Focus Program on "Towards Mathematical Modeling of Neurological Disease from Cellular Perspectives"
Epilepsy Workshop - May 29-30, 2012
Location: The Fields Institute, Room 230

Organizing Committee
Larry Abbott (Columbia Univ.), Sue Ann Campbell (Univ. Waterloo),
Nancy Kopell (Boston Univ.), Frances Skinner (TWRI/UHN and Univ Toronto),
David Terman (Ohio State Univ.)

Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS)

Audio and Slides

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Confirmed Speakers:

Sydney Cash (Harvard Univ and Mass General)
Peter Carlen (TWRI/UHN and Univ Toronto)
Rob Clewley (Georgia State Univ)
Alain Destexhe (UNIC/CNRS France)
Mark Kramer (Boston Univ)
Josh Lawrence (Univ Montana)
Tim Lewis (Univ California- Davis)
Erin Munro (RIKEN, Tokyo)
Steven Schiff (Penn State University)
Ivan Soltesz (Univ California- Irvine)
Roger Traub (IBM TJ Watson Ctr and Columbia Univ)

Workshop Schedule (abstracts)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012
8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Wecome Remarks
9:15-10:05	Ivan Soltesz, University of California, Irvine Functional network connectivity of the epileptic hippocampus
10:05-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:20	Alain Destexhe, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Unité de Neurosciences Information et Complexité Role of corticothalamic feedback in generating hypersynchronized 3Hz discharges by intact thalamic networks: a mechanism of absence seizures?
11:20-12:10	S. Schiff, Penn State University Towards Model-Based Observation and Control of Seizures
12:10-1:30	Lunch (at Fields)/posters
1:30-2:20	Tim Lewis, University of California - Davis The theory of weakly coupled oscillators: Can it be used to gain insight into the mechanisms underlying epileptic activity?
2:20-3:10	Erin Munro, RIKEN, Tokyo How Very Fast Oscillations may lead to Epilepsy
3:10-3:30	Coffee break
3:30-4:20	Robert Clewley, Georgia State University Beyond simulation and Big Data: How informatics and dynamics might merge to shape the future of modeling multi-scale diseases
4:20-5:10	Roger Traub, IBM TJ Watson Centre and Columbia University Cellular mechanisms of epilepsy: chemical synapses and gap junctions
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
8:30-9:00	Coffee and Registration
9-9:50	Mark Kramer, Boston University Multi-scale seizure dynamics
9:50-10:40	S. Cash, Harvard Univ and Mass General
10:40-11	Coffee break
11-11:50	J. Lawrence, University of Montana Cell type-specific cholinergic modulation in the hippocampus: roles in normal and disease states
11:50-12:40	Peter Carlen, Toronto Western Research Institute Seizure transitions: a failure of presynaptic release
12:40-2:30	Lunch (at Fields) with brainstorming session. Facilitator: T. Valiante (Toronto)

Participants:

Full Name	University Name
Baier, Gerold	University of Manchester
Binder, Tammy
Campbell, Sue Ann	University of Waterloo
Cao, Hongjun	Beijing Jiaotong University
Cheng, Derrick	Oliver Ames High School
Chung, Min In
Clewley, Rob	Georgia State University
Destexhe, Alain	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Dumont, Gregory	INRIA
Dur-e-Ahmad, Muhammad	Lahore University of Management Sciences
Fietkiewicz, Chris	Case Western Reserve University
Haufler, Darrell	Rutgers-Newark
Imran, Mudassar	LUMS
Jalil, Sajiya	Georgia State University
Kaifosh, Patrick	Columbia University
Kerr, Matthew	Johns Hopkins University
Kramer, Mark	Boston University
Krivoruchko, Taisya	University of Calgary
Lankarany, Milad	Concordia University (with Collaboration with Montreal Neurological Institute)
Lawrence, Josh	University of Montana
Lytton, William	SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Martin, Adrian	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Mejias, Jorge	University of Ottawa
Menzinger, Michael	University of Toronto
Munro, Erin	RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Osinga, Hinke	The University of Auckland
Pennefather, Peter	University of Toronto
Roberts, Patrick	In Silico Biosciences, Inc.
Rotstein, Horacio	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Santaniello, Sabato	Johns Hopkins University
Saudargiene, Ausra	Vytautas Magnus University
Skinner, Frances K.	Toronto Western Research Insitute, UHN and Univ Toronto
Soltesz, Ivan	University of California, Irvine
Sritharan, Duluxan	Johns Hopkins University
Stanley, David	University of Florida
Talathi, Sachin	University of Florida
Traub, Roger D.	SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Visser, Sid	University of Twente
yazdanpour Naeini, Roshanak	Concordia University
Ye, Hui	Toronto Western Hospital

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