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Richard Gast

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

PhD

Leipzig, Germany

https://researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Gast

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10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

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

9:00am ADT

Announcements Ballroom B1

9:10am ADT

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

10:10am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

10:40am ADT

FO1: The Synapse-Pairing Tradeoff: How Clustering, Bursts, and Dendritic Location Enable Robust Plasticity In-Vivo Ballroom B1

11:10am ADT

O1: Biologically plausible credit assignment via neuronal frequency multiplexing Ballroom B1

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

11:50am ADT

O3: Compartmentalized learning through coupled electrochemical adaptation in cortical pyramidal neurons Ballroom B1

2:30pm ADT

O5: Impact of EAAT2 Dysfunction on AMPA/NMDA-Mediated Excitability in Neuronal Activity Ballroom B1

2:50pm ADT

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

3:10pm ADT

O7: Decreased alpha/theta temporal ExSEnt of left prefrontal cortex: a robust biomarker of dementia 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 P004: Beyond Optimality: Neural Mechanisms of Heuristic Decision-Making Ballroom B2 P005: A Brain-Wide Atlas of Intrinsic Neural Timescales in Mice Ballroom B2 P011: Dendrites Learn to Detect Input Sequences Through Local Plasticity Ballroom B2 P014: Modeling box jellyfish obstacle avoidance behavior with evolutionary optimization and small feedforward neural networks Ballroom B2 P021: Local dendritic voltage provides a reliable read-out of global synaptic activity 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 P039: The Self-Organization of Serotonergic Axons at the Surface of a Vertebrate Brain: A Myopic Self-Avoiding FBM Model Ballroom B2 P042: Neural Heterogeneity Controls Neural Network Development 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 P048: Noise-Driven Spiking Dynamics and Synchronization Transitions in an Ensemble of Neuromorphic Oscillators 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

11:10am ADT

O9: Low-Dimensional Communication Subspaces Reveal Distributed Information Across Neural Areas 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

2:00pm ADT

FO4: Selective routing of spatial information in dentate granule cells emerges through disparate combinations of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity Ballroom B1

2:30pm ADT

O13: A Developmental Ring Attractor Model for the Head Direction System 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 P054: Single-cell adaptation makes heterogeneity a dynamic feature of neural networks Ballroom B2 P055: Thalamocortical myelination controls cortical states Ballroom B2 P057: Input-side Competition Predicts Action Selection and Switching in The Basal Ganglia Ballroom B2 P058: Direct Quantification of Stability for Linear Dynamical Systems on Networks Ballroom B2 P060: Biological Reservoir Computing in Modular Human iPSC-Derived Neuronal Networks Ballroom B2 P061: Learning Conduction Delay Distributions from Neural Activity to Study Stability in Delayed Nonlinear Neural Networks Ballroom B2 P080: The Synapse-Pairing Tradeoff: How Clustering, Bursts, and Dendritic Location Enable Robust Plasticity In-Vivo Ballroom B2

7:45pm ADT

Banquet Dinner Waterfront Warehouse

9:00am ADT

Neuronal heterogeneity’s role in network dynamics and computation Room 501

10:30am ADT

2:10pm ADT

Keynote 4: Stephanie Jones (Brown University), "Uncovering the Mechanism and Meaning of EEG/MEG Measured Brain Dynamics with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver Software" Ballroom B1

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Poster Session 3 Ballroom B2

9:30pm ADT

Party Garrison Brewing Company

9:00am ADT

Evolution, Computation and the Origins of Nervous Systems: from Animal Models to Neuromorphic Engineering Room 505

10:30am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon