OSB Kick off meeting, Sardinia, 13-15 May 2013¶

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Dates: 9am Monday 13th - 5pm Wednesday 15th May, 2013

Location: Hotel Calabona, Alghero, Sardinia

Local organisers: Sergio Solinas, Irene Solinas
Organising committee: Matteo Cantarelli, Sharon Crook, Padraig Gleeson, Eugenio Piasini, Angus Silver

Focus of meeting¶

The focus of this meeting was on cerebellar cell & network models.

Some notes taken during the discussion sessions are currently being converted into minutes of the meeting, but in the mean time, see the slides below from a number of the presenters, or see a blog post from the OpenWorm project on the meeting.

One specific outcome of the meeting was the setting up of a project to try to create a community developed model (or models) of the cerebellar granule cell.

Agenda¶

Monday 13th May, 9am - 6pm¶

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{background:#ddd}. | |Morning Session | |
|9:00        | Angus Silver |Introduction to the aims of the initiative|
|9:15 |Matteo Cantarelli        | Overview of current OSB features & models, current website (Slides) |
|10:00 | Latest on NeuroML & LEMS developments | |
| | Padraig Gleeson | NeuroML 2 developments |
| |Robert Cannon | LEMS background & latest developments |
| | Sharon Crook | Archival and Search of NeuroML Models and Model Components|
|11:00 |Coffee break | |
|11:15 | Tools and resources for large scale modelling | |
| |Mike Vella | libNeuroML: A Python API for NeuroML (Slides) |
| | Richard Gerkin | NeuroUnit: Unit tests for neuroscience models |
| |Hugo Cornelis | Interoperability in the GENESIS 3.0 Software Federation: the NEURON Simulator as an Example |
|12:30 | Lunch | |
{background:#ddd}. | |Afternoon Session | |
|13:30| Tools and resources for large scale modelling _ | |
| |Thomas Close| Challenges of simulator-independent network modeling |
| | *Steve Marsh | HiveMind: Generating efficient simulators from NeuroML |
| |Paul Fox From tens to millions of neurons: how computer architecture can help |
|14:30|NeuroML: what’s missing/required?_ | |
| | Open session. Chair: *Sharon Crook | |
| 15:00 | Poster session & coffee | |
|16:00 | Open discussion on collaborative modelling | |
| | Chair:Robert Cannon | |

Tuesday 14th May, 9am - 6pm¶

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{background:#ddd}. | |Morning Session | |
|   | Cerebellar modelling presentations | |
| 9:00 | Egidio D’Angelo | Cerebellar models: from cellular to network properties |
| 9:45 | Stéphane Dieudonné | Understanding cerebellar granular layer transcoding |
| 10:30 |Tadashi Yamazaki | Realtime simulation of a cerebellar spiking network model using a GPU (Slides) |
| 10:45 | Coffee break & poster session | |
| 11:30 | Cerebellar modelling presentations _ | |
| | **Paul Dean* | Adaptive Filter Models |
| | Christian Roessert | Compatibility of a detailed model of cerebellar granular layer processing with adaptive filter computations |
| | Jesus Garrido | Distributed synaptic plasticity controls spike-timing at the cerebellar granular layer: predictions from a computational model |
|12:30 | Lunch | |
. | |Afternoon Session* | |
|13:30 | Angus Silver | Information flow through the cerebellar granule cell layer |
| 14:15 |Eugenio Piasini | Tutorials on Git & GitHub |
| 14:30 |Hands on collaborative modelling session_ | |
|15:00 | *Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Hands on collaborative modelling session _ | |
. | |Evening* | |
|19:30 |Conference Dinner: Movida Restaurant | |

h4. Wednesday 15th May, 9am - 5pm
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. | |Morning Session | |
|   |Cerebellar modelling presentations_ | |
| 9:00 | **Chris De Zeeuw* | Creating Cerebellar Coordination by Distributed Synergistic Plasticity |
| 9:45 | Volker Steuber | Multi-scale models of synaptic plasticity in the cerebellum |
| 10:30 |Sergio Solinas | Realistic modeling of the cerebellar cortex (Slides) |
| 10:45 | Coffee break | |
|11:00 | Arnd Roth | Untangling cerebellar circuits with scanning electron microscopy and focused ion beam milling|
| 11:45 | Continued hands on collaboration session | |
|12:30 | Lunch | |
. | |Afternoon Session* | |
| 13:30 | Continued hands on collaboration session | |
| 13:30 | Parallel Session: Private CEREBNET planning meeting | |
|15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Presentations of results & feedback | |
| 16:30 | Future plans for OSB | |

Posters presented¶

Maximum poster size: 1.5m x 1.5m

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{background:#ddd}. |. Presenter |. Title |
| Sathyaa Subramaniyam     | The mechanisms of late-onset synaptic responses in a realistic model of Unipolar Brush Cells     |
|Giovanni Idili | OpenWorm - progress report |
| Stefano Masoli | A realistic Purkinje cell model |
|Jesus Garrido | Event-and-time driven simulator accelerated with CPU-GPU co-processing (PDF) |
|*Helena Głąbska | Meaningful decompositions of multielectrode LFP recordings (PDF) |

Enquiries¶

If you have any enquiries about this meeting, please don’t hesitate to contact: p.gleeson@ucl.ac.uk.