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Zheng Shi, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Victor Torres, Ph.D., C.V. Starr Professor of Microbiology, department of microbiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine

David J. Anderson, Ph.D., Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, director and leadership chair, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neural Coding of Innate Social Behaviors

9:00 a.m.: Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., president and Carson Family Professor, Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, Welcome

9:10 a.m.: Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. and Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., professor and head, Laboratory of Neural Systems; Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden professor and head, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, Introductory Remarks: Price Family Center for the Social Brain Co-Directors

9:20 a.m.: Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head, Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, Organizing Behaviors Through Internal States

9:50 a.m.: Helen S. Mayberg, M.D., professor, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and neuroscience, Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics, director, Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Tuning Depression Circuits: Insights from Studies of Functional Neuroimaging and Deep Brain Stimulation

11:00 a.m.: Conor Liston, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute/Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine, Probing and Rescuing Dysfunctional Brain Circuits in Depression

11:30 a.m.: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Ph.D., assistant professor, biological sciences and principal investigator, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, A Skin-Brain Neural Circuit for Rewarding Social Touch

12:00 p.m.: Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D., Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Specialized Cortical Regions for Social Perception in the Human Brain

2:00 p.m.: Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D., Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor and head, Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mechanisms of Social Evolution

2:30 p.m.: Iain Couzin, Ph.D., director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, The Geometry of Decision Making

3:00 p.m.: Hopi Hoekstra, Ph.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Expanding Evolutionary Neuroscience: Harnessing Natural Variation

4:15 p.m.; Michael A. Long, Ph.D., Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, Neural Mechanisms of Interactive Communication

4:45 p.m.: Edward Chang, M.D., professor and chair, neurological surgery, University of California, San Francisco, The Neural Control of Speech

5:15 p.m.: Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D., John W. Jarve (1978) Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, associate dean of science, McGovern Institute for Brain Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, People Think about People Thinking

Janet Golden, professor emerita, department of history, Rutgers University

Valerian Kagan, Ph.D., D.Sc., professor, vice chair of research, environmental and occupational health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva, Ph.D., group leader, genome biology unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory