Talks


Speaker Title Date/time Abstract

Andrea Maffezzoli

Biotechnologies and Biosciences Department, Università di Milano Bicocca

Invited by: Chiara Bartolozzi, Stefano Panzeri

 

Manifold Learning models: from unsupervised data representation and classification in machines towards new insights on neural computation and biological perception rules

 

November 26, 2010
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room - Floor 0

 

abstract

 

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Dr. Marc Duruy
Dr. Bruno Maisonnier

ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS
Paris

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Nao the ideal platform for research November 18, 2010
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room - Floor 0

 

abstract
Guillermo Del Castillo

The Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Robotic Navigational System November 15, 2010
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room - Floor 0

 

abstract
Andrea d'Avella, Ph.D.
Department of Neuromotor Physiology
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Modularity for motor control November 12, 2010
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room - Floor 0

 

abstract

Prof. Alexander Thiele

Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University

Invited by: Stefano Panzeri

Neuropharmacology of visual attention October 12, 2010
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Dr. Jose de Gea

Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

AILA - Design of an autonomous mobile dual-arm robot October 11, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room  floor 4

 
abstract

slides

Joshua Eric Vaughan

Georgia Institute of Technology

Invited by: Francesco Nori

Intelligent Command Generation to Reduce Machine Vibration October 1, 2010
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Nicholas Colin Hockings

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (UK)

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

A synthesis of medical & engineering knowledge
Develop a new approach to robotics.
September 22, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room  floor -1

 

slides

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Prof. Richard Bowtell

The University of Nottingham

Invited by: Franco Bertora

 

MRI at ultra high field July 13, 2010
14:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

abstract
Prof. Andreas Tolias

Department of Neuroscience

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Invited by: Stefano Panzeri

 

Organization of cortical microcircuit activity patterns

 

July 12, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

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Mark R. Cutkosky

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4021

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

  June 30, 2010
TIME?

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Dr. Jean-Paul Laumond

LAAS-CNRS

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

 

From human to humanoid locomotion June 23, 2010
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Paul Macneilage

Integrated Research and Treatment Center for Vertigo, Balance and Oculomotor Disorders

Ludwig-Maximilians University Hospital of Munich

Invited by: Monica Gori

 

Vestibular contributions to optic flow processing

 
June 7, 2010
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Prof. David Burr

Dipartimento di Psicologia

Università di Firenze

Invited by: Monica Gori

Integration and calibration between the senses June 7, 2010
11:45

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

Dr. Marc Ernst

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics - Tuebingen

Invited by: Monica Gori

 

Multisensory Learning: Recalibration makes 'Sense'

 

June 7, 2010
10:45

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Dr. Yuri Ivanenko

IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia - Roma

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Modular organization of the control of human locomotion May 31, 2010
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Prof.ssa Maria Grazia Benedetti

Università di Bologna –Istituto ortopedico Rizzoli

Invited by: Pietro Morasso

Progress in the functional evaluation of movements: the experience at the Rizzoli Institute May 21, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

 

Dr. Kevin Whittingstall

Max Planck Institute - Tuebingen

Invited by: Alberto Mazzoni

 

'From Microscopic to Macroscopic: Interpreting cortical spiking activity from non-invasive EEG

 
May 17, 2010
10:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Gregory C. Lewin

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
University of Southern Denmark

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

 

Object detection and motion control using an artificial lateral line May 12, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Marco Tosato

Aalborg University - Danimarca

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Neural Prostheses: an external control of the heart May 11, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Maria Petrou

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department

Imperial College London

Invited by: Chiara Barolozzi

A new imaging architecture and an alternative interpretation of the structure of the human retina March 25, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Koji Shimatani, RPT, PhD

Department of Physical Therapy Faculty of Health and Welfare
Prefectural University of Hiroshima
 

Invited by: Pietro Morasso

A marker-less monitoring system for Movement Analysis of Infants using Video Sequences

Video observation of changes in voluntary movement of a baby with cerebral palsy

 
March 24, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

abstract

Dr. Catherine Dupas-Bruzek

Université de Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies

59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq

Invited by: Davide Ricci

Pt Metallization of Laser Transformed Medical Grade Silicone Rubber: Towards a New Miniaturized Nerve Electrode Fabrication Process March 18, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

abstract
Dr. Johannes Burge

Center for Perceptual Systems
University of Texas, Austin

Invited by: Monica Gori

Natural scene statistics predict that the figure-ground cue of convexity influences depth perception March 15, 2010
16:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Roberto Arrighi

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Invited by: Monica Gori

 

Aspects of multisensory perception: the integration of visual and auditory information

 
March 15, 2010
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Andrea Serino

Dipartimento di Psicologia e Centro studi e ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Università di Bologna

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

A dynamic representation of the body in space

February 17, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Riener

Sensory-Motor Systems Lab

ETH Zurich - Department of Mechanical & Process Engineering Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems

University Hospital Balgrist, SCI Center Forchstr. 340, CH-8008 Zurich

Invited by: Lorenzo Masia

 

Cooperative Robots Enhance Rehabilitation

 
February 1, 2010
16:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Ali Borji, Ph.D.

Institute of Computer Science III,
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

 

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Interactive Learning of Task-driven Visual Attention Control January 25, 2010
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

 

Prof.ssa Lucilla De Arcangelis

Facoltà di Ingegneria

Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Neuronal avalanches and learning

 
December 16, 2009
14:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Ferdinando (Sandro) Mussa-Ivaldi

Professor

Department  of Physiology

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University Sensory Motor Performance Program Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

 

The representation of space in biological and artificial systems (second part) December 16, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Dr. Ing. Volker Krueger

Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab

Aalborg University Copenhagen

Lautrupvang 15

DK-2750 Ballerup Denmark

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

 

On human actions
December 14, 2009
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

abstract

Ferdinando (Sandro) Mussa-Ivaldi

Professor

Department  of Physiology

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University Sensory Motor Performance Program Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

 

The representation of space in biological and artificial systems (first part) December 11, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Patrizia Ferretti

UCL, london

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Spinal cord regeneration: to be or not be December 10, 2009
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Gerd Kempermann

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell biology and Genetics,  Dresda

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Function and activity-dependent regulation of adult neurogenesis

December 9, 2009
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Alessio Avenanti

Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum” and Centro studi e ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Cesena, Italy.

Invited by: Luciano Fadiga

Multiple components of action simulation

 

November 30, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Paul Lombroso

Yale University

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease November 25, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Paul Lombroso

Yale University

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Learning and Memory November 24, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
 

Mustafa Suphi Erden

Delft University of Technology,

Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), BioMechanical Engineering, Intelligent Mechanical Systems.

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

 

 

Human Intent Detection and Physically-Interactive Control of a Robot without Force Sensors November 23, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

abstract
Robin Hofe

University of Sheffield, UK

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Modelling Speech Articulation Energetics Using AnTon - an Animatronic Vocal Tract
 

November 17, 2009
10:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Prof. Asla Pitkanen

University of Kuopio, Finland

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Modelling post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) in rodents: what do they tell about the mechanisms of PTE and are they applixcable for translational research November 17, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Leonardo Badino

Centre for Speech Technology Research

Informatics Forum

Edinburgh

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

 

Identifying informative and salient words to improve the expressiveness of English Text-to-Speech Synthesis November 16, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Alberini

Mount sinai school of medicine,  NY

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Mechanisms underlying memory consolidation October 30, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

Peter Fromherz

Department Membrane and Neurophysics
Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
Am Klopferspitz 18
D 82152 Martinsried-Munich
Germany

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

The Interfacing of Semiconductor Chips with Ion Channels, Nerve Cells and Brain October 28, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

paper

Thomas Hokfelt

Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet
Retzius väg 8
S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Neurotransmitter coexistence: Focus on neuropeptide signaling October 27, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

paper 1

paper 2

Sebastian Seung

MIT Boston

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Connectome: the quest to deconstruct the brain October 23, 2009
16:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Prof. Miwa and Prof. Nishi

Faculty of Science and Engineering
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
 

Invited by: Ryo Saegusa

Co-creative bodily expression through shadow media October 19, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

paper

Evgeny Budygin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,

Waciences,ke Forest University Health S

Medical Center Boulevard,

Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Evaluation of dopamine dynamics in vivo with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry October 13, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

 
Pierluigi Valente PhD

IBMC-UMH University of Alicante – Spain

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Gating of Vanilloid Receptor: new evidence about the role of TRP domain October 7, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

Edgar Muñoz

Instituto de Carboquímica (CSIC)

Zaragoza, Spain

 

Invited by: Davide Ricci

Carbon Nanotube Sheet- and Fiber Electrochemical Artificial Muscles

 
October 7, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Renato Frischknecht

Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Neurochemistry
Brenneckestr. 6
39118 Magdeburg
 

Invited by: Alexander Dityatev

Maturation of the perisynaptic extracellular matrix affects various forms of synaptic plasticity

 

October 1, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Janice R. Naegele

Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Department of Biology and Program in Neuroscience and Behavior, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Stem Cell Transplants for Brain Repair In Epilepsy and Neurodegenerative Diseases September 30, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Lucian Medrihan

University of Bucharest, Romania

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Excitation-inhibition imbalance in the respiratory network of a mouse model of Rett Syndrome

September 29, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 2nd floor

abstract
Sara Baldini

Scuola Normale Superiore and CNR Neuroscience Institute of Pisa

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

  September 29, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 2nd Floor

 

Angelo Poletti

Dipartimento di Endocrinologia, Fisiopatologia e Biologia Applicata (DEFIB)

Centro di Eccellenza per lo studio delle Malattie Neurodegenerative (CEND)

Universita' degli Studi di Milano

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati


Neurotoxic mutant misfolded proteins in motor neuron diseases

 

September 18, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Paola Pedarzani, MD, PhD

Reader in Cellular Neurophysiology
UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology
Bloomsbury Campus
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT - UK

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Multiple signalling roles of different calcium-activated potassium channels in hippocampal neurones September 16, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 2nd floor

 

 
Vadim Y. Arshavsky

Professor of Ophthalmology and Pharmacology
Duke University Eye Center

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

G protein signaling in photoreceptors September 11, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Dr. Giovanni Ninisato

Section Head at CSEM
Basel Area, Switzerland
 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Organic Electronics and Biosensors, an introduction September 10, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Prof. Thomas Bever

University of Arizona

Invited by: Luciano Fadiga

The role of analysis by synthesis in universals of language behavior and structure.

September 4, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Giovanni Naldi

University of Milano

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Mathematical Models of Axon Guidance: Towards the Understanding of a Key Process in Development July 16, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 2nd Floor

 

abstract
 

Prof. Marco Santello

Arizona State University

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

 

Neuromuscular control of the hand July 15, 2009
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th

 

 
Nicola Machelli

Max Planck Insitute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresda

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Multiphoton microscopy: a tool for biology July 15, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Alessandro Bartolomucci

Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale Universita' degli Studi di Parma

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Social stress and individual vulnerability to mood disorders and comorbidities: mechanisms and implications July 14, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 2nd Floor

 

 

David J. Ostry

Dept. Psychology

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Invited by: Vittorio Sanguineti

Sensory Plasticity and Motor Learning

 

July 14, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Francesco Pavone  

Università di Firenze

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

High resolution morphofunctional imaging of intact neural networks July 9, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Frederic Gambino

Instutes des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Integratives (INCI). CNRS Strasbourg

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Is LTP necessary for emotion-related learning and memory? Lessons from mouse model of Rett syndrome July 2, 2009
16:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room ?

