| Development
Chair: David Willshaw |
Title | |
| David Willshaw | 09:00-09:10 | Welcome |
| Arjen van Ooyen | 09:10-10:00 | Modelling competition in the development of nerve connections |
| Simon Osindero | 10:00-10:30 | Development of ocular dominance |
| break | 10:30-10:50 | |
| Bruce Graham | 10:50-11:30 | Models and Simulation of Neuronal Development |
| Christopher Butson | 11:30-12:10 | From action potentials to surface potentials: an integrated toolset for neural simulation and visualization |
| Discussion | 12:10-13:00 | |
| lunch/afternoon break | 13:00-16:00 | |
| afternoon tea | 16:00-16:30 | |
| Jaap van Pelt | 16:30-17:45 | Development of neuronal morphological complexity |
| Discussion | 17:45-18:45 | Chair: David Willshaw |
| System Level Models
Chair: Jaap van Pelt |
Title | |
| Andrew Gillies | 09:00-09:40 | Modelling the Basal Ganglia |
| Simon Thorpe | 09:40-10:20 | Reverse engineering the visual system with networks of spiking neurons |
| break | 10:20-10:50 | |
| Mike Denham | 10:50-11:30 | A Synaptic Learning Rule Based on the Temporal Coincidence of Pre- and Postsynaptic Activity |
| Jaap Murre | 11:30-12:10 | Multilevel Modelling in Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Discussion | 12:10-13:00 | |
| lunch/afternoon break | 13:00-16:00 | |
| afternoon tea | 16:00-16:30 | |
| Nigel Goddard | 16:30-17:45 | Collaborative Software for Computational Neuroscience |
| Discussion | 17:45-18:45 | Chair: Michael Denham |
| Cellular Mechanisms
Chair: Michael Hasselmo |
Title | |
| Volker Steuber | 09:00-09:40 | Recognition
of Spatiotemporal Parallel Fibre Input
Patterns by a Complex Purkinje Cell Model |
| Michael O'Shea | 09:40-10:20 | Diffusion
of Gaseous Neurotransmitters
in Brains: Inspiration for 'GasNets' a New Type of Artificial Nervous System for Robots |
| break | 10:20-10:50 | |
| Bruce Graham | 10:50-11:30 | Detailed models of synaptic transmission: the calyx of Held |
| Bill Gibson | 11:30-12:10 | The role of calcium in synaptic function |
| Discussion | 12:10-13:00 | |
| lunch/afternoon break | 12:30-15:30 | Neuroinformatics in the UK - Discussion |
| afternoon tea | 15:30-16:00 | |
| Richard Morris | 16:00-16:30 | Synaptic tagging |
| John Lisman | 16:30-17:45 | Molecular mechanisms of memory storage, PSD proteins, and hippocampal memory |
| Discussion | 17:45-18:45 | Chair: Michael O'Shea |
| Network Models
Chair: Simon Thorpe |
Title | |
| Erik De Schutter | 09:00-09:40 | A network
model of synchronized activity in the cerebellar granular
layer |
| Zhaoping Li | 09:40-10:20 | Pre-attentive segmentation by the primary visual cortex |
| break | 10:20-10:50 | |
| Malcolm Brown | 10:50-11:30 | A network model of familiarity discrimination |
| Paul Verschurre | 11:30-12:10 | IQR421: a software tool for the construction of synthetic neural systems for real-world devices |
| John Lisman | 12:10-12:30 | Hippocampal network model |
| Discussion | 12:30-13:00 | |
| lunch/afternoon break | 13:00-16:00 | |
| afternoon tea | 16:00-16:30 | |
| Michael Hasselmo | 16:30-17:45 | What is the function of hippocampal theta rhythm? |
| Discussion | 17:45-18:45 | Chair: Erik De Schutter |
| The Way Forward
Chair: David Willshaw |
Title | |
| John Jefferys | 09:00-09:40 | Hippocampus: epileptic bursts and gamma oscillations |
| Gareth Leng | 09:40-10:20 | Modelling neuroendocrine neurones; interactions between theory and experiments; joys and frustrations |
| break | 10:20-10:50 | |
| Robert Cannon | 10:50-11:30 | Software interfaces for cellular models |
| Paul Verschurre | 11:30-12:10 | Large-scale applications of neuronal control systems to a physical intelligent space |
| Wrap-up discussion | 12:30-13:00 | Chair: David Willshaw |
| Programme ends | 13:00 |