Program 2025

Updated on 16 April

  • All the lectures take place in the Seminar Room, OIST Seaside House unless otherwise indicated.
  • Meetings with faculty take place in Meeting room 1 and 2

Week 1 (June 23-28) : Methods

Opening sessions: Monday 23

  • Greetings from the organizer, 9:30-10:00 (Erik De Schutter)
  • Opening lecture, 10:00-12:00 by Jeff Wickens (OIST)
  • Docker image trouble shooting session, 14:00-15:00. by Weiliang Chen *optional
  • Poster session by participants (15:00-16:00 Group1 / 16:00-17:00 Group2)
    • Please prepare a poster of your current/recent work.
    • Size : A0-A1, Dimension:  W841mm x H1,189mm, Orientation : portrait
    • Posters will be hung at the Lobby hall of the seaside house through the course period.
  • Welcome dinner, 18:00-

Lectures(9:30-12:30)

  • Tuesday 24: "1. Ion channel physiology and the Hodgkin-Huxley model of neuronal activity, 2. Functional optical imaging", Bernd Kuhn (OIST)
  • Wednesday 25: "Introduction to modeling neurons", Erik De Schutter (OIST)
  • Thursday 26: "Modeling biochemical reactions, diffusion and reaction-diffusion systems", Erik De Schutter
  • Friday 27: "Neural network modeling of cognitive functions", Tomoki Fukai (OIST)
  • Saturday 28: "Introduction to reinforcement learning and Bayesian inference", Kenji Doya (OIST)

Tutorials

  • Monday 23 (14:00-15:00) Docker image trouble shooting session by Weiliang Chen *optional
  • Tuesday 24 (14:00-15:00)  Introduction of the tutors
  • Tuesday 24 (15:00-17:00) Python by Kevin Max
  • Wednesday 25 (14:00-16:00) Brian by Daniel Muller-Komorowska
  • Wednesday 25 (16:00-18:00) STEPS by Iain Hepburn, Jules Lallouette
  • Thursday 26 (14:00-16:00) NEURON by Daniel Muller-Komorowska
  • Thursday 26 (16:00-18:00)  SPM by Ashley Tyrer *optional
  • Friday 27 (14:00-17:00) DeepLabCut by Saffira Yan Tjon *optional
  • Saturday 28 (14:00-16:00) Behavioral modeling by PyStan

Week 2 (June 30- July 5): Neurons, Networks and Behavior 1

Lectures(9:30-12:30)

  • Monday 30: Lecture by Alexander Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Wednesday 2: Lecture by Mackenzie Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Thursday 3: Lecture by  Padmini Rangamani (University of California San Diego, USA)
  • Friday 4: Lecture by OIST faculty
  • Saturday 5: Lecture by OIST faculty

DeepLabCut Workshop on Tuesday 1, 9:00-18:00

-We will leave for OIST Main campus by the shuttle bus.
-For the return, please take the shuttle leaving at 19:30pm (OIST=>Seaside House).

Week 3 (July 7-10): Neurons, Networks and Behavior 2

Lectures(9:30-12:30)

  • Monday 7: Lecture by Yu Takagi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Tuesday 8: Lecture by Lucy Palmer (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Wednesday 9: Lecture by Tim Vogel (IST Austria)
  • Thursday 10: Lecture by OIST faculty

Thursday, 10 July: Final presentation by Students(14:00-17:30)

Faculty-Students meetings(in Week2 and Week3)

  • Students have the chance to ask any questions, have discussions, ask for advises on their works, etc.
  • The topics and meeting length (at the longest 2hrs) are all up to meeting participants.
  • We will allocate a limited number of students(max. 8 people) to each lecturer based on students' requests.
  • A sign-up sheet: to be opned during the OCNC.