<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 43px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 43px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, 2016 | 501 NWC Building</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">Organizer and Program Chair: Aurel A. Lazar (Columbia University)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in developing executable models of neural computa-</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">tion/processing of the brain of model organisms. Of interest are models of computation that consist of elementary units of</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">processing using brain circuits and memory elements. Elementary units of computation/processing include population encod-</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">ing/decoding circuits with biophysically-grounded neuron models, non-linear dendritic processors for motion detection/direction</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">selectivity, spike processing and pattern recognition neural circuits, movement control and decision-making circuits, etc. Memory</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">units include models of spatio-temporal memory circuits, circuit models for memory access and storage, etc. A major aim of the</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">workshop is to explore the integration of various sensory and control circuits in higher brain centers.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 29.5px; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);">Program Overview</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 25px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Alexander Borst (MPI Neurobiology), Functional Characterization of the Input Elements to the Drosophila Motion Detector</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Michael B. Reiser (HHMI Janelia), The Circuit Basis of Directional Selectivity in the Drosophila Visual System</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Thomas R. Clandinin (Stanford), How Does Contrast Selectivity Emerge in Motion Processing Pathways</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Chung-Chuan Lo (National Tsing Hua University), The Virtual Fly Brain { from Bench-Top to Cyberspace</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break (On your own, see a list of restaurants in the area on the back)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">02:00 PM - 02:45 PM J. Douglas Armstrong (University of Edinburgh), <a href="http://virtualflybrain.org" class="">VirtualFlyBrain.org</a> - An Integration Hub for Drosophila Neuroscience</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science), Multiscale Gene Expression Signatures in the Mammalian Brain</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Gaby Maimon (Rockefeller University), Probing the Neurophysiological Basis of Cognitive Operations in Behaving Drosophila</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Stanley Heinze (Lund University), Merging Information about Direction and Distance - the Bee Central Complex as the Potential Neural Substrate for Path Integration</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 25px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saturday 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">09:00 AM - 09:45 AM Glenn C. Turner (HHMI Janelia), The Mushroom Body and Learning - Flexibly Assigning Valence to Odors</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Vanessa Ruta (Rockefeller University), Circuit Mechanisms for Flexible Sensory Processing in Drosophila</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coee Break</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Marta Zlatic (HHMI Janelia), Circuits Principles of Memory-Based Behavioral Choice</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Friedrich T. Sommer (UC Berkeley), Interplay of Structural and Weight Plasticity: Eects on Memory Capacity and Connections to Cognitive Phenomena</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Break (On your own, see a list of restaurants in the area on the back)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Mala Murthy (Princeton University), Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Matthieu Louis (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona), Bayesian Maggots: Multisensory Integration in the Drosophila Larva</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Afternoon Break</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Kwabena Boahen (Stanford University), Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Panel Discussion: The Logic of NeuroInformation Processing of the Fruit Fly Brain</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; color: rgb(61, 173, 255);">Registration is free but all participants have to register at: <a href="https://bcmc16.eventbrite.com/" class="">https://bcmc16.eventbrite.com/</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 35.5px; color: rgb(0, 72, 223);">Workshop Website: <a href="http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2016" class="">http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/workshops/bcmc/2016</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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