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CNS*2026 Halifax

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John Griffiths

Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

9:00am ADT

OCNS Board Meeting Room 508 From Graphs to Foundation Models: Modern Approaches to Neural Population Analysis Room 502

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

1:00pm ADT

From single-cell modeling to large-scale network dynamics with NEST Simulator Room 505 Let there be Neulite: A short introduction to a light-weight neuron simulator Room 502

3:00pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Welcome and Announcememts Ballroom B1

5:20pm ADT

Keynote 1: Bratislav Misic Ballroom B1

6:20pm ADT

Welcome Reception TBA

9:10am ADT

Keynote 2: Mac Shine, "The Neurobiological Basis of Consciousness" Ballroom B1

10:10am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

11:30am ADT

O2: A unifying account of rTMS and rTFUS neurostimulation effects based on calcium-dependent synaptic plasticity theory and an equivalent-energy principle Ballroom B1

12:10pm ADT

O4: Rewarding Control: Feedback-Phase-Dependent 2Hz Medial Frontal Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Shifts the Expected Value of Control Ballroom B1

2:50pm ADT

O6: Multiscale modeling of neural markers for adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B1

3:30pm ADT

O8: Frequency-dependent modulation of cortical traveling waves during general anesthesia Ballroom B1

3:50pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:20pm ADT

Poster Session 1 Ballroom B2 P006: Disentangling Sensory Drivers of Spatial Codes with Recurrent Audiovisual Models in VR Ballroom B2 P009: Optimal Self-Organization in Mean-Field Multi-Agent Neuronal Networks Ballroom B2 P010: Computing Motor Error with Inhibition: A Minimal Excitatory-Inhibitory Circuit Motif Ballroom B2 P018: Digital Twins in stroke and spreading depression Ballroom B2 P024: Shared-input structure determines functional connectivity in neural oscillator networks Ballroom B2 P025: A Conductance-Based Whole-Brain Modeling Framework for Isolating Pharmacological Effects on Excitation-Inhibition Dynamics Ballroom B2 P026: Compartment-specific calcium dynamics drive local, co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity in cortical networks Ballroom B2 P027: Adaptive Homeostasis: Coupling Synaptic Plasticity, Homeostatic Scaling, and Intrinsic Plasticity Ballroom B2 P028: Reliability of Eigenspectra Decay and Variance Scaling in 3T and 7T fMRI Ballroom B2 P032: AnalySim data and project sharing site: admin panel, notebook and CSV browser expansion Ballroom B2 P036: Inferring microcircuit aging from subject EEG and linking to cognitive decline Ballroom B2 P037: The effects of reduced somatostatin interneuron inhibition in depression on multilayered human cortical microcircuit activity. Ballroom B2 P040: Dendritic calcium dynamics shape functionally relevant human E-/MEG ~20Hz beta events: a biophysical modeling study Ballroom B2 P043: Modeling Network Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Ballroom B2 P044: Discovering the dynamics of evoked responses to near-threshold tactile stimuli: A layer-specific neural mass model of the somatosensory microcircuit Ballroom B2 P045: A biophysical model of coil-orientation dependent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) evoked I-waves in the motor cortex Ballroom B2 P046: Phase-Dependent Deep Brain Stimulation to Suppress Pathological Neural Oscillations in Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B2

9:10am ADT

Keynote 3: Blake Richards, "Exponentiated gradients support effective learning in biologically relevant scenarios" Ballroom B1

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

10:40am ADT

FO3: Gene Gradients Reveal Directed Structural Connectivity Across Species Ballroom B1

11:30am ADT

O10: A mathematical language for large-scale spike recordings from hundreds to thousands of neurons Ballroom B1

12:10pm ADT

O12: A new platform technology to explore and leverage the computational properties of biological neural cultures Ballroom B1

3:10pm ADT

O15: Exact mathematical description of computation with transient spatiotemporal dynamics in recurrent neural networks Ballroom B1

