Course Programme

Sunday, 2 July --- Arrival

18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception

Monday, 3 July --- Intro

9:30 - 11:00 Welcome, introduction lecturers, TAs and participants

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Neurons make networks; The cortico-hippocampal network to set the scene - Menno Witter

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14:30 - 19:30 Students Presentations

19:30 - 20:30 Dinner

20:30 - 22:00 Poster Sessions

Tuesday, 4 July --- Neurons and networks

9.30 - 11.00 Large-scale electrophysiology with Neuropixels probes - Nick Steinmetz

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Analysis of the motor system organization and function - Silvia Arber

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Poster Sessions

Wednesday 5 July --- Neurons and networks

9.30 - 11.00 Discovering cell types and states by single-cell RNA-seq - Sten Linnarsson

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Protein translation in dendrites - Erin Schuman

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Preparing Projects

Thursday 6 July --- Connectomics

9.30 - 11.00 Neuronal connectomics: serial EM approaches - Moritz Helmstaedter

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Connectomics, how and what can be achieved - Winfried Denk

13.15 - 14.15 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.15 - 17.00 Reconstructing a volume in EM (lab/Demo) - Moritz Helmstaedter

17.00 - 19.30 Reconstructing inputs to an identified neuron (lab/Demo)

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Preparing projects

Friday 7 July --- Neurons

9.30 - 10.15 Super-resolution optical microscopy - Valentin Nägerl

10.15 - 11.00 EM approaches freeze fracture/immuno - Zoltan Nusser

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Recording activity from subcellular compartments (i.e Axons & dendrites); Optogenetic circuit mapping methods - Leopoldo Petreanu

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Preparing Projects

Saturday 8 July --- Day off

Sunday 9 July --- Neurons

9.30 -11.00 Neuronal cell types - Botond Roska

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Spatial networks in the brain - Michael Brecht

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Preparing Projects

Monday 10 July

9.30 - 10.15 Introduction to two-photon Microscopy - Benjamin Judkewitz

10.15 - 11.00 Analyses of optical data - Eftychios Pnevmatikakis

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Imaging the visual system - Sonja Hofer

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Preparing Projects

Tuesday 11 July

9.30 - 11.00 Cerebellar circuits for controlling locomotion - Megan Carey

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Genetically encoded voltage sensors and GRIN lens imaging - Mark Schnitzer

13.30 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Preparing Projects

Wednesday 12 July

9.30 - 11.00 Multiple patch-clamp recording - James Poulet

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Multi-level analyses of orbitofrontal-striatal circuits - Rui Costa

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Rig rotation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Projects Presentations

Thursday 13 July

09.30 - 11.00 Overview on Animal experimentation - Rui Costa

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Manipulation of motor control circuits in the zebrafish - Claire Wyart

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Project Presentation & Discussion

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Project Discussion

Friday 14 July

9.30 - 11.00 Genetically encoded calcium sensors - Jonathan Marvin

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.15 Two-photon targeted recordings - Bassam Atallah

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 17.00 Practical: modelling/various programs approaches both at the cellular and network levels

17.00 - 19.00 Football match involving faculty and students

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Free/Social

Saturday 15 July --- Surf/Beach Day

Sunday 16 July

9.30 - 11.00 All-optical interrogation of neural circuits - Michael Häusser

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Analysis of calcium imaging and electrophysiological data - Kenneth Harris

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Start Miniproject

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Miniprojects

Monday 17 July

9.30 - 11.00 Pharmacogenetic interrogation of neural circuits - Scott Sternson

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Miniprojects

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Miniprojects

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Miniprojects

Tuesday 18 July

9.30 - 11.00 The use of animals in experimental neuroscience - Frank Meye

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Miniprojects

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Miniprojects

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Miniprojects

Wednesday 19 July

9.30 - 11.00 Developmental/embryological manipulation of neural circuits - Pico Caroni

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00 Miniprojects

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Miniprojects

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Miniprojects

Thursday 20 July

9.30 - 10.15 Computational models for analysis - Christian Machens

10.15 - 11.00 Quantitative assessment of behavior unsupervised classification machine learning - Bob Datta

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.15 Miniprojects

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Miniprojects

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Miniprojects

Friday 21 July

9.30 - 11.00 Miniprojects - final and prep of report/presentation

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.15 Miniprojects - final and prep of report/presentation

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Miniprojects - final and prep of report/presentation

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

20.30 - 22.00 Miniprojects - final and prep of report/presentation

Saturday 22 July

9.30 - 11.00 Miniprojects - Final presentation

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.15 Miniprojects – Final presentation

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch discussion among students and speaker(s)

14.30 - 19.30 Miniprojects - Final presentation

19.30 - open Farewell Party

Sunday 23 July --- Departure