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WORKSHOP ON:
CENTRAL PROBLEMS IN SINGLE CELL COMPUTATION
16-18 September 2002
By invitation only
Venue
B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR
Supported by The
Gatsby Foundation
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
[30 minutes talks plus 15 minutes for discussion]
| Monday 16 September 2002 |
| 12:30 |
Lunch and welcome |
| 13:30-14:15 |
Julian Jack,
University of Oxford, UK
Factors influencing the strength of synapses |
| 14:15-15:00 |
Gina Turrigiano,
Brandeis University, USA
Control of synapse number and strength in
developing cortical networks |
| 15:00-15:45 |
Hugh Robinson,
University of Cambridge, UK
Input-output relationships of cortical synaptic
connections during complex patterns of activation |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Coffee break |
| 16:15-17:00 |
Idan Segev,
Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology and Interdisciplinary Center for
Neural Computation
Dendritic impact on synaptic efficacy and on
homeosthasis plasticity |
| 17:00-17:45 |
Christine Holt,
University of Cambridge, UK
Control of growth cone steering by local protein
synthesis and degradation |
| 17:45-18:15 |
Arthur Konnerth,
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Mechanism of neurotrophin-evoked neuronal signalling
|
| Tuesday 17 September 2002 |
| 9:30-10:15 |
Michael Häusser,
University College London, UK
Co-author: Arnd Roth, Max
Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Predicting the function of neurons from their
morphology |
| 10:15-11:00 |
Greg
Stuart, University of Freiburg, Germany
Role of synapse location in the control of neuronal
output |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:15 |
Nelson Spruston,
Northwestern University, USA
Dendritic spikes control the induction of LTP at
distal CA1 synapses |
| 12:15-13:00 |
Fritjof
Helmchen, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
Active properties of layer 2/3 pyramidal cell
dendrites in vitro and in vivo |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Sandwich Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 |
Alain Destexhe,
Unité de Neurosciences Intégratives et Computationnelles, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Stochastic integration in neocortical pyramidal
neurons in vivo |
| 14:45-15:30 |
Bartlett
Mel, University of Southern California, USA
Pyramidal neuron as 2-layer neural network |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:45 |
Winfried Denk,
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of
starburst amacrine cells |
| 16:45-17:30 |
Florian
Engert, Harvard University, USA
Rapid induction of direction-selective receptive
fields of developing tectal neurons by moving visual stimuli |
| 17:30-18:15 |
Fabrizio Gabbiani,
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Multiplicative computation in a looming-sensitive
neuron |
| 20:00 |
Dinner at The Engineer,
Primrose Hill |
| Wednesday 18 September 2002 |
| 9:30-10:15 |
Zach
Mainen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
To be announced |
| 10:15-11:00 |
Samuel S.-H. Wang,
Princeton University, USA
Calcium-based coincidence detection in cerebellar
Purkinje neurons |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:15 |
Dennis
Bray, University of Cambridge, UK
Computational possibilities inherent in a small cluster
of membrane receptors |
| 12:15-13:00 |
Misha Tsodyks,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Spike frequency adaptation and neocortical rhythms |
| 13:00-13:45 |
Larry
Abbott, Brandeis University, USA
Expanding the range of single-neuron computation |
| 13:45-15:00 |
Sandwich Lunch |
| 15:00 |
End |
Organisers: Michael Häusser and
Peter Dayan
email: admin@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk
Objective | Programme | Speakers | Travel information
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience
Unit