Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains (TP24NM)
We are excited to announce the TSVP Thematic Program "Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains". The program will run from July 1 - August 12, 2024. All activities will take place at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
A symposium connected to the program will be held from July 8-12, 2024.
Title: Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning: Theoretical Lessons Learned From Invertebrate and Vertebrate Brains
Abstract: In this thematic program, we will focus on how the multiscale organization of neuromodulatory systems affects real-time adaptation and meta-learning by shaping micro and mesoscale connectivity in various invertebrate and vertebrate species - cephalopods, songbirds, rodents, primates and humans. The program will bring together a critical pool of experimentalists and theoreticians to discuss how neuromodulators dynamically regulate local and inter-areal connectivity, synaptic plasticity and neuronal excitability in biological neural networks across animal species. A crucial goal of our program is to utilize the biological know-how on rich spatio-temporal patterns of connectivity to develop new theories, which could lead to the development of “neuromodulation-aware” artificial neural networks to enable real-time adaptation, and therefore, continual learning.
Program coordinators
Srikanth Ramaswamy, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Arvind Kumar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Upinder Bhalla, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Vatsala Thirumalai, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Confirmed Participants
| Last Name | First name | Home Institution | Arrival | Departure |
| Zhang | Yanfeng | University of Exeter | 2024-08-05 | 2024-08-12 |
| Higley | Michael | Yale University | 2024-08-04 | 2024-08-12 |
| Bogacz | Rafal | University of Oxford | 2024-08-04 | 2024-08-11 |
| Cardin | Jessica | Yale University | 2024-08-04 | 2024-08-11 |
| Disney | Anita | Duke University | 2024-08-04 | 2024-08-11 |
| Yagishita | Sho | The University of Tokyo | 2024-08-04 | 2024-08-11 |
| Mohebi | Ali | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2024-07-30 | 2024-08-03 |
| Narayanan | Rishikesh | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 2024-07-29 | 2024-08-05 |
| Shea-Brown | Eric | University of Washington | 2024-07-29 | 2024-08-01 |
| Ip | Jacques | Chinese University of Hongkong | 2024-07-28 | 2024-08-01 |
| Guo | Lihao | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm | 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-12 |
| Harkin | Emerson Frazier | Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics | 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-04 |
| Totah | Nelson | University of Helsinki | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-28 |
| Li | Yulong | Peking University | 2024-07-21 | 2024-07-24 |
| Tsurumi | Takayuki | The University of Tokyo | 2024-07-11 | 2024-07-13 |
| Silberberg | Gilad Daniel | Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm | 2024-07-08 | 2024-07-25 |
| Mei | Jie | University of Tokyo, IRCN | 2024-07-08 | 2024-07-12 |
| Morita | Kenji | The University of Tokyo | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-13 |
| Safavi | Shervin | TU Dresden and MPI for Biological Cybernetics | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-13 |
| Watabe-Uchida | Mitsuko | Harvard University | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-13 |
| Uchida | Naoshige | Harvard University | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-13 |
| Shine | James | The University of Sydney | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-12 |
| Kato | Ayaka | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-11 |
| Parr | Thomas | Oxford University | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-10 |
| Johansen | Joshua | RIKEN Center for Brain Science | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-09 |
| McHugh | Thomas John | RIKEN Center for Brain Science | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-09 |
| Goldberg | Joshua | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 2024-07-07 | 2024-08-09 |
| Kumar | Arvind | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm | 2024-07-07 | 2024-08-07 |
| Bhalla | Upinder | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-18 |
| Thirumalai | Vatsala | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore | 2024-07-07 | 2024-07-15 |
| Ramaswamy | Srikanth | Newcastle University | 2024-07-01 | 2024-08-29 |
OIST Participants
De Schutter, Erik
Doya, Kenji
Fukai, Tomoki
Fukunaga, Izumi
Goda, Yukiko
Kuhn, Bernd
Miyazaki, Katsuhiko
Reiter, Sam
Tani, Jun
Wickens, Jeff
Yazaki-Sugiyama, Yoko
Weekly schedule