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