Princeton Neuroscience Institute

 

 

 

 

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience

(CRCNS)

Principal Investigators Meeting

 

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

October 9-11, 2011

 

 

       Sponsored by NSF and NIH

 

 

2011 CRCNS PI MEETING AGENDA

Sunday, October 9

Introduction                                                                                      

Ken Norman and Bill Bialek, Conference Co–organizers

Jonathan Cohen, Co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Ken Whang, NSF

Dennis Glanzman, NIH         

Posters (session A)                                                                      

(A1)       Ion concentration dynamics as a mechanism for neuronal bursting and excitatory-inhibitory interplay

Ernest Barreto (George Mason University)

(A2)       Deciphering the neural code of natural scene categories

Diane Beck (University of Illinois), Dirk B. Walther (Ohio State University), Marius Iordan (Stanford University), Eamon Caddigan (University of Illinois), Christopher Baldassano (Stanford University), and Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University)

(A3)       Minimal size of cell assemblies coordinated by gamma oscillations

Christoph Borgers (Tufts University), Giovanni Talei Franzesi (MIT), Edward Boyden (MIT), and Nancy Kopell (Boston University)

 (A4)       Role of interneurons in shaping glomerular responses to dynamic olfactory input: a combined experimental/computational study of glomerular microcircuits

Ryan Carey (Boston University), William Erik Sherwood (University of Utah), Remus Osan (Georgia State University), and Matt Wachowiak (University of Utah)

(A5)       Identifying the sweet spot for STN DBS in Parkinson's disease

Ming Cheng (Brown Medical School), Vivek Buch (Brown Medical School), Sridev Sarma (Johns Hopkins University), and Uri Eden (Boston University)

(A6)      Cholinergic regulation of sensory computations in the olfactory bulb

Thomas Cleland (Cornell University), Christiane Linster (Cornell University), and Ben Strowbridge (Case Western Reserve University)

(A7)      Ontology-based multi-scale integration of the autism phenome

Saeed Hassanpour (Stanford University), Richard Waldinger (SRI International), Joachim Hallmayer (Stanford University), and Amar Das (Stanford University)

(A8)       Two coincident but separable prediction errors in human ventral striatum

Carlos Diuk (Princeton University), Matthew Botvinick (Princeton University), and Yael Niv (Princeton University)

(A9)       Hitting the spot: optimizing placement of the deep brain stimulating electrode

Uri Eden (Boston University), Sri Sarma (Johns Hopkins University), and Ming Cheng (Brown University)

(A10)     Optogenetic reagents optimized simultaneously for high-amplitude currents, precision kinetics, and tissue-penetrating wavelength

Giovanni Talei Franzesi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nathan Klapoetke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Amy Chuong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tania Morimoto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Barbara Melkonian (University of Cologne), Xue Han (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Brian Chow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gane Ka-Shu Wong (Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzen), and Edward Boyden (MIT Media Lab)

(A11)     A characterization of spatial responses in the gerbil hippocampus

Stefan Leutgeb, Emily Mankin, Melissa Galinato (University of California, San Diego), Benedikt Grothe, and Christian Leibold (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)

(A12)     Computational Mechanisms for Storing Motor Memories in Noisy Neural Circuits

Robert Ajemian and Emilio Bizzi, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

(A13)    Modulation of homeostatic plasticity with electric fields in rat hippocampal slices

Belen Lafon (The City College of the City University of New York), Davide Reato (The City College of the City University of New York), Asif Rahman (The City College of the City University of New York), Marom Bikson (The City College of the City University of New York), and Lucas Parra (The City College of the City University of New York)

(A14)    A neuromusculoskeletal model of the mammalian spinal control of locomotion

Michel A. Lemay (Drexel University College of Medicine), Sergey Markin (Drexel University College of Medicine), Alexander Klishko (Georgia Institute of Technology), Natalia Shevtsova (Drexel University College of Medicine), Ilya Rybak (Drexel University College of Medicine), and Boris Prilutsky (Georgia Institute of Technology)

(A15)    NeuronBank: a tool for cataloging identified neurons and neuronal circuitry

 Paul S. Katz (Georgia State University) and Robert J. Calin-Jageman (Dominican University)

(A16)     How does the brain represent and retrieve word meanings?

Jeremy R. Manning (Princeton University) and Michael J. Kahana (University of Pennsylvania)

(A17)     Elucidating the electrical architecture of a mammalian touch receptor

Kara Marshall (Columbia University), Scott Wellnitz (Baylor College of Medicine), Gregory Gerling (University of Virginia), and Ellen Lumpkin (Columbia University)

(A18)     Passing phases: Structure of a neural circuit that couples modular neural oscillators

Brian Mulloney (University of California, Davis), Carmen Smarandache-Wellmann (University of Cologne), Jiawei Zhang (University of California, Davis), and Timothy Lewis (University of California, Davis)

(A19)     Modeling acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear associations in amygdala circuits

Satish Nair (University of Missouri), Gregory Quirk (University of Puerto Rico), and Denis Pare (Rutgers University)

(A20)     Neural population coding of dynamic natural scenes

Urs Koster (University of California, Berkeley/MSU Bozeman), Amir Khosrowshahi (University of California, Berkeley), Charles Gray (MSU Bozeman), Chris Rozell (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Bruno Olshausen (University of California, Berkeley)

(A21)     Effector-specific decision making in human and non-human primates

Bijan Pesaran (New York University), Yan Wong (New York University), Margaret Fabiszak (New York University), Seth Madlon-Kay (New York University), Sam Gershman (Princeton University), and Nathaniel Daw (New York University)

(A22)     Network dynamics determines the sensitivity of endogenous oscillations to weak electric fields

Davide Reato (The City College of the City University of New York), Marom Bikson (The City College of the City University of New York), and Lucas Parra (The City College of the City University of New York)

(A23)     Movement synergies and motor cortex activity during reach to grasp

Vikram Aggarwal (Johns Hopkins University), Mohsen Mollazadeh (Johns Hopkins University), Adam Davidson (University of Rochester), Andrew Law (University of Rochester), Marc Schieber (University of Rochester), and Nitish Thakor (Johns Hopkins University)

(A24)     Virtual screening for antidepressant lead compounds using monoamine transporter computational models

Christopher Surratt (Duquesne University), Tammy Nolan (Duquesne University), David Lapinsky (Duquesne University), Jeffery Talbot (Ohio Northern University), Martin Indarte (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Sankar Manepalli (Duquesne University), Laura Geffert (Duquesne University), and Jeffry Madura (Duquesne University)

(A25)     Central pattern generator control and differential sensitivity of near-heteroclinic limit cycles

Peter Thomas and Hillel J. Chiel (Case Western Reserve University)

(A26)     Do various visual areas share a common cortical computation?

Cheston Tan and Tomaso Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

(A27)     Kinematics and electrocorticography of primate reaching under dynamic perturbation

Kurt A. Thoroughman and Daniel W. Moran (Washington University in St Louis)

(A28)     Bi-directional gradient sensing  as a consequence of imperfect adaptation

 Honda Naoki (Kyoto University), Makoto Nishiyama (New York University School of Medicine), Kyonsoo Hong (New York University School of Medicine), and Shin Ishii (Kyoto University)

Monday, October 10

Morning Talk Session

(B1) A neural circuit model of similarity, generalization and categorization

Xiao-Jing Wang (Yale University School of Medicine)

(B2) Cortical circuits for decision-making: when an integrator is not optimal

Paul Miller (Brandeis University)

(B3) Top-down signals during object completion in the human visual cortex

Gabriel Kreiman (Harvard Medical School)

(B4) A window to the amygdala: information on choice preference evolves   concurrently in eye movements and neural responses

Rick L. Jenison (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

(B5) Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors

EJ Chichilnisky (Salk Institute)

(B6) Biophysical properties of parallel neural circuits serving night vision

William L. Kath (Northwestern University)

(B7) The “circuit cracker”: Inferring connectivity in neocortical circuits

Rafael Yuste (Columbia University)

Afternoon Session                                                                                                          

(C1) Model-based control of spreading depression

Steven Schiff (Penn State University)

(C2) Long term reactivations in cortex and hippocampus

 Jean-Marc Fellous (University of Arizona)

(C3) Oscillatory electrical stimulation modulated coherence of human slow wave activity

Lucas Parra (The City College of the City University of New York)

(C4)   Spatial context in visual cortex and natural scene statistics

Adam Kohn (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

(C5)   Complex selectivity of area MT to naturalistic motion patterns

Daniel Butts (University of Maryland)

(C6)   Hypothesis-neutral methods reveal dominance of face, place, and body selectivity in the ventral visual pathway

Nancy Kanwisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

(C7)   Modeling of Activation of CaMKII by Calcium and Calmodulin

Mary B. Kennedy (Caltech)

(C8)   Understanding the initial steps in LTP induction: how is CaMKII activated

John Lisman (Brandeis University)

(C9)   Walking through molasses: Receptor mobility and scaffold organization at single glutamatergic synapses

Sridhar Raghavachari (Duke University Medical Center)

