Meeting program

Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2008
July 19th - 24th 2008, Portland, Oregon, USA
http://www.cnsorg.org
Local organizer: Dr. Patrick Roberts (local@cnsorg.org)

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CNS*2008 Program Book

SATURDAY JULY 19, 2008

 

13:00 – 23:00  Registration, lobby

 

17:00 – 23:00  Opening reception, Crystal Ballroom

 

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SUNDAY JULY 20, 2008  (Mayfair)

 

8:15                Registration (Mezzanine)

 

9:00                Welcome: Ranu Jung (President) and Patrick Roberts (Local Organizer)

 

9:10    L1       Invited Talk: John Rinzel

                        Alternating perceptions of ambiguous scenes: What’s out there?  

 

10:10              Break

 

System Dynamics

 

10:40 O1      Featured Talk: Steven Schiff, Tim Sauer

                        Kalman filter control of a model of spatiotemporal cortical dynamics

 

11:20 O2      Miriam Zachsenhouse, Mikhail Lebedev, Miguel Nicolelis

                        Bin-width selected for brain-machine interfaces optimizes rate decoding

 

11:40 O3      Aonan Tang, Christopher Honey, Jon Hobbs, Alexander Sher, Alan Litke, Olaf Sporns, John Beggs

                        Information flow in local cortical networks is not democratic

 

12:00             Lunch Break (Program Committee meeting)

 

14:00 L2       Invited Talk: Upinder Bhalla

                        Modules in molecular memory

 

15:00              Break

 

Network Properties

 

15:30 O4      Featured Talk: David Boothe, Avis Cohen, Todd Troyer

                        Parameter dependent changes in strength of phase locking in a stochastic simulated central pattern generator

 

 

 

16:10 O5      Georgi Medvedev

                        Noise-induced bursting in stochastic models of single cells and electrically coupled ensembles

 

16:30 O6      Arthur Leblois, David Perkel

                        Local inhibition shapes afferent excitatory drive of output neurons in the songbird basal ganglia network

 

16:50              Funding Opportunities (D. Glanzman, K. Whang, Y. Liu)

 

17:20-18:20  Board Meeting

 

Dinner Break

 

19:00-22:00 Poster Session I  (Parliament and Crystal)

 

P1-P23          Network Properties

P24-P40        System Dynamics

P41-P58        Cellular Mechanisms

P59-P64        Anatomy and Morphology

P65-P72        Learning

P73-P80        Behavior

 

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MONDAY JULY 21, 2008 (Mayfair)

 

8:30                Registration (Mezzanine)

 

9:00                Announcements:

 

9:10    L3       Invited Talk: Avrama Blackwell

                        Signaling pathways underlying striatal synaptic plasticity and reward learning

 

10:10              Break

 

Cellular Mechanisms

 

10:40 O7      Featured Talk: Darrell Haufler, France Morin, Jean-Claude Lacaille, Frances Skinner

                        Characterizing the transient K+ current contribution to subthreshold membrane potential oscillations in a hippocampal interneuron model

 

11:20 O8      Natalia Toporikova, Maurice Chacron

                        One cell, two bursting mechanisms. In vivo conditions change the in vitro burst in pyramidal cells of the ElectroLateral Lobe (ELL) of electric fish.

11:40 O9      John Cressman, Ghanim Ullah, Jokubas Ziburkus, Steven Schiff, Ernest Barreto

                        Ion concentration dynamics: Mechanisms for bursting and seizing

 

12:00              Lunch Break  (Board meeting)

 

14:00  L4       Special Invited Lecture:  Erik De Schutter

                        Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology: the Past, the Now and the Future

 

15:00-18:00 Poster Session II (Parliament and Crystal)

  P81-P94        Databases and Software

P95-P105      Plasticity and Development

P106-P110   Synaptic Mechanisms and Signal Transduction

P111-P130   Information Coding

P131-P152   Synchronization and Oscillation

P153-P158   Functional Imaging and EEG

 

19:00              Banquet

 

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TUESDAY JULY 22, 2008 (Mayfair)

 

8:30                Registration (Mezzanine)

 

9:00                Announcements:

 

9:10    L5       Invited Talk: Victor Derkach

                        CaM kinases and AMPA receptor subunit recomposition in hippocampal synaptic plasticity

 

10:10              Break

 

Synaptic Mechanisms

 

10:40 O10    Grier Halnes, Erik Ulfhielm, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Jean-Pierre Rospars

                        Modeling of the receptor, G-protein and effector reactions in vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons

 

11:00 O11    William Gibson, Les Farnell, Max Bennett

                        A neural-glial network for modeling spreading depression in cortex

 

11:20 O12    Risa Lin, Svenja Metz, Dieter Jaeger

                        Synaptic integration in the deep cerebellar nuclei: Comparing dynamic clamp results with a computer model of somatic or distributed dendritic input

 

11:40              General Business Meeting

 

12:00              Lunch Break

 

14:00 L6       Invited Talk: Akihiro Kusumi

                        Single-molecule tracking of raft-based signal transduction: a system of digital signal transduction?

 

15:00                          Break

 

Learning and Plasticity

 

15:30 O13    Featured Talk: Claudia Clopath, Andre Longtin, Gerstner Wulfram

                        An online Hebbian learning rule that performs Independent Component Analysis

 

16:10 O14    Matthieu Gilson, David Grayden, Doreen Thomas, Leo van Hemmen, Anthony Burkitt

                        Symmetry breaking induced by spike-timing-dependent plasticity in the presence of recurrent connections

 

16:30              Workshop Information, Awards, Announcement of next year's meeting, Closing

 

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WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 2008

 

8:30                Workshop Registration

 

9:00-5:00       Workshops

 

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THURSDAY JULY 24, 2008

 

8:30                Workshop Registration

 

9:00-5:00       Workshops