2015-Computational Neuroscience and the Hybrid Brain

October 12-14, 2015, Freiburg

Wann	12.10.2015 um 10:00 bis 14.10.2015 um 17:00
Wo	Lecture Hall, Institute of Biology I, Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg, Germany
Name	Birgit Ahrens
Kontakttelefon	+497612039575
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Computational Neuroscience and the Hybrid Brain

Abstract Booklet

Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology both have a strong need for concepts, tools and data to understand the brain's networks in function and dysfunction, and to interact with these networks in a meaningful way.

In our upcoming international workshop "Computational Neuroscience and the Hybrid Brain" we invite scientists and engineers working in these fields to review the state of the art and to explore new perspectives. We aim to address current topics in the fields of computational neuroscience, brain-machine interfaces, neurotechnology, and neuro-ethics.

The workshop will be a joint event of the Bernstein Center Freiburg (BCF), the Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology 'Hybrid Brain' Freiburg*Tübingen, the new Carl-Zeiss Center for Computational Neuroscience in Brain Disease at the BCF, and Neurex.

Registration

Please register here for individual days of the workshop and the conference dinner.

Due to space constraints we can only allow for up to 100 participants.

Please notice that a token fee of 10€ per person is charged for the conference dinner. Please have 10€ on hand at the registration or transfer this sum to the following bank account:

NeurAG eV
Baden-Württembergische Bank Freiburg
IBAN: DE87 6005 0101 0004 3804 65
BIC: SOLADEST

If you would like to present a poster, please use the comment function in the above registration link.

Schedule

Monday, October 12, 2015

Time	Session	Speakers
9:00	Registration
9:20	Welcome	Ulrich Egert
9:30 10:00	Control & Learning (chair: Ulrich Egert)	Carsten Mehring: Skill Learning and Control of Supernumerary Movement Effectors Philip Sabes: A learning-based approach to artificial sensory feedback
10:30	Coffee Break
10:50 11:20 11:50	Control & Learning (chair: Carsten Mehring)	Aaron Batista: Learning about Learning with Brain-Computer Interfaces Robert van Beers: Retention of motor adaptation Ioannis Vlachos: Control of pathological brain activity in spatially extended models
12:20	Lunch
14:00 14:30 15:00	Networks of Networks (chair: Stefan Rotter)	Arvind Kumar: To go or not: Basal ganglia dynamics underlying brain function and dysfunction Samora Okujeni: Relations between network structure and activity dynamics in developing neuronal networks Gaute Einevoll: What can the local field potential (LFP) tell us about cortical network activity?
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00 16:30 17:00	Neurotechnology (chair: Ulrich Egert)	Andreas Hierlemann: Highly integrated CMOS microsystems to interface with neurons at subcellular resolution Thomas Stieglitz: Neural implants for mice and men Jürgen Hennig: Observation of Neuronal Networks and Connectivity with MRI
19:00	Conference Dinner Haus zur Lieben Hand

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Time	Session	Speakers
9:00 9:30 10:00	Plasticity (chair: Carsten Mehring)	Claudia Clopath: Plasticity in Networks Josef Bischofberger: Bidirectional GABAergic control of AP firing in newly generated yound hippocampal granule cells Romain Goutagny: Theta-gamma coupling modulation in the hippocampus during spatial memory processing
10:30	Coffee Break
	Poster Session
12:00	Lunch
13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00	Epilepsy (chair: Arvind Kumar)	John Huguenard: Epilepsy and Brain-Machine Interface Carola Haas: Synaptic plasticity and reorganisation in temporal lobe epilepsy Christopher Kim: Altered network dynamics in a computational model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Antje Kilias: The hippocampal clock in a mesial temporal lobe epilepsy model
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00 16:30	Rehabilitation	Surjo R. Soekadar: Hybrid brain/neural computer interaction (BNCI) in neurorehabilitation: From bench to bedside and beyond Diljit Singh Kajal: Changing local brain activity and global network communication by means of BCI training
17:00	Outreach/Ethics	Oliver Müller: Ethical Aspects of Neurotechnology & New Perspectives in Public Outreach
18:30	Finger food at BCF
19:00	Science Jam at BCF	The Digitalized Body. Music and digital dance improvisation with Dr. Massimo Cenciarini (University Medical Center, Freiburg) Click here to view the live stream!

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Time	Session	Speakers
9:30 10:10 10:25	Carl-Zeiss Kick-Off (chair: Ulrich Egert)	Stefan Rotter: Computational Neuroscience of Brain Disease: Neuronal Mechanisms of Brain Function and Dysfunction Klaus Herberger (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung): Only knowledge can shape the future in a manner that is responsible and beneficial to life Margit Zacharias (Vice-President for Innovation and Technology Transfer, University of Freiburg)
10:40	Coffee Break
11:10 11:40 12:10	Carl-Zeiss Kick-Off (chair: Stefan Rotter and Ulrich Egert)	Robert Schmidt: A two-step model of action suppression based on basal ganglia neurophysiology Tom Tetzlaff: Effect of Alzheimer's disease on the dynamics and computational performance of recurrent neural networks Torfi Sigurdsson: Neural circuit dysfunction in psychiatric disease: insights from animal models
12:40	Lunch
14:00 14:30 15:00	Circuitry & Function (chair: Ad Aertsen)	Andreas Lüthi: Deconstructing fear Martin Angelhuber: The Central Amygdala in Fear Learning and Anxiety A Modeling Perspective Philippe Isope: Understanding operational rules for the modular information processing in the cerebellum
15:30	Closing Remarks	Ulrich Egert
16:00	Get Together BCF Workshop