THEMATIC PROGRAMS

May 24, 2012
Focus Program on "Towards Mathematical Modeling of Neurological Disease from Cellular Perspectives"
Anesthesiology/Sleep Disorders Workshop
June 4-5, 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)

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Speakers:

Maxim Bazhenov (Univ California- Riverside)
Victoria Booth (Univ Michigan)
Emery Brown (Harvard-MIT and Mass General)
ShiNung Ching (Boston Univ)
Jeffrey Ellenbogen (Harvard Univ)
Sean Hill (Karolinska Inst)
Richard Horner (Univ Toronto)
Stanley Leung (Univ Western Ontario)
Beverly Orser (Univ Toronto)
Igor Timofeev (Univ Laval)

Workshop Schedule: (abstracts)

Monday, June 4, 2012
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Wecome Remarks
9:15-10:05 Igor Timofeev, Laval University
Slow-wave activity during sleep and ketamine-xylazine anesthesia
10:05-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:20 Maxim Bazhenov, Univ California- Riverside
11:20-12:10 Emery Brown, Harvard-MIT and Mass General,
12:10-1:30 Lunch (at Fields)/posters
1:30-2:20 Martin Wechselberger, University of Sydney
Canard theory and neuronal dynamics
2:20-3:10 Victoria Booth, University of Michigan
Modeling the temporal architecture of sleep-wake transition dynamics
3:10-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:20 Sean Hill, Karolinska Institute
Wakefulness and Sleep: A computational model of thalamocortical circuitry
4:20-5:10 L. Stan Leung, University of Western
Basal forebrain participation in general anesthesia
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Registration
9-9:50 Jeffrey Ellenbogen, Harvard University
9:50-10:40 Richard L. Horner, University of Toronto
Sleep: Brain rewiring for flexible behaviour, with implications for the evolutionary trajectory of species
10:40-11 Coffee break
11-11:50 ShiNung Ching, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Biophysical models of neuronal dynamics during general anesthesia and burst suppression
11:50-12:40 Beverly Orser, University of Toronto
12:40-2:30 Lunch (at Fields) with brainstorming session. Facilitator: P. Pennefather (Toronto)

Confirmed Participants as of May 14:

Full Name University Name
Bazhenov, Maxim University of California, Riverside
Binder, Tammy  
Booth, Victoria University of Michigan
Brown, Emery Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ching, ShiNung Massachusetts General Hospital
Diniz Behn, Cecilia Gettysburg College
Ellenbogen, Jeffrey Harvard Medical School
Horner, Richard University of Toronto
Jalil, Sajiya Georgia State University
Kumar, Neeraj Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University)
Leung, L. Stan University of Western Ontario
Montandon, Gaspard University of Toronto
Oskui, Lia University of Toronto
Pennefather, Peter University of Toronto
Prescott, Steven University of Pittsburgh
Skinner, Frances K. Toronto Western Research Insitute, UHN and Univ Toronto
Timofeev, Igor Université Laval
Tkaczyk, Amanda University of Waterloo
Tkaczyk, Amanda University of Waterloo
To, William University of Toronto
Venkatraghavan, Lashmi Toronto Western Hospital
Visser, Sid University of Twente
Vu, Michael University of Toronto
Wechselberger, Martin University of Sydney
 

 

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