Conference Program

Wednesday, January 6^th, 2016

3:15 pm                      Bus departure to Autrans from Grenoble Gare Routière (cf map)

4:15 pm                      Arrival of participants / room check-in / poster installation

5:30 -7:00 pm             Welcome cocktail / Posters / Exhibits

7:00 -8:30 pm             Dinner

8:30-10:30 pm - SESSION 1: Multichannel technologies: From materials to systems

8:30 pm    Patrick Ruther (IMTEK, Freiburg, Germany)

                 Interfacing with the Brain using Organic Electronics

9:30 pm    Timothée Lévi (IMS, Talence, France)

                 Digital Biomimetic Spiking Neural Network for closed-loop systems 

9:50 pm    Gaëlle Offranc Piret (Clinatec-Lab U1205, Grenoble, France)

                 Nanostructured diamond microelectrode arrays for neural interfacing 

10:10 pm  Cécile Delacour (Institut Néel, Grenoble, France)

                 Graphene Transistors for Detection of Neuronal Activity

Thursday, January 7^th, 2016

8:30-10:30 am - SESSION 2: Micro and macro neural stimulation

8:30 am    Sliman Bensmaia (University of Chicago, USA)

Biological and bionic hands: Natural neural coding and artificial perception

9:00 am    Serge Picaud (The Vision Institute, Paris, France)

                MEA in Vision: from visual function to visual restoration

9:30 am    Alexandre Fouchard (GIN, Grenoble, France)

                Towards in vivo peripheral nerve imaging using electrical impedance tomography 

9:50 am    Sandrine Maubert (CEA-Léti, Grenoble, France)

                Selective recording and stimulation in Vagus Nerve Stimulation  applications

10:10 am  Giulia Spampinato (The Vision Institute, Paris, France)

                Advanced Neural Circuit Analysis by Combining High-Resolution Optogenetic Stimulation, Two-Photon Imaging and Electrophysiology 

10:30-11:30 am    Coffee break (sponsored by ATLAS Neuroengineering) / Posters / Exhibits

11:30-12:20 pm - SESSION 3 (part 1): Brain-Computer Interfaces 

11:30 am    Beata Jarosiewicz (Brown University, Providence, USA)

 Toward a self-calibrating intracortical brain-computer interface for people with tetraplegia

12:00 pm    Schaeffer Marie-Caroline (CEA-Léti Clinatec, Grenoble, France)

                  Markovian Mixture of Experts for 3D wrist movement decoding from ECoG recordings 

12:20-1:15 pm           Lunch

1:15-4:30 pm             Outdoor activities

4:30-5:00 pm             Hot wine / Posters / Exhibits

5:00-6:10 pm - SESSION 3 (part 2): Brain-Computer Interfaces 

5:00 pm   Guillaume Charvet (Clinatec, Grenoble, France)

              Brain Driven Robotized Exoskeleton for Motor Deficit Compensation in Post-traumatic Tetraplegic Patients

5:30 pm   Prückl Robert (g.Tec, Schiedelberg, Austria)

                Fingertip separation using High-Gamma Somatosensory Activity extracted from ECoG

5:50 pm   Florent Bocquelet (Clinatec-Lab U1205, Grenoble, France)

                 Real-time Articulatory Speech Synthesis for Brain-Computer Interfaces 

6:10 pm              Short presentations by exhibitors

6:45 pm              General Assembly of the GdR

8:00 pm             *Gala dinner* (sponsored by Blackrock Microsystems Europe)

9:30-11:00 pm - Ethics discussion in the dinner room

                           animated by Donald Bruce (Edinethics, Edinburgh)
 

Friday, January 8^th, 2016

8:30-10:30 am - SESSION 4: Multichannel data analysis and modeling

8:30 am    Wilson Truccolo (Brown University, Providence, USA)

                From neuronal ensemble point process observations to collective dynamics in the brain

9:00 am    Alain Destexhe (UNIC, Gif s/. Yvette, France)

                Estimation of excitatory and inhibitory contributions to local field potentials from Utah-array recordings in human and monkey

9:30 am    Julie Lefort (ESPCI, Paris, France)

                Contribution of cerebellar PF-PC LTP to spatial map orientation

9:50 am    Ilaria Colombi (IIT, Genova, Italy)

                Dissociated in vitro cultures recapitulated the main features of sleep in vivo 

10:10 am  Stéphane Deny (The Vision Institute, Paris, France)

                A flexible code: the retina dynamically reallocates its resources to code for complex motion

10:30-11:00 am     Coffee break (sponsored by ATLAS Neuroengineering) / Posters / Exhibits

11:00-1:00 pm - SESSION 5: Dynamics of sensory and motor systems

11:00 am    Jeanne Paz (UCSF, San Francisco, USA)

                  Bi-directional role of the thalamus in controlling neocortical oscillations and brain rhythms

11:30 am    Michel Le Van Quyen (ICM, Paris, France)

                  (En-) Training intracerebral gamma oscillations in the human cortex

12:00 pm    François David (CRNL, Lyon, France)

                  Transient thalamic assemblies during absence seizures 

12:20 pm    Suliann Ben Hamed (ISC, Lyon, France)

                  Live from the monkey's mind: tracking attention from prefrontal neurons predicts success or failure 

12:40 pm    Véronique Coizet (GIN, Grenoble, France)

                  How sensory stimuli activate subthalamic neurones at short latency 

1:00-1:15 pm             Concluding remarks

1:15-2:45 pm             Lunch

3:00 pm                     First bus departure to Grenoble

2:45-4:15 pm - DEMO SESSION: Software demonstrations by companies and labs

                    (sponsored by g.Tec)

2:45 pm    Prückl Robert (g.Tec, Schiedelberg, Austria)

                  cortiQ- A system for Rapid Functional Mapping of the eloquent cortex using ECoG - a demonstration

3:15 pm    Christophe Gardella (The Vision Institute, Paris, France)

                 Spyking circus: A new software for fast, scalable spike sorting of large-scale extracellular recordings 

3:45 pm    Samuel Garcia (CRNL, Lyon, France)

                 pyacq: A python framework for acquisition and monitoring experiment : the distributed way 

4:15-5:00 pm             Wrap-up

5:00 pm                     Second (and last) Bus departure to Grenoble