Registration and accommodation
ConferCare (University of Manchester)
T: +44 (0)161 306 8801
E: confercare.online@manchester.ac.uk
Organising committee
Dr Rasmus Petersen
E: R.Petersen@manchester.ac.uk
Sponsors
We are grateful to the Medical Research Council and the Company of Biologists for sponsoring this workshop.
Location
Workshop location:
Hulme Hall
The University of Manchester
Oxford Place
Victoria Park
M14 5RR
Nearby hotels:
All within walking distance (< 30 minutes).
Oxford Road is a main bus route through the city, and so has frequent buses between the hotels/railway stations and the workshop location.
The bus network route planner is here .
Main conference hotel
Holiday Inn Express, Oxford Road
Other options:
Registration
Registration opens: December 1st 2014
Registration closes: February 27th 2015
Registration fee: £75 (includes all refreshments, wine reception, and lunch on second day)
Register here: ConferCare
For any queries about registration or accommodation please contact Petra Cron at ConferCare:
T: +44 (0)161 306 8801
E: confercare.online@manchester.ac.uk
Programme
Each session of the programme will comprise a pair of talks where both speakers are working on the same (broad) theme, with one primarily focussed on experimental approaches and the other primarily focussed on computational approaches. Breaks between each session will allow for plentiful discussion of the work just seen and how it may translate to other circuits and problems in systems neuroscience.
The first evening will be a poster session and wine reception.
Final programme:ISN Workshop Programme
Abstracts
We invite poster abstract submissions from PhD and postdoctoral researchers, for presentation at the evening poster session. Abstracts should be in the area of systems neuroscience, including:
- experimental work on circuits and systems;
- computational modelling of circuits and systems;
- data analysis for large-scale recordings
Abstract details:
Abstracts should include:
- Title
- Author list with affiliations
- Presenting author email address
- Summary of work (max 300 words)
Submission process
Email: isn2015@manchester.ac.uk
Subject line: ISN2015 abstract
Attach: PDF of abstract
Selection process
Abstracts will be considered by the organisers
The top 20 abstracts will have their registration fee waived (details to follow).
A maximum of 30 poster abstracts will be selected.
Schedule
Abstract submission opens: December 10th 2014
Abstract submission closes: January 30th 2015
Decision notification: February 13th 2015
About the Workshop
Systems neuroscience has been thrust centre-stage by the extraordinary advances in technology for recording and manipulating neural circuits at single-cell resolution. Yet with this rapid increase in data yield has come formidable challenges in analysing and understanding experimental results. Consequently, a tight integration between experimental and computational neuroscience approaches is increasingly necessary for tackling these challenges. The goal of this workshop is to present the state-of-the-art in integrated systems and computational approaches to key neural circuits, to demonstrate their power and potential.
Themes
Cortical circuits
Basal ganglia
Attention
Large-scale recording of circuits
Key dates
Workshop runs: 23rd – 24th March 2015
Registration opens: December 1st 2014
Abstract submission deadline: January 30th 2015
Abstract decisions: February 13th 2015
Registration closes: February 27th 2015
Speakers
Rafal Bogacz (Oxford)
Matteo Carandini (UCL)
Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
Ken Harris (UCL)
Peter Magill (MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Oxford)
Daniel O’Connor (John Hopkins University)
Michael Orger (Champalimaud Institute, Lisbon)
Srdjan Ostojic (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Alex Thiele (University of Newcastle)
Gasper Tkacik (IST Austria)
