Dear all,

We are happy to announce the 1st Bilbao Neuroscience and Computational Biology workshop (BioNCB'20) which will take place in Bilbao (Spain) at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) from the 27th to the 29th May 2020. This 3-day international workshop aims at presenting recent exciting advances and challenges in Neuroscience and Computational Biology: Mathematical modelling, Data Analysis and Experiments. Confirmed speakers are leading experts, which will stimulate discussions at the interface of the aforementioned subjects.

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Plenary speakers

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Karl Friston (University College London, UK)

Misha Tsodyks (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA)

Alain Destexhe (UNIC Lab, CNRS, France)

Hugues Berry (Inria Rhône Alpes, France)

Maria V Sanchez-Vives (IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain)

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Invited speakers

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Daniele Avitabile (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Paolo Bonifazi (Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain)

Jesus M Cortes (Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain)

Anda Degeratu (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)

Juan Manuel Encinas (Achucarro - The Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Spain)

Héctor García Martin (UC Berkeley, USA)

Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Toni Guillamon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

Mazahir T Hasan (Achucarro - The Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Spain)

Mauricio Rincón Bonilla (BCAM, Bilbao, Spain)

Nathalie Rouach (Collège de France, Paris, France)

Susanne Schreiber (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

Antonio E Teruel (Universitat de les Illes Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

Yulia Timofeeva (University of Warwick, UK)

Pablo Varona (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

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Call for poster presentations

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We are welcoming contributions for poster presentation. We will have two 1-hour poster sessions on the first and second morning of the meeting. This will give opportunities to students, postdocs and junior colleagues to present their work, get good exposure to foster discussions early on in the meeting.

Registration and submission deadline for posters: 31 March 2020

For more informations about poster submission and registration, please visit the workshop's webpage:

https://wp.bcamath.org/bioncb20/

We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Bilbao!

The organizing committee,

Serafim Rodrigues (BCAM), Mathieu Desroches (Inria), Elena Akhmatskaia (BCAM), Andrea Guidolin (BCAM) and Jone Uria Albizuri (BCAM).