Pan-Iberian Systems Neuroscience Workshop
Communicating in Neural Circuits
Lisboa, Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2009
Hotel Eurostar das Letras
Agenda:
Understanding brain function calls for jointly illuminating the structure and function of neural circuits. Although this insight goes back over 100 years ago to Cajal, today it is more relevant than ever.
Recent technical advances are making it possible to analyze circuit organization and communication with unprecedented specificity, and to connect this information to functional assays in intact and behaving animals, while removing many previous restrictions on experimental paradigms.
A number of centers in the Iberian Peninsula have begun to apply these powerful new approaches, including molecular, electrophysiological, imaging, behavioral and computational tools, and share a common interest in addressing the neural bases of behavior from perception and action to memory and cognition to foraging and mating.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for interaction between these groups and to foster the growth of a virtual community of neuroscientists working on the analysis of neural circuit organization and function in the Iberian Peninsula. We also especially hope to stimulate new collaborations between workshop participants.
Speakers:
Santiago Canals - Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
Miguel Castelo-Branco- IBILI, Fac. de Medicina
Albert Compte - IDIBAPS
Rui Costa - CNP-IGC
AndersLedberg - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
José Delgado-Garcia - Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Guglielmo Foffani - Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos
Vasco Galhardo - Universidade do Porto
Gonzalo García de Polavieja - Instituto Cajal, CSIC
Oscar Herreras - Instituto Cajal, CSIC
Enrique Lanuza - Universitat de València
Matthieu Louis - Center for Genomic Regulation
Zach Mainen - CNP-IGC
Miguel Maravall - Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
Luis Martínez - Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
Liset Menendez de la Prida - Instituto Cajal
Marta Moita - CNP-IGC
Nestor Parga - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Joe Paton - CNP-IGC
Alfonso Renart - Rutgers University
Carlos Ribeiro - CNP-IGC
Casto Rivadulla - Universidad de A Coruña
David Robbe - IDIBAPS
Boris Safronov - IBMC
Mavi Sanchez-Vives - IDIBAPS
Nuno Sousa - University of Minho
Pablo Varona -Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Luisa Vasconcelos - CNP-IGC
John Wesseling - Universidad de Navarra
Programme
Monday, November 30th
09:30 – 11:10 Session 1 - Cervantes Room
Moderator: Inbal Israely
• Miguel Maravall and Zach Mainen
Introductory remarks
• Marta Moita, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
Neural mechanisms of learned fear
• José M. Delgado-Garcia, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla)
Functional states of hippocampal circuits during associative learning
• Liset Menendez de la Prida, Instituto Cajal, CSIC (Madrid)
Cells, circuits and rhythms of the hippocampus
• David Robbe, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Barcelona)
Opposite effects of cannabinoids on hippocampal and thalamo-cortical oscillations
11:10 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Session 1 cont. - Cervantes Room
• Boris Safronov, IBMC (Porto)
Infrared LED imaging in non-sliced tissue: study of neuronal connectivity in the spinal dorsal horn
• Santiago Canals, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (Alicante)
Functional reorganization of brain networks
• Susana Lima, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
A New Method of Tagging Neuronal Populations for Identification during In Vivo Electrophysiological Recording
12:30 Lunch “Das Letras” Restaurant
14:00 – 15:00 Session 2 - Cervantes Room
Moderator: Marta Moita
Moderator: TBA
• Luis Martínez, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, UMH-CSIC (Alicante)
Correlating structure and function in the early visual pathway
• Guglielmo Foffani, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos (Toledo)
Mutual information expansions to study the role of correlations in populations of neurons
• Miguel Maravall, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, UMH-CSIC (Alicante)
Stimulus-dependent modes of thalamocortical communication in the whisker system
15:00 Posters - Garcia Lorca Room
16:30 Tea Break
17:00 – 18:20
• Matthieu Louis, Center for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona)
Odor coding with single fly odorant receptors
• Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
Nutritional value-based decisions in Drosophila
• Luísa Vasconcelos, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
The circuits of innate behaviors
• Enrique Lanuza, Dpto. de Biologia Celular, Fac. de CC. Biològiques, Universitat de València (València)
Cortical circuits processing vomeronasal information: from perception of sexual pheromones to action
Tuesday, December 1st
9:30 - 10:50 Session 3 - Cervantes Room
Moderator: Liset Menendez de la Prida
Moderator: Liset Menendez de la Prida
• Anders Ledberg, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats , Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
A canonical model of interval timing
• Joe Paton, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
The importance of time for learning
• Rui Costa, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
The function of the basal ganglia in the organization of behavior as action sequences
• Nuno Sousa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho (Braga)
The stressed PFC
10:50 Coffee-break
11:30 - 12:30 Session 3 cont. - Cervantes Room
• Casto Rivadulla, Neuroscience and Motor Control Group. Dept. of Medicine and Institute for Biomedical Research of A Coruña. University of A Coruña (A Coruña)
Thalamic contribution to visual processing: A locus for attention?
• Miguel Castelo-Branco, IBILI, Faculty of Medicine (Coimbra)
Neural correlates of visual object recognition
• Nestor Parga, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid)
Predicting receptive fields of simple cells in several species: The role of the independent components and statistical symmetries of natural stimuli
12:30 Lunch “Das Letras” Restaurant
14:00 Posters - Garcia Lorca Room
15:00 – 16:00 Session 4 - Cervantes Room
Moderator: Santiago Canals
• Pablo Varona, Grupo de Neurocomputación Biológica, Dpto. de Ingeniería Informática. Escuela Politécnica Superior , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid)
Real-time technology to implement activity-dependent stimulation protocols in neuroscience
• Alfonso Renart, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University (New Jersey)
The asynchronous state in cortical circuits
• Albert Compte, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Barcelona)
Oscillations and irregular firing in a multi-area cortical network model
Wednesday, December 2nd
9:30 - 10:30 Session 5 - Cervantes Room
Moderator: Albert Compte
• Mavi Sanchez-Vives, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Barcelona)
Cerebral cortex: The rhythms and the players
• John Wesseling, CIMA Neurosciences, Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona)
Synaptic augmentation: A first principle building block of biological computation?
• Oscar Herreras, Instituto Cajal, CSIC (Madrid)
Optimization of blind source separation of LFPs enables the continuous parallel readout of synaptic activity from confluent neuron subpopulations
10:30 Coffee-Break
11:00 - 12:40 Session 5 cont. - Cervantes Room
• Vasco Galhardo, IBMC e Instituto de Histologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto (Porto)
Orbitofrontal neuronal encoding of risk aversion and proneness
• Zach Mainen, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras)
Neural mechanisms of odor-guided decisions
• Gonzalo García de Polavieja, Instituto Cajal, CSIC (Madrid)
The wisdom of the shoal: Decision-making in a group of fish
• Miguel Maravall and Zach Mainen
Closing remarks
Location: Hotel Eurostar das Letras – Rua Castilho, nº6
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