CNS 2015 Program

The Program Book for the meeting can be downloaded here.

Online list of all poster presentations

Information about the meeting venue and rooms can be found here.

 

SATURDAY JULY 18

09:00 – 16:30      Tutorials

17:00 – 17:15      Welcome & announcements

17:15 – 18:15      Keynote 1: Adrienne Fairhall: Learning and variability in birdsong

18:15 –                 Reception

 

SUNDAY JULY 19

09:00 – 09:10      Announcements

09:10 – 10:10      Keynote 2: Jack Cowan: Modeling Cortical Dynamics with Wilson-Cowan equations

10:10 – 10:40      Break

                                Oral session I: Large networks

10:40 – 11:00      Oral 1: Limits to the scalability of cortical network models

Sacha J van Albada, Moritz Helias, Markus Diesmann

11:00 – 11:20      Oral 2: The high-conductance state enables neural sampling in networks of LIF neurons

Mihai A. Petrovici, Ilja Bytschok, Johannes Bill, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier

11:20 – 11:40      Oral 3: Quantifying the distance to criticality under subsampling

Jens Wilting, Viola Priesemann

11:40 – 12:00      Oral 4: Large-scale analysis of brain-wide electrophysiological diversity reveals novel characterization of mammalian neuron types

Shreejoy J Tripathy, Dmitry Tebaykin, Brenna Li, Ogan Marcarci, Lilah Toker, Paul Pavlidis              

12:00 – 13:30      Break for lunch

                                Oral session II: Synaptic plasticity

13:30 – 14:10      Featured Oral 1: Complex synapses as efficient memory systems

Marcus K. Benna, Stefano Fusi

14:10 – 14:30      Oral 5: Self-organization of computation in neural systems by interaction between homeostatic and synaptic plasticity

Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Christian Tetzlaff, Tomas Kulvicius, Florentin Wörgötter

14:30 – 14:50      Oral 6: A model for spatially periodic firing in the hippocampal formation based on interacting excitatory and inhibitory plasticity    

Simon N Weber , Henning Sprekeler

14:50 – 15:20      Break

                                Oral session III: Single-cell properties and modeling

15:20 – 15:40      Oral 7: Whole-cell morphological properties of neurons constrain the nonrandom features of network connectivity

Jugoslava Aćimović, Tuomo Mäki-Marttunen, Marja-Leena Linne

15:40 – 16:00      Oral 8: Origin of the kink of somatic action potentials

Maria T Teleńczuk, Marcel Stimberg, Romain Brette

16:00 – 19:00      Poster session I: Posters P1 – P102

 

MONDAY JULY 20

09:00 – 09:10      Announcements

09:10 – 10:10      Keynote 3: Gustavo Deco: The Dynamics of Resting Fluctuations in the Brain

10:10 – 10:40      Break

                                Oral session IV: Visual and auditory processing

10:40 – 11:00      Oral 9: An accurate circuit-based description of retinal ganglion cell computation              

Yuwei Cui, Yanbin V Wang, Jonathan B Demb, Daniel A Butts

11:00 – 11:20      Oral 10: Contrast-dependent Modulation of Gamma Rhythm in V1: a Network Model

Margarita Zachariou, Mark Roberts, Eric Lowet, Peter de Weerd, Avgis Hadjipapas

11:20 – 11:40      Oral 11: Downstream changes in firing regularity following damage to the early auditory system

Dan F. M. Goodman, Alain de Cheveigné, Ian M. Winter, Christian Lorenzi

11:40 – 12:00      Oral 12: Towards a computational model of Dyslexia

Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Ofri Raviv, Nori Jacoby­, Yonatan Loewenstein, Merav Ahissar

12:00 – 13:30      Break for lunch

                                Oral session V: Neuromodulation and motor control

13:30 – 14:10      Featured Oral 2: Closed-loop approach to tuning deep brain stimulation parameters for Parkinson's disease               

Abbey B Holt, Max Shinn, Theoden I Netoff       

14:10 – 14:30      Oral 13: Investigating the Effect of Electrical Brain Stimulation using a Connectome-based Brain Network Model      

Tim Kunze, Alexander Hunold, Jens Haueisen, Viktor Jirsa, Andreas Spiegler

14:30 – 14:50      Oral 14: Closing the Loop: Optimal Stimulation of C. elegans Neuronal Network via Adaptive Control to Exhibit Full Body Movements

Julia Santos, Eli Shlizerman

14:50 – 15:20      Break

                                Oral session VI: Information theory and correlations

15:20 – 15:40      Oral 15: Collective information storage in multiple synapses enables fast learning and slow forgetting

Michael J Fauth, Florentin Wörgötter, Christian Tetzlaff

15:40 – 16:00      Oral 16: Limited range correlations, when modulated by firing rate, can substantially improve neural population coding

Joel Zylberberg, Jon Cafaro, Maxwell Turner, Fred Rieke, Eric Shea-Brown

16:00 – 19:00      Poster session II: Posters P103 – P205

19:00 –                CNS Party

 

TUESDAY JULY 21

09:00 – 09:10      Announcements

09:10 – 10:10      Keynote 4: Wulfram Gerstner: From single neurons to populations: Modeling neuronal dynamics across different scales

10:10 – 10:40      Break

                                Oral session VII: Oscillations and rhythms

10:40 – 11:00      Oral 17: Multiple mechanisms of theta rhythm generation in a model of the hippocampus    

Ali Hummos, Satish S. Nair

11:00 – 11:20      Oral 18: Modelling phase precession in the hippocampus             

Angus Chadwick, Mark van Rossum, Matthew Nolan

11:20 – 12:00      Featured Oral 3: Control of gamma vs beta competition in olfactory bulb by the balance between sensory input and centrifugal feedback control

François David, Emmanuelle Courtiol, Nathalie Buonviso, Nicolas Fourcaud-Trocmé         

12:00 – 13:30      Break for lunch

13:30 – 14:30      OCNS member meeting

                                Oral session VIII: Network structure and dynamics

14:30 – 14:50      Oral 19: Self-Organization to sub-criticality

Viola Priesemann

14:50 – 15:10      Oral 20: Large-scale brain dynamics: effect of connectivity resolution

Timothée Proix, Andreas Spiegler, Viktor K Jirsa

15:10 – 15:30      Break

15:30 – 18:30      Poster session III: Posters P206 – P305

18:30 – 19:30      Time to travel to banquet location (60 mins)

19:30 -                 CNS Banquet

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 22

09:00 – 19:00      Workshops

 

THURSDAY JULY 23

09:00 – 19:00      Workshops