Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the 4th edition of the Neuronal morphology and structure workshop at CNS*2018, Seattle, USA.

The workshop will be held at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, July 17 .

Our confirmed invited speakers are the following:

• Hollis Cline (Scripps Research Institute) (keynote)  --  "In vivo time-lapse imaging analysis of neuronal structure and functional plasticity"
  
• Ruth Benavides-Piccione (Instituto Cajal, Spain) -- "The microanatomy of pyramidal cells"
  
• Staci Sorensen, (Allen Institute, USA) -- "Morphological, electrophysiological and transcriptional descriptions of cortical cell types"
  
• Erik De Schutter (OIST, Japan) -- "The Purkinje cell dendrite causes its unique firing rate-dependent phase response curve"
  
• Uygar Sümbül (Allen Institute, USA) -- "Quantifying neuroanatomy"
  
• Lida Kanari (EPFL, Switzerland) -- "Randomness and structure in artificially generated neuronal networks"
  
• Casey Schneider-Mizell (Janelia Research Campus, USA) -- "The neuroanatomy of connectivity in the Drosophila larva"
  
• Kurt Haas (University of British Columbia, Canada) -- "Dynamic morphometrics: Rapid time-lapse imaging and quantification of experience-driven dendrite growth"
  
• Sophie Laturnus (Universität Tübingen, Germany) -- "A systematic comparison of neural morphology representations for cell type discrimination"
  
• Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute, USA) -- ''Morphology as a key feature for neuronal cell type classification''
  

Please see our website for more details.

Organising Committee:

Alexander Bird   (Ernst Strüngmann Institute and FIAS, Frankfurt)

André Castro     (Ernst Strüngmann Institute and FIAS, Frankfurt)

Hermann Cuntz (Ernst Strüngmann Institute and FIAS, Frankfurt)