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Program Book Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2007 July 7-12, 2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Meeting Overview…………………………………………………………… page 3 General Information………………………………………………………… page 4 Welcome and Acknowledgements………………………………………….. page 6 Talks and Schedule: Sunday July 8……..…..……………………………… page 10 Talks and Schedule: Monday July 9..………………………….……….….. page 11 Talks and Schedule: Tuesday July 10…..……………………………….…. page 12 Poster Listing (Sunday and Monday)………………………………….…… page 13 Workshops (July 11, 12)…………………………………………………….. page 29 Abstracts……………………………………………………………………... page 45 Restaurant Listing………………………………………………………….... page 280 Maps and Directions………………………………………………………… page 283 List of registered participants………………………………………………. page 291 Author Index ………………………………………………………………… page 297 2 Meeting Overview SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2007 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Registration: by Lakeview room, 27th floor, 89 Chestnut 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Reception: Lakeview room, 27th floor, 89 Chestnut SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2007 8:15 am Registration: by Ballroom, 2nd floor, 89 Chestnut 9.00 am Welcome by CNS president: Ranu Jung 9:10 am Invited Talk: André Longtin 10:10 am Break 10:40 am Oral Session 1: Synchronization and Oscillation Noon Lunch break: Program committee meeting 2:00 pm Oral Session 2: Information Coding 3:40 pm Funding Opportunities: Dennis Glanzman & Ken Whang 4:00 pm Dinner break 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Board meeting 6:30 pm Poster Setup: Ballroom, 89 Chestnut 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Poster session I: P1-P103: Ballroom, Cash bar, cheese and vegetables 10:00 pm-12:30 am “Panman Pat”: Ballroom, Cash bar and hot hors d’oeuvres MONDAY, JULY 9, 2007 8:30 am Registration: by Ballroom, 2nd floor, 89 Chestnut 9.00 am Announcements 9:10 am Invited Talk: Karen Davis 10:10 am Break 10:40 am Oral Session 3: Network Dynamics Noon Lunch break: Board meeting 2:00 pm Oral Session 4: Plasticity and Learning 3:40 pm CNS-Business meeting 4:00 pm Dinner break 6:30 pm Poster Setup: Ballroom, 89 Chestnut 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Poster session II: P104-P207: Ballroom, Cash bar, cheese and veg 10:00 pm – 12:30 am “Dance Session”: Ballroom, Cash bar and hot hors d’oeuvres TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2007 8:30 am Registration: by Ballroom, 2nd floor, 89 Chestnut 9.00 am Announcements 9:10 am Invited Talk: Larry Abbott 10:10 am Break 10:40 am Oral Session 5: Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms Noon Lunch break 2:00 pm Oral Session 6: Cortex 3:40 pm Workshop Information, Awards, Closing 6:30 pm Boarding starts for Harbor Cruise: Harborfront 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Harbor Cruise: Dinner, dancing and desserts WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY, JULY 11/12, 2007 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Workshops: Bahen building, University of Toronto downtown campus 3 General Information Location: The welcome reception will be held in the Lakeview room on the 27th floor at 89 Chestnut. Come meet your colleagues, have a drink and some hors d’oeuvres, and enjoy a bird’s eye view of downtown Toronto! The main meeting (both oral and poster sessions) will be held in the Ballroom on the 2nd floor at 89 Chestnut, a University of Toronto conference facility, from Sunday, July 8th to Tuesday, July 10th. The workshops will be held in rooms of the Bahen building on the downtown University of Toronto campus on Wednesday, July 11th and Thursday July 12th. Registration: Registration will be available from 5 till 7:30 pm outside the Lakeview reception room on the 27th floor at 89 Chestnut. For the rest of the meeting, registration tables will be set up outside the Ballroom on the 2nd floor at 89 Chestnut. During the workshops, registration tables will be set up in Bahen building outside rooms 1180 and 1190. Wireless internet will be available in the Ballroom for the duration of the main meeting. Refreshments: Included in your registration kit will be drink tickets that can be used at the cash bars setup at the reception, poster sessions and parties at 89 Chestnut. There will be no charge for non-alcoholic beverages. Coffee/tea and water will be available for the duration of the oral sessions with light snacks available in the morning and afternoon. Oral Sessions: The meeting room will be equipped with audio visual equipment. An LCD projector will be available for all speakers to use and the main meeting room is supplied with a large screen and microphones. A laptop with standard software (i.e., powerpoint) will be available to load your talks ahead of time via USB or CD. If you have non-standard needs, please plan to provide your own laptop and software. Please plan to leave the Ballroom as soon as possible after oral sessions on Sunday and Monday to allow tables and chairs from the oral session to be removed and poster boards setup. Poster Sessions: Poster setup starts at 6:30 pm on Sunday and Monday, and each poster session goes from 7 till 10 pm. Poster boards are 8 ft (wide) by 4 ft. Pins will be available at registration, and some tables and chairs will be setup between poster boards. If you require plug outlets, be sure to inform the local organizer as soon as possible so that arrangements can be made. Please plan to remove your posters no later than 10:30 pm as poster boards will be removed soon thereafter. A cash bar along with cheese and vegetables will be available during each poster session. Program and board members will select the best student presentations for prizes to be given at the end of the meeting. 