25 August 2019 - Arrival

• An afternoon trip to Frankfurt's reconstructed old town and dinner

26 August 2019 - Day 1 - FIAS, Lecture Hall

• 8.00 - 8.30 Registration (Foyer)
• 8.30 - 9.15 Opening and Welcome
  Prof. Dr. Marja-Lena Linne, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
  Introduction to neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience

• I-A SESSION: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL MODELING METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCE

• 9.15 - 10.45 Prof. Dr. Bruce Graham, Division of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, U.K.
  From synapses and dendrites to neurons and networks: Basics of Computational Neuroscience
  
• 10.45 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea
• 11.00 – 11.30 Prof. Aušra Saudargienė, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
  Memory, learning and synaptic plasticity in dendrites
• 11.30 - 12.30 Dr. Arnd Roth, Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London, UK
  Introduction to NEURON
• 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch (TBA)
• 13.30 - 15.00 Prof. Dr. Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  Theoretical models of memory
• 15.00 - 15.15 Coffee/Tea
• 15.15 - 16.15 Prof. Dr. Dieter Jaeger, Biology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
  Building biophysical models - Practical experiences and tips

• I-B SESSION: COMPUTER EXERCISES – COMPARTMENTAL MODELING OF NEURONS, DENDRITES AND SYNAPSES

• 16.30 - 19.30 Bruce Graham, Arnd Roth, Aušra Saudargienė
  Hands on exercises: Simulating synapses and neurons (NEURON software)

• 19.30
• Dinner and Networking

27 August 2019 - Day 2 - FIAS, Lecture Hall

9.00 - 10.00 Prof. Dr. Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & University of Oslo, Norway
Neuroscience with both hands – bridging brain scales with mathematics

• II-A SESSION: MORPHOLOGICAL AND COMPARTMENTAL MODELING OF DENDRITES

• 10.00 - 11.00 Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum, Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  Active properties of cortical dendrites
• 11.00 – 11.15 Coffe/Tea
• 11.15 - 11.45 Prof. Dr. Daniel Wojcik, Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  Extracellular electrophysiology from modeling perspective
• 11.45 - 12.30 Dr. Hermann Cuntz, ESI & FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany
  One rule to grow them all – A general theory of dendrite branching
• 12.30 - 13.00 Prof. Dr. Peter Jedlička, ICAR3R, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
  Computational modeling of dendritic excitability and plasticity in healthy and diseased hippocampus
• 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (TBA)

• II-B SESSION: HANDS-ON EXERCISES: MORPHOLOGICAL/COMPARTMENTAL MODELING OF DENDRITES, LFPs

• 14.00 - 18.00
  Hermann Cuntz, Peter Jedlička
  Hands on exercises: Matlab (TREES Toolbox, T2N)
  Misha Tsodyks
  Models of memory (Matlab software)
  Gaute Einevoll, Daniel Wojcik
  Forward and inverse modeling of LFP (LFPy, kCSD-python)
• 18.30 - 19.30
  Prof. Dr. Gilles Laurent, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
  Evening lecture: Discovering principles of circuit dynamics through comparative approaches

• 20.00 - 21.30 Dinner (traditional “Apple-wine Pub”)

28 August 2019 - Day 3 - FIAS, Lecture Hall

• III-A SESSION: FROM NEURONS TO NETWORKS – PHYSIOLOGY & PATHOLOGY OF NEURONAL COMPUTATION

• 9.00 - 9.45 Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Frankfurt
  Neural oligarchy in normal and epileptic networks
• 9.45 - 10.30 Dr. Tatjana Tchumatchenko, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
  How to understand normal and disrupted neural network dynamics via intracellular dynamics
• 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea
• 11.00 - 11.45 Prof. Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt
  Shaping developing circuits by patterned spontaneous and early sensory activity
• 11.45 – 12.30 Prof. Arvind Kumar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  Network modeling of neurological disorders
• 12.30 – 13.00 Dr. Aistė Pranckevičienė, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
  From function to structure: Clinical neuropsychological perspective
• 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (TBA)
• 14.00 - 14.45 Dr. Viola Priesemann, MPI Göttingen
  Stability and instability in neural networks
• 14.45 - 15.30 Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaschube, FIAS, Frankfurt
  Circuit models of network interactions in developing neocortex

• III-B SESSION: MEET THE EXPERTS: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)

• 15.30 - 15.45 Coffee/Tea
• 15.45 - 17.45 Jochen Triesch, Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Viola Priesemann, Julijana Gjorgjieva, Arvind Kumar
  Meet the Experts