Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology Annual Summer Meeting 2006

Evening Arrival and Check-in.
5-7pm Reception (Low Library)

9-10 Dora Angelaki (Washington University)
Self-Motion perception: Multisensory integration in extrastriate visual cortex
 

10-10:20 Don Katz (Brandeis)
Taste responses are dynamic at multiple time scales

10:20-10:35 Lauren Jones (Brandeis)
Cortical neural ensembles response to tastes with series of coherent states


10:35-11 Break


11-11:25 Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis)
Distinct states of firing patterns in the primary visual cortex of awake ferrets

11:25-11:45 George Jun Zhao (Columbia)
Analysis of Spontaneous and Evoked Activity in Awake Ferrets

11:45-12:10 Brendan Murphy (Columbia)
Models of Background Activity in V1

12:10-12:30   Philip Low (Salk)
Fine Structure of Human Sleep Unraveled

12:30-2 Lunch Break

2-3 Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University)
Discriminating temporal patterns: spiking neurons and 'ideal observers'

3-3:30 Michael Stryker (UCSF)
Creating maps in the cortex


3:30-4 Break


4-4:25 Michael Eisele (Columbia)
Response Variability in LGN

4:25-4:55 Tony Movshon (NYU)
How MT computes pattern motion

4:55-5:15 Scott Makeig (UCSD)
Distributed brain dynamics

5:15-5:40 Rey Ramirez (UCSD)
Sparse Bayesian learning of brain activity patterns

5:40-6:05 Julie Onton (UCSD)
From disgust to compassion: distributed EEG dynamics of emotion

9-10 Fred Wolf (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen)

10-10:30 Eric Shea-Brown (NYU)
Fluctuations in neuron pairs and populations - modeling and mechanisms


10:30-11 Break


11-11:20 Adam Taylor (Brandeis)
Analysis of intrinsic properties in a multidimensional parameter space

11:20-11:35 Rachel Grashow (Brandeis)
Dynamic clamp half-center oscillator construction as an assay of variability in intrinsic properties


Session 5: Optimization

11:35-12:05 Mitya Chklovskii (CSHL)
Optimal Information Storage in Noisy Synapses

12:05-12:35 Tatyana Sharpee (UCSF)
Optimal Decision Boundaries for Maximum Information Transmission


12:35-2 Lunch Break

2-3 Helen Barbas (Boston University)
Prefrontal pathways for executive control

3-3:30 Philip Sabes (UCSF)
Learning rules for sensory-motor adaptation

3:30-4 Surya Ganguli (UCSF)
Synaptic pattern formation in spiking networks


4-4:30 Break


4:30-5 Mitya Tsigankov (CSHL)
Wiring the brain - Sperry vs Hebb

5-5:20 Ingmar Riedel-Kruse (Caltech)
A Self-Organized Vortex Array of Hydrodynamically Entrained Sperm Cells

5:20-5:45 Joseph Snider (Salk)
Simulating arbor growth with puncta stabilization

5:45-6:10 Ruadhan O'Flanagan (Salk)
Spike timing dependent plasticity

7:00 Dinner and Concert at Smoke Jazz Club
Due to limited space, open to only six people from each Center

9-10 Mickey Goldberg (Columbia University)
On the agnosticism of spikes: attention, intention, and salience in the monkey lateral intraparietal area

10-10:30 David Cai (NYU)
Modeling cortical phenomena with a parsimoniously constructed model of the visual cortex


10:30-11 Break


11-11:30 Kanaka Rajan (Columbia)
Levels and Patterns of Background Activity and Maximal Stimulus Responses

11:30-12 Alexander (Sasha) Kraskov (Caltech)
Can we fool a neuron? Combining human single cell recordings and behavior

12-12:20 Sean Luo (Columbia)
Olfactory Coding in Flies

12:20-12:40 Tony Bell (Berkeley)
The brain considered as a single-layer network between neurons and synapses

12:40-2 Lunch Break

2-3 Rachel Wilson (Harvard University)
Olfactory processing in the Drosphile Brain

3-3:30 Adam Kepecs (Brandeis)
Neural encoding and behavioral impact of uncertainty in category decisions


3:30-4 Break


4-4:30 Marina Brozovic (Caltech)
Contextual modulation of "reach" network activity

4:30-4:55 XJ Wang (Brandeis)
An integrated circuit model of attentional processing in cortical networks

4:55-5:25 Gonzalo Otazu (CSHL)
Attentional modulation of neural responses in auditory cortex

5:25-5:55 Ruben Moreno (NYU)
Noise-induced alternations in an attractor network model of perceptual bi-stability