 

 
Dr. Sanju Gupta

ECE Department and MURR
University of Missouri (USA)
 

Invited by: Davide Ricci
 

Multifunctional Nanostructured Carbons July 2, 2009
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th Floor

 

 

abstract
Dr. Alan Dalton

Department of Physics and the Unis Materials Institute

University of Surrey

Invited by: Davide Ricci

Carbon Nanotube Assemblies as Active Tissue Scaffolds and Drug Delivery Vectors for Manipulation of Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation June 29, 2009
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Francesco Tenore

Professional Staff / Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD 20723

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Biomorphic circuits and systems for control of robotic and prosthetic limbs June 22, 2009
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Paul DiZio

Brandeis University

Volen Center for Complex Systems and Department of Psychology,
Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory
 

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Motor adaptations to limb and object dynamics in human arm movements June 19, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

abstract
Paolo Viviani

Université de Genève / FAPSE
UNI MAIL
40, Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve
1204 Genève
 

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Visual perception is shaped by motor factors June 15, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

abstract
Claude Prablanc

Unité   INSERM Espace et Action  Bron France

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Error signal processing in Online Control and Adaptation

 

June 10, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dana Kuefner, PhD

Unite Cognition et Developpement
Universite Catholique de Louvain
10, Place du Cardinal Mercier
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
 

Invited by: Giulio Sandini
 

Interactions of experience and plasticity: what can face processing studies tell us about the functional adaptation of a highly specialized visual process?

 

June 9, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Alberto Bacci

Fondazione EBRI-European Brain Research Institute

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Self-inhibiting neurons in the neocortex June 8, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Ali Salahpour

University of Toronto, Canada

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Physiological consequences of Dopamine Transporter Over-expression June 5, 2009
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

 
Marc G. Caron

Duke University, USA

Invited by: Raul Gainetdinov

 

Mutations in tryptophan hydroxylase-2 (TPH2) and brain serotinin deficiency June 5, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

paper
Prof. Eliano Pessa

Universita' di Pavia

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Processi classici e processi quantistici nel cervello: il loro ruolo nelle
Brain-Computer Interfaces
June 5, 2009
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

 

abstract
Massimo Avoli

Montreal Neurological Institute and Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and of Physiology, McGill University, Montréal, H3A 2B4 Québec, Canada; Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Roma, Italy

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Temporal lobe epilepsy: limbic networks and synaptic mechanisms

June 4, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Martin Beaulieu

Laval University, Quebec Canada

Invited by: Raul Gainetdinov

Animal models to identify therapeutic mechanisms antipsycotics May 27, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

paper
Prof. Michele Sciarabba

Dipartimento di Morfologia Umana e Scienze Biomediche, Università di Milano

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Automatic Neuron identification on cortical slices May 26, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
 

Nils Brose, M.Sc., Ph.D.


Professor of Biochemistry
Director
Department of Molecular Neurobiology
Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine
 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

A Ubiquitination-Dependent Nedd4-1/Rap2/TNIK Signaling Pathway 

Controls Dendrite Formation in Neurons

 
May 25, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Prof. Noam Ziv

Faculty of Medicine and Network Biology Research Laboratories, Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences & Engineering, Technion, Haifa

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Long-term relationships between network activity, synaptic tenacity and synaptic remodeling in networks of cortical neurons           

 

May 21, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Enrico Cherubini

Neurobiology, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

GABAergic signaling at immature mossy fibre-CA3 synapses May 20, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 

abstract
Randy Gallistel

Rutgers University

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Information, temporal pairing and temporal learning: Implications for the neurobiology of memory May 18, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Gian Michele Ratto

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Giorgio Carmignoto

CNR Institute of Neuroscience and Dept. Experimental Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova
 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Neurons, astrocytes, order and chaos in the normal and epileptic brain May 15, 2009
14:30

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abstract
Jun Ding

Sabatini Lab, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

220 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115

 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Towards supraresolution 2-photon laser scanning microscopy May 14, 2009
12:00

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abstract

Prof. Paolo Macchi

CIBIO – Centre for Integrative Biology - University of Trento

Invited by: Raffaella Tonini

Why neurons move messages: mechanisms and biological significance of RNA localization May 13, 2009
14:30

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abstract
 

Tommaso Pizzorusso

Istituto Neuroscienze CNR, Pisa - Area Ricerca CNR

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

 

Extracellular regulation of cortical plasticity

 

May 8, 2009
15:00

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abstract

Jochen Steil

CoR-Lab

Bielefeld University

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

 

Humans and Humanoids - Perspectives for Intelligent Interactive Robots

 

May 5, 2009
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0 

 

abstract

Gianpietro Schiavo

Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields Laboratories, London, WC2A 3PX, United Kingdom

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

The molecular mechanism of axonal transport in vivo and in vitro

 
April 30, 2009
12:00

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abstract

Yann Humeau

IFR 37 en neurosciences

Strasbourg

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Neuronal physiology in animal models of mental retardation April 27, 2009
15:00

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Bernard Poulain

IFR 37 en neurosciences

Strasbourg

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

The attack of the nervous system by toxins produced by bacteria of the Clostridium genus April 27, 2009
12:00

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Dr. Masaki Fukata

 Division of Membrane Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Novel regulators for AMPA receptor function April 6 2009
16:00

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Oleg Shupliakov

Department of Neuroscience, CEDB
Karolinska Institutet
Von Eulers väg 3
171 77 Stockholm

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

How do synapses organize the periacitve zone? April 2, 2009
12:00

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Volker Hauke

Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Biochemie
Freie Universität Berlin
Takustr. 6
14195 Berlin

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati
 

Regulation of adaptor-mediated membrane dynamics at synapses April 1, 2009
15:00

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abstract

paper1

paper2

Emilio Merlo Pich, MD


VP, Addiction & Sleep DPU,
Neurosciences CEDD, Verona, Italy

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Innovative Drug Discovery in Neuroscience: Implementation of fMRI technology in clinical progression of novel anxiolytic compounds March 27, 2009
14:30

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Prof. Vincent Torre

SISSA - Via Beirut 2
34024 Trieste - Italy

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motility March 26, 2009
14:30

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abstract

paper1

paper2

Laura Gioiosa

Department of Physiological Science, and Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology of the Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Behavioural phenotyping of the four
core genotypes: a mouse model for the study of the origins of sex
differences
March 24, 2009
12:00

