Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches to Understanding Circuit Processing: Meeting in the Middle
Studies of the nervous system at the biophysical and network level have provided valuable, albeit occasionally disparate, insights into the ways in which neural circuits transform and represent information. This small meeting sought to identify and develop strategies that will enable results obtained from diverse approaches and perspectives to best complement each other.
The meeting emphasized two broad themes, including 1) Identifying general principles of neural computation by studying circuits at different levels, and 2) Identifying causal relationships between the biophysical, circuit, and functional characteristics of neurons in vivo.
Organizers
Andrea Hasenstaub, The Salk Institute
Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Gabe Murphy, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Nicholas Priebe, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Participants
Larry Abbott, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Alexander Borst, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
Ed Callaway, The Salk Institute
Matteo Carandini, University College London
Jessica Cardin, Yale University School of Medicine
Frances Chance, University of California, Irvine
Allison Doupe, University of California, San Francisco
Joshua Dudman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Florian Engert, Harvard University
Michale Fee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine
Nace Golding, University of Texas at Austin
Anthony Leonardo, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Bence Ölveczky, Harvard University
Eva Pastalkova, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Massimo Scanziani, University of California, San Diego
Idan Segev, Hebrew University
Angus Silver, University College London
Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School
