French-Israeli
Binational Neuroscience Meeting
High
Brain Functions: Multidisciplinary Approach for Distributed Neural
Systems
Ma'ale
Hachamisha, Israel, 15 - 18 November, 2004
Preliminary
schedule (Updated November 3, 2004)
Monday, 15
8:00-8:50 Registration
8:50-11:00 Sensory processing I
Opening remarks
Chairperson: Idan Segev
Lyle Graham (France): In vivo conductance dynamics of cortical neurons
Cyril Monier (France): Functional diversity in the
balance between excitation and inhibition in the cortex
Carl Van Vreeswijk (France): Contrast invariance and variability in a
model of a V1 hypercolumn
Amos Arieli (Israel): Organization and function of cortical cell
assemblies
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Sensory processing II
Chairperson: Misha Tsodyks
Dov Sagi (Israel): Limiting factors in perceptual decisions
Daniel Pressnitzer (France): Some neural correlates of auditory scene
analysis
Israel Nelken (Israel): Transformations of stimulus representations in
the ascending auditory system
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:30 Memory Systems I
Chairperson: Bruno Poucet
Aline Marighetto / Stéphane Valério (France):
Relational/declarative vs. procedural memory in mice
Aline Desmedt / Ludovic Calandreau (France): Neurobiological basis of
two memory representations of an aversive experience in rodents
Jacques Micheau / Pierre Trifilieff (France): ERK/CREB
signalling pathway activation during memory consolidation: some
insights on the interaction between cellular level and system level
consolidation
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Synaptic Plasticity as a Basis for Memory I
Chairperson: Kobi Rosenblum
Yadin Dudai (Israel): The fate of the memory trace after its
reactivation
Susan Sara (France): Late "now print" signal from the locus
coeruleus for memory consolidation
Menahem Segal (Israel): Persistent modification of network activity in
cultured hippocampal neurons
19:00 Cocktail organized by the French Embassy in Israel
Tuesday, 16
9:00-10:30 The Somatosensory System
Chairperson: Israel Nelken
Ilan Lampl (Israel) : Supralinear summation of inhibition underlies
sublinear spatial integration in the barrel cortex
Daniel Shulz (France) : Non linear multi-whisker
interactions and synaptic time-dependent plasticity in the barrel
cortex
David Golomb (Israel): A model of frequency-dependent latency in the
vibrissa system
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Exciting GABA
Chairperson: David Golomb
Yesekiel Ben-Ari (France): GABA: a pioneer transmitter in the
development of neurons and networks
Alain Marty (France): Osmotic tension as a possible link between
activation of GABA A receptors and postsynaptic calcium elevation
Yossi Yarom (Israel): GABA, Chloride and circadian rhythm
12:30-14:30 Lunch break and poster session
14:30 Tour in Jerusalem
20:00 Signature of the agreement for a Laboratoire Franco-israelien de physiologie et neurophysique des systemes
Wednesday, 17
8:30-10:30 Motor System I
Chairperson: Daniel Zytnicki
Bernard Bioulac (France): Anterior cingulate cortex : neuronal
activity in motor planning in the monkey. Error detection and conflict
monitoring
Tamar Flash (Israel): On the construction and control of complex
movements
Eilon Vaadia (Israel): Learning
induced improvement of internal representations in motor cortex
Alexa Riehle (France): Neuronal representation of time and probability
in monkey motor cortex
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Motor System II
Chairperson: Eilon Vaadia
Yifat Prut (Israel): Descending control of voluntary movements in
primates: evoked and ongoing corticospinal interactions
Daniel Zytnicki (France): Investigating synaptic integration in spinal
motoneurons with dynamic clamp
Claude Meunier (France): How membrane properties shape the current -
frequency curves of motoneurons
Moshe Abeles (Israel): Single neuron = single function ?
13:00-14:30 Poster Lunch
14:30- 16:00 Synaptic Plasticity as a Basis for Memory II
Chairperson: Yadin Dudai
Kobi Rosenblum (Israel): A molecular switch for translational control
during taste memory consolidation in the taste cortex
Edi Barkai (Israel): A cellular mechanism for learning-induced
metaplasticity
Guillaume Ferreira (France) : Interactions between insular cortex
and basolateral amygdala during taste aversion memory formation
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Memory Systems II
Chairperson: Nicolas Brunel
Gal Richter-Levin (Israel): Amygdala modulation of hippocampal
plasticity
Mouna Maroun (Israel): Mechanisms of memory consolidation in the
prefrontal cortex
Bruno Poucet (France) : Spatial navigation relies on both the
hippocampus and prefrontal cortex: electrophysiological evidence
Georges DiScala (France): Olfactory learning in food selection in
rats.
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, 18
9:00-11:00 Theoretical Models of Learning and Memory
Chairperson: Gal Richter-Levin
Haim Sompolinsky (Israel): Neural mechanisms of short-term memory
Nicolas Brunel (Paris): Optimal information storage and the
distribution of synaptic weights
Misha Tsodyks (Israel): Associative memory of sensory objects - theory
and experiments
David Horn (Israel): Motif and syntax extraction from sequential
data
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Basal Ganglia I
Chairperson: Christian Gross
Hagai Bergman (Israel): Physiological studies of information
processing in the normal and Parkinsonian basal ganglia
Jérome Yelnik (France): Basal ganglia processing of motor,
cognitive and limbic information: modeling from experimental and
clinical data
Claude Feuerstein (France): How do basal ganglia networks work?
Evidences from neurochemical investigations using DBS (Deep Brain
Stimulation)
13:00-15:00 Lunch break and poster session
15:00-16:30 Basal Ganglia II
Chairperson: Hagai Bergman
David Hansel (Paris): A model of the Basal Ganglia physiology and
pathophysiology based on a competition between direct and hyperdirect
pathways
Thomas Boraud (France): Parkinsonian motor impairment precedes the
appearance of oscillating activity and synchronisation of globus
pallidus neurons.
16:30-17:30 Concluding Session: Toward a reinforcement of the
French-Israeli neuroscientific cooperation
Jean-Christophe Auffray: Scientific Attachee, French Embassy in Tel
Aviv
Bernard Bioulac: Directeur Adjoint Sciences de la Vie, CNRS
Jean-Claude Picard: President of the Association
Franco-Israelienne pour la Recherche en Neuroscience (AFIRNE,
France)
Didier Toubia: BIOMED, Israel