Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, LONDON, WC1N 3AR, UK
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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

Speakers

Larry Abbott, Brandeis University, USA Title:  Expanding the range of single-neuron computation Dennis Bray, University of Cambridge, UK Title: Computational possibilities inherent in a small cluster of membrane receptors Winfried Denk, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany Title: Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells Alain Destexhe, Unité de Neurosciences Intégratives et Computationnelles, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Title: Stochastic integration in neocortical pyramidal neurons in vivo Florian Engert, Harvard University, USA Title: Rapid induction of direction-selective receptive fields of developing tectal neurons by moving visual stimuli Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Title: Multiplicative computation in a looming-sensitive neuron Michael Häusser, University College London, UK Co-author: Arnd Roth, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany Title: Predicting the function of neurons from their morphology Fritjof Helmchen, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany Title: Active properties of layer 2/3 pyramidal cell dendrites in vitro and in vivo Christine Holt, University of Cambridge, UK Title: Control of growth cone steering by local protein synthesis and degradation Julian Jack, University of Oxford, UK Title: Factors influencing the strength of synapses Arthur Konnerth, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Title: Mechanism of neurotrophin-evoked neuronal signalling Zach Mainen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Title: To be announced Bartlett Mel, University of Southern California, USA Title: Pyramidal neuron as 2-layer neural network Hugh Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK Title: Input-output relationships of cortical synaptic connections during complex patterns of activation Idan Segev, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology and Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation Title: Dendritic impact on synaptic efficacy and on homeosthasis plasticity Nelson Spruston, Northwestern University, USA Title:  Dendritic spikes control the induction of LTP at distal CA1 synapses Greg Stuart, University of Freiburg, Germany Title: Role of synapse location in the control of neuronal output Misha Tsodyks, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Title: Spike frequency adaptation and neocortical rhythms Gina Turrigiano, Brandeis University, USA Title: Control of synapse number and strength in developing cortical networks Samuel S.-H. Wang, Princeton University, USA Title: Calcium-based coincidence detection in cerebellar Purkinje neurons

Organisers: Michael Häusser and Peter Dayan
email: admin@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk
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