PheroSys workshop on Dynamical Olfaction

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Preliminary programme:

Wednesday 30 June, 2010

10:00	Brighton walk
12:15	Lunch & Poster setup
13:45	Opening remarks
Session 1 Session Chair: Sylvia Anton
14:00	Giovanni Galizia Multiple networks in the antennal lobe
14:45	Thomas Nowotny Minimal model of blend recognition in the moth pheromone system
15:15	Coffee break
15:30	Mark Stopfer Temporally diverse firing patterns in olfactory receptor neurons underlie spatiotemporal neural codes for odors
16:15	Jean-Pierre Rospars Olfactory receptor neurons: A comparative analysis of their response properties with diverse stimuli in different species
16:45	Coffee break
17:00	Maxim Bazhenov Coincidence detection vs. temporal integration in olfactory networks
17:45	Aaditya Rangan Network mechanisms influencing sensitivity and reliability within the fly antennal lobe
18:15	Closing remarks
20:30	Pub rendez-vous in a local Pub (open end).

Thursday 1 July, 2010

9:00	Welcome & Organizational remarks
Session 2 Session Chair: Jean-Pierre Rospars
9:15	Johannes Reisert Response kinetics of vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons
10:00	Philippe Lucas Properties of the Ca²⁺-dependent chloride current in moth olfactory receptor neurons and role in the dynamic of their response
10:30	Coffee break
10:45	Hong Lei Dynamic control of odor-induced responses to a wide range of odor concentrations
11:30	Christoper L Buckley Critical Rate Dynamics Explain the Dynamic Range of the Moth Pheromone System
12:00	General Discussion
12:30	Lunch & Poster session
Session 3 Session Chair: Christopher L Buckley
13:30	Peter Kloppenburg Specific properties of local interneuron subtypes suggest distinct tasks during odour processing in the antennal lobe
14:15	Sylvia Anton Plasticity of central odour coding in a moth
14:45	Coffee break
15:00	Brian Smith Associative and nonassociative mechanisms tune transient dynamics of early olfactory processing
15:45	Emilia Leszkowicz Modulation of excitatory/inhibitory balance in the accessory olfactory bulb influences oscillatory neural activity in the accessory olfactory bulb of anaesthetised mice
16:15	Coffee break
16:30	Massimo Vergassola Infotaxis: searching without gradients
17:15	Dominique Martinez Stereotyped firing response patterns in moth antennal lobe neurons: experiments and models
17:45	General Discussion
18:15	Close of Thursday sessions
19:00	Workshop dinner: Indian restaurant
21:00	Pub rendez-vous in a local Pub

Friday 2 July, 2010

8:45	Welcome & organizational remarks
Session 4 Session Chair: Dominique Martinez
9:00	Stephen Trowell Building a better electronic nose quantitative lessons from biology
9:45	Tim Pearce Stimulus and Network Dynamics Can Collide in a Ratiometric Model of the Antennal Lobe Macroglomerular Complex
10:15	Coffee break & Poster session
11:30	Jan Wessnitzer Associative learning in Drosophila: experiments and models
12:15	Eduardo M. Moraud Scent-tracking by autonomous robots: Infotaxis and beyond
12:45	General Discussion & Closing Remarks

The Abstract booklet in pdf format.

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project in the / SysBio Initiative.