Micro-, meso- and macro- connectomics of the brain

The Fondation Ipsen organizes a symposium with all the celebrities in connectomics, in Paris, May 05, 2014.
See the program below or all details in this pdf.

Scientific Committee:
Henry Kennedy, David C. van Essen, Yves Christen

8:30 am Yves Christen
Welcoming remarks

SESSION 1
8:45 am Terrence J. Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA)
Nanoconnectomics

9:15 am Cori Bargmann (The Rockefeller University, New York, USA)
Fixed circuits and flexible behaviors in C. elegans

9:45 am Winfried Denk (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany)
Structural neurobiology

10:15 am Posters and coffee break

10:45 am Edward M. Callaway (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA)
Molecular, genetic, viral and optical approaches for linking neural ciruits to brain function

11:15 am Karl Deisseroth (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
Optical deconstruction of fully-assembled biological systems

11:45 am Andreas Burkhalter (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA)
Connecting the network of mouse visual cortex to behavior

12:15 pm Henry Kennedy (Inserm U846, Bron, France)
The densely connected cortex

12:45 pm Lunch and posters

SESSION 2
2:00 pm Wim Vanduffel (Massachussetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA)
Title to be provided

2:30 pm David C. van Essen (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA)
The human connectome project

3:00 pm Olaf Sporns (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Connectome networks - from cells to systems

3:30 pm Posters and coffee break

4:00 pm Kevan Martin (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland))
How to survive without a connectome

4:30 pm Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer (Université de Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France)
Intra- and inter-hemispheric connectivity supporting hemispheric specialization

5:00 pm Paul Thompson (UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA)
Genetics of the connectome and the ENIGMA project

5:30 pm Conclusion