Speakers

Jacopo Annese Jacopo Annese

University of California, San Diego, United States

Will talk about:
The digital renaissance of human neuroanatomy

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Margarita Behrens Margarita Behrens

Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States

Will talk about:
The epigenome and brain circuit changes during postnatal development

Session:
Keynote lecture

Douglas Bowden Douglas Bowden

University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Will talk about:
Essential features of digital brain models for neuroinformatics

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Dmitri (Mitya) Chklovskii Dmitri (Mitya) Chklovskii

Simons Center for Data Analysis, Simons Foundation, New York, United States

Will talk about:
Can connectomics help us understand neural computation? Insights from the fly visual system

Session:
Keynote lecture

Daniel Choquet Daniel Choquet

University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Will talk about:
A nanoscale view into the dynamic of AMPA receptor organization in synapses

Session:
Keynote lecture

Erik De Schutter Erik De Schutter

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan

Will talk about:
Importance of stochasticity and small molecule number in the induction of synaptic plasticity

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Rodney Douglas Rodney Douglas

University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Will talk about:
Principles of neocortical self-construction

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Rick Gerkin Rick Gerkin

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States

Will talk about:
NeuroElectro and NeuronUnit

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Michele Giugliano Michele Giugliano

University of Antwerpen & Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium

Will talk about:
Emergence of connectivity motifs in networks of model neurons

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Padraig Gleeson Padraig Gleeson

University College London, London, United Kingdom

Will talk about:
The Open Source Brain Initiative, enabling collaborative model development in computational neuroscience

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Yike Guo Yike Guo

Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Will talk about:
Small brain and big data

Session:
Special session on Big Data

Geoff Goodhill Geoff Goodhill

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Will talk about:
Computational principles of axon guidance

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Mike Hawrylycz Mike Hawrylycz

Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, United States

Will talk about:
Neuroinformatics and digital atlases of the Allen Institute for Brain Science

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Viktor Jirsa Viktor Jirsa

Inserm at Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

Will talk about:
The Virtual Brain: a simulator of large-scale brain network dynamics

Session:
Keynote lecture

Bert Kappen Bert Kappen

Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Will talk about:
Emerging phenomena in neural networks with dynamic synapses and their computational implications.

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Stephen Larson Stephen Larson

MetaCell, LLC, , United States

Will talk about:
Open Worm: A community developed in silico model of C. Elegans

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Aurel A. Lazar Aurel A. Lazar

Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Will talk about:
Neurokernal: Emulating the drosophila brain on multiple GPUs

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Trygve B. Leergaard Trygve B. Leergaard

Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Will talk about:
Navigating the rodent brain by digital atlasing

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Michael Milham Michael Milham

Child Mind Institute
, New York, United States

Will talk about:
The Functional Connectomes Project

Session:
Keynote lecture

Asla Pitkanen Asla Pitkanen

University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Will talk about:
Common Data Elements: A remedy for cure of underpowered preclinical studies

Session:
Special session on Big Data

Felix Schürmann Felix Schürmann

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Will talk about:
In silico neuroscience – an integrative approach

Session:
Keynote lecture

Nenad Sestan Nenad Sestan

Yale University, New Haven, United States

Will talk about:
Functional genomics of human brain development and evolution

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Tomomi Shimogori Tomomi Shimogori

RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Will talk about:
BTBD3 controls dendrite orientation toward active axons in mammalian neocortex

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Shreejoy Tripathy Shreejoy Tripathy

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Will talk about:
Semi-automated approaches for drawing inferences from the vast neurophysiology literature

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Alexander Walter Alexander Walter

Charité Cross Over, Berlin, Germany

Will talk about:
A catalytic slot model for exocytosis with a single release sensor effectively explains Ca2+-dependent properties of neurosecretion

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3