How to Read a Map: Understanding Structure-Function Relationships in the Brain
Across organisms and brain regions, neurons are often organized into stereotypical columns and maps based on a sensory or motor parameter, for example, retinotopy, or the direction of a reaching movement. A large body of work has focused on factors contributing to the development of such order in the brain. This short-talk- and discussion-based meeting addressed the relationship between stereotypical structure and neural circuit function. How do map-like neuronal arrangements shape neural computation and ultimately behavior? Are common circuit modules used across a range of sensory or motor parameters? What broad classes of excitatory and inhibitory interactions within and across structural units underlie an ordered circuit's function? Why is topographical organization more pronounced in some brain regions/species than others? How do multi-sensory or sensory and motor maps interact, and how does experience alter this interaction?
Organizers
Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Minoru Koyama, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
May-Britt Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Invited Participants
James Bednar, University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth Buffalo, Emory University
Matteo Carandini, University College London
Catherine Carr, University of Maryland
Tansu Celikel, Radbound University Nijmegen
Maurice Chacron, McGill University
Amiram Grinvald, Weizmann Institute of Science
Uwe Homberg, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Andrew King, University of Oxford
Kevan Martin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Richard Mooney, Duke University
Tirin Moore, HHMI/Stanford University
Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tom Mrsic-Flogel, University College London
Tim Murphy, University of British Columbia
Shreesh Mysore, Johns Hopkins University
Idan Segev, Hebrew University
Gordon M.G. Shepherd, Northwestern University
Gordon M. Shepherd, Yale School of Medicine
S. Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
Michael Stryker, University of California, San Francisco
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Guangying Wu, George Washington University
Robert Wurtz, National Institutes of Health