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Meeting Room 2nd floor

 

paper1

paper2

Stephen Hart

University of Massachussetts

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Intrinsically Motivated Behavior in Embodied Robot Systems March 20, 2009
14:30

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abstract
Dr. Marco Viceconti

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna,

Director of the Biomedical Technologies Lab

Invited by: Pietro Morasso

The Virtual Physiological Human: current status and  perspectives March 20, 2009
11:00

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Meeting Room 4th floor

 

 

abstract

Emanuela Colla PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Pathology/Neuropathology

Baltimore MD

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Endoplasmic reticulum stress and microsomes aggregated alpha-synuclein are associated with alpha-synucleinopathies in vivo

 

March 17, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 2nd floor

 

 

Laura Baroncelli 

Neurobiology Lab 

Scuola Normale Superiore

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

 

Experience-dependent reactivation of juvenile-like plasticity in the visual cortex of adult animals March 16, 2009
14:30

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Meeting Room 2nd floor

 

 
Christian Goerick


Chief Scientist
Honda Research Institute Europe

Invited by: Giulio Sandini
 

Embodied Brain-Like Intelligence for Humanoid Robotics

 
March 6, 2009
11:30

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abstract
Giorgio Vallortigara


Center for Mind/Brain Sciences
University of Trento
 

Invited by: Valter Tucci

Core knowledge of objects, space and number: the use of the domestic chick as a model

 
March 3, 2009
11:00

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abstract
Prof. Gilberto Fisone

Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet
Retzius väg 8
S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Identification of neuronal and molecular targets for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia February 26, 2009
14:30

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Meeting Room 4th floor

 

paper1

paper2

Prof. Alain Berthoz

Collège de France

Paris

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Brain mechanisms for spatial memory and sharing emotion. Implication for the design of humanoids.

 
February 25, 2009
16:30

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abstract
Marco De Curtis

IRCCS

Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Ictogenesis in focal epilpsy February 24, 2009
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 2nd floor

 

 
Prof. Dr. Evgeni Ponimaskin

Cellular Neurophysiology (OE 4230)

Medical School Hannover

Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1

30625 Hannover

Invited by: Alexander Dityatev

New serotonergic pathways regulating neuronal morphology and synaptic plasticity

 

February 24, 2009
10:00

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Meeting Room 2nd floor

 

abstract
Lisa Scocchia

Milano Biccoca University

Department of Psychology

 

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Influence of on-line motor information and motor learning on perception

 

February 18, 2009
11:30

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abstract

Artur Llobet

Laboratori de Neurobiologia – IDIBELL, Pavello de Govern, Lab. 4112, Barcelona, Spain

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Schawnn cells modulate short term plasticity of cholinergic autaptic synapses

 

February 16, 2009
12:00

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abstract

paper1

paper2

Dr. Susumu Shimizu

Advanced Technology, Production Engineering.

TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE

Invitede by: Giulio Sandini

 

Robot development activities at Toyota February 11, 2009
12:15

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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0 

 

 
Luigi Glielmo

Professor of Automatic Control
GRACE, the Group for Research on Automatic Control Engineering
Department of Engineering
Università del Sannio

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Identification and feedback control in deep brain stimulation: a simulation study

 

January 30, 2009
14:00

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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0  

 

abstract

paper

ROBERTA ANELLI


Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School
Department of Physiology
Chicago, IL

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

EXPLORING THE ANATOMY OF THE SPINAL CORD:
CALCIUM BINDING PROTEINS EXPRESSION

 
January 29, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0  

 

 

James Kuffner

The Robotics Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Autonomous Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

 
January 28, 2009
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0  

abstract
Jacques Mehler

Language, Cognition and Development Lab

SISSA - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Linking brain, mind and behavior: mechanisms of cognitive growth January 9, 2009
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 4th floor 

 

abstract
Maria Pennuto, PhD


Senior Research Investigator
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF NEURODEGENERATION IN POLYGLUTAMINE DISEASE December 23, 2008
12:00

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abstract
Andrea Raimondi, PhD


Department of Cell Biology,
Yale University, School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

ENDOCYTIC INTERMEDIATES OF DYNAMIN 1/3 KO SYNAPSES REVEALED BY ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY December 22, 2008
12:00

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Dr. Jürgen Konczak, Professor


Director, Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory
School of Kinesiology, Department of Neurology, Program in Neuroscience
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A.

Invited by: Giulio Sandini
 

Altered body awareness in basal ganglia disease: a problem of perception or sensorimotor integration? December 16, 2008
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0 

 

abstract
Prof. Pietro Calissano

Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, CNR,
Neuroscience Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tor Vergata University
and European Brain Research Institute (EBRI), Roma, Italy

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati
NGF-target neurons: an in vitro culture system for inducing and analyzing the  Alzheimer’s “molecular sindrome” December 1, 2008
12:00

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paper
Prof. Patrick Cossette MD, PhD

Département de Médecine
CHUM-Hôpital Notre-Dame
Montréal, Québec

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Genetics of epilepsy and autism November 25, 2008
12:00

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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0 

paper
Dr. Alberto Mazzoni

Fondazione ISI - Torino

Invited by: Stefano Panzeri

Encoding of sensory stimuli by LFP spectra in cortical networks November 19, 2008
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 4th floor

abstract
Dott. Francesco Papaleo

Clinical Brain Disorders Branch;
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Bethesda, MD  USA

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

COMT and Dysbindin: insights from genetic mouse models October 30, 2008
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

paper
Prof. Egidio D'Angelo

Department of Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences
University of Pavia
Via Forlanini 6 - I-27100 Pavia

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Computations in the cerebellum granular layer: timing, plasticity and
logical operators
October 22, 2008
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Stefan Schaal

Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

 

Learning Motor Skills in Humans and Humanoids October 9, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Giacomo Indiveri

UZH - ETH Zurich - Institute of Neuroinformatics

Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

 

  October 8, 2008
1:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

 

Kristin E. Michael, PhD

Institute for Bio and Nano Systems 2 - Forschungszentrum Jülich

Jülich, Germany

Invited by: Alexander Dityatev

 

Integrin-Mediated Cell Adhesion Strengthening and the Role of Focal Adhesion Kinase: a Balancing Act in a Circus of Strength

 

September 30, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Ghislain Saunier

INSERM - U887 Motricité et Plasticité Université de Bourgogne - Campus Universitaire

Dijon - France

Invited by: Thierry  Pozzo

ERP’s Project : Perception-Action coupling

 

September 17, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract

Bastien Berret

Univesity of Dijon - France

Invited by: Thierry  Pozzo

 

Integration of gravity during the motor planning and control of human movements September 16, 2008
10:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract

Prof. Shigeru WESUGI, Ph.D.

