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

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¶

	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 (Slides)
	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 (Slides)
	Hugo Cornelis	Interoperability in the GENESIS 3.0 Software Federation: the NEURON Simulator as an Example
12:30	Lunch

	Afternoon Session
13:30	Tools and resources for large scale modelling
	Thomas Close	Challenges of simulator-independent network modeling (Slides)
	Steve Marsh	HiveMind: Generating efficient simulators from NeuroML (Slides)
	Paul Fox	From tens to millions of neurons: how computer architecture can help (Slides)
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¶

	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 (continued)
	Paul Dean	Adaptive Filter Models (Slides)
	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 (Slides)
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 (Slides, OSB project used for demo)
14:30	Hands on collaborative modelling session
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Hands on collaborative modelling session (continued)

	Evening
19:30	Conference Dinner: Movida Restaurant

Wednesday 15th May, 9am - 5pm¶

	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 (Slides)
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

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.