17-20 Sep 2017 Capbreton (France)

Program

Sunday, September 17, 2017

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17:00 - 19:00 Registration and Welcome  
19:00 - 19:05 Opening remarks - Organizers  
19:05 - 19:50 Directing variability for learning in birdsong. - Adrienne Fairhall (Seattle)  
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner  

Monday, September 18, 2017

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09:30 - 10:15 Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics - Jakob Macke (Bonn)  
10:15 - 10:45 Dimensionality Reduction of Neural Dynamics Within and Across Trials By Tensor Decomposition - Alex Williams*, Tony Kim, Fori Wang, Saurabh Vyas, Krishna Shenoy, Mark Schnitzer, Tamara Kolda, Surya Ganguli  
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:00 Efficient coding strategies in populations of sensory neurons - Julijana Gjorgjieva (Frankfurt)  
12:00 - 12:30 Multiplexed computations in retinal ganglion cells of a single type - Olivier Marre*, Stephane Deny, Ulisse Ferrari, Emilie Mace, Pierre Yger, Romain Caplette, Serge Picaud, Gasper Tkacik  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:15 Brain-computer interfaces for basic science - Byron Yu (Pittsburgh)  
15:15 - 15:45 Modeling within and across area neuronal variability in the visual system - Chengcheng Huang*, Douglas Ruff, Ryan Pyle, Robert Rosenbaum, Marlene Cohen, Brent Doiron  
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 17:00 Dissecting striatal circuitry for reward seeking behavior. - Ilana Witten (Princeton)  
17:00 - 17:30 Noise-robust ``codewords" of the retinal population code: applicability, geometry, and correspondence to neuronal communities - Adrianna Loback*, Jason Prentice, Mark Ioffe, Michael Berry  
17:30 - 20:00 Poster Session  
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner  

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

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09:30 - 10:15 Motor cortex embeds muscle-like commands in an untangled population response - Mark Churchland (Columbia)  
10:15 - 10:45 Task engagement induces shift from sensory to behavioral representations in primary auditory cortex - Sophie Bagur*, Martin Averseng, Diego Elgueda, Stephen David, Jonathan Fritz, Pingbo Yin, Shihab Shamma, Yves Boubenec, Srdjan Ostojic  
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:00 Discovering dynamic computations in the brain from large-scale neural recordings - Tatiana Engel (Cold Spring Harbor)  
12:00 - 12:30 Learning probabilistic representations with randomly connected neural circuits - Ori Maoz*, Gasper Tkacik, Roozbeh Kiani, Elad Schneidman  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:15 Changing dynamical roles of different cortical cell-types with learning - Maneesh Sahani (UCL)  
15:15 - 15:45 High cellular and columnar variability underlies the absence of early orientation selectivity - David Whitney, Gordon Smith, Bettina Hein, David Fitzpatrick, Matthias Kaschube*  
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 16:45 A motor readout of visual perception: Deciphering cuttlefish camouflage at single-chromatophore resolution - Sam Reiter*, Philipp Hülsdunk, Theodosia Woo, Marcel Lauterbach, Jessica Eberle, Daniel Noll, Matthias Kaschube, Gilles Laurent  
16:45 - 17:15 A sensorimotor hub driving phototaxis in zebrafis - Alexis Dubreuil*,Sébastien Wolf, Georges Debrégeas, Rémi Monasson  
17:30 - 20:00 Poster session  
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner  

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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09:30 - 10:15 Concentration invariant odor coding - Dmitry Rinberg (NYU)  
10:15 - 10:45 A model circuit describing spatial integration and its modulation by running of four neuronal classes recorded in V1. - Mario Dipoppa*, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth Harris  
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 11:45 Distinct regulation of history-dependent responses by two cortical interneuron populations - Elizabeth Phillips, Christoph Schreiner, Andrea Hasenstaub  
11:45 - 12:30 Stimulus quality vs stimulus intensity in sensory discrimination: Behavior and some neural correlates - Alfonso Renart (Lisbon)  
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
  
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