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.

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] (http://opensourcebrain.org/attachments/download/62/NeuroMLLatest_PG.odp))

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] (http://www.opensourcebrain.org/attachments/download/71/piasini_git_tutorial.pdf), 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.