Programme

 

Full program details can be found in the NC2016 Conference Book which can be downloaded here.

Below is an excerpt for online use.

 

 

Sessions

Only speakers and titles are listed here, full details are given in the conference book.

Single Neuron Math 1 – 29 Aug 9:30 – 10:30

(chair: Moritz Deger)

Marie Levakova - Signal-enhancing effect of spontaneous activity in latency coding

Massimiliano Tamborrino - Neuronal response latency estimation in presence of a background signal

Invertebrates & Xenopus – 29 Aug 11:00 – 13:00

(chair: Peter Kloppenburg)

Jan Clemens - The organization of adaptation in the auditory receptor neurons of Drosophila

Thomas Nowotny - The early olfactory code in bees

Roman Borisyuk - A computational model for decision making and behaviour selection in Xenopus tadpoles

Brian H Smith - Using natural odor ‘scenes’ to help crack the olfactory code [this abstract is only available online]

Vision – 29 Aug 16:00 – 17:30

(chair: Yifat Prut)

Björn Kampa - Specific excitatory connectivity for feature integration in mouse primary visual cortex

Jens Kremkow - Principles underlying sensory map topography in primary visual cortex

Markus Diesmann - Multi-area model of macaque visual cortex at cellular and synaptic resolution

Single Neuron Math 2 – 30 Aug 09:00 – 10:30

(chair: Petr Lansky)

Laura Sacerdote - Integrate and fire like models with stable distribution for the interspike intervals

Luisa Testa - Ito excursion theory: an application to the firing paradigm in stochastic neuronal models

Lubomir Kostal - Neural coding accuracy and stimulus information in variable frames of reference

Network Structure & Plasticity – 30 Aug 11:00 – 13:00

(chair: Ryota Kobayashi)

Gaia Tasovanis - Structural correlates of olfactory conditioning in the mushroom body calyx of adult flies

Wulfram Gerstner - Synaptic plasticity controlled by surprise

Nestor Parga - The dopamine signal under sensory and temporal uncertainty

Kei Ito - Understanding neuronal circuits and their functions using expression driver systems of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

Methods – 31 Aug 09:00 – 10:30

(chair: Chris Christodoulou)

Aubin Tchaptchet - Numerical implementation of neural diversity

Michael Stiber - Bringing high performance neural simulation to the desktop with BrainGrid

Taro Tezuka - Neural Decoding by Spike Train Factor Analysis Kernel

Synchrony – 31 Aug 11:00 – 12:30

(chair: Sonja Grün)

Benjamin Lindner - Synchrony coding by neural populations - theory and experiment

Angelo Di Garbo - Nonlinear quantification of inter-hemispheric coupling in neocortical epilepsy in mice

Farzad Farkhooi - Phase transition to stochastic synchrony in the balanced networks

Math Network – 31 Aug 14:00 – 16:30

(chair: Laura Sacerdote)

Ryota Kobayashi - Testing statistical significance of synaptic connectivity

Tilo Schwalger - Stochastic mean-field theory for finite-size populations of spiking neurons

Matthieu Gilson - Correlation coding in noise-diffusion networks: from experimental basis toward a theory of distributed representations

Alessandro Villa - Clique topology and dynamics in neuronal network simulations

Motor – 01 Sep 09:00 – 10:30

(chair: Björn Kampa)

Yifat Prut - Excitation-inhibition interplay controls timing and coordination of motor actions

Alexa Riehle - Variability of motor cortical spiking activity is modulated by the behavioral context

Sonja Grün - Behavioral related synchronous spike patterns in macaque motor cortex during an instructed-delay reach-to-grasp task

Variability – 01 Sep 11:00 – 12:30

(chair: Lubomir Kostal)

Thomas Rost - Variability dynamics in balanced networks with clustered inhibitory and excitatory connectivity

Tomokatsu Onaga - Criticality in the emergence of spontaneous fluctuations
 in spiking neuron networks

Petr Lansky - Variability in neural spike trains

Robotics – 01 Sep 14:00 – 15:30

(chair: Martin Nawrot)

Yuichiro Yada - Goal-directed behavior of a cultured neuron robot through reservoir computing

Nicholas Szczecinski - MantisBot is a robotic model of visually guided motion in the praying mantis

Tim Landgraf - Neural correlates of flying insect navigation: from simulation to electro-physiology on a quadcopter

 

