• 7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics BNNI 2019

    7th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics BNNI 2019

    Modeling Healthy and Diseased Brain: From Dendrites to Neurons and Networks

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    26-28 August 2019

Course program

Schedule, August 2019


25 August 2019 - Arrival

  • An afternoon trip to Frankfurt's reconstructed old town and dinner

26 August 2019 - Day 1 - FIAS, Lecture Hall

  • 8.00 - 8.30 Registration (Foyer)
  • 8.30 - 9.15 Opening and Welcome
    Prof. Dr. Marja-Lena Linne, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
    Introduction to neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience
  • I-A SESSION: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL MODELING METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCE
  • 9.15 - 10.45 Prof. Dr. Bruce Graham, Division of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, U.K.
    From synapses and dendrites to neurons and networks: Basics of Computational Neuroscience
  • 10.45 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea
  • 11.00 – 11.30 Prof. Aušra Saudargienė, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
    Memory, learning and synaptic plasticity in dendrites
  • 11.30 - 12.30 Dr. Arnd Roth, Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London, UK
    Introduction to NEURON
  • 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch (TBA)
  • 13.30 - 15.00 Prof. Dr. Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    Theoretical models of memory
  • 15.00 - 15.15 Coffee/Tea
  • 15.15 - 16.15 Prof. Dr. Dieter Jaeger, Biology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
    Building biophysical models - Practical experiences and tips
  • I-B SESSION: COMPUTER EXERCISES – COMPARTMENTAL MODELING OF NEURONS, DENDRITES AND SYNAPSES
  • 16.30 - 19.30 Bruce Graham, Arnd Roth, Aušra Saudargienė
    Hands on exercises: Simulating synapses and neurons (NEURON software)
  • 19.30
  • Dinner and Networking

27 August 2019 - Day 2 - FIAS, Lecture Hall

  • 9.00 - 10.00 Prof. Dr. Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & University of Oslo, Norway
    Neuroscience with both hands – bridging brain scales with mathematics
    • II-A SESSION: MORPHOLOGICAL AND COMPARTMENTAL MODELING OF DENDRITES
    • 10.00 - 11.00 Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
      Active properties of cortical dendrites
    • 11.00 – 11.15 Coffe/Tea
    • 11.15 - 11.45 Prof. Dr. Daniel Wojcik, Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland
      Extracellular electrophysiology from modeling perspective
    • 11.45 - 12.30 Dr. Hermann Cuntz, ESI & FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany
      One rule to grow them all – A general theory of dendrite branching
    • 12.30 - 13.00 Prof. Dr. Peter Jedlička, ICAR3R, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
      Computational modeling of dendritic excitability and plasticity in healthy and diseased hippocampus
    • 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (TBA)
    • II-B SESSION: HANDS-ON EXERCISES: MORPHOLOGICAL/COMPARTMENTAL MODELING OF DENDRITES, LFPs
    • 14.00 - 18.00
      Hermann Cuntz, Peter Jedlička
      Hands on exercises: Matlab (TREES Toolbox, T2N)
      Misha Tsodyks
      Models of memory (Matlab software)
      Gaute Einevoll, Daniel Wojcik
      Forward and inverse modeling of LFP (LFPy, kCSD-python)
    • 18.30 - 19.30
      Prof. Dr. Gilles Laurent, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
      Evening lecture: Discovering principles of circuit dynamics through comparative approaches
    • 20.00 - 21.30 Dinner (traditional “Apple-wine Pub”)

    28 August 2019 - Day 3 - FIAS, Lecture Hall

    • III-A SESSION: FROM NEURONS TO NETWORKS – PHYSIOLOGY & PATHOLOGY OF NEURONAL COMPUTATION
    • 9.00 - 9.45 Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Frankfurt
      Neural oligarchy in normal and epileptic networks
    • 9.45 - 10.30 Dr. Tatjana Tchumatchenko, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
      How to understand normal and disrupted neural network dynamics via intracellular dynamics
    • 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea
    • 11.00 - 11.45 Prof. Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
      Shaping developing circuits by patterned spontaneous and early sensory activity
    • 11.45 – 12.30 Prof. Arvind Kumar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
      Network modeling of neurological disorders
    • 12.30 – 13.00 Dr. Aistė Pranckevičienė, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
      From function to structure: Clinical neuropsychological perspective
    • 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (TBA)
    • 14.00 - 14.45 Dr. Viola Priesemann, MPI Göttingen
      Stability and instability in neural networks
    • 14.45 - 15.30 Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaschube, FIAS, Frankfurt
      Circuit models of network interactions in developing neocortex
    • III-B SESSION: MEET THE EXPERTS: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)
    • 15.30 - 15.45 Coffee/Tea
    • 15.45 - 17.45 Jochen Triesch, Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Viola Priesemann, Julijana Gjorgjieva, Arvind Kumar
      Meet the Experts

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