| Monday | Tuesday | |
| 28 November | 29 November | |
| 8.30 am | Registration | |
| 8.55am | Welcome | |
| 9.00 am | Keynote 1 | Xiao-Jing Wang Theory of large-scale brain circuits beyond connectomics |
Keynote 3 | James Rowe Models of disease: microcircuits, macrocircuits and behavioural decisions in frontotemporal lobar |
| 10.00 am | Pulin Gong Mechanisms underlying the dynamical response properties of cortical circuits |
Carlo Laing Neural field models which include gap junctions |
| 10.20 am | Leonardo Gollo From local perturbations to large-scale dynamics: Mapping the influence of focal brain stimulation |
Stewart Heitmann Optogenetic stimulation alters the excitability of cortex from type I to type II |
| 10.30 am | Morning tea | Morning tea |
| 11.00 am | Geoffrey Goodhill Sensory coding in cat visual cortex and zebrafish optic tectum |
Peter Robinson The physical brain |
| 11.20 am | Lilach Avitan Spontaneous activity in larval zebrafish tectum reorganizes over development |
Peter Loxley Parameterized simple-cell functions for sparse coding |
| 11.30 am | Kiaran Lawson Dynamic optic-flow and headwind dependence in the flight control of fruit flies |
Andre Peterson Time-scale separation of a network of rate-based neurons with partial random connectivity |
| 11.40 am | Pranesh Padmanabhan Mathematical modelling suggests an emergent, growth regulatory property of the network of signalling pathways in the growth cone |
Bahar Moezzi From coil to muscle: Simulating EMG recordings following TMS |
| 11.50 am | Mahadeeswara Mandiyam Mid-air collision avoidance in flying insects |
Dong-ping Yang Low dimensional dynamics for transitions from normal arousal states to epileptic seizures |
| 12.00 pm | Zahra M Bagheri Robust performance of an insect-inspired target tracking mechanism under real-world conditions |
Sahand Assadzadeh Synaptic Homeostasis via Plasticity in the Corticothalamic system |
| 12.10 pm | Martin Spencer Characterisation of neurons in the ventral cochlear nucleus using inter-spike interval statistics |
Elma O'Sullivan-Greene Towards closed loop control for inflammatory bowel disease: models of gut-to-brain signaling |
| 12.20 pm | Lunch and poster | Level 6 | Lunch and poster | Level 6 |
| 2.00 pm | Mika Rubinov Topological constraints of interareal connectomes |
Tara Hamilton Do we have time?: Time as the forgotten signal in neuro-inspired engineered systems |
| 2.20 pm | Alistair Perry Structural dysconnectivity and network controllability of key cognitive and emotional areas in young people at high genetic risk for bipolar disorder |
Isabell Kiral-Kornek Real-time analysis of EEG data using neural networks and the neuromorphic TrueNorth chip |
| 2.30 pm | Tjeerd Boonstra Community structure of functional and anatomical muscle networks |
Mike Paulin Heterogeneity and randomness in vestibular afferent neuron firing increases efficiency (bits per Joule) without lowering bandwidth (bits per second) |
| 2.40 pm | Ben Fulcher Dynamical signatures of structural brain network topology in functional MRI |
Philip Crouch Learning discriminative sparse distributed representations in the hierarchical temporal memory model of cortical processing |
| 2.50 pm | Penny Kale Investigating the impact of structural directionality: How reliable are undirected connectomes? |
Xiao (Demi) Gao A model of electrode place discrimination in cochlear implants using a neural network classifier |
| 3.00 pm | Parnesh Raniga Resting state functional coupling between ascending synchronising system, limbic system and the default mode network via theta oscillations |
Brett Schmerl A model for learning in the piriform cortex using two types of principal cells |
| 3.10 pm | Luke Hearne Dynamic brain modular architectures supporting higher cognition |
Dulini Mendis Inferring mechanisms of action of antiepileptic compounds using network activity of cortical cultures |
| 3.20 pm | Afternoon tea | Afternoon tea |
| 3.50 pm | Anil Seth Expect yourself: from predictive processing to being a beast machine |
Kerstin Pannek Magnetic resonance imaging of human brain development |
| 4.20 pm | Levin Kuhlmann Long-term human data seizure prediction competition |
Andrew Zalesky Structural and functional brain networks: Mapping and modelling |
| 4.30 pm | Jordan Chambers Optimizing synaptic strengths in a neural network model of auditory cortical receptive fields |
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| 4.40 pm | Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne Looking for structural brain features associated with depression in young adults: a genetically data driven approach |
Closing remarks |
| 4.50 pm | David Liley Advancing model-based depth of anaesthesia monitoring |
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| 5.00 pm | Chris French Computer model potassium channel modulation by antipsychotic drugs on cognition-related processes |
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| 5.10 pm | Brief break | |
| 5.30 pm-6.30 pm | Keynote 2 | Rosalyn Moran Aging under the Free Energy Principle |
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| 7.00 pm-11.00 pm | Dinner Victoria Park Golf Complex 309 Herston Road Brisbane City Qld 4006 |
