Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
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Information Processing in the Cerebellum Workshop

23 - 25 January 2006
By invitation only

Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR

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Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation


PROGRAMME

[45 minute talks plus 15 minutes for discussion]

Sunday 22 January  
18.00 - 20.00 Welcome Drinks
  4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square
   
Monday 23 January  
10.00 - 10.30 Tea, coffee and Welcome (Peter Dayan and Chris Yeo)
Session 1 What is a functional unit for cerebellar information processing?
  Chaired by Chris de Zeeuw
10.30 – 11.30 Richard Apps - Structural foundations of cerebellar information processing
11.30 – 12.30 Martin Garwicz   - Functional units of cerebellar information processing: zones, microzones and microcomplexes
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30– 14.30

Richard Hawkes - Cerebellar architecture: stripes and zones

14.30 - 15.00 Tea and Coffee
Session 2:

How do we think the cerebellum might compute?

  Chaired by Chris Yeo
15.00– 16.00 Erik De Schutter - Decoding Purkinje cell simple spike trains: Patterns and pauses
16.00 – 17.00 Paul Dean - Cerebellar learning by decorrelation control      
17.00 – 18.00 John Simpson - What does the climbing fibre signal?
   
Tuesday 24 January  
Session 3: Cellular physiology of cerebellar neurones
  Chaired by Steve Edgley (TBC)
9.15-10.15

David Linden - Plasticity of transporters, metabotropic receptors and voltage-gated ion channels: things your mother never told you about use-dependent modulation in the cerebellum

10.15-11.15 Volker Gauck - Synaptic integration in cerebellar nucleus neurons and its modulation by 5-HT
11.15-11.45 Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45 Michael Hausser - Sensory processing by single cerebellar granule cells
12.45-13.45 Egidio D'Angelo - Spatio-temporal information re-coding by bidirectional synaptic plasticity at the cerebellum input stage 
13.45 – 14.45 Lunch
Session 4:

Cerebellum-dependent learning 1

  Chaired by Paul Dean
14.45 – 15.45 Steve Highstein - Cerebellar function in memory storage for VOR modification
15.45 – 16.45 Jennifer Raymond - Cellular and molecular mechanisms of VOR modification
16.45 – 17.15 Tea and Coffee
17.15- 18.15 Chris de Zeeuw - Molecular mechanisms of motor learning  
20.00 - finish Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London, WC1 4BL
   
Wednesday 25 January  
Session 5: Cerebellum-dependent learning 2
  Chaired by Germund Hesslow (TBC)
9.30 – 10.30 Henrik Jorntell - Cerebellar cortical plasticity and receptive fields
10.30- 11.30 Michael Mauk  - Learning-dependent plasticity in cerebellar deep nucleus during eyelid conditioning
11.30 – 12.00 Tea and Coffee
12.00 – 13.00 Chris Yeo - Cerebellar function in the formation of motor memories
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 General discussion (available)

 

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