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greater detail. For example, dendritic function can now be studied in awake, behaving animals. Also,
owing to the precise characterization of neural circuits, the role of the single dendrite can be studied in
the context of its connectivity. The goal of the workshop is to provide a resume of the state-of-the-art
in experimental, computational and mathematical investigations into the functions of dendrites in a
variety of neural systems.
Speakers:
Idan Segev (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) keynote
Matthew Larkum (Charité, Berlin) keynote
Bill Kath (Northwestern University, Evanston)
Yulia Timofeeva (University of Warwick)
Christoph Schmidt-Hieber (University College London)
Henrik Lindén (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm)
Srikanth Ramaswamy (Blue Brain Project, Lausanne)
Hermann Cuntz (Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt)
Michiel Remme (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Ben Torben-Nielsen (Blue Brain Project, Lausanne)
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New developments in decoding the encoding of chemical senses
Space Curie, Wed, 9:00-17:30
Maxim Bazhenov, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Mark Stopfer, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Olfactory and gustatory stimuli are vast in number and defy simple description. In contrast to light
or sound, no low dimensional basis suffices to represent chemical stimuli. And yet, the olfactory and
gustatory systems map the complex and high-dimensional world of chemical stimuli into unique and
reproducible ensembles of neuronal activity. This mapping includes multilevel processing and involves
complex strategies for information encoding. Recent developments in the field of chemical senses
lead to a need to revisit existing theories and models of how information about chemical stimuli is
represented in the brain. In this workshop we will discuss new findings that explain how chemical
stimuli are encoded, and how different forms of neural plasticity can optimize sensory representations.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental and computational neuroscientists to
discuss new developments in the well-characterized forms of sensory processing.
Speakers:
Stijn Cassenaer (Caltech)
Brian Smith (Arizona State University) - confirmed
Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex) - confirmed
Alex Koulakov (CSHL) - confirmed
Jean-Pierre Rospars (INRA)
Mark Stopfer (NIH-NICHD) - confirmed
Maxim Bazhenov (University of California, Riverside) - confirmed
Rainer Friedrich (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Dmitry Rinberg (NYU)
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