Posters (Session D)                                                                                                                              

(D1)       Objects in context: decoding and connectivity

Christopher Baldassano (Stanford University), Marius Iordan (Stanford University), Diane Beck (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University)

(D2)       Modeling synaptic plasticity mediated supervised learning in honey bee antennal lobe

Maxim Bazhenov (University of California, Riverside), Jen-Yung Chen (University of California, Riverside), Collins Assisi (University of California, Riverside), Ramon Huerta (University of California, San Diego), and Brian Smith (Arizona State University)

 (D3)       Interaction of experiments and modeling to evaluate the role of molecule subcellular location in synaptic plasticity

Kim T. Blackwell (George Mason University), Ted Abel (University of Pennsylvania), Myungsook Kim (George Mason University), Alan Jung Park (University of Pennsylvania), Robbert Havekes (University of Pennsylvania), Andrew Chay (George Mason University), Leonardo Antonio Guercio (University of Pennsylvania), and Rodrigo Freire Oliveira

 (D4)       Noisy maps based on resetting explain partial locking, complex synchronization and non-stationary activity in two neuron hybrid networks

Carmen Canavier (LSU Health Sciences Center), Achuthan Srisairam (LSU Health Sciences Center), Jianxia Cui (University of California, San Diego), and Robert J. Butera (Georgia Insitute of Technology)

(D5)      Encoding of motion onset by retinal ganglion cells

Eric Y. Chen (Princeton University), Joshua M. Levy (Princeton University), Rava A. da Silveira (Princeton University), and Michael J. Berry II (Princeton University)

(D6)      Knife-edge scanning microscope brain atlas: A web-based, light-weight 3D mouse brain atlas

Yoonsuck Choe (Texas A & M University), Chul Sung (Texas A & M University), Ji Ryang Chung (Texas A & M University) David Mayerich (University of Illinois), Jaerock Kwon (Kettering University), Daniel Miller (Texas A & M University), John Keyser (Texas A & M University), and Louise Abbott (Texas A & M University)

(D7)       Testing a principled statistical model of spatial contextual interactions in V1

Ruben Coen-Cagli (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Adam Kohn (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and Odelia Schwartz (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

(D8)       The omitted stimulus response in retinal bipolar cells

Nikhil Deshmukh (Princeton University ) , Fredrick S. Soo (Princeton University), G. W. Schwartz (University of Washington, Seattle), and Michael J. Berry II (Princeton University)

(D9)       Elucidating the roles of rat frontal and parietal cortex in temporal integration of evidence

Chunyu Duan (Princeton University), Tim D. Hanks (Princeton University), Bingni W. Brunton (Princeton University), Jeffrey C. Erlich (Princeton University), and Carlos D. Brody (Princeton University)

(D10)    A cortical substrate for memory-guided orienting in the rat

Jeffrey C. Erlich (Princeton University), Max Bialek (Princeton University), and Carlos D. Brody (Princeton University)

(D11)   Automated whole-cell patch clamp electrophysiology of neurons in vivo

Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah (MIT Media Lab), Giovanni Talei Franzesi (MIT Media Lab), Brian Y. Chow (MIT Media Lab), Edward S. Boyden (MIT Media Lab), and Craig R. Forest (Georgia Institute of Technology)

(D12)    Modular motor control using spinal primitives in prey strike and spinal reflexes

Simon Giszter (Drexel University), Corey Hart (Drexel University), Tanuj Gulati (Drexel University), Arun Ramakrishnan (Drexel University), Dinesh Pai (The University of British Columbia), Kiisa Nishikawa (Northern Arizona University), Jenna Monroy (Northern Arizona University), and Ted Uyeno (Valdosta State University)

(D13)    Modeling the role of the superior colliculus in echolocating bats                  

Timothy Horiuchi, Melville J Wohlgemuth, and Cynthia F Moss (University of Maryland)

(D14)    Evolution of behaviors reveals functional importance of neural circuit features

Paul S. Katz (Georgia State University), Joshua L. Lillvis (Georgia State University), Akira Sakurai (Georgia State University), Charuni A. Gunaratne (Georgia State University), and James M. Newcomb (New England College)

(D15)    An electrosensory virtual reality to study spatial-temporal processing in mormyrid fish

Todd K. Leen (Oregon Health & Sciences University), Patrick D. Roberts (Oregon Health & Sciences University), Amy Boyle (Oregon Health & Sciences University), John Hunt (Oregon Health & Sciences University), Nathaniel Sawtell (Columbia University), and Karina Scalise (Columbia University)