Co-creative Interfece Design Lab

School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda university, Tokyo, Japan.

Invited by: Ryo Saegusa

 

Actual Interface Design

Design Approach for Enhancing a Bodily Involvement of the Self in an Object and in a Mediated Space

 

 
September 16, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 4th floor

 

abstract
Dr.Yoichi Kosodo

RIKEN institute

Kobe - Giappone

Invited by: Davide De Pietri Tonelli

Cell Division and Interkinetic Nuclear Migration of Neuroepithelial Stem Cells September 4, 2008
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Kevin Whittingstall, Ph.D.

Max Plank Institute

Tuebingen

Invited by: Stefano Panzeri

From Macroscopic to Microscopic: Interpreting neural activity from surface EEG recordings

 

August 19, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 4th floor

 

abstract
Dr Francesca D Faraci
 
ETH Zürich Department
Biosystems, Science and Engineering (BSSE)
BSA 8.48
Mattenstrasse 26 CH-4058
Basel     
Switzerland 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

CMOS-Based Biosensors and Bioelectronics , an intorduction to research at Bio Engineering Laboratory, BEL July 31, 2008
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Christian Faubel

Institute for Neuroinformatics - Theoretical Biology - Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum    44780 Bochum GERMANY

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Dynamic Field Theory and object recognition for an autonomous robot

 
July 29, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Prof. Michele Giugliano

Theoretical Neurobiology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

The impact of input fluctuations on the dynamical response properties of neocortical neurons

 
July 21, 2008
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

paper 1

paper 2

Alexey Semyanov, PhD DrSc

Unit leader  RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI)  Neuronal Circuit Mechanisms Research Group - Unit of Extrasynaptic Transmission - Japan

Invited by: Alexander Dityatev

Functions of extrasynaptic ionotropic glutamate and GABA receptors

 

July 8, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Prof. Koji Ito

Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science - Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN

Invited by: Pietro Morasso

Internal Model Control and Impendance Control in Human Voluntary Movements June 26, 2008
14:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Dr. Chiara Neto

Lecturer in Physical Chemistry - School of Chemistry, F11 -  University of Sydney

Invited by: Davide Ricci

 

Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Liquid/Solid Interfaces: Stability and Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films

 

June 25, 2008
12:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Tomaso Poggio, Ph.D.

Director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Models of Visual Recognition

 

June 20, 2008
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 
Prof. Flavia Valtorta

San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Membrane Trafficking in the Axonal Growth Cone June 10, 2008
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

paper 1

paper 2

flyer

Prof. Stan Gielen

Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computing Science and  University Medical Centre of the Radboud University Nijmegen

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Visuo-motor coordination : The role of eye movements in the planning of action June 9, 2008
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Prof. Dmitri A. Rusakov

Institute of Neurology  University College London

Queen Square - London WC1N 3BG, UK

Invited by: Alexander Dityatev

 

Micro-environmental control of neurotransmitter signalling at individual central synapses

 

June 6, 2008
10:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract and CV
Prof. Michela Matteoli

Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Milano

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Role of the actin binding protein eps8 in the formation of filopodia and synaptogenesis June 5, 2008
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

abstract
Daniel Wagenaar, PhD


University of California, San Diego
Div. Biological Sciences, Neurobiology section
 

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Network-level gain control in a behavioral
circuit: widespread inhibition in proportion to excitation controls
the gain of an escape response in the leech
 
May 29, 2008
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

http://www.danielwagenaar.net

paper

Jim Rehg

Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

Invited by: Giorgio Metta

Learning to Predict Affordances Through Visual Object Categorization

May 22, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract and bio
Dr. Jan Schnupp


University of Oxford
Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Sherrington Building - Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PT - UK

Invited by: Stefano Panzeri

Linking Auditory Neurophysiology to Perception
 
May 20, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Mounia Chami-Maggiora, PhD

Unité INSERM 807
156 rue de vaugirard
Faculté de médecine Necker-Enfants malades
75015 Paris

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Impact of calcium signalling and of structural communication between mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in mitochondrial- and ER-related pathologies May 14, 2008
14:30

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

abstract

paper 1

paper 2

paper 3

Prof. Etienne Olivier

Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 54, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Hemispheric organisation of precision grasping in humans May 14, 2008
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Prof. Stucchi Natale

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Dipartimento di Psicologia Milano, Italy

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Asymetric perception of space May 5, 2008
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Prof. C. Papaxanthis

Unité INSERM U887 Université de Bourgogne, Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Campus Universitaire Montmuzard

Invited by: Thierry Pozzo

Cognitive aspects of motor control: Motor imagery and motor prediction May 5, 2008
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

 
Prof. Fabrizio Barberis

Università di Genova

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

Materials: the fourth dimension in structural design April 28, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 4th Floor

abstract
Zeyang Xia

Robotics and Automation Laboratory (RAL),
Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology,
Tsinghua University, China

 

Sampling-based Footstep Planning for Humanoid Robots

 

April 24, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Christophe Novembre, Ph.D.

University of Sciences and Technology of Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

invited by: Gytis Baranauskas

Information systems based on nano-technologies: the development of a dynamic synapse molecular device

 

April 23, 2008
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Silvain Michel

Dr. Gabor Kovacs

Head Electro Active Polymers Empa - Materials Science & Technology - Überlandstr. 129 CH-8600 Dübendorf

Invited by: Davide Ricci

Elektroactive Polymers (EAP) for Smart Structures

 

April 18, 2008
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Dr. Davide Comoletti, DVM, PhD

Research Scientist, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of California, San Diego

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Autism candidate genes neuroligin and neurexin: a proteomic approach to structure and adhesive function April 16, 2008
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 3

Paper 4

Simeon Bamford

Department of Informatics, Edinburgh University

Invited by: Gytis Baranauskas

 

Synaptic Rewiring in Neuromorphic VLSI for Topographic Map Formation

 

April 11, 2008
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Dr. Stathis Kasderidis

Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Invited by: Pietro Morasso

The GNOSYS Cognitive Architecture and beyond April 11, 2008
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract
Dr. Antonio Vincenzi

Invited by: Giulio Sandini

 

Logic & Robotics

 
April 9, 2008
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract

slide

Dr. Shigeo Morishima

Professor of Faculty of Science and Engineering

Waseda University

Invited by: Ryo Saegusa

 

Instant Casting Movie System for Entertainment Revolution

 

April 7, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

abstract and bio
Dr. Francesco Papaleo

Clinical Brain Disorders Branch;
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Bethesda, MD  20892-1385

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Genetic dissection of the role of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) in cognition and stress reactivity in mice
 
April 3, 2008
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Paper 1

Paper 2

abstract

Prof. Michael C. Petty

University of Durham                      Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics

Invited by: Davide Ricci

Molecular Engineering using Thin Organic Films

 
April 2, 2008
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Meeting Room 35 - Floor 0

 

abstract
Prof. Francesco Pavone

Florence Unversity - LENS

Invited by: Fabio Benfenati

Non linear neuron imaging and manipulation March 31, 2008
15.00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Paper 1
Marc Jeannerod

Institut des Sciences Cognitives
67, boulevard Pinel
69675 Bron cedex France

Mind your grasp  March 26, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Dr. Etienne Burdet

Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London

Robotics of motor learning and post-stroke rehabilitation March 17, 2008
15:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

abstract

Prof. R. BENOSMAN

ISIR-Pierre&Marie CURIE University

 

Toward new sensors and features in computer vision

 

February 27, 2008
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

abstract
 

Toru Miyagawa

Toyota Europe

 

 

Toyota Partner Robot Development Vision

 

February 15, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

 
Gabriella Stocca, PhD

Physiologisches Institute
University of Freiburg
Hermann-Herder str. 7
79104 Freiburg
 

Efficient temporal summation of dendritic Calcium signals in young hippocampal granule cells
 
February 4, 2008
12:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

abstract
Prof. Sandro Mussa Ivaldi

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

The adaptive control of motions and forces

 

January 28, 2008
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

 
Prof. Lee Miller

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

 

The Ins and Outs of Brain Machine Interfaces

 

January 24, 2008
16:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

abstract
Paola Camoletto, PhD

Dept. Molecular and Developmental Genetics Lab. of Neuronal Differentiation Leuven Belgium

 

Role of Sphingomyelin on spine phisiology and pathology: implication in the mental retardation sindrome Niemann Pick disease type A

 

January 21, 2008
12:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

abstract

flyer

Francesco M. Rossi, PhD

Departamento de Bioquímica  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina  Florianópolis            Brasil

 

Mechanisms of plasticity in the visual system

 

January 8, 2008
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

Flyer
Hermano Igo Krebs, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist & Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Mechanical Engineering Dept                                 77 Massachusetts Ave, 3-137 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

 

An Overview of Rehabilitation Robotic Technologies
 
December 17, 2007
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting room 2
Ground 0

 

Abstract
Dr. Giuliano Iurilli

Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR di Pisa

 

 

Memoria di riconoscimento visivo e plasticità sinaptica in corteccia peririnale

 

November 12, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

Flyer
Prof. Alberto Diaspro
 

EBSA President-Elect
MicroScoBIO LAMBS-IFOM,
Department of Physics
University of Genoa

 

Multiphoton Microscopy towards Nanoscopy October 29, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting room 2
Ground 0

 

Paper

 

Chiara Bartolozzi, Ph.D.

 

 

Selective attention in silicon: From the design of an analog VLSI synapse to the implementation of a multi--chip system

 

October 22, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting room 2
Ground 0

Abstract
Claudio Castellini, Ph.D.

Università di Genova

 

Machine Learning for Hand Prosthetics (and more)

 

October 18, 2007
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting room 2
Ground 0

Abstract
Dr. Valter Tucci, Ph.D
 

MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire (UK)
 

Cognitive phenotyping in the mouse

 

October 12, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Abstract
 

Andrew Dankers, Ph.D.

 

Synthetic Primate Vision October 8, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract
Prof. Oussama Katib

Stanford University

Human-centered Robotics October 4, 2007
11:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting Room (room 35)  Ground 0

 
Prof.ssa Virginia Tancredi
Dott.ssa Giovanna D'Arcangelo

Tor Vergata University

Role of the limbis system in the generation and maintenance of neuronal hyperecitability in "in vitro" models of epilepsy October 1, 2007
14:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

 
Prof. Ruediger Dillman

Università di Karlsruhe

 

Towards Emerging Cognitive Capabilities of Humanoid Robots

 

September 27, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

 
Dr. Andrew Sharrot


Institut für Neurophysiologie und Pathophysiologie
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg

Dynamic modulation of spontaneous firing rate and pattern of striatal neuron subtypes by cortical oscillations September 17, 2007
16:00 AM

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Abstract
Dr. Ugo Pattacini

System Engineer
Observation Systems and Radar B.U.
Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.
Rome
 

 

Modelling and Implementing a Slip Target Shaper for Traction Control in F1 Application

 

September 14, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Meeting room 2
Ground 0

 

Abstract

Slides_and_material

Prof. Silvestro Micera
Scuola Superiore S. Anna di Pisa

 

Bidirectional neural interfaces and neural prostheses

 

September 13, 2007
14:30

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract
Dr. Yoanne Clovis
Laboratoire NICN UMR6184 CNRS,
Marseilles, France
Time control of chemotaxis and olfactory imprinting behaviours in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans September 11, 2007
12:00 AM

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

Abstract
 

Paper

Fiorenzo Conti, M.D.

Professor of Human Physiology
Chairman, Department of Neuroscience
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Via Tronto, 10/A
Torrette di Ancona
60020 Ancona (Italy)

The role of the GABA transporter GAT-1 in phasic and tonic inhibition in the cerebral cortex July 25, 2007
17:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Paper 1

Paper 2

Dr. Giacomo Benvenuti

CEO of ABCD Technology (Assisted Beam Chemical Deposition)                    spin-off of EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)                 ABCD Technology sàrl bld. des Philosophes, 17 CH-1205 Genève

A flexible thin film deposition technology towards vertical integration in optronics

 

July 23, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Abstract
Ugo Cavallaro Ph.D.

IFOM - FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology - Via Adamello 16 I-20139 Milano Italy

 

 

Adhesion molecules: old players with novel functions in signaling and cancer progression

 

June 25, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

Paper

flyer

Ing. Alberto Ansaldo

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biofisica ed Elettronica, Università di Genova, Via Opera Pia 11a, 16145 Genova - Max-Planch-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1 d-70569 Stuttgart

 

Catalytic Chemical Vapour Deposition synthesis of  Carbon Nanotubes for electronic and bio-electronic applications

 
June 11, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

Abstract

Sandro Mussa Ivaldi

Department of Physiology Northwestern University – Chicago

 

Body-Machine Interfaces:Basic Science and Applications

 

June 7, 2007
11:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract
Raul R. Gainetdinov, M.D. Ph.D.

Associate Research Professor Dept. of Cell Biology, Box 3287, Duke University Medical Center, Duke University Durham, 27710, NC

Dopamine transporter knockout mice in experimental neuropharmacology June 4, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

Abstract

paper 1

paper 2

Giovanni Marsicano VD, PhD

U 862 Centre de Recherche INSERM François Magendie Universitè Bordeaux  2 "Molecular Mechanisms of Behavioural Adaptation"    146, rue Léo Saignat      33077 Bordeaux - France

 

Genetic and pharmacological dissection of the roles of the endocannabinoid system in the brain

 

May 21, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

 

Abstract
Prof. David Burr

University of Florence and
Dept. of Psychology
University of Western Australia

Combination of visual and auditory information during normal vision and during saccades  May 14, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

 

Abstract 
Oleg Valentinovich Leontjev, MD

Provessor , Department of Psychophysiology, MIEP, St. Petersburg, Russia

Psychophysiology of stress: basic principles for diagnosis and therapy May 9, 2007
15:00

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Aula di Fisiologia Umana Viale Benedetto XV, 3

flyer
Prof.Kazuhiko Kawamura

Center for Intelligent Systems
Vanderbilt University

 

Implementation of Cognitive Control for Robot May 7, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

 

Abstract

Paper

WorkingPaper

 

Prof. Rolf Pfeifer
 

Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich
 

Morphological computation – connecting brain, body, and environment  April 23, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract
Prof. Matteo Caleo

CNR Pisa

Effects of botulinum neurotoxins in the central nervous system:antiepileptic actions March 26, 2007
15:00

DIMES
Viale Benedetto XV, 3.
 

 

Abstract
Debora Botturi, PhD
ALTAIR Robotics Laboratory
Department of Computer Science - University of Verona
 
Advanced Telemanipulation Applications March 19, 2007
15:00
 

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract
Prof.Patrick Cossette
 

Département de médicine
Université de Montréal


 

Genes and molecular mechanisms underlying epilepsy in the Quebec population March 15, 2007
12:00
 

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30



 

Abstract
Angelika Peer


Institute of Automatic Control Engineering (LSR) Technische Universitaet Muenchen

A high fidelity telepresence and teleaction system March 12, 2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract
Davide De Pietri Tonelli

Max Planck Institute Dresda

 

In vivo detection and manipulation of microRNAs in the mouse brain
 
March 5,2007
15:00

DIMES
Dipart. di Fisiologia Umana

 

Abstract

 

Prof. Guglielmo Lanzani
Dipartimento di Fisica
Politecnico di Milano
 

Science and technology of π-electron systems

February 26,2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract

 

Jimmy Ratto

CNR
 Scuola Superiore Normale Pisa

Making the invisible visible: cell life seen at the single and two-photon microscope.

 
February 19, 2007
15:00

Sezione di fisiologia
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Viale Benedetto XV, 3.
 

 

Abstract 
 

Marco Muselli

IEIIT - Sezione di Genova Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

 

Rule generation methods based on logic synthesis February 12,2007
15:00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract

Michela Matteoli
CNR Institute of Neuroscience
Dept. Medical Pharmacology
University of Milan

Mechanism of Neuronal Development and Synapse Formation

 

February 5, 2007
15:00

DIMES
Dipart. di Fisiologia Umana


 
Abstract

Giorgio Sberveglieri
Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica per
l' Ingegneria e per i Materiali
Università di Brescia

 

Nano-crystalline metal oxide gas sensors and Electronic Olfactive  Systems at SENSOR Lab ,  INFM – CNR &  Brescia University.

 

January 29, 2007
15 :00

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego 30

 

Abstract

Stefano Panzeri
Associate Professor, PhD
University of Manchester

 

The role of spike timing in cortical coding of somatosensory stimuli

 

November 28, 2006
12:00

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa, 13

Abstract
Barbara Caputo
NADA/CVAP,KTH,
SE-100 44
Stockholm,Sweden
 
Incremental SVM for Robust Place Recognition November 13, 2006
14:30

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

Abstract

Paper

Ito Koji
Department on Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.

 

Adaptive Motor Behaviors through Dynamic Interactions among the Body, Brain and Environment

 

 

October 31, 2006
14:30

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

Abstract
Hung- Teh Kao
New York University School of Medicine
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
New York
The role of synapsin III in neuronal development and schizophrenia Octobr 23, 2006
16:30

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimetale
Aula di Fisiologia Umana
Viale Benedetto XV, 3

Locandina

Luca Berdondini
Institute of Microtechnology
University of Neuchâtel

Microtechnologies for neurophysiological applications

 

October 16, 2006
15:00


DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

Abstract
Anna Montagnini
Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranée (INCM)
CNRS et Université de Aix-Marseille II, Marseille - France
Perceiving and tracking objects in motion: experiments and model October 9, 2006
14:30

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

Abstract
Jun Tani, Ph.D
Lab Head, Lab. for Behavior and Dynamic Cognition RIKEN Brain Science
Saitama

Brain-Inspired Robotics: A Dynamical Systems Account For Cognitive Behavior

 

October 3, 2006
15:00

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13
Abstract


Nick Barnes and Andrew Dankers
Department of Systems Engineering Austrlian National University, Canberra, AUSTRALIA
 


VISTA: Computer Vision at National ICT Australia, Plus an Architecture for real-time dynamic saliency, fixation and segmentation

 

September 18, 2006
15:00

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

 

Abstract

Taishin Nomura
Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering
Graduate School of Engineering Science  - Osaka University

Increasing Biped Gait Stability via Phase Resetting Mechanism

 

September 15, 2006
15:00

DIST - Pad. E
Aula Teledidattica
Via Opera Pia 13
Abstract
 

Paper

Lijin Aryananda
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Cambridge, MA


Attending to Learn and Learning to Attend: Toward Incremental Individual Recognition Through Experience

September 12, 2006
15:00

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

Abstract
Tonia Rex
University of Pennsylvania Department of Ophthalmology
Viral-Mediated Gene Delivery: Biological Tool and Therapy September 11, 2006
14:30

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13
Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 3

 

Thierry Pozzo
INSERM/ERM 207
Motricité-Plasticité: Performance, Dysfonctionnement, Vieillissement et Technologies d'optimisation
Fac. des Sciences du Sport
Dijion - France
 

Internal model of gravity force: Action and Perception mechanisms

September 4, 2006
15:00

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13
Abstract
Joe McIntyre
Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action,
Collège de France
Biological Control of Movements through Impedance May 29, 2006
16:00

DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

 
Egidio D’Angelo
University of Pavia
Department of physiological and pharmacological sciences

Spatio-temporal information processing and learning at the input stage of the cerebellum

May 17, 2006
16:00

DIST - PAD E.
Via Opera Pia 13

 
Paul Lombroso
University of Yale
Learning and memory...how we learn and how we don't May 11, 2006
15:00


DIST - VILLA BONINO
Viale Causa 13

Paper
Fabio Babiloni
University of Rome
Improved Estimation of Human Cortical Activity and Connectivity with the Multimodal Integration of High Resolution EEG Recordings and Hemodynamic Data April 3, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1
Paper 2

Paolo Fiorini
University of Verona
Motion planning in dynamic environments, state of art and future trends March 28, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Paper 4
Paper 5

Maria Concetta Morrone
Università Vita-Salute S. Raffaele
How visual stability is maintained in the face of the continual saccadic eye movements March 20, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Paper1
Paper2

Luciano Fadiga
University of Ferrara
Action and Perception March 13, 2006
15:00
Paper
Vincent Torre
SISSA - Trieste
Neuronal Technology March 6, 2006 Abstract

Paper 1
Paper 2

Rino Rocchelli
COMAU
Industrial Robots at COMAU: present and future February 28, 2006
15:30
 
Stefano Vassanelli
University of Padua
Interfacing living cells and silicon microchips by electrical and molecular signaling February 20, 2006
15:00
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Flavia Valtorta
DIBIT
Università Vita-Salute S. Raffaele
Neuronal Development and Signal Transduction February 14, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1
Paper 2

Lorenzo Masia
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Design and preliminary characterization of device for hand rehabilitation: MIT-hand-robot February 7, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Few Zipped Papers

Pietro Perlo and Renato Librino
FIAT Research Center
Power- Energy sources and their management  in Complex Attended Robots for transport applications February 6, 2006
15:00-17:00
Abstract
Emilio Merlo Pich
Director of Experimental Medical Science, Psychiatry CEDD,Harlow-Verona)
Better than an antistress drug? Reflections on neuropharmacology of social stress and interactive robotics. January 30, 2006
CANCELED
Paper
Danilo de Rossi
University of Pisa
Smart materials for biomimetic kinestetic-like sensing and pseudo muscular actuation. January 23, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Paper 4

Michela Matteoli
CNR Institute of Neuroscience - Milan
 Mechanisms of Neuronal Development and Synapse Formation January 17
15:00
Abstract

Paper

Ueli Aebi
University of Basel
Imaging, Measuring and Manipulating living Matter with Nano-Sensors and -Actuators January 10, 2006
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3

M. Felice (Lice) Ghilardi
Columbia University
Movement and plasticity: The ever-changing brain December 19, 2005
15:00
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Paper

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi
University of Chicago
Learning and Remapping in the Sensorimotor System December 12, 2005
15:00
Abstract

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Paper to read

Martin Banks
University of California at Berkeley
Combining Visual Information to Perceive 3d Layout November 28, 2005
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1

Paper 2

Marco Bove
Dept. of Experimental Medicine
University of Genova
Proprioception and motor control November 21, 2005
15:00
Abstract

Paper 1

Paper  1

Francesco Nori
University of Genova
Motion Primitives as a Model for the Experimentally Observed Spinal Fields November 14, 2005
15:00
Abstract

Paper to read 

Laura Salmon
University of Genova
November 7, 2005
15:00
Abstract

Copy of Slides

Minoru Asada
University of Osaka
Synergistic Intelligence: JST ERATO project towards Humanoid Science

October 31, 2005
15:00

Abstract

 
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