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Rebecca Timson, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

Mei Hong, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Greg J. Stephens, Ph.D., associate professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Bowen Tan, graduate fellow, The Rockefeller University

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., professor and head, Laboratory of Neural Systems and Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., 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.: Joseph E. LeDoux, Ph.D., professor of neural science and psychology, New York University; professor of psychiatry and of child and adolescent psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Our Four Realms of Existence

9:50 a.m.: Nirao Shah, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurobiology, Stanford University, Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Innate Social Behaviors

11:00 a.m.: Dayu Lin, Ph.D., professor, department of psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, The Neural Plasticity of Innate Social Behaviors

11:30 a.m.: Gül Dölen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Reopening Critical Periods with Psychedelics: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities

12:00 p.m.: Jesse Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Cornell University, Dopaminergic Reward Signals Retune to Social Feedback During Courtship

2:00 p.m.: Orit Peleg, Ph.D., associate professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Physical Computation in Insect Swarms

2:30 p.m.: Mala Murthy, Ph.D., professor and director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Neural Mechanisms of Dynamic Social Communication in Drosophila

3:30 p.m.: Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D., director and CEO, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; co-director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Kavli Professor of Brain Science, department of psychology, Columbia University, How (and Why) Memory Guides Our Decisions and Actions

4:00 p.m.; Daniela Schiller, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience and psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Neural Landscape of Social Relationships

5:00 p.m.: Robert Seyfarth, Ph.D., emeritus professor of psychology, University of Pennsylvania, The Social Origins of Thought and Language

5:30 p.m.: Ev Fedorenko, Ph.D., associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Human Language System

Carla Kim, Ph.D., principal investigator, stem cell program, Boston Children’s Hospital; professor of genetics and pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D., Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor, head, Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute