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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)

SATURDAY JULY 19, 2008

PDF Version of Oral Program

13:00 – 23:00 Registration, lobby

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

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

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

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

WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 2008

8:30 Workshop Registration

9:00-5:00 Workshops

THURSDAY JULY 24, 2008

8:30 Workshop Registration

9:00-5:00 Workshops