GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT
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Grid Cells: Formation and Function

30 June - 2 July 2010

By invitation only

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

Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation


PROGRAMME  

 

 

Wednesday 30th June 2010

13:30 – 13:50

Tea, coffee & opening remarks (Neil Burgess / Peter Dayan)

13:50 – 14:00

Introduction to Formation & Stabilisation session (chair John O’Keefe)

14:00 – 15:00

Edvard Moser - Grid Cells and their relationship to other cell types in the spatial representation network

15:00 – 15:45

Francesca Cacucci - Development of the hippocampal cognitive map from first exploration

15:45 – 16:15

Tea & coffee

16:15 – 17:00

Lisa Giocomo - Biophysical properties of entorhinal cortex neurons and their relationship to the representation of space

17:00 – 17:45

Caswell Barry - Grid Cell Firing Patterns Expand in Novel Environments

 

 

 

Thursday 1st July 2010

09:10– 09:15

Introduction to Oscillations session (chair Bob Muller)

09:15– 10:15

Meno Witter - The Medial Entorhinal Connectome. From Layers to Networks

10:15– 11.00

Neil Burgess - The oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing and theta

11.00 – 11.30

Tea & coffee

11:30– 12:15

Mike Hasselmo & Mark Brandon- Oscillations, persistent spiking and grid cells

12:15– 13.00

Matt Nolan - Tuning synaptic responses of layer II stellate neurons

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

  Oscillations session (chair Kate Jeffery)

14.00 – 14:45

Joe Monaco - Medial versus lateral modes for reconfiguring hippocampal representations

14:45– 15:30

Hugh T Blair - Spatially tuned neurons encode position by detecting synchrony among theta cells

15:30 – 16.00

Tea & coffee

16.00 – 17.00

‘Open mic’

18:30 for 19:00

Dinner – Tas, 22 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QJ

 

 

Friday 2nd July 2010

09:10 – 09.15

Introduction to Navigation & Updating session (chair Mate Lengyel)

09:15 – 10:15

May-Brit Moser - Organization of the entorhinal grid-cell network

10:15 – 11.00

Kate Jeffery - Construction of a 3D map of spatial context by grid cells and place cells

11.00 – 11:30

Tea & coffee

11:30 – 12.15

John Kubie - Using Grid Cells for Navigation

12.15 – 13.00

Ila Fiete - Beyond classical population coding for nearly exact integration in the entorhinal-hippocampal system

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

  Navigation & Updating session (chair Neil Burgess)

14.00 – 14:45

Stephen Grossberg - The hippocampus as a cognitive map: From grid cells to navigation

14:40 – 15:25

Christian Doeller - Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

15:30 – 16.15

Discussion/closing remarks (tea & coffee)

 

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