Focus Program on "Towards Mathematical Modeling of Neurological Disease from Cellular Perspectives"
Alzheimer's Disease/Pharmaceuticals Workshop
May 31-June 1, 2012
Location: The Fields Institute, Room 230

Organizing Committee
Larry Abbott (Columbia Univ.), Sue Ann Campbell (Univ. Waterloo),
Nancy Kopell (Boston Univ.), Frances Skinner (TWRI/UHN and Univ Toronto),
David Terman (Ohio State Univ.)

Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS)

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Confirmed Speakers:

Vassilis Cutsuridis (King's College, London)
Barry Greenberg (TWRI/UHN)
Mike Hasselmo (Boston Univ)
Hinke Osinga (Univ Auckland)
Patrick Roberts (Oregon Health and Sciences Univ)
Horacio Rotstein (New Jersey Inst Tech)
Gerold Schmitt-Ulms, University of Toronto
Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi (Univ Toronto)
Sylvain Williams (Douglas Inst and McGill Univ)

Workshop Schedule (abstracts)

Thursday, May 31, 2012
8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Wecome Remarks
9:15-10:05	Sylvain Williams, McGill University Very early changes in hippocampal network rhythms before Aß appearance in an Alzheimer mouse model
10:05-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:20	Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi, University of Toronto Communication between the entorhinal and medial prefrontal cortices underlying the expression of associative memory
11:20-12:10	Michael E. Hasselmo, Boston University Physiological properties of entorhinal cortex and a model of Alzheimer's disease supporting treatment with NMDA receptor blockers and muscarinic M4 agonists
12:10-1:30	Lunch (at Fields)/posters
1:30-2:20	Hinke Osinga, University of Auckland Spike-adding mechanisms in transient bursts
2:20-3:10	Vassilis Cutsuridis, King's College, London Encoding and retrieval of episodic memories in the animal hippocampus
3:10-3:30	Coffee break
3:30-4:20	Horacio Rotstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology Mechanisms of frequency preference response to oscillatory inputs in reduced neural models
Friday, June 1, 2012
8:30-9:00	Coffee and Registration
9-9:50	Gerold Schmitt-Ulms, University of Toronto Untangling molecular complexity of AD in search for diagnostic markers and disease intervention strategies
9:50-10:40	Barry Greenberg, Toronto Western Research Institute Hurdles in preclinical in vivo studies for Alzheimer's disease
10:40-11	Coffee break
11-11:50	Patrick Roberts, Oregon Health and Sciences University Simulations of Symptomatic Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease
11:50-2:00	Lunch (at Fields) with brainstorming session. Facilitator: P. Roberts (Oregon)

Participants:

Full Name	University Name
Bavaghar-Zaeimi, Fatemeh	Ryerson University
Binder, Tammy
Campbell, Sue Ann	University of Waterloo
Chen, Tse Chiang	Toronto Western Research Institute, UHN
Chung, Min In
Cutsuridis, Vassilis	King's College, London
Dumont, Gregory	INRIA
Dur-e-Ahmad, Muhammad	Lahore University of Management Sciences
Ferguson, Katie	University of Toronto
Fister, K. Renee	Murray State University
Greenberg, Barry	University Health Network - Toronto Western Research Institute
Haskell, Evan	Nova Southeastern University
Hasselmo, Michael	Boston University
Ho, Ernest	TWRI, UHN and Univ Toronto
Imran, Mudassar	LUMS
Jalil, Sajiya	Georgia State University
Jeanson, Francis	Carleton University
Krivoruchko, Taisya	University of Calgary
Martin, Adrian	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
McCormick, Cornelia	Toronto Western Hospital - Neuropsychology
Osinga, Hinke	The University of Auckland
Roberts, Patrick	In Silico Biosciences, Inc.
Rotstein, Horacio	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Saudargiene, Ausra	Vytautas Magnus University
Schmitt-Ulms, Gerold	University of Toronto
Sekulic, Vladislav	University of Toronto
Skinner, Frances K.	Toronto Western Research Institute, UHN and Univ Toronto
Sritharan, Srihari	Brown University
Takehara-Nishiuchi, Kaori	University of Toronto
Tanninen, Stephanie	University of Toronto
Terman, David	The Ohio State University
van der Meer, Matt	University of Waterloo
Visser, Sid	University of Twente
Weaver, Christina	Franklin & Marshall College
Williams, Sylvain	McGill University

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