(D16)    New tools for decoding mental representations from neuroimaging data

Samuel Gershman (Princeton University), David Blei (Princeton University), and Kenneth Norman (Princeton University)

(D17)    Neuroplasticity in afferent feedback as a mechanism for the locomotor recovery observed with neurotrophin producing grafts: insights from modeling studies

Michel Lemay (Drexel University College of Medicine,) Sergey Markin (Drexel University College of Medicine), Alexander Klishko (Georgia Institute of Technology), Natalia Shevtsova (Drexel University College of Medicine), Ilya Rybak (Drexel University College of Medicine), and Boris Prilutsky (Georgia Institute of Technology)

(D18)    Impact of oscillatory electric currents on learning and memory

Lisa Marshall, Thomas Martinetz, and Jan Born (University of Luebeck)

(D19)    Computational model of hippocampal-amygdala interactions: implications for PTSD

Catherine E. Myers (VA New Jersey Health Care System), Ahmed Moustafa (Rutgers University-Newark), Mark Gilbertson (Department of Veterans Affairs), Scott Orr (Massachusetts General Hospital), and Richard Servatius (VA New Jersey Health Care System)

(D20)    A winding filament model of muscle contraction with applications in neuro-musculo-skeletal simulation, and actuator design

Kiisa Nishikawa (Northern Arizona University), Snag Hoon Yeo, Dinesh Pai (University of British Columbia), Simon Giszter (Drexel University) Jenna Monroy, John Tester, (Northern Arizona University), and Theodore Uyeno (Valdosta State University)

(D21)    Temporal dynamics of neural representation of odors in the olfactory bulb

Remus Osan (Georgia State University), Erik Sherwood (University of Utah), Ryan Carey (Boston University), and Matt Wachowiak (University of Utah)

(D22)    Maximally informative stimulus energies in the analysis of neural responses to natural signals

Kanaka Rajan and William Bialek (Princeton University)

(D23)    Influence of astrocytes and subtypes of inhibitory interneurons on representations in the primary visual cortex

Dipanjan Roy (Technical University Berlin)

(D24)    Identification of a molecular system from membrane potential shifts during growth cone response to a guidance cue, Sema3A

Yuichi Sakumura, Takuya Yamada (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Shin Ishii (Kyoto University), Makoto Nishiyama, and Kyonsoo Hong (New York University School of Medicine)

(D25)    CRCNS.org: An online repository for neurophysiology data                     

Friedrich T. Sommer and Jeffrey L. Teeters (University of California, Berkeley)

(D26)    Detecting the temporal structure of the phase locking: Parkinson’s disease and beyond

Leonid Rubchinsky, Robert Worth Choongseok Park, and Sungwoo Ahn (Indiana University School of Medicine)

 (D27)    Auditory responses in the SC of the echolocating bat are shaped by stimulus context

Melville Wohlgemuth and Cynthia Moss (University of Maryland)

(D28)   Analytical methods to assess long term reactivations in neuronal ensembles

Masami Tatsuno (The University of Lethbridge) and Jean-Marc Fellous   (University of Arizona)

 

Tuesday, October 11

Morning Talk Session                                                                                                             

(E1) Online modeling of auditory responses by optimal experimental design

Kechen Zhang (Johns Hopkins University)

(E2) Cerebellar processing at the level of the output nuclei - what is the code?

Dieter Jaeger (Emory University)

(E3) Novel rate and temporal codes for speed in the hippocampus

Mayank Mehta (UCLA)

(E4) Clocking perceptual processing speed: behavior, neurophysiology and modeling

Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine)

(E5) The neural mechanisms involved in finding a specific visual objects and switching between different targets

Nicole C. Rust (University of Pennsylvania)

(E6) Encoding of temporal statistics in the primary auditory cortex

Maria Neimark Geffen (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

Afternoon Talk Session                                                                                                       

(F1) Extending transfer entropy improves identification of effective connectivity in a

spiking cortical network model

John Beggs (Indiana University)             

(F2) The distribution of synaptic weights normalization dendritic spike initiation in

hippocampal pyramidal neurons

 Nelson Spruston (Northwestern University)

(F3) The disposable stem cell hypothesis: A new model for neurogenesis in adult dentate gyrus

Alexei Koulakov (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

(F4) Visual orientation and directional selectivity through thalamic synchrony

Michael J. Black (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

(F5) Synchronization in hybrid neuronal networks of the entorhinal cortex in the

presence of conduction delays

John A. White (University of Utah)

(F6) Data Sharing Presentation and Discussion

Closing Remarks

Ken Norman and Bill Bialek, conference co-organizers

email: CRCNS@princeton.edu