CNS 2013 Preliminary Program

SATURDAY JULY 13

09:00 – 16:30     Tutorials

17:00 – 17:15     Welcome & announcements

17:15 – 18:15     Keynote 1: “Studying Large-Scale Brain Networks: Electrical Stimulation & Neural-Event-Triggered fMRI”

Nikos K. Logothetis

 18:15 – 20:00     Welcome reception (cocktails and appetizer buffet)

 

SUNDAY JULY 14

 09:00 – 09:10     Announcements

 09:10 – 10:10     Keynote 2: “The influence of metabolic energy on neural computation”

Simon Laughlin

10:10 – 10:40     Break

Oral session I: Synapses and plasticity

10:40 – 11:00     Oral 1: “Endocannabinoids mediate spike-timing dependent potentiation and depression: a model-based experimental approach”

Yihui Cui, Vincent Paille, Bruno Delord, Stéphane Genet, Elodie Fino, Laurent Venance, Hugues Berry

11:00 – 11:20     Oral 2: “Trial-to-trial tracking of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic conductance using Gaussian-mixture Kalman filtering”

Milad Lankarany, Wei-Ping Zhu, M. N. S. Swamy, Taro Toyoizumi

11:20 – 11:40     Oral 3: “Inhibitory STDP generates inverse models through detailed balance”

Maren Westkott, Christian Albers, Klaus Pawelzik

11:40 – 12:00     Oral 4: “A cerebellar learning model that reproduces the behavior of vestibulo-ocular reflex adaptation in wild-type and knock-out mice”

C Clopath, A Badura, CI De Zeeuw, N Brunel

12:00 – 14:00     Break for lunch

Oral session II: Visual system

14:00 – 14:20     Oral 5: “We now know what fly photoreceptors compute”

Uwe Friederich, Stephen A. Billings, Mikko Juusola, Daniel Coca

14:20 – 14:40     Oral 6: “Spontaneous emergence of simple and complex receptive fields in a spiking model of V1”

Eugene M. Izhikevich, Filip Piekniewski, Jayram Nageswaran, Csaba Petre, Micah Richert, Sach Sokol, Philip Meier, Marius Buibas, Dimitry Fisher, and Botond Szatmary

14:40 – 15:00     Oral 7: “Two-point statistics of natural scenes affect optimal tuning of binocular neurons but do not affect orientation of ocular dominance stripes in the primate primary visual cortex”

Sarah E Marzen, Joel Zylberberg, Michael R. DeWeese

15:00 – 15:20     Oral 8: “Propagating waves structure spatiotemporal activity in visual cortex of the awake monkey”

Lyle E. Muller, Alexandre Reynaud, Frédéric Chavane, Alain Destexhe

 15:20 – 15:50     Break

Oral session III: Correlations

15:50 – 16:10     Oral 9: “Non-renewal spiking and neural dynamics – A simple theory of interspike-interval correlations in adapting neurons”

Tilo Schwalger, Benjamin Lindner

 16:10 – 16:50     Featured oral 1: “Consistency requirements determine optimal noise correlations in neural populations”

Joel Zylberberg, Maxwell Turner, Yu Hu, Jon Cafaro, Greg Schwartz, Fred Rieke, Eric Shea-Brown

16:50 – 17:10     Oral 10: “The role of neural correlations in a decision-making task”

Federico Carnevale, Víctor de Lafuente, Ranulfo Romo, Néstor Parga, 

17:10 – 20:10     Poster session I: Posters P1 – P145  Poster numbers

  

MONDAY JULY 15

09:00 – 09:10     Announcements

09:10 – 10:10     Keynote 3: “Rescuing the spike”

Sophie Deneve

10:10 – 10:40     Break

Oral session IV: Sensory mechanisms

10:40 – 11:00     Oral 11: “Cellular temperature compensation of sensory receptor neuron responses”

Frederic A Roemschied, Monika J B Eberhard, Jan-Hendrik Schleimer, Bernhard Ronacher, Susanne Schreiber

11:00 – 11:20     Oral 12: “Self-organized lateral inhibition improves odor classification in an olfaction-inspired network”

Bahadir Kasap, Michael Schmuker

11:20 – 12:00     Featured oral 2: “Sensory dynamics transformation into effective motor behavior“

Roberto Latorre, Rafael Levi, Pablo Varona

12:00 – 14:00     Break for lunch

Oral session V: Hippocampus

14:00 – 14:20     Oral 13: “Mechanisms of sharp wave-ripple generation and autonomous replay in a hippocampal network model”

Szabolcs Káli, Eszter Vértes, Dávid G. Nagy, Tamás F. Freund, Attila I Gulyás

14:20 – 14:40     Oral 14: “Extracellular field signatures of CA1 spiking cell assemblies during sharp wave-ripple complexes”

Jiannis Taxidis, Kamran Diba, Costas A Anastassiou, György Buzsáki, Christof Koch

14:40 – 15:00     Oral 15: “Cross-talk and transitions between multiple environments in an attractor neural network model of the hippocampus”

Sophie Rosay, Rémi Monasson

15:00 – 18:00     Poster session II: Posters P146 – P290, coffee will be served  Poster numbers 

18:00 – 19:00     Travel to gala dinner (metro is recommended)

19:00 – ??:??       Gala dinner

  

TUESDAY JULY 16

09:00 – 09:10     Announcements

Oral session VI: Motor control

09:10 – 09:50     Featured oral 3: “Nonlinear dynamics of mechanosensory flight control in flies”

Martin Zapotocky, Jan Bartussek, Steven N Fry

09:50 – 10:10     Oral 16: “Model-based prediction of fusimotor activity during active wrist movements”

Bernard Grandjean, Marc A Maier

10:10 – 10:40     Break

10:40 – 11:00     Oral 17: “Operant conditioning of single units in rat motor cortex allows graded control of a prosthetic device”

Valerie Ego-Stengel, Pierre-Jean Arduin, Yves Frégnac, Daniel Shulz

11:00 – 12:00     OCNS member meeting 

12:00 – 14:00     Break for lunch

Oral session VII: Network structure and dynamics

14:00 – 14:20     Oral 18: “Structural Features Beneath Neuronal Avalanches”

Leonardo P Maia, Thiago S Mosqueiro

14:20 – 14:40     Oral 19: “The Inhibitory Network of the Striatum at the Edge of Chaos”

Adam Ponzi, Jeffery R Wickens

14:40 – 15:00     Oral 20: “Inferred network from prefrontal cortex activity of rats unveils cell assemblies”

Gaia Tavoni, Ulisse Ferrari, Francesco Paolo Battaglia, Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson

15:00 – 15:20     Oral 21: “Multiscale modeling of cortical information flow in Parkinson’s disease”

Cliff C. Kerr, Sacha J. van Albada, Samuel A. Neymotin, George L. Chadderdon III, Peter A. Robinson, William W. Lytton

15:20 – 15:50     Break

15:50 – 16:10     Oral 22: “HCN1-mediated interactions of ketamine and propofol in a mean field model of the EEG”

Ingo Bojak, Harry C Day, David T J Liley

16:10 – 16:15 Brain Corporation $10k Prize in Computational Neuroscience – Announcement of Winners

16:15 – 17:15     Keynote 4: “The Brain Activity Map: Imaging the Activity of Entire Neural Circuits”

Rafael Yuste

17:15 – 20:15     Poster session III: Posters P291 – P435   Poster numbers

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 17

09:00 – 19:00     Workshops

 

THURSDAY JULY 18

09:00 – 19:00     Workshops