Bernstein Conference 2020

Location

Online

Date

Sep 29 – Oct 1

Invited Lectures

William Bialek | Princeton University, USA
Searching for simplicity

Michael Brecht | HU Berlin, Germany
Isomorphic mapping and computation in cortical circuits

Laura Busse | LMU Munich, Germany
Effects of cortico-thalamic feedback on responses in mouse dLGN

Megan Carey | Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
Understanding the complex behaviors of the ‘simple’ cerebellar circuit

Rosa Cossart | Institut de neurobiologie de la méditerranée, Marseille, France
Development and function of cortical hub neurons

Ann Hermundstad | Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA
Adaptive control of behavioral variability through the flexible use of an internal representation

Roozbeh Kiani | New York University, USA
The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty in the parietal cortex

Vanessa Ruta | The Rockefeller University, New York City, USA
Themes and variations: the circuitry of mate selection and pursuit in Drosophila

David Sussillo | Google AI, Mountain View, USA
Universality and individuality in neural dynamics across large populations of recurrent networks

Srdjan Ostojic | L’École normale supérieure, Paris, France
Complementary roles of dimensionality and population structure in neural computations

Fred Wolf | MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
Evolutionary Transitions in Visual Cortex Design

Contributed Talks

Kristopher T. Jensen | University of Cambridge, UK
Manifold GPLVMs for discovering non-Euclidean latent structure in neural data

Dmitry Kobak | University of Tübingen, Germany
Phenotypic variation within and across transcriptomic cell types in mouse motor cortex

Felipe Yaroslav Kalle Kossio | University of Bonn, Germany
Drifting assemblies for persistent memory

Subhadra Mokashe | Brandeis University & Duke University, USA
Learning sequences of correlated patterns in recurrent networks

Eleonora Russo | Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Coordinated prefrontal state transition leads extinction of reward-seeking behaviors

Sarah Starosta | Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Dopamine and the algorithmic basis of foraging decisions

Balázs B. Ujfalussy | Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Sampling-like representations of prospective locations during hippocampal theta sequences

Oleg Vinogradov | University of Tübingen, Germany
Neuronal cultures self-organize towards excitation/inhibition balance

Satellite Workshops

Speakers:

  • Gustavo Deco 
  • Demian Battaglia 
  • Viola Priesemann 
  • Mauro Copelli 
  • Gašper Tkačik 
  • Leenoy Meshulam 
  • Jakob Macke 
  • Francesca Mastrogiuseppe 
  • Stephanie Palmer 
  • Sara Solla 
  • Barbara Feulner 
  • Gal Mishne 

Speakers:

  • Cristina Savin 
  • Eszter Vértes 
  • Máté Lengyel 
  • Robert Legenstein 
  • Jannes Jegminat 
  • Joseph Makin 
  • Dimitrije Marković  
  • Zachary Kilpatrick 
  • Anja Zai 
  • Ralf Haefner 
  • Ann Hermundstad 

Speakers:

  • Pawel Burkhard 
  • Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer 
  • Veronica Eggers | Silke Sachse 
  • Marion Silies 
  • Jan Clemens  
  • Mathias F. Wernet | Katja Nowick 
  • Stephanie E. Palmer 
  • Daniel Huber 
  • Julijana Gjorgjieva 
  • Viola Priesemann | Michael Wibral 
  • Manuel Schottdorf 

Speakers:

  • Gergő Orbán 
  • Constantin Rothkopf 
  • Ann Hermundstad 
  • Zhengwei Wu 
  • Scott Linderman 
  • Maneesh Sahani 
  • Sean Bittner 
  • Wiktor Młynarski 

Speakers:

  • Saskia de Vries 
  • Josh Siegle 
  • Michael Buice 
  • Huijeong Jeong 
  • Xiaoxuan Jia 
  • Rob Kass 
  • Stefan Mihalas 
  • Yann Sweeney 
  • Josh Siegle 

Speakers:

  • Rémi Monasson 
  • Devika Narain 
  • Ran Darshan 
  • Guangyu Robert Yang 
  • Kanaka Rajan 
  • Alexis Dubreuil 
  • Cristina Savin 

Speakers:

  • Máté Lengyel 
  • Yiota Poirazi 
  • Romain Brette 
  • Tatjana Tchumatchenko 
  • Jakob Macke 
  • Simone Mayer 
  • Gabe Murphy 
  • Ken Harris 

Speakers:

  • Sonja Hofer 
  • Claudia Clopath 
  • Rainer Friedrich 
  • Christian Machens 
  • Georg Keller 
  • Loreen Hertäg 
  • Anne Churchland 
  • Yashar Ahmadian 
  • Johannes Letzkus 
  • Tim Vogels 

Speakers:

  • Romain Brette 
  • Kristin Tessmar-Raible 
  • Gáspár Jékely 
  • Fred A. Keijzer 
  • Sally Leys 
  • Wilhelm Braun 
  • Julia E. Samson 

Speakers:

  • Junji Ito 
  • Lawrence Snyder 
  • Egidio d’Angelo 
  • Egidio Falotico/ Claudia Casellato 
  • Chris de Zeeuw 
  • Reza Shadmehr 
  • Carol Seger