Dear all,
We are pleased to announce a workshop on “Computational approaches for studying astrocyte dynamics and astrocyte-neuron communication” at this year’s Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2021).
This workshop will run over 2 half-days: July 6-7 (9 am – 12:30 pm UTC-7).
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Brief Description:
Exciting experimental studies in the last decade have led to an entirely new body of work on the participation of astrocytes in normal and pathological brain function. However, the development of a solid theoretical framework to support and quantify some of the pathways has been somewhat limited, first, due to the lack of intensive collaboration between experimentalists and theorists, and second, due to a persistent neurocentrist view of brain function.
Please join us to hear from an incredible lineup of speakers, bringing together specialists, theorists, and experimentalists in the field of astrocyte-neuron signaling:
Yukiko Goda, Riken, Japan
Alla Borisyuk, University of Utah, USA
Jennifer Shih, MIT, USA
Annalisa Scimemi, University of Albany, USA
Guoqiang Yu, Virginia Tech, USA
Laszlo Heja, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Anup Pillai, University of Ottawa, Canada
Renaud Jolivet, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Max Collard, UCSF, USA
Audrey Denizot, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Ron Refaeli, The Hebrew University, Israel
Kerstin Lenk, Graz University of Technology, Austria
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More information on the workshop at: https://astrocytenet.org/cns2021-online-workshop/
Register and gain access to all CNS*2021 presentations, tutorials, and workshops at:
https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2021
We look forward to your participation!
On behalf of the workshop organizers:
Kerstin Lenk, Institute for Neural Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Audrey Denizot, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Computational Neuroscience Unit, Onna-Son, Japan
Barbara Genocchi, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, BioMediTech, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Suhita Nadkarni, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), Pune, India
Marsa Taheri, Department of Neurobiology, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA
Contact information: cns2021.astro.workshop@gmail.com