EEG Rhythms of Health and Disease States Event

Day 1 (Thursday 16 May 2013)
19.30 Dinner

Day 2 (Friday 17 May 2013)
8.45 Vincenzo Crunelli Welcome and Introduction to the Meeting Gamma and Delta Waves Chair: Ken Harris

9.00 Krish Singh, Dept. Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Non-invasive MEG measures of cortical oscillatory dynamics in health and disease.

9.45 Jozsef L Csicsvari, Institute of Science & Technology, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Gamma synchronisation between the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex during spatial working memory task

10.30 Coffee Chair: Hee-Sup Shin 11.00 Miles Whittington, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK Physiology and pathophysiology of neocortical-generated delta rhythms

11.45 Nathalie Leresche, CNRS-UPMC, Paris, France New roles for thalamic T-type calcium channels: implications for sleep and wakefulness

12.30 Lunch and Poster Session (1)
Sleep Spindles and Sleep Homeostasis Chair: Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

14.00 Laszlo Acsady, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Ultrastructure of sleep spindles

14.45 Hee-Sup Shin, Center Cognition & Sociality, Inst. Basic Science, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Physiological function of optogenetically induced spindle rhythms

15.30 Coffee Chair: Jan Born

16.00 Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK Mechanism and function of sleep homeostasis

16.45 Ullrich Bartsch, Dept. Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
EEG oscillations during sleep as a translational biomarker in schizophrenia

17.30 General Discussion

19.30 Dinner
Day 3 (Saturday 18 May 2013)
Slow Waves: Mechanisms and (Patho)Physiological significance Chair: Matt Wilson

9.00 Ken Harris, Imperial College, London
Global oscillations in sensory cortex: the gating hypothesis

9.45 Istvan Ulbert, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Human cortical slow rhythms in vivo and in vitro

10.30 Coffee

Chair: Istvan Ulbert
11.00 Jan Born, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Contribution of the slow oscillation to memory consolidation

11.45 Matthew Wilson, MIT Picower Institute for Learning & Memory, Cambridge, USA
Hippocampal memory processing in awake and sleep states.

12.30 Lunch and Poster Session (2) Chair: Maria Sanchez Vives

14.00 Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova Layer-specific control of neocortical slow oscillations

14.45 Stuart Hughes Network mechanisms and cholinergic dependence of UP/DOWN states in mouse neocortex

15.30 Coffee Chair: Laszlo Acsady
16.00 Maria Sanchez Vives, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain Rhythmic activity in the neocortex and its alteration in a transgenic model of Down Syndrome

16.45 Vincenzo Crunelli, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Sleep slow waves: an emergent property of thalamocortical networks

17.30 General Discussion

19.30 Dinner

Registration Information

There is a small charge for attendees - £20 for postgraduate students and £50 for post doctoral positions and faculty members. A full list of speakers and their talks can be found attached. This promises to be an excellent event and we would welcome your attendance. For registration, please follow the web link:

https://www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/eegrhythmsofhealthanddisease/