Mathematical models of development
and learning in the nervous system
Raeburn Room, University of Edinburgh
21 and 22 July 2006
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Scientific Programme and Participants
The Workshop starts with Registration (between 08.30 and 08.55) on Friday 21 July and finishes in the afternoon of Saturday 22 July. The timetables for each day and a list of Workshop participants are given below.Friday 21 July
| 08.30 - 08.55 | Registration and coffee |
| 08.55-09.05 | Mike Fourman Introduction to Workshop |
| 09.05 - 10.35 | Session 1 - Chaired by Peter Kind |
| Geoff Goodhill Axon guidance: theories and experiments David Price Wiring the nervous system: how do axons hit their targets? | |
| 10.35 -11.00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Session 2 - Chaired by Jaap van Pelt |
| Martin Simmen Tales from different scales: 2-letter DNA words and wrapping up the genome Bruce Graham How does my garden grow? Adventures in neurite outgrowth | |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Session 3 - Chaired by Chris Williams |
| Peter Dayan Hippocampal-neocortical replay: index maintenance and extension Christoph von der Malsburg Signal routing: a major task of visual cortex | |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Session 4 - Parallel discussion sessions and Plenary |
| 19.00 for 19.30 | Conference Dinner at Holyrood Hotel |
Saturday 22 July
| 08.45 - 09.00 | Arrival and coffee |
| 09.00 - 10.30 | Session 1 - Chaired by Douglas Armstrong |
| Marcus Frean
Yet another model of the retinotectal mapping David Willshaw Back to the future: retinal labels determine retinotopic maps | |
| 10.30 -11.00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Session 2 - Chaired by Rolf Kötter |
| Andrew Gillies From membrane channels to physiology: subthalamic neuron behaviour explored using multi-compartmental models Gordon Arbuthnott 20% - too small to see but big enough to measure. How big a change is biologically significant? | |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Session 3 - Chaired by Evelyne Sernagor |
| Arjen van Ooyen Models of neuronal network development Stephen Eglen Retinal mosaic formation | |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Session 4 - Parallel discussion sessions and wrap-up |
Participants list
19 July 2006
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Arbuthnott, Gordon | University of Otago Medical School |
| Armstrong, Douglas | University of Edinburgh |
| Barrow, Harry | Schlumberger Cambridge Research |
| Bednar, James A | University of Edinburgh |
| Bishop, Chris | University of Edinburgh & Microsoft Research |
| Buckingham, Jay | iComprehend Inc |
| Butz, Markus | University of Bielefeld |
| Cortes, Jesus M | University of Edinburgh |
| Cuntz, Hermann | University College London |
| Davey, John | University of Edinburgh |
| Dayan, Peter | Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL |
| De Wilde, Philippe | Heriot-Watt University |
| Eglen, Stephen | University of Cambridge |
| Erchova, Irina | University of Edinburgh |
| Forwood, Suzanna | University of Cambridge |
| Fourman, Mike | University of Edinburgh |
| Frean, Marcus | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Gillies, Andrew | University of Edinburgh |
| Goddard, Nigel | University of Edinburgh |
| Godfrey, Keith | University of British Columbia |
| Goodhill, Geoff | University of Queensland |
| Graham, Bruce | University of Stirling |
| Hallam, John | University of Southern Denmark |
| Hennig, Matthias | University of Edinburgh |
| Kind, Peter | University of Edinburgh |
| Kötter, Rolf | University of Düsseldorf |
| Kronhaus, Dina | University of Pittsburgh |
| Law, Judith | University of Edinburgh |
| Leng, Gareth | University of Edinburgh |
| Longden, Kit | Imperial College London |
| O'Leary, Timothy | University of Edinburgh |
| Plotkin, Gordon | University of Edinburgh |
| Price, David | University of Edinburgh |
| Reid, Ian | University of Aberdeen |
| Ribchester, Richard | University of Edinburgh |
| Series, Peggy | University of Edinburgh |
| Sernagor, Evelyne | University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Simmen, Martin | University of Edinburgh |
| Stenning, Keith | University of Edinburgh |
| Sterratt, David | University of Edinburgh |
| Steuber, Volker | University College London |
| Teriakidis, Adrianna | University of Edinburgh |
| van Ooyen, Arjen | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| van Pelt, Jaap | Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience |
| van Rijsbergen, Keith | University of Glasgow |
| van Rijsbergen, Nicola | SISSA |
| von der Malsburg, Christoph | Ruhr-University Bochum & USCLA & FIAS |
| Williams, Chris | University of Edinburgh |
| Willshaw, David | University of Edinburgh |
| Xi, Shen | Heriot-Watt University |