3:50pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:20pm ADT

Poster Session 2 Ballroom B2 P051: Stimulation Induced Effects on the Collective Dynamics of a Recurrently-Connected Excitatory-Inhibitory Network Ballroom B2 P052: Recurrent Inhibition Drives Frequency-Selective Deep Brain Stimulation Efficacy via Bistability and Hopf Bifurcation in a Continuous Attractor Network Ballroom B2 P054: Single-cell adaptation makes heterogeneity a dynamic feature of neural networks Ballroom B2 P055: Thalamocortical myelination controls cortical states Ballroom B2 P058: Direct Quantification of Stability for Linear Dynamical Systems on Networks Ballroom B2 P059: Whole-brain effective connectivity from residual-based ridge regression in resting-state fMRI Ballroom B2 P061: Learning Conduction Delay Distributions from Neural Activity to Study Stability in Delayed Nonlinear Neural Networks Ballroom B2 P068: A novel method to characterize spatiotemporal propagation Ballroom B2 P069: EFFECT OF Ca2+ BUFFERS WITH MULTIPLE BINDING SITES ON SHORT-TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY Ballroom B2 P072: Event-based machine-learned reduction of biophysically detailed neuron models Ballroom B2 P077: Homophily-informed generative models of brain maps Ballroom B2 P078: Identifying Neural Markers of Chronic Pain in Children with Cerebral Palsy Using Electroencephalography and Machine Learning Ballroom B2 P080: The Synapse-Pairing Tradeoff: How Clustering, Bursts, and Dendritic Location Enable Robust Plasticity In-Vivo Ballroom B2 P084: Mapping excitation-inhibition balance in schizophrenia with white-matter-microstructure informed modeling Ballroom B2 P094: Neuron–Astrocyte Coupling Regulates Ion Homeostasis and Neuronal Excitability in a Multi-Compartment Model Ballroom B2 P095: Universal rules for growing artificial astrocytes at electron microscopy resolution Ballroom B2

7:45pm ADT

Banquet Dinner Waterfront Warehouse

9:00am ADT

Constraining large-scale models of brain dynamics with local biological properties: Methods and applications Room 504

10:30am ADT

3:20pm ADT

Conference Photo TBA

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Poster Session 3 Ballroom B2 P097: How Axon Refractory Dynamics and Ionic Excitability Shape Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Responses Ballroom B2 P098: CompNeuroVis: Connecting Existing Computational Neuroscience Workflows to Interactive Applications Ballroom B2 P101: BrainSymphony Reveals Psilocybin-Induced Network Reorganization Ballroom B2 P102: Long-timescale Plasticity Mediated by ER-Dependent Synaptic Stabilization Ballroom B2 P105: Gamma Oscillations in Conductance-Based QIF Networks: A Three-Stage Progression and Its Limits Ballroom B2 P111: VIP-Mediated Attentional Modulation of Persistent Activity in a Cortical Microcircuit Model Ballroom B2 P112: Biologically Realistic Models of Synaptic Release at Human Cortical Synapses Ballroom B2 P114: The effect of weak electric deep brain stimulation fields on the synchronization of multi-compartment neuron models Ballroom B2 P115: Digital Twins Enable Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Ballroom B2 P116: Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-expressing neurons (VIPs) as a mechanism for flexible cognitive control Ballroom B2 P118: Development and Validation of a Multi-scale Model of Cerebellar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Ballroom B2 P122: Computational modeling of ultrasonic neuromodulation in realistic cortical cells Ballroom B2 P123: Population-based Functional Source Separation enables identification of cortical sources in new individuals Ballroom B2 P124: Power Spectrum Harmonics Provide a Signature of Balanced Excitation-Inhibition Across Cortical Scales Ballroom B2 P128: Ion Channels Tune Population-Level Intrinsic Biophysical Heterogeneity Ballroom B2 P129: Sequential variability of Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials and its relation with BCI performance Ballroom B2 P131: Decreased alpha/theta temporal ExSEnt of left prefrontal cortex in dementia: a robust biomarker Ballroom B2 P132: A Knowledge Integration Workflow to Define Functional Interactomes in Neural Systems Ballroom B2 P133: A Learning-Rule-Independent Method for Evaluating Memory Capacity in Biophysical Neuron Models Ballroom B2 P134: Coupling TMS induced electric fields to neural state variables Ballroom B2 P135: A Dendritic Brunel Network for Studying NMDA-Driven Working Memory Ballroom B2 P136: Implementation of Dendritic Hierarchial Scheduling for the Neulite kernel Ballroom B2 P139: Spatial neuroaesthetics in perception of topological and visual characteristics of natural landscapes and in route decision-making Ballroom B2 P142: Building neural manifolds from membrane biophysics and circuit topology Ballroom B2

9:30pm ADT

Party Garrison Brewing Company

9:00am ADT

Computational modeling of neuromodulation technologies Room 502 Detailed models of brain microcircuit activity and signals in clinical applications Room 501 Evolution, Computation and the Origins of Nervous Systems: from Animal Models to Neuromorphic Engineering Room 505 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience Room 506/7

10:30am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon