2007 Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology
Annual Summer Meeting 2007
University of California at San Diego, July 28-31
Agenda and Presentations
Saturday, July 28
6:00 PM
Opening Reception at UCSD Mandeville Suite on the 11th floor of Tioga Hall
Sunday July 29
8:00 AM
Breakfast
8:55 AM
Welcome – Scott Makeig (UCSD)
9:00 AM
Olfaction, Taste, Audition and Timing – Larry Abbott (Chair)
9:00 AM
Jing Wang (UCSD)
“Visualizing the olfactory circuit in Drosophila.”
9:45 AM
Glenn Turner (CSHL)
“Sparse olfactory representations by Drosophila mushroom body Kenyon cells”
10:00 AM
Adi Rangan (NYU)
“Olfactory coding & recognition”
10:15 AM
Gidon Felsen (CSHL)
“A neural circuit for decision-making in rats.”
10:30 AM
Coffee break
11:00 AM
Donald Katz (Brandeis)
“Sequences of coherent cortical states and the processing of sensory information”
11:15 AM
Alfredo Fontanini (Brandeis)
“State-dependent modulation of taste response dynamics”
11:30 AM
Paul Miller (Brandeis)
“Stochastic transitions between discrete attractor states in a model taste-processing network”
11:45 AM
Tatyana Sharpee (Salk)
“Two dimensional encoding in the songbird auditory forebrain and its possible function”
12:00 PM
Tony Zador (CSHL)
“Auditory Cortex: From Synapses to Behavior”
12:15 PM
Ruadhan O'Flanagan (Salk)
“Judgment”
12:30 PM
Lunch on site
Decision Making and Motor Systems – Eve Marder (Chair)
2:00 PM
Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller)
“Dissecting a circuit for probabilistic behavior in C. elegans.”
2:45 PM
Greg Stephens (Princeton)
“Dynamics and dimensionality in the behavior of C elegans”
3:00 AM
Gasper Tkacik (Princeton)
“Information flow and optimization in transcriptional control”
3:15 PM
Alex Koulakov (CSHL)
“Lognormal distribution in cortical networks: A tale of two tails.”
3:30 PM
Coffee break
4:00 PM
Bijan Pesaran (NYU)
“Relative position codes in the dorsal premotor cortex”
4:15 PM
Daeyeol Lee (Yale):
“Prefrontal cortex and economic decision making”
4:30 PM
Philip Eckhoff (Princeton)
“Diffusion processes with variable drift rates as models for decision making during learning”
4:45 PM
Mark Laubach (Yale)
“Medial prefrontal cortex and the temporal control of action”
5:00 PM
Chung-Chuan Lo (Yale)
“A spiking neural network model of inhibitory control for countermanding task”
Monday July 30
8:00 AM Breakfast
Neural Circuits and Optimization - William Bialek (Chair)
9:00 AM
Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington)
“Single neuron computation”
9:45 AM
Andrea Hasenstaub (Salk)
“Fast spiking inhibitory neurons”
10:00 AM
David McCormick (Yale)
“Implications of combined analogue/digital signaling in local cortical networks”
10:15 AM
Yi Sun (NYU)
“Numerical analysis of network dynamics of HH neurons”
10:30 AM
Coffee break
11:00 AM
Joe Snider (Salk)
“Self-similarity of arbors”
11:15 AM
Yuriy Mishchenko (CSHL)
“Automated large scale reconstruction of neural circuits using electron microscopy”
11:30 AM
Santiago Jaramillo (CSHL)
“Selective coding in neural systems”
11:45 AM
Steve Lisberger (UCSF)
“Noise reduction and addition in sensory-motor processing”
12:00 PM
Jayant Kulkarni (Columbia)
“Common-noise models for multiple neural spike-train data”
12:15 PM
Larry Abbott (Columbia)
“Something about neural network dynamics...”
12:30 PM Lunch on site
2:00 PM
Vision – Christof Koch (Chair)
John Reynolds (Salk)
“Mapping the microcircuitry of attention: attentional modulation varies across cell classes in visual area V4”
2:45 PM
Josh Milstein (Caltech)
“Dynamic moment analysis of the extracellular electric field of a biologically realistic spiking neuron”
3:00 PM
Ping Wang (Salk)
“Synchronous thalamic inputs drive cortical neurons reliably when excitatory and inhibitory inputs are balanced”
3:15 PM
Samuel Burns (NYU)
“A Time-Frequency Analysis of Phase Coherence in the Gamma Band of the Local Field Potential in V1”
3:30 PM
Coffee break
4:00 PM
Gergô Orbán (Brandeis)
“The link between neural activity in V1 and optimal probabilistic inference”
4:15 PM
József Fiser (Brandeis)
“Do we develop visual representations based on pair-wise statistics of the visual scene?”
4:30 PM
Arnulf Graf (NYU)
“Decoding population responses of visual neurons in macaque cortex”
4:45 PM
John Rinzel (NYU)
“Competitive network models of binocular rivalry”
5:00 PM
Marina Brozovic (Caltech)
“Gain mechanisms for contextually guided visuomotor transformations”
5:15 PM
Group Barbeque, Powerhouse Park in Del Mar
There will be a shuttle service to Powerhouse Park. Shuttle stop location TBD.
Tuesday July 31
8:00 AM Breakfast
Plasticity, Learning and Memory - Michael Stryker (Chair)
9:00 AM
Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute)
“Ongoing dynamics of memory representations of morphed patterns”
9:45 AM
Surya Ganguli (UCSF)
“Origins of short term memory traces in neural networks”
10:00 AM
Samat Moldakarimov (Salk)
“A spiking network model implementing representational sharpening exhibits perceptual priming”
10:15 AM
Matthias Kaschube (Princeton)
“Self-organization in the development of neural circuitry”
10:30 AM
Coffee break
11:00 AM
Vladimir Itskov (Columbia)
“From Spikes to Space: Building up space from hippocampal spikes alone”
11:15 AM
Sen Cheng (UCSF)
“Dynamics of spatial memory formation in the hippocampus”
11:30 AM
Yuri Dabaghian (UCSF)
“Topological organization of information encoding in hippocampus”
11:45 AM
Evren Tumer (UCSF)
“Adaptive plasticity in the adult bird song system”
12:00 AM
Daniel Ben Dayan Rubin (Columbia)
“Retrieving noise-based memories by reading heterogeneous neurons”
12:15 PM
Lunch on site
Director's Lunch – location TBA
2:00 PM
Attention and Brain Imaging - Xiao-Jing Wang (Chair)
Jonathan Victor (Cornell Medical Center, NYC) and Nicholas D. Schiff
“Large-scale brain dynamics and neurologic disturbances of consciousness"
2:45 PM
James Mazer (Yale):
"Attentional modulation of feature selectivity in area V4"
3:00 PM
Angela Yu (Princeton)
“A Bayesian framework for dynamic attention selection”
3:15 PM
Stefano Fusi (Columbia)
“The importance of neural diversity in complex cognitive tasks”
3:30 PM
Coffee break
4:00 PM
Chess Stetson (Caltech)
“Cumulative conditional probability encoded by neural blood flow”
4:15 PM
Rey Ramirez (UCSD)
“Neuroelectromagnetic source imaging of cortical traveling waves using frequency-domain independent vector analysis (IVA) and geodesic sparse Bayesian learning (gSBL)”
4:30 PM
Jason Palmer (UCSD)
“Advanced signal models for EEG/MEG analysis: Piecewise stationarity and dependent subspaces”
4:45 PM
Julie Onton (UCSD)
“Exploring spectral instability in EEG data”
5:00 PM
Terry Sejnowski (Salk/UCSD)
Closing Remarks
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