Functional Logic of Neural Circuits: Diamonds in the Rough

National Science Foundation funded workshop. The first phase was a virtual meeting: Thursday, June 10 and Friday, June 11, 2021. The second phase was a hybrid in-person meeting on Wednesday to Friday Feb. 23-25, 2022 in San Juan, PR. A white-paper summary (below) was submitted to the NSF. Renamed FLNDR2023, the second NSF-funded hybrid meeting will be on Wednesday to Friday Feb. 23-25, 2023 in San Juan, PR

One of the largest challenges that we face in our understanding of the brain is in making sense of the increasing amounts of data that is being collected about the connectome of several model organisms, their whole-brain imaging, and the function. Overcoming this challenge will require new methods that allow us to integrate and make sense of this data. We will bring together pioneers from neural circuits with expertise with different fields, including experimental, computational, and theoretical disciplines to define the most important topics and questions to address this challenge.

Identifying the conceptual and methodological frameworks that will allow us to bridge the gap between connectomes, neural activity, and function, focusing on organisms where the data for each of these three levels of description are most complete.

Organizers

Gal Haspel (Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Eduardo J. Izquierdo (Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University Bloomington)

Aurel A. Lazar (Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University)

Eva A. Naumann (Department of Neurobiology, Duke University)

Stefanie Hampel (Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico )

Andy Seeds (Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico )