CNS 2014 Program

List of all oral and poster presentations

 

SATURDAY JULY 26

09:00 – 16:30     Tutorials

17:00 – 17:15     Welcome & announcements

17:15 – 18:15     Keynote 1: Chris Eliasmith: How to build large, multi-scale, functional brain models

18:15 –               Reception

  

SUNDAY JULY 27

09:00 – 09:10     Announcements

09:10 – 10:10     Keynote 2: Christof Koch: Exploring Cortex in a High-Throughput Manner by Building Brain Observatories

10:10 – 10:40     Break

                                    Oral session I: Large networks

10:40 – 11:00     Oral 1: Simulating spiking neural networks on massively parallel graphical processing units using a code generation approach with GeNN

Esin Yavuz, James Turner, Thomas Nowotny

11:00 – 11:20     Oral 2: Patterns in network activity and information processing in a detailed computer model of the cerebellar granular layer

Shyam Kumar, Sungho Hong, Erik De Schutter

11:20 – 11:40     Oral 3: Mean Field Analysis Gives Accurate Predictions of the Behaviour of Large Networks of Sparsely Coupled and Heterogeneous Neurons

Wilten Nicola, Felix Njap, Katie Ferguson, Frances Skinner, Sue Ann Campbell

11:40 – 12:00     Oral 4: Extracting novel information from neuroimaging data using neural fields

Dimitris A Pinotsis, Karl Friston

 

12:00 – 13:30     Break for lunch

                                    Oral session II: Single-cell modeling

13:30 – 13:50     Oral 5: Automatic fitness function selection for compartment model optimization

Timothy Rumbell, Danel Draguljić, Jennifer Luebke, Patrick Hof, Christina M. Weaver

13:50 – 14:30     Featured oral 1: Optical coactivation in cortical cells: reprogramming the excitation-inhibition balancing act to control neuronal gain in abstract and detailed models

Sarah J Jarvis, Konstantin Nikolic, Simon R Schultz

 

                                    Oral session III: Sensation and cognition

14:30 – 14:50     Oral 6: Predicting neural responses to natural sound in the auditory brainstem

Dominika Lyzwa, J. Michael Herrmann

14:50 – 15:20     Break

15:20 – 15:40     Oral 7: Causal correlation paths across cortical areas in decision making

Adrià Tauste Campo, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Verónica Nácher, Gustavo Deco, Ranulfo Romo

15:40 – 16:00     Oral 8: Trial-by-trial modeling of electrophysiological signals during inverse Bayesian inference

Antonio Kolossa, Bruno Kopp, Tim Fingscheidt

 

16:00 – 19:00     Poster session I: Posters P1 – P75

  

MONDAY JULY 28

09:00 – 09:10     Announcements

09:10 – 10:10     Keynote 3: Sean Hill: In silico Neuroscience: the next era

10:10 – 10:40     Break

                                    Oral session IV: Pattern generation

10:40 – 11:00     Oral 9: Parameter correlations maintaining bursting activity

Anca Doloc-Mihu, Ronald L. Calabrese

11:00 – 11:20     Oral 10: Organization of left-right coordination of neuronal activity in the mammalian spinal cord locomotor CPG:  Insights from computational modeling

Ilya A Rybak, Natalia A Shevtsova, Adolfo E Talpalar, Sergey N Markin, Ronald M Harris-Warrick, Ole Kiehn

 

                                    Oral session V: Synaptic plasticity

11:20 – 11:40     Oral 11: Determinants of gain modulation enabled by short-term depression at an inhibitory cerebellar synapse

Dimitris Bampasakis, Reinoud Maex, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber

11:40 – 12:00     Oral 12: Stable reinforcement learning via temporal competition between LTP and LTD traces

Marco A Huertas, Sarah Schwettmann, Alfredo Kirkwood, Harel Shouval

 

12:00 – 13:30     Break for lunch

                                    Oral session VI: Network topology and dynamics

13:30 – 13:50     Oral 13: Neural graphs: Small-worlds, after all?

Michelle Rudolph-Lilith, Lyle E. Muller

13:50 – 14:30     Featured oral 2: Network community, clusters and hubs in cortical micro circuits.

Masanori Shimono, John M.Beggs 

14:30 – 14:50     Oral 14: A k-population model to calculate the firing rate of neuronal networks with degree correlations

C. Schmeltzer, A. Kihara, I. Sokolov, S. Rüdiger

14:50 – 15:20     Break

15:20 – 15:40     Oral 15: Criticality in cortical ensembles is supported by complex functional networks

Paolo Massobrio, Valentina Pasquale, Sergio Martinoia

15:40 – 16:00     Oral 16: The interplay of intrinsic excitability and network topology in spatiotemporal pattern generation in neural networks

James P. Roach, Leonard M. Sander, Michal R. Zochowski

 

16:00 – 19:00     Poster session II: Posters P76 – P150

19:00 –                                     CNS Party

  

TUESDAY JULY 29

09:00 – 09:10     Announcements

09:10 – 10:10     Keynote 4: Frances Skinner

Balancing and Tight Coupling:  An approach to determine dynamic mechanisms of biological brain networks

10:10 – 10:40     Break

                                    Oral session VII: Pathological activity 

10:40 – 11:20     Featured oral 3: Inhibitory single neuron control of seizures and epileptic traveling waves in humans

Omar J. Ahmed, Mark A. Kramer, Wilson Truccolo, Jason S. Naftulin, Nicholas S. Potter, Emad N. Eskandar

11:20 – 11:40     Oral 17: Synchronization of the Parkinsonian Globus Pallidus by Gap Junctions

Bettina C. Schwab, Hil G. E. Meijer, Richard J. A. van Wezel, Stephan A. van Gils

11:40 – 12:00     Oral 18: The dynamic separation of pallidal neurons into anti-phase oscillatory groups under Parkinsonian conditions in a computational model

Robert Merrison-Hort, Roman Borisyuk

 

12:00 – 13:30     Break for lunch

13:30 – 14:20     OCNS member meeting

 

                                    Oral session VIII: Chaos

14:20 – 14:40     Oral 19: The sleeping brain regulates to the edge of chaos

Moira L Steyn-Ross, D Alistair Steyn-Ross, Jamie W Sleigh

14:40 – 15:00     Oral 20: Chaos in heterogeneous neural networks

Johnatan Aljadeff, Merav Stern, Tatyana O Sharpee

15:00 – 15:30     Break

15:30 – 18:30     Poster session III: Posters P151 – P225

18:30 – 19:00     Time to walk to banquet location (15min walk)

19:00 –               Banquet

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 30

09:00 – 19:00     Workshops

 

THURSDAY JULY 31

09:00 – 19:00     Workshops