Interoception: Neural Sensing and Control of Organ Function (T4)
April 22-24, 2025
| Allen Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
Xin Sun, Mark L. Andermann and Rui M. Costa
Scholarship Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025 | Abstract Deadline: Mar. 5, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: Mar. 5, 2025
| 4:00–8:00 PM |
Registration |
Atrium |
| 6:00–8:00 PM |
Welcome Mixer and Building Tours |
Atrium |
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Atrium |
| 7:30–8:00 AM |
Poster Setup |
Level 2-4 |
| 7:45–5:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Level 2-4 |
| 8:00–9:00 AM |
Welcome and Keynote Address |
Auditorium |
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* Xin Sun, University of California, San Diego
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* Mark L. Andermann, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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* Rui M. Costa, Allen Institute
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David Julius, University of California, San Francisco
Interoception Mechanisms |
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| 9:00–11:15 AM |
Interoception in Health and Disease |
Auditorium |
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* Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Session Chair |
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* Paul Marvar, George Washington University
Session Chair |
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Wen Chen, NCCIH
Short Talk: Remote Presentation: Interoception as Part of Whole Person Health Research |
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Xin Sun, University of California, San Diego
Lung Function as a Sensory Organ |
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Asya Rolls, Tel Aviv University
Innate and Adaptive Brain Representations of Immunity |
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Polina Anikeeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bioelectronics for Interoception |
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| 10:50–11:15 AM |
Coffee Break |
Atrium |
| 11:15–12:30 PM |
Symposia Spotlight 1: Emerging Technologies and Model Systems |
Auditorium |
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* Heike Münzberg, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Session Chair |
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* Cecilia B Moens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Session Chair |
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Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Harvard University
The Neural Dynamics Underlying Cardiac Feedback Control |
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Bhagyashree Senapati, University of Oxford
A Body-Brain Mechanism for Malaise-Driven Memory Updating |
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Paul Marvar, George Washington University
Novel Methodology for Measuring Internal State-Dependent Conditioned Cardio-Behavioral Responses In Mice: Implications For Interoception In PTSD |
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Sonali S Mali, University of California, Berkeley
SARS-CoV-2 Co-Opts TRPA1+ Sensory Neurons To Drive Sneeze |
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Sarah Monroe, Duke University
Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cells Influence The Central Nervous System Response To Respiratory Viral |
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Galit Shohat-Ophir, Bar-Ilan University
Dissecting the Function of NPY System In Drosophila as a Hub for Sensory And Interoceptive Mechanisms Encoding Motivational States |
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Minel Arinel, Duke University
Decoding Gut Signals in the Larval Zebrafish Brain |
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Hong Chen, Washington University in St. Louis
Ultrasound Neuromodulation For Controlling Whole-Body Metabolic Function |
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Wataru Yamamoto, Columbia University
A Neural Mechanism Regulating Water Excretion In Hydra Vulgaris |
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Kristen Frenzel, Center for Advanced Motor BioEngineering and Research (CAMBER) and Emory University
Flexible Arrays for Sensing and Perturbing Peripheral Organ Systems & pre-record By Sam Sober |
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| 12:30–1:30 PM |
Lunch |
Atrium |
| 1:00–3:00 PM |
Poster Session 1 |
Level 2-4 |
| 3:00–4:00 PM |
Editors' Panel Discussion: Publishing Your Interoception Research |
Auditorium |
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Rui M. Costa, Allen Institute
*Session Chair |
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Shari Wiseman, Nature Neuroscience
Chief Editor |
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Lucas Smith, PLOS Biology
Senior Editor |
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Luis Gomes, Cell Press
Scientific Editor |
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Jasmine Pan, Communications Biology
Associate Editor |
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| 4:00–5:00 PM |
Connect & Collaborate: Networking Hour |
Atrium |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Interoception and Emotion |
Auditorium |
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* Henry Evrard, International Center for Primate Brain Research
Session Chair |
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* Sarah J Certel, University of Montana
Session Chair |
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Meryl Malezieux, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry
Insular Processing of Cardiac Signals and Emotion State Coding |
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Olujimi Ajijola, University of California, Los Angeles
Bidirectional Pathways Governing Interoceptive and Cardiac Neural Control |
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Kara Marshall, Baylor College of Medicine
Feeling the Urge: Mechanosensory Contributions to Urinary Function |
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Peng Li, University of Michigan
Short Talk: Interoceptive Pathways In Breathing Control |
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Sahib Khalsa, University of California, Los Angeles
Short Talk: A Novel Probe Of Gut-Brain Signaling: Ingestible Capsules Reveal Interoceptive Dysregulation in Anorexia Nervosa |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Dinner on Own |
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| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Atrium |
| 7:30–8:00 AM |
Poster Setup |
Level 2-4 |
| 7:45–3:30 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Level 2-4 |
| 8:00–11:00 AM |
Integrative Interoception |
Auditorium |
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* Staci Bilbo, Duke University
Session Chair |
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* Frederike H Petzschner, Brown University
Session Chair |
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Misha Ahrens, Janelia Research Campus
Interoception in Zebrafish |
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Rui M. Costa, Allen Institute
Descending Innervation and Control of Interoception |
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Mark L. Andermann, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Integration of Interoceptive Pathways in the Parabrachial Nucleus |
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Peter Dayan, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Computational Interoception |
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Henry Evrard, International Center for Primate Brain Research
Short Talk: Functional And Comparative Neuroanatomy Of Interoception In Primates |
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Sung-Yon Kim, Seoul National University
Short Talk: A Pharynx-to-forebrain Circuit for Rapid Thirst Quenching |
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Rui Chang, Yale University
Short Talk: Unravelling the Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System and its Pathways to Heart |
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| 10:45–11:10 AM |
Coffee Break |
Atrium |
| 11:10–11:15 AM |
Award Recipient Acknowledgement |
Auditorium |
| 11:15–12:30 PM |
Symposia Spotlight 2: The Future of Interoception |
Auditorium |
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* Galit Shohat-Ophir, Bar-Ilan University
Session Chair |
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* Naama Reicher, Bohorquez Lab
Session Chair |
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Tongtong Wang, California Institute of Technology
Selective Sympathetic Innervation for Modulating Visceral Functions |
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Alexandra S Klein, University of California, San Francisco
Control of Anxiety States and Underlying Neural Dynamics by Respiratory Rhythms |
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Michael Schappe, Harvard Medical School
Neuro-Epithelial Coding of Airway Senses |
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Catherine Thorn, The University of Texas at Dallas
Lateralization of Vagal Reward Signaling |
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Chen Ran, The Scripps Research Institute
Anatomical and Functional Architecture of Brainstem Interoceptive Pathways |
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Jen Wloszek, University of Michigan
Context-Dependent Glucose Mobilization Is Modulated Through Specialized Ventromedial Hypothalamic Neural Populations |
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Laura L Kaiser, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Integration of Exteroceptive Temperature Sensing And Interoceptive Leptin-Sensing In Preoptic Area Neurons (Poa-Lepr) Modulates Food Intake Via Melanocortin Pathways |
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Larry Hunter, University of Chicago
The Role Of Interoception In Caring |
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Brianna Dailey-Krempel, University of Minnesota
Transcriptomic Analysis of Kidney-Innervating Spinal and Vagal Sensory Neurons |
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Virginia M Ruetten, Janelia Research Campus
Whole Body Imaging of Cellular Activity: A New Paradigm for Studying Organism-Wide Physiology |
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| 12:30–1:30 PM |
Lunch |
Atrium |
| 1:00–3:00 PM |
Poster Session 2 |
Level 2-4 |
| 3:00–3:30 PM |
Coffee Available |
Atrium |
| 3:30–5:15 PM |
Gut-Brain Axis |
Auditorium |
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* Katalin M Gothard, The University of Arizona
Session Chair |
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* Catherine Thorn, The University of Texas at Dallas
Session Chair |
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Walter J Koroshetz, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Short Talk: Remote Presentation: Interoception at NIH: Blueprint, BRAIN and SPARC Initiatives |
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Lauren L Orefice, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
The role of dorsal root ganglia neurons in autism-associated gastrointestinal dysfunction |
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Qiufu Ma, Westlake University
Inflammation and Pain Modulation by Electroacupuncture |
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Amber L. Alhadeff, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Ascending Vagal and Spinal Pathways Regulating Energy Balance |
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| 5:15–5:45 PM |
Panel Discussion: How do we Ensure Continued Growth in this Field? |
Auditorium |
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* Xin Sun, University of California, San Diego
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* Rui M. Costa, Allen Institute
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* Mark L. Andermann, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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| 5:45–6:00 PM |
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) |
Auditorium |
| 6:00–7:00 PM |
Dinner on Own |
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