Speakers
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
Salk Institute,
La Jolla, CA,
United States
Will talk about:
The epigenome and brain circuit changes during postnatal development
Session:
Keynote lecture
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
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
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
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
University of Zurich,
Zurich,
Switzerland
Will talk about:
Principles of neocortical self-construction
Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2
Rick Gerkin
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh,
United States
Will talk about:
NeuroElectro and NeuronUnit
Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4
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
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
Imperial College,
London,
United Kingdom
Will talk about:
Small brain and big data
Session:
Special session on Big Data
Geoff Goodhill
University of Queensland,
Brisbane,
Australia
Will talk about:
Computational principles of axon guidance
Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
Child Mind Institute
,
New York,
United States
Will talk about:
The Functional Connectomes Project
Session:
Keynote lecture
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
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Lausanne,
Switzerland
Will talk about:
In silico neuroscience – an integrative approach
Session:
Keynote lecture
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
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
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
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
