Programme 2021
Modeling the brain.
Course Directors: Egidio D’Angelo, Claudia Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott & Viktor Jirsa
30th November 2021 – 4th December 2021
PROGRAMME OUTLINE 2021 (download)
Rationale: The 2021 Course of the school of brain cells and circuits will be dedicated to modelling the brain from local microcircuits properties to large scale network properties, essential to understand how the brain works.
Preliminary Programme
Arrival day – 30th November 2021
9pm : Evening gathering in the Marsala Cellar St. Rocco Monastery, main cloister
Marsala wine and marzipan pastries typical of Erice.
Music and chats as people join in.
Day 1 – 1st December 2021
8:30 – INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
Why modeling the brain? Where are we now?
Egidio D’Angelo, Claudia Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, Viktor Jirsa
9:00 – Multi-scale brain modeling
Egidio D’Angelo
10:00-10:30 Coffee break & posters display
I – FROM NEURONS TO MICROCIRCUITS
10:30 – Physiologically realistic models
Michele Migliore
11:30 – Brain scaffold builders
Claudia Casellato
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30 – Mean field models
Alain Destexhe
15:30 – Neuromorphic computation
Oliver Rhodes
16:30 – Poster blitz
Chair: Michele Migliore
Day 2 – 2nd December
II – THE LARGE SCALE BRAIN
8:30 – The Allen Brain Atlas
Stefan Mihalas (remotely)
9:30 – Brain reconstruction from histology
Roxana Kooijmans
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – In vivo microstructure characterisation
Marco Palombo
12:00 – Advanced in vivo tissue features with MRI
Mara Cercignani
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00 Poster blitz
Chair: Fulvia Palesi
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – Modeling neurodegenerative disorders
Petra Ritter (remotely)
17:30 – The Virtual Aging Brain
Viktor Jirsa
20:00 SOCIAL DINNER
Day 3 – 3rd December 2021
III – BRAIN FUNCTION FROM NETWORKS
9:00 – Modeling heterogeneity in local brain dynamics
Gustavo Deco (remotely)
10:00 – MRI to probe information on brain structure and function: the story of long-COVID
Claudia Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott & Fulvia Palesi
11:00 – 12:30 Coffee break & final poster session
12:30-15:00 Lunch break
15:00 – The Bayesian brain
Karl Friston (remotely)
16:00 – FINAL OVERALL DISCUSSION
All speakers
16:45 – Poster prize & closing remarks
17:00 – End of the meeting
Departure day – 4th December 2021
Farewell
Speakers
Claudia Casellato – University of Pavia, Italy
Mara Cercignani – CUBRIC, Cardiff, UK
Gustavo Deco – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Alain Destexhe – CNRS, Paris-Saclay University
Egidio D’Angelo – University of Pavia, Italy
Karl Friston – University College London, UK
Claudia Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott – University College London, UK & University of Pavia, Italy
Viktor Jirsa – AIX Marseille, France
Roxana Kooijmans – Netherland Institute of Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Holland
Michele Migliore – CNR Palermo, Italy
Stefan Mihalas – Allen Institute, Seattle, USA
Fulvia Palesi – University of Pavia, Italy
Marco Palombo – University College London, UK
Oliver Rhodes – University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Petra Ritter – Charitè, Berlin, Germany