4 Lunches, Dinners and sightseeing: In the pages following the abstracts, attendees will find a sampling of restaurants in the area. We are close to Chinatown, Baldwin and Kensington market, all of which have several eating establishments. However, if you walk in any direction, you will find a variety of dining options. There are also several activities that you can enjoy. You can take a ferry ride to Toronto island, challenge yourself to cross the glass floor atop the CN tower, visit the Royal Ontario Museum, the Hockey Hall of Fame, or Harborfront and much more. Much shopping, theatre and nightlife is available in the area. We are also less than a two hour drive from Niagara Falls. Maps of the downtown Toronto area and the downtown campus of the University of Toronto, and Toronto tourism booklets will be available at the registration table. Toronto information and attractions can be found at http://www.toronto.com/ , http://www.torontotourism.com/visitor Harbor Cruise: Boarding for the harbor cruise begins at 6:30 pm and the boat leaves at 7 pm sharp (i.e., arriving at 6:55 pm is ok, arriving at 7:05 pm is not ok). A dinner of chicken vegetable pasta, chicken soulvaki style served with salad and dinner rolls will be available starting at boarding time. Coffee/tea and desserts will be available later in the cruise. A cash bar will be available onboard (two free drink tickets will be provided), and live DJ entertainment will be available (you are encouraged to provide your requests to the DJ). Directions and maps to the boarding location can be found on following pages. CNS*07 Parties: Immediately following the poster sessions on Sunday and Monday there will be dancing, hot hors d’oeuvres and a continuing cash bar in the Ballroom. A dance floor will be setup, and on Sunday, music will be provided by “Panman Pat” (Caribbean style steelband music). On Monday, a wide variety of music (rock, disco, reggae etc.) will be available for your dancing pleasure. Feel free to design playlists from the available music or bring your own music to download via USB or CD. Workshops: Workshop details available to date, and maps and directions can be found in later pages. Please sign up for workshops that you plan to attend so that appropriate room sizes can be allocated. Signup sheets will be available at the registration table. Refreshment breaks will take place from 10-11 am and 3-4 pm each day outside rooms 1180 and 1190 in the Bahen building. Projectors and screens will be available in the workshop meeting rooms. If you wish to organize a workshop ‘on the fly’, please talk to the local organizer as soon as possible to ensure room availability. 5 Welcome and Acknowledgements Welcome to CNS*2007! The international Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS) has been a premier forum for presenting experimental and theoretical results exploring the biology of computation in the nervous system for the last 16 years. The meeting is organized by the Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS), a non-profit organization governed by an international executive committee and board of directors. A separate program committee is responsible for the scientific program of the meeting. Participants at the meeting are from academia and industry. The meeting not only provides a venue for research presentation and discussion by senior scientists but actively offers a forum for promoting and supporting young scientists and students from around the world. Welcome to Toronto! This meeting is being held in Canada for the first time, and the timing has been coordinated with the first ever Canadian summer school in Computational Neuroscience (organized by André Longtin in Ottawa). This meeting is made possible by the contributions of many individuals. I would like to thank the administrative and computing staff at the Toronto Western Research Institute for their help and support. In particular, I would like to express my appreciation to Poonam Bains and Crystal Leverman, whose help was invaluable from the very early planning stages to the present. I would also like to thank the cadre of student helpers (Darrell, Ernest, Eunji, Jesse, Marija, Raquel, Tariq) as well as key people at various junctures (Fernanda Saraga, Mary Pugh, Martin Wojtowicz, Melanie Woodin).
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