and infrastructure challenges of running a lab?
- How can we unlock more value from the data and resources we already have?
- How can we better support and invest in early-career PIs and trainees?
The summit will involve brief talks with extra time reserved for group discussions. Major themes and confirmed speakers include:
Scientific direction: Dr. Ralph Adolphs
Sustainability and Professional Development: Dr. Kalina Michalska and Dr. Kevin LaBar
Building Community Wide Resources: Dr. Jennifer Beer, Dr. Lucina Uddin, Dr. Russ Poldrack
13:00 – 17:30
Pre-Conference Workshop:
NAVIGATING THE fMRI MULTIVERSE
$95 – Advanced registration
Practical tools for robust fMRI preprocessing: Hands-on workshop on best practices in fMRI preprocessing with fMRIPrep and related tools. Explore how analytic variability affects reproducibility through multiverse analyses, guided by MRI experts.
The fMRI workshop will feature the following 4 speakers, who are all experts in neuroimaging:
Speakers
Dr. Thomas Liu, PhD – Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI, UCSD
Dr. Alan Simmons, PhD – Professor of Psychiatry & Director, fMRI Research Core, UCSD
Dr. Guarav Patel, MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Co-Director, NYSPI MRI, Columbia University
Dr. Jack Grindband, PhD – Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Radiology, Columbia University
13:00 – 17:30
Pre-Conference Workshop:
BUILDING A THRIVING RESEARCH CAREER
$95 – Advanced registration
An Interactive session offering practical guidance on key professional skills for trainees—grant writing, negotiation, writing, lab management—to support long-term success in academic careers.
The Career Development workshop will feature next year’s program co-chairs:
Dr. Peter Sokol-Hessner, PhD: Associate Professor & Director of the Sokol-Hessner Lab, University of Denver
Dr. Nina Lauharatanahirun, PhD: Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health & Biomedical Engineering, Penn State University
Additionally: NIH Participation
As part of a pre-conference meeting for early-career investigators staff from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will highlight recent announcements relevant to career development and new research programs and will be available to answer questions from attendees.
Panelists:
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH
Layla Esposito – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Emily Hooker – National Institute on Aging, NIH
Marguerite Matthews – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
08:00 – 09:00
Mentor/Mentee Match Event
Complimentary with advanced registration
09:00 – 09:30
Opening Session & Welcome Address
09:30 – 10:45
Symposium 1
New Directions in Social Learning & Memory
Speakers
Megan Meyer – Columbia University
Anna Vannucci - Columbia University
Yi Yang Teoh – Brown University
Clara Sava-Segal – Dartmouth College
10:45 – 11:15
Early Career Awardee Talk
11:15 – 12:30
Symposium 2
Clinical and Translational Perspectives on Affect
Speakers
Diego Pizzagali – University of California
Brian Sweis – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City
Hedy Kober -University of California, Berkeley
Kevin LaBar – Duke University
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break (on own)
12:30 – 13:30
NIH Roundtable
In this roundtable discussion and open Q&A with staff from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will highlight research programs, funding opportunities, resources, and updates relevant to social and affective neuroscience. Updates and opportunities from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) will be discussed, in addition to NIH-wide training opportunities, funding procedures and processes, toolkits and data repositories, and other resources.
Hybrid Panel
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH
Neel Dhruv – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Layla Esposito – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
Emily Hooker – National Institute on Aging, NIH
Liz Necka – National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Matt Sutterer – National Institute on Aging, NIH
13:30 – 14:00
SANS Fellow introduction and Blitz Talk
14:00 – 15:00
Presidential Speaker
Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social Decision-Making
Speaker
Steve Chang – Yale University
15:00 – 17:00
#1 Poster Spotlight (8), Poster session & Opening Reception
17:00 – 18:00
Comic Sans
Vishnu “Deepu” Murty and guests
8:15-9:15
BIOPAC PRESENTATION
9:15- 10:30
Symposium 3
Affect & Decision-Making
Speakers
Oriel FeldmanHall – Brown University
Dean Mobbs – Caltech
Robb Rutledge – Yale University
Kate Wassum – UCLA
10:30-11:45
DEIJ Talk
11:45 -12:45
Trainee Blitz Talks (8)
12:45 – 14:15
Lunch Break (On own)
14:15 – 14:45
Mid Career Awardee Talk
14:45 – 15:45
Keynote Speaker
The Human Amygdala, Threat, and Anxiety: Translational Progress and Challenges
Speakers
Elizabeth Phelps – Harvard University
15:45-17:45
#2 Poster Spotlight (8) & Poster Session
17:45 -18:45
EDIJ Social Hour Meet-up
Optional
Eureka restaurant
4353 La Jolla Village Dr, San Diego, CA 92122
18:45
SANS Social Meet-up
Optional
Eureka restaurant
Symposium 4
Naturalistic Hyperscanning: Mechanisms, Plasticity, and Network Complexity
Speakers
Suzanne Dikker – New York University
Giacomo Novembre – Italian Institute of Technology
Simone Shamay-Tsoory – University of Haifa
Anat Dahan – Braude College of Engineering
10:15 – 11:30
Symposium 5
Advancing Emotion Regulation Research: Neural Mechanisms and Translational Applications
Speakers
Richard Lopez – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bryan Denny – Rice University
Kateri Mcrae – University of Denver
Nicole Giuliani – University of Oregon
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break – On own
11:30 – 12:30
Faculty Blitz Talks (5)
14:00 – 16:00
#3 Poster Spotlight (8) & Poster Session
16:00 – 17:00
Distinguished Scholar Awardee Talk
17:00 – 17:30
Closing Remarks & Announcements
17:30
SANS Annual Business Meeting
(open to all attendees- only members of SANS can vote)