CNS 2012 Atlanta/Decatur: Main Meeting ProgramProgram book! Click here to download. Program for the CNS*2012 meeting
SATURDAY JULY 21 09:00 – 16:30 Tutorials 17:00 – 21:00 Opening reception SUNDAY JULY 22 09:00 – 09:20 Welcome & announcements 09:20 – 10:20 Keynote: Barbara Webb Neurons and behaviour: computational and robot models of insect sensorimotor control 10:20 – 10:50 Break Oral session I: Oscillations 10:50 – 11:10 Katie A Ferguson, Carey YL Huh, Bénédicte Amilhon, Rosanah Murugesu, Sylvain Williams, Frances K. Skinner Experimentally constrained network model of hippocampal fast-firing parvalbumin-positive interneurons 11:10 – 11:30 Tanushree Luke, Ernest Barreto, Paul So A Dynamical Study of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators in the Brain 11:30 – 11:50 Yina Wei, Ghanim Ullah, Justin Ingram, Steven Schiff Oxygen Dynamics during in Vitro Seizures 11:50 – 12:10 Thiago M Pinto, Maria J Schilstra, Volker Steuber Does CaMKII decode Ca2+ oscillations? 12:10 – 14:00 Break for lunch Oral session II: Sensory systems 14:00 – 14:20 Eli Shlizerman, Jeffrey Riffell, J Nathan Kutz Modeling the Dynamics of Neural Codes in the Olfaction of the Manduca-sexta Moth 14:20 – 14:40 Aurel A Lazar, Yevgeniy B Slutskiy Estimating Receptive Fields and Spike-Processing Neural Circuits in Drosophila 14:40 – 15:00 Jean-Charles Quinton, Bernard Girau Spatiotemporal pattern discrimination using predictive dynamic neural fields 15:00 – 15:20 Udo Ernst, Nathalie Van Humbeeck, Nadine Schmitt, Frouke Hermens, Johan Wagemans Predicting Eye Movements in a Contour Detection Task 15:20 – 15:40 Meyer Pesenson Neuronal Synchronization and Multiscale Information Processing 15:40 – 16:10 Break Oral session III: Anesthesia and sleep 16:10 – 16:30 Garth J Thompson, Wen-Ju Pan, Matthew E Magnuson, Shella D Keilholz fMRI correlates for low frequency local field potentials appear as a spatiotemporal dynamic under multiple anesthetic conditions 16:30 – 17:10 Featured oral: Moira L Steyn-Ross, D Alistair Steyn-Ross, Jamie W Sleigh Chaotic dynamics underpins the slow oscillation of general anesthesia and nonREM sleep 17:10 – 17:30 Christian G Fink, Victoria Booth, Michal Zochowski Acetylcholine and synaptic homeostasis 17:30 – 19:30 Break for dinner 19:30 – 22:30 Poster session I: Posters 1- 63, and free beer!
MONDAY JULY 23 09:00 – 09:10 Announcements 09:10 – 10:10 Keynote: Donald Edwards Neuromechanical simulation and hybrid systems: approaches to understanding the role of reafference in posture and locomotion 10:10 – 10:40 Break Oral session IV: Navigation 10:40 – 11:00 Laurence C Jayet Bray, Emily R Barker, Gareth B Ferneyhough, Roger V Hoang, Bobby D Bryant, Sergiu M Dascalu, and Frederick C Harris, Jr. Goal-Related Navigation of a Neuromorphic Virtual Robot 11:00 – 11:20 Bart Baddeley, Paul Graham, Philip Husbands, Andrew Philippides A Neural Network Based Holistic Model of Ant Route Navigation Oral session V: Memory 11:20 – 11:40 Sukbin Lim, Mark S Goldman Balanced cortical microcircuitry for maintaining short-term memory 11:40 – 12:00 Alberto Bernacchia and Xiao-Jing Wang Stretching of memory in strategic decision making 12:00 – 13:45 Break for lunch
Oral session VI: Leeches 13:45 – 14:25 Featured oral: E Paxon Frady, William B Kristan Jr. Utilizing multi-functional neuronal responses during different behaviors to uniquely identify all neurons in the leech ganglion 14:25 – 14:45 Damon G Lamb, Ronald L Calabrese Individual differences in leech heart motor neuron models 14:45 – 15:00 Break 15:00 – 18:00 Poster session II: Posters 64 – 126 18:00 – 20:00 Break for dinner 20:00 – ??:?? Comedy night and games at Twain’s Pub
TUESDAY JULY 24 09:00 – 09:10 Announcements 09:10 – 10:10 Keynote: Malcolm MacIver Energy-Information Trade-Offs Between Movement and Sensing 10:10 – 10:40 Break Oral session VII: Electric fish 10:40 – 11:20 Featured oral: Jorge F Mejias, Gary Marsat, Kieran Bol, Erik Harvey-Girard, Leonard Maler, Andre Longtin Signal cancellation and contrast invariance in electrosensory systems 11:20 – 11:40 Patrick McGillivray, Katrin Vonderschen, Eric. S. Fortune, Maurice J. Chacron Parallel coding of first and second order stimulus attributes 11:40 – 12:40 OCNS member meeting 12:40 – 14:00 Break for lunch Oral session VIII:
14:00 – 14:20 Robert Rosenbaum, Jonathan Rubin, Brent Doiron
Short term synaptic depression with stochastic vesicle dynamics imposes a high-pass filter on presynaptic information
14:20 – 14:40 Mehdi Keramati, Boris Gutkin
Drug-dominated dopamine circuits spiral addicts down to a cognitive/behavioral conflict: A neurocomputational theory
14:40 – 15:00 Padraig Gleeson, Eugenio Piasini, Sharon Crook, Robert Cannon, Volker Steuber, Dieter Jaeger, Sergio Solinas, Egidio D’Angelo, R Angus Silver
The Open Source Brain Initiative: enabling collaborative modelling in computational neuroscience
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 18:30 Poster session III: Posters 127 – 189
18:30 - ??:?? CNS Party, including dinner, music, and dancing (ticket required)
WEDNESDAY JULY 25 08:00 – 18:00 Workshops THURSDAY JULY 26 08:00 – 18:00 Workshops Posters
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