8:00-9:00

Registration and Breakfast.

9:00-9:05

Opening Remarks

9:05-9:10

Paul Katz
Center for Neural Communication and Computation at GSU

9:10-10:00

Morning lecture I:
Eve Marder
Variability, homeostasis, and compensation in neural oscillators.

10:00-10:50

Morning lecture II:
David Terman
Dynamic Clustering in a Model for an Insect's Antennal Lobe

10:50-11:15

Coffee Break

Short Talks

11:15-11:40

Gennady Cymbalyuk
Bifurcations and regulation of bursting activity

11:40-12:05

Astrid Prinz
Distribution of bursting model neurons in an eight-dimensional conductance space

12:05-12:25

Attila Szücs
Synaptic and cellular properties shaping the intraburst spike dynamics of pyloric neurons.

12:30-13:50

Lunch

13:50-14:40

Afternoon lecture:
Nino Ramirez
The differential roles of pacemaker neurons in controlling different parameters of the respiratory rhythm

Short Talks

14.40-15:05

Thomas Nowotny
Can we build accurate conductance based models to investigate the origin of bursting?

15:05-15:30

Jorge Golowasch
Pacemaker activity recovery after decentralization: role of neuromodulators and calcium pump

15:40-16:00

16:00-16:25

Andrey Olypher
Inactivation rate of the low-threshold Ca 2+ current controls burst duration in the leech heart interneurons

16:25-16:50

Mark Pernarowski
Map characterizations of a model of bursting exhibiting bistability

16:50-17:15

Dieter Jaeger
Bursting properties of deep cerebellar nucleus neurons:   induced,  driven, rebound.

17:15-17:40

Nikolai Rulkov
Replicating spiking-bursting behavior with map-based models

17:40-18:05

Georgi Medvedev
Transition to bursting via deterministic chaos

18:05 - 18:30

Evening break, posters

18:30-19:20

Evening lecture:
John Guckenheimer
A Mathematician Tries to Walk: Modeling Locomotion.

19:30-22:00

Reception and Dinner. Posters

8:00-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-9.50

Morning lecture I:
Bard Ermentrout
Why a duck: Hopf bifurcations, canards, and elliptic bursters

9:50-10:40

Morning lecture II:
John Rinzel
Network bursting without cellular burst mechanisms

10:40-11:10

Coffee Break

Short Talks

11:10-11:35

Igor Belykh
Synchronized bursting: what matters in the network topology

11:35-12:00

Carmen Canavier
Independent Regulation of Firing Pattern and Rate in a Model of a Midbrain Dopamine Neuron

12:00-12:25

Andrey Shilnikov
Homoclinic chaos on a spike adding route into bursting in a neuronal model

12:25-13:45

Lunch

13:45-14:35

Afternoon lecture:
Jeffrey C. Smith
Oscillatory bursting mechanisms in respiratory neurons

Short Talks

14:35-15:00

Robert Butera , Significance of pacemaker vs. non-pacemaker neurons in an excitatory rhythmic network

15:00-15:25

Ilya Rybak
Bursting and tonic activity states of the pre-Bötzinger complex and respiratory rhythm generation

15:25-16:05

Coffee break

16:05-16:30

Maxim Bazhenov
Coexistence of tonic firing and bursting in cortical neurons

16:30-16:55

Victor Matveev
Multistability in a two-cell inhibitory network with T-like currents

16:55-17:20

Joel Tabak
Low dose of dopamine may stimulate prolactin secretion by increasing fast potassium currents

17:20-17:45

Janet Best
Bursting versus episodic firing in hypothalamic neurosecretory cells

17:45-18:15

Evening break, posters

18:15-18:40

Paul Katz
A role for intrinsic neuromodulation in the Tritonia swim central pattern generator

18:40-18:45

Donald Edwards
Brain and Behaviors Program at GSU

18:45-19:10

Donald Edwards
ANIMATLAB: a physically accurate 3-D environment for behavioral neurobiology research.

19:10-21:00

Dinner. Posters