CNS 2014 ProgramList 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
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