DAY 1 Monday 15 February , 2016
8:40 – 9:00 Registration and Welcome
9:00 – 09:10 Opening of the School and Welcome Speech, Program Presentation Stefano Vassanelli
09:15 – 10:45 Addressing the Brain’s Big Data Challenge: Brain Architecture in Man and Machine Paul Verschure
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Bio-engineering challenges and Bio-inspired solutions Themis Prodromakis
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45 Micro-/nano-structuring and microelectronics for neuroelectronics: toward multi-scale sensing within networks in-vitro and in-vivo Luca Berdondini
15:00 – 15:45 Methods and protocols: in-vitro disease models and neurotoxicolgical screening applications with multimodal high-resolