8:30-9:15 Arrival to http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/elcentro_es.
html
Documentation. Hanging posters.
9:15 Welcome
Organizers of the course and B-debate team.
Morning session: CORTICAL FUNCTION AND COMPUTATIONS
9:30 Linking scales of brain activity from single neurons to field potentials and voltage-sensitive dye imaging
Alain Destexhe
CNRS, Paris
10:30 Computational insights from the multiscale organization of spontaneous cortical activity
Maurizio Mattia
ISS, Rome
11.15 Five pitch presentations of posters (3 minutes each)
11:30 Coffee break and posters
12:00 Optogenetics and imaging techniques in cortical circuits
Arthur Konnerth
Technical University of Munich
13:15 Lunch
Afternoon session:
STIMULATION TO EXPLORE AND CONTROL BRAIN ACTIVITY
15:00 Brain stimulation and the estimation of consciousness
Marcello Massimini
University of Milan
15:45 Controlling spontaneous cortical emergent activity
Mavi Sanchez-Vives
ICREA-IDIBAPS, Barcelona
16:30 Coffee break and posters
17:00 Modulating brain processing and learning with targeted non-invasive electrical stimulation
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Marom Bikson
CUNY, New York
17: 45 Optogenetic cortical stimulation to increase sleep slow oscillation and to improve memory consolidation in mice
Igor Timofeev
Laval Universite, Quebec, Canada
18:30 Round table TBD
Demos
Activities and dinner arrangement
Visit in Caixa Forum Modernismo-Modernidad.
Walk up to the Montjuic palace, views of Barcelona. Dinner in Restaurant
Oleum.
Morning session
INTERFACING WITH THE CEREBRAL CORTEX: NEW TECHNOLOGIES
9.15
Conventional and future enabling technologies to probe neuronal dynamical response properties
Michele Gugliano
Univ Antwerp
10:00
Ultra-flexible microelectrode arrays with integrated control electronics for electrophysiology applications.
Guglielmo Fortunato
CNR, Rome
10:30
Graphene as brain interface
Gemma Gabriel-Buguña, Rosa Villa
Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica-CSIC, Barcelona
11.00
Five pitch presentations of posters (3 minutes each) on technologies for brain interfacing.
11:15
Coffee break and posters
11:45
Optopharmacology to control neural activity with light
Pau Gorostiza
ICREA-IBEC, Barcelona
12:30
Magnetrodes for brain interfacing
Myriam Pannetier-Lecoeur
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CEA-CNRS, Paris
13:15 Lunch
15:00
Afternoon session
DECODING BRAIN ACTIVITY AND THE FUTURE OF BRAIN COMPUTER
INTERFACES
Cortical activity pattern decoding for human intracranial BCI’
Nick Ramsey
Brain Center | University Medical Center Utrecht |
15:45
Translating Brain-Computer Interfaces to End-Users
José del R. Millán
EPFL, Laussane
16:30 Coffee break
17.00
Christoph Guger
GTEC, Austria
17:40 B-debate on the future of brain interfacing.
Chair TBD
19:00
1 hour visit to the Joan Miró Museum (Thursdays open till 21h)
Bus to dinner by the harbour.
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