NICE2000 Program

Saturday Evening

8:00 - 9:00

• Martin Heisenberg (Wuerburg)
  "Localizing the engram of an associative (Pavlovian) conditioning task in Drosophila"
  
  

Sunday Morning

8:00 - 8.45

• Matthew Diamond (Sissa)
  "Observations concerning the neural bases of tactile learning"
  
  

8.45 - 9.30

• Mike Kilgard (UT Dallas)
  "Toward a General Theory of Cortical Plasticity"
  
  

9.30 - 9.50

• Break
  
  

9.50 - 10.35

• Curtis Bell (Oregon Health Sciences)
  "Synaptic plasticity and the subtraction of sensory expectations".
  
  

10.35 - 11.20

• Dan Feldman (NIH)
  "A timing-based learning rule for LTP and LTD in layer 2/3 of rat somatosensory cortex."
  
  

Sunday Evening

7:30 - 8.15

• Peter Cain (U Western Ontario)
  "The role of LTP in learning in the intact behaving rat: What can we learn from a detailed behavioral analysis?"
  
  

8.15 - 9.00

• Tim Tully (CSHL)
  "Genetics links between developmental and behavioral plasticity in the fly"
  
  

Monday Morning

8:00 - 8.45

• Geoff Hinton (UCL)
  "An Efficient Way to Learn Population Codes"
  
  

8.45 - 9.30

• Jennifer Raymond (Stanford)
  "Neural error signals for the vestibulo-ocular reflex"
  
  

9.30 - 9.50

• Break
  
  

9.50 - 10.35

• Allison Sekuler (U Toronto)
  "Signal or noise: What changes with perceptual learning?"
  
  

10.35 - 11.20

• Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
  "Memory signals in the Medial Temporal Lobe"
  
  

Monday Evening

7.30 - 9.30

• Posters
  
  

Thuesday Morning

8:00 - 8:45

• Ken Miller (UCSF)
  "Development and function of the layer 4 cortical circuit: a model based on cat V1"
  
  

8:45 - 9.30

• Martin Stemmler (ITB)
  "Self-Organization of Spiking Behavior in Neuron Models"
  
  

9.30 - 9.50

• Break
  
  

9.50 - 10.35

• Uli Mueller (Berlin)
  "Aspects of temporal dynamics: Linking the function of second messenger cascades to behavior"
  
  

10.35 - 11.20

• Sam Wang (Princeton)
  "Coincidence detection mediated by supralinear calcium signals in dendritic spines of cerebellar purkinje cells"
  
  

Thuesday Evening

7.30 - 8.15

• Tobias Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
  "Morphological correlates of synaptic plasticity"
  
  

8.15 - 9.00

• Mayank Mehta (MIT)
  "The role of LTP in the generation of spiking patterns"