CNS*2018 Seattle: Program

08.00 - 17.00

17.00 - 17.10

• 10.40 - 11.20 Predictive computations in the primary visual cortex (Jan Homann, Michael Berry,Sue-Ann Koay, Alistair M. Glidden, David W. Tank)
• 11.20 - 11.40 Generative model of visual cortex with short- and long-range recurrent interactions (Federica Cappareli, Klaus Pawelzik, David Rotermund, Udo Ernst)
• 11.40 - 12.00 Info in a bottleneck: exploring the compression of visual information in the retina (Gabrielle Gutierrez, Eric Shea-Brown, Fred Rieke)

• See local recommendations for lunch
• Program Committee meeting (University of Washington, Husky Union Building (HUB)  Room 214, Second Floor)

• 13.30 - 13.50 Structural and dynamical properties of local cortical networks result from robust associative learning (Danke Zhang, Chi Zhang, Armen Stepanyants)
• 13.50 - 14.10 Reduced models of an attractor neural network's response to conflicting external inputs (Kathryn Hedrick)
• 14.10 - 14.30 Topologies of repetitive functional network motifs vary dynamically with age in the developing human brain: evidence from very high-dimensional invasive brain signals (Caterina Stamoulis, Phillip Pearl)
• 14.30 - 14.50 Revealing principles of cortical computation using the Allen Brain Observatory: a large, standardized calcium imaging dataset from the mouse visual cortex (Michael A. Buice, Saskia E.J. de Vries, Gabriel Ocker, Michael Oliver, Peter Ledochowitsch, Daniel Millman, Eric Shea-Brown, Christof Koch, Jianghong Shi, R Clay Reid)

14.50 - 15.20

• 10.40 - 11.20 Response to deep brain stimulation in essential tremor: predictions beyond noisy data with a Wilson-Cowan model (Benoit Duchet, Gihan Weerasinghe, Christian Bick, Hayriye Cagnan, Rafal Bogacz)
• 11.20 - 11.40 Characterization of the brain’s dynamical repertoire in the psychedelic state (Louis-David Lord, Paul Expert, Robin Carhart-Harris, Morten Kringelbach, Joana Cabral)
• 11.40 - 12.00 Understanding the bispectrum as a measure of cross-frequency coupling (Christopher Kovach)

• See local recommendations for lunch
• OCNS Board Meeting (University of Washington, Husky Union Building (HUB)  Room 214, Second Floor)

• 13.30 - 13.50 Spinal interneurons and locomotor speed and gait control in quadrupeds (Ilya Rybak, Simon Danner, Natalia Shevtsova)
• 13.50 - 14.10 A simplified model of network bursts in the pre-Botzinger complex (Yury Sokolov, Jonathan Rubin)
• 14.10 - 14.30 Traveling waves in single cortical regions: mechanisms and emerging computational principles (Lyle Muller, Terrence Sejnowski)
• 14.30 - 14.50 Excitable dynamics of NREM sleep: a unifying model for neocortex and hippocampus (Daniel Levenstein, György Buzsáki, John Rinzel)

• 10.40 - 11.20 A molecular odorant transduction model and combinatorial encoding in the Drosophila antennae (Aurel A. Lazar , Chung-Heng Yeh)
• 11.20 - 11.40 Biological mechanisms for learning: a computational model of olfactory learning in the Manduca sexta moth (Charles Delahunt, Jeffrey Riffell, J. Nathan Kutz)
• 11.40 - 12.00 Modeling of TRP channel mediated noxious cold sensation in Drosophila sensory neurons (Natalia Maksymchuk, Atit Patel, Nathaniel Himmel, Daniel Cox, Gennady Cymbalyuk)

• See local recommendations for lunch
• Program Committee Meeting (University of Washington, Husky Union Building (HUB)  Room 214, Second Floor)

• 14.20 - 14.40 A geometric attractor mechanism for the self-organization of entorhinal grid modules (Louis Kang, Vijay Balasubramanian) 
• 14.40 - 15.00 Simulating in vivo context-dependent recruitment of CA1 hippocampal interneuron specific 3 (IS3) interneurons (Alexandre Guet-McCreight, Frances Skinner)

• 15.20 - 15.40 Quantitative simplification of detailed microcircuit demonstrates the limitations to common point-neuron assumptions (Christian A Rössert, Giuseppe Chindemi, Andrew Davison, Dimitri Rodarie, Nicolas Perez Nieves, Christian Pozzorini, Csaba Eroe, James King, Taylor Newton, Max Nolte , Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael Reimann, Willem Wybo, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Wulfram Gerstner, Henry Markram, Idan Segev, Eilif Muller)
• 15.40 - 16.00 A novel synaptic plasticity rule for detailed model neurons with realistic dendrites (Christian Ebner, Claudia Clopath, Peter Jedlicka, Hermann Cuntz)
• 16.00 - 16.20 Assisted construction of hybrid circuits: making easy the implementation and automation of interactions between living and model neurons (Manuel Reyes-Sanchez, Irene Elices Ocon, Rodrigo Amaducci, Francisco B Rodriguez, Pablo Varona)
• 16.20 - 16.40 Deciphering the evolutionary route to the first neurons (Oltman De Wiljes, Ronald Van Elburg, Fred Keijzer)
• 16.40 - 17.00 Community models as the ultimate objective (and success) of computational Neuroscience: exempli gratia: the cerebellar Purkinje cell (James Bower)