Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Join us at the first Annual Meeting of the University of Calgary's Computational Neuroscience Platform!

By Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI)

Date and time

Mon, May 15, 2023 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM MDT

Location

University of Calgary Downtown Campus - Room DTC 234

906 8 Avenue Southwest #226 Calgary, AB T2P 1H9 Canada

About this event

Thank you for registering for the 1st Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting! The program for the day is as follows.

8:30 Light Breakfast

8:50 Welcome & overview of the Computational Neuroscience Platform

9:00 Session 1: Signe Bray (Chair)

9:00 Keynote presentation: Petra Ritter (The Virtual Brain: Multiscale Simulations of the Human Brain)

9:50 Davor Curic (Neural Desynchronization Spreading During Sleep-like States Reveals Critical Dynamics)

10:05 Youssef Kora (Coarse-graining and criticality in the human connectome)

10:20 Amirhossein Ghaderi (Exploring the Interplay between BOLD Signal Variability, Complexity, Static and Dynamic Functional Brain Network Features during Movie Viewing)

10:35 Coffee break

11:05 Session 2: Wilten Nicola (Chair)

11:05 Invited presentation: Eli Kinney-Lang (BCI4Kids: Challenges and victories in developing brain-computer interfaces (BCI) solutions for children with complex needs)

11:35 David Enoma (A statistical method for image-mediated association studies discovers genes and pathways associated with four brain disorders)

11:50 Olayinka Oladosu (Advanced diffusion and texture MRI outcomes correlate tissue structure to clinical outcomes)

12:05 Hadi Zadeh-Haghighi (Quantum neuroscience)

12:20 Lunch & poster session

2:00 Session 3: Andrea Protzner (Chair)

2:00 Invited presentation: Matthias Wilms (Towards Unified Explainable Machine Learning Models in Neuroimaging (and Beyond))

2:30 Thoshara Malathi Nawarathne Batugedara Mohottalalage (Audio Classification Utilizing Modulating STDP with Spatial Error Backpropagation)

2:45 Josue Ibarra (Quadratic Coding in Auditory Neurons)

3:00 Jordan Culp (A Markovian Neural Barcode Representing Mesoscale Cortical Spatiotemporal Dynamics)

3:15 Coffee break

3:45 Session 4: Joern Davidsen (Chair)

3:45 Invited presentation: Emma Towlson (TBA)

4:15 Abhijot Sidhu (Late Life is Associated with Increased Between-Network Brain Functional Connections)

4:30 Tahereh Rashnavadi (Frontal Lobe Epilepsy Patients Exhibit Altered Motor Network States of Rest)

4:45 Banafsheh Khazali (Identifying the minimal networks underlying specific behaviors in C. elegans)

5:00 Closing remarks

5:30 Social at Inner City Brewing - 820 11 Ave SW

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