Bernstein Conference 2024

Location

Frankfurt am Main

Date

Sep 29 – Oct 2

Abstracts

Invited Talks

Dmitriy Aronov | Columbia University, USA
Neural code for episodic memories in a food-caching bird

Helen Barron | University of Oxford, UK
Building internal models during periods of rest and sleep

Elizabeth Buffalo | University of Washington, USA
Neural dynamics of memory formation in the primate hippocampus

Mark M Churchland | Columbia University, USA
From spikes to factors: understanding large-scale neural computations

Alex Cayco Gajic | Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Dimensionality reduction beyond neural subspaces

Jan Drugowitsch | Harvard University, USA
Spatial navigation under uncertainty

Jakob Macke | University of Tübingen, Germany
Building mechanistic models of neural computations with simulation-based machine learning

Mala Murthy | Princeton University, USA
Circuit mechanisms for dynamic social interactions

Memming Park | Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
Forecasting motor cortex activity with a nonlinear latent dynamical system model

Susanne Schreiber | Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Cellular action potential generation: a key player in setting the network state

Xiao-Jing Wang | New York University, USA
Distributed dynamics and cognition in the multiregional neocortex

Contributed Talks

Claudia Cusseddu | Technical University of Munich, Germany
A family of synaptic plasticity rules based on spike times produces a diversity of triplet motifs in recurrent networks

Elizabeth A. de Laittre | University of Chicago, USA
Stable cortical coding for a dexterous reach-to-grasp task across motor cortical laminae

Samuel Eckmann | University of Cambridge, UK
Theta-modulated memory encoding and retrieval in recurrent hippocampal circuits

Charles Fieseler | University of Vienna, Austria
Brain-wide manifold-organized hierarchical encoding of behaviors in C. elegans

Fereshteh Lagzi | University of Washington, USA
Reconciling diverse experimental findings on inhibitory tuning in the mouse visual cortex

Charles Micou | University of Cambridge, UK
Sudden tuning curve jumps in cortical representational drift facilitate stable downstream population readouts

Aitor Morales-Gregorio | Charles University, Czechia
State-dependent population activity, dimensionality and communication in the visual cortex

Motahareh Pourrahimi | McGill University, Canada
Human-like behavior and neural representations emerge in a goal-driven model of overt visual search for natural objects

Satellite Workshops

Confirmed speakers:

  • Iain Couzin
  • Johannes Larsch
  • Lisanne Schulze
  • Pawel Romańczuk
  • Lilach Avitan
  • Katrin Vogt
  • Annika Chichy
  • Lisa Blum-Moyse

Confirmed speakers:

  • Mark Churchland
  • Harsha Gurnani
  • Alex Cayco-Gajic
  • Juan Gallego
  • Guillaume Hennequin
  • Arthur Pellegrino
  • Isabel Cornacchia
  • Kaushik Lakshminarasimhan
  • Valerio Mante
  • Valentin Schmutz
  • Joao Barbosa
  • Tatiana Engel

Confirmed speakers:

  • Aneta Koseska
  • Tatjana Tchumatchenko
  • Roxana Zeraati
  • Shervin Safavi
  • Wulfram Gerstner
  • Máté Lengyel
  • Janne Lappalainen
  • Leo Kozachkov
  • Angela Yu
  • Arthur Courtin

Confirmed speakers:

  • Silke Sachse
  • James Lightfoot
  • Carlotta Martelli
  • Claudia Fichtel
  • Ali Nourizonoz
  • Julian Vogel
  • Rainer Engelken

Confirmed speakers:

  • Maximilian Lenz
  • Michael Faut
  • Stefan Rotter
  • Sandra Diaz Pier

Confirmed speakers:

  • Silke Sachse
  • Ilona Grunwald Kadow
  • Pip Coen
  • Cesare Parise
  • Amir Amedi
  • Olivier Collignon

Confirmed speakers:

  • Adilson Motter
  • Gengshuo John Tian
  • Henrike Planert
  • Ann Kennedy
  • Melika Payvand
  • Rishikesh Narayanan
  • Jeremie Lefebvre
  • Axel Hutt
  • Fred Wolf
  • David Dahmen
  • Luca Mazzucato

Confirmed speakers:

  • Elisabetta Chicca
  • Emre Neftci
  • Sara Hooker
  • Konrad Kording
  • Charlotte Frenkel
  • Dylan Muir
  • Mihai Petrovici
  • Spiros Chavlis

Confirmed speakers:

  • Hamidreza Jamalabadi
  • Daniel Durstewitz
  • Mihai A. Petrovici
  • Constantin Rothkopf
  • Maria Eckstein
  • Xenia Kobeleva
  • Tamás Spisák
  • Eleanor Spens
  • Marieke van Vugt
  • Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
  • Angela Yu
  • Penny Lewis

Confirmed speakers:

  • Alessio Quaresima
  • Matthew Farrell
  • Gianluigi Mongillo
  • Viola Priesemann
  • Claudia Clopath
  • Barna Zajzon
  • Tristan Stöber
  • Sara Jamali
  • Luis Riquelme
  • Tomoki Fukai
  • Anna Levina
  • Nicolas Brunel

Confirmed speakers:

  • Friedemann Zenke
  • Melika Payvand
  • Kevin Max
  • Ariane Delrocq
  • Charlotte Frenkel
  • Pau Vilimelis Aceituno
  • Wulfram Gerstner
  • Alice Dauphin
  • Anna Levina
  • Claudia Clopath
  • Julijana Gjorgjieva
  • Katharina Wilmes