Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)
4th Australian Workshop on Computational Neuroscience
4-5 November 2010
Venue: QBI Auditorium & Foyer L7, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
PROGRAM
Thursday 4 November 2010
Time
8.30am – 9.00am
Registration
8:30am – 9:00am
Tea/Coffee on arrival
9.00am – 9:15am
Opening Address
Geoff Goodhill
Peter Dayan, University College of London,
“Computational Psychiatry: When Good Decisions Go
Bad”
9:15am –10:30am
Event
Venue
QBI Reception
L3
Level 7 Foyer
QBI
Auditorium
QBI
Auditorium
10:30am – 11:00am
Morning Tea
QBI L7
11:00am – 11:20am
Philip Smith, The University of Melbourne, “Diffusive
Information Accumulation by Minimal Recurrent
Neural Models of Decision-Making”
QBI
Auditorium L7
11:20am – 11:40am
Michelle Chong, The University of Melbourne, “A
model-based approach in reconstructing the activity
of neuronal populations from electroencephalography
(EEG)”
QBI
Auditorium L7
11:40pm – 12:00pm
Levin Kuhlman, The University of Melbourne, “The
contribution of orientation-bias in the lateral
geniculate nucleus to orientation selectivity in visual
cortical simple cells”
QBI
Auditorium L7
12:00pm – 12:20pm
Pulin Gong, University of Sydney, “Wave-based
distributed dynamical computation in neural circuits”
QBI
Auditorium L7
12:20pm – 2:00pm
Lunch and poster session
2:00pm – 2:45pm
Peter Robinson, The University of Sydney,
“Integrative Brain Modeling Using Neural Field
Theory”
Lawn outside
entrance to
QBI
QBI
Auditorium
2:45pm – 3:30pm
Michael Breakspear, Queensland Institute of Medical
Research, “Dynamic mechanisms of multistability in
the human alpha rhythms”
QBI
Auditorium L7
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00pm – 4:45pm
Mandayam Srinivasan, The University of Queensland,
QBI
“Computational principles of visual guidance in birds
Auditorium L7
and bees”
4:45pm – 6:00pm
Wine and Cheese, Posters
QBI L7
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Conference Dinner and Band
QBI L7
QBI L7
Friday 5 November 2010
Time
9:15am – 10:30am
10:30am – 11:00am
Event
Si Wu, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai, “Neural
Information Processing with Dynamical Synapses”
Morning Tea
Venue
QBI
Auditorium
QBI Terrace
L7
QBI
Auditorium
11:00am – 11:20am
Clare Giacomantonio, The University of Queensland,
“Creating the cortex: modelling the patterns of gene
expression underlying cortical area development”
11:20am – 11:40am
Martin Wechselberger, University of Sydney, “Bursts
and Canards in a Pituitary Lactotroph Model”
QBI
Auditorium L7
11:40am – 12:00pm
Nicolangelo Iannella, The University of Adelaide,
“Modulating the balance in STDP learning impacts the
dendritic mosaic”
QBI
Auditorium L7
12:00pm – 12:20pm
Abd-Krim Seghouane, NICTA, Canberra, “Modelling
the Neural Code of Retinal Ganglion Cell Responses
with a Multi-Poisson Spike Model”
Lunch and Poster Session
QBI
Auditorium L7
12:20pm – 2:00pm
2:00pm – 2:45pm
2:45pm – 3:30pm
3.30pm – 4.00pm
Anthony Burkitt, The University of Melbourne,
“Spike-timing-dependent plasticity and the emergence
of network structure in recurrently connected
networks”
Geoff Goodhill, The University of Queensland,
Australia “Modelling axon guidance and visual maps”
Afternoon Tea / Depart
Lawn outside
entrance to
QBI
QBI
Auditorium
QBI
Auditorium L7
QBI Terrace
L7
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Fabiano Baroni & Pablo Varona, University of Melbourne and Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid, "History-dependent excitability characterises transient memory in single
neurons"
Dean Freestone, Parham Aram, Michael Dewar, Kenneth Scerri, David Grayden,
Visakan Kadirkamanathan, Universities of Melbourne, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Malta,
Columbia University and the Bionic Ear Institute, "A Data-Driven Framework for Neural
Field Modelling"
Colin Hales, David Grayden and Harry Quiney, University of Melbourne, "The electric
field structure produced by single pyramidal neuron action potential"
James Henderson and Peter Robinson, University of Sydney, "Two Dimensionality and
Uniformity in Cortical Network Architecture"
Jonathan Hunt, Peter Dayan and Geoffrey Goodhill, University of Queensland and
University College London, "From Weird to Wired: Simple cells in primary visual cortex
develop to be optimal encoders of normal and abnormal visual input"
Nicolangelo Iannella and Mark McDonnell, Universities Adelaide and South Australia,
"Information capacity and robustness of spatially separated dendritic synapses"
Leigh Johnston, Scott Kolbe, David Wright, Jing Gu and Gary Egan, University of
Melbourne, "A density mixture approach to T2 spectrum estimation"
Tatiana Kameneva, Hamish Meffin and Anthony N. Burkitt, University of Melbourne
and The Bionic Ear Institute, "Modelling synaptic input into ON and OFF retinal
ganglion cells (RGCs) and RGCs response to sinusoidal stimulation"
David Hall and Levin Kuhlmann, The University of Melbourne, "Simulation of the
propagation of seizure-like activity in an animal model of epilepsy"
Kelvin Layton, Mark Morelande, Peter Farrell, Bill Moran and Leigh Johnston, The
University of Melbourne and Howard Florey Institute, "Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Using Nonlinear Encoding Fields"
Paul McCarthy and Lubica Benuskova, University of Otago, "Do different connectivity
measures yield similar graph properties from the same data?"
Hamish Meffin, Bahman Tayahori, Tatiana Kameneva, David Grayden and Anthony
Burkitt, University of Melbourne and The Bionic Ear Institute, "Extending the Cable
Formalism for Extracellular Stimulation"
Jessica Mewing, Tatiana Kameneva, Hamish Meffin and Anthony Burkitt, University
of Melbourne and The Bionic Ear Institute, "Multicompartment models of ON and OFF
retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) based on their intrinsic electrophysiology"
Andre Peterson, Iven Mareels, Hamish Meffin, David Grayden, Mark Cook and
Anthony Burkitt, University of Melbourne and The Bionic Ear Institute, "A bifurcation
analysis of a neural field model with conductance-based synapses"
Mikail Rubinov, Olaf Sporns, J.-P. Thivierge and Michael Breakspear, University of
New South Wales, Queensland Institute of Medical Research and Indiana University,
"Neurobiologically realistic determinants of self-organized criticality in large networks
of spiking neurons"
André van Schaik, Romain Brette, Dan Goodman, Craig Jin and Alistair McEwan,
University of Sydney and École Normale Supérieure Paris, "Wait for it…: Simulating
axonal delay adaptation in Brian"
Runchun Wang, Craig T. Jin, Alistair McEwan, & André van Schaik, University of
Sydney, "Neural network simulation using Verilog-A, a hardware description language"
Hugh Simpson and Geoffrey Goodhill, University of Queensland, "A simple model can
unify a broad range of phenomena in retinotectal map development"
Martin Spencer, I.C. Bruce, David Grayden, Hamish Meffin and Anthony Burkitt,
University of Melbourne, Bionic Ear Institute and McMaster University, "A Novel LeakyIntegrate-and-Fire Model of a Neuron with an Onset Response"
Vikram Sunkara and Minh-Son To, Australian National University and University of
South Australia, "Modelling neurons with stochastic ion channels"
Martin Takac, Alistair Knott and Lubica Benuskova, University of Otago, "Episode
representations as stored sensorimotor sequences: a case study in sentence
generation"
Minh-Son To and Mark D. McDonnell, University of South Australia, "Suprathreshold
stochastic resonance in a bilayered neural network"