Posters

Presenter	Authors	Title	No.	Presented  in Session
Alexander Vidybida	Alexander Vidybida	Fast Cl-type inhibitory neuron with delayed feedback has non-Markov output statistics	2	1
Kseniia Kravchuk / Alexander Vidybida	Kseniia Kravchuk	First passage time of leaky integrate-and-fire neuron driven by a jump process	4	1
Brian Smith	Thiago Mosqueiro, Martin Strube-Bloss, Brian Smith, Ramon Huerta	Accelerated information transmission with stable sparse code in strongly divergent-convergent feedforward networks	6	1
Michael von Papen	Michael von Papen, Esther Florin, Lars Timmermann, Joachim Saur	Nonparametric Granger causality of parkinsonian tremor	8	1
Vezha Boboeva	Vezha Boboeva, Alessandro Treves	Beyond random correlations to learning structured correlations among concepts of a semantic cortical network	10	1
Silvia Daun-Gruhn	N. Rosjat, S. Popovych, L. Liu, B. Wang, T. Tóth, C. Grefkes, G. R. Fink, S. Daun-Gruhn	Differences in movement-related, inter-regional phase-locking in young and elderly healthy subjects	12	1
Christina Zavou	Christina Zavou, Achilleas Koutsou, Chris Christodoulou	Correlating pre-synaptic synchrony with experimentally recorded intracellular membrane potential	14	1
Rosanna Migliore	Rosanna Migliore, Xavier Leinekugel, Michele Migliore	Effects of electric fields on cognitive functions	16	1
Hubert Löffler	Hubert Löffler	Subthreshold oscillations facilitate memory of precise temporal spike trains: A computational approach	18	1
Hannes Rapp	Hannes Rapp, Martin Nawrot, Moritz Deger	Modeling of EEG time-series by conditional probability neural networks	20	1
Masahiro Furukawa	Masahiro Furukawa, Shigeru Shinomoto	Spectral analysis of local field potential	22	1
Aaradhita Upadhyay	Aaradhita Upadhyay, Svenja Schneider, Anna Kaczmarek, Laura Torres Benito, Vanessa Grysko, Min Jeong Kye, Markus Riessland, Natalia Kononenko, Brunhilde Wirth	MOD2, potential SMA modifier and much beyond?	24	1
Olha Shchur	Alexander Vidybida, Olha Shchur	Role of neuronal firing in reduction of dynamical states set inreverberating neuronal network	26	1
Shinsuke Koyama	Shinsuke Koyama	Approximate methods for the inference of stochastic reaction networks	28	1
Martin Nawrot	Rinaldo Betkiewicz, Benjamin Lindner, Martin Nawrot	Odor representations in a spiking model of the insect olfactory system are optimized by lateral inhibition and cellular adaptation	30	1
Susanne Hindennach	Susanne Hindennach, Debora Fusca, Martin Nawrot, Peter Kloppenburg	Dynamical processing of olfactory input in different types of antennal lobe neurons of the american cockroach	1	2
Alessandra Lintas	Takeshi Abe, Yoshiyuki Asai, Alessandro E.P. Villa, Alessandra Lintas	Neural dynamics in the mouse basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit	3	2
Irina Sinakevitch	Irina Sinakevitch, George R Bjorklund, Jason Newbern, Brian H Smith	Comparative study of chemical neuroanatomy of the olfactory neuropil in mouse, honey bee and human	5	2
Tzai-Wen Chiu	Tzai-Wen Chiu, I-Chieh Huang, Paul Wai-Fung Poon, John F. Brugge, Hiroyuki Oya, Richard A. Reale, Hiroto Kawasaki, Kirill Nourski, Haiming Chen, Matthew A. Howard III	Variations of single-trial sound-evoked responses over the human temporal cortex	7	2
Sidney Lehky	Sidney R. Lehky, Ahn Huy Phan, Andrzej Cichocki, Keiji Tanaka	Coding of Faces by Tensor Components	9	2
Ondrej Pokora	Ondrej Pokora, Jan Kolacek, T. W. Chiu	Functional data analysis of the recordings of auditory evoked potentials	11	2
Fioralba Ajazi	Tatyana Turova, George M. Napolitano, Fioralba Ajazi	Random distance graphs on torus	13	2
Joscha Schmitz	Joscha Schmitz, Matthias Gruhn, Ansgar Büschges	Adaptive motor control: task-specificity of movement feedback processing during the generation of steps in a curve walking insect	15	2
Petr Marsalek	Petr Marsalek	Quantitative description of neural computations in the auditory brainstem using the ergodic hypothesis	17	2
Iulia-Alexandra Lungu	Iulia-Alexandra Lungu, Alexa Riehle, Martin Nawrot, Michael Schmuker	Predicting arm movement direction with spiking neural networks and neuromorphic hardware	19	2
Maria Francesca Carfora	Maria Francesca Carfora, Enrica Pirozzi	A stochastic model for the firing activity of neurons in a network	21	2
Christina Zavou / Chris Christodoulou	Antria Kkoushi, Achilleas Koutsou, Chris Christodoulou	Synchrony measure for a neuron driven by excitatory and inhibitory inputs	23	2
Aubin Tchaptchet	Hans A. Braun, Aubin Tchaptchet	Connecting mathematical modeling with electrophysiological experiments: The virtual laboratories SimNerv and SimNeuron	25	2
Enrica Pirozzi	Enrica Pirozzi	Towards modeling of stochastic correlated inputs and adaptation in neuronal firing	27	2
Abdulraheem Nashef	Abdulraheem Nashef, Oren Cohen, Yifat Prut	Thalamocortical mechanisms controlling motor timing in behaving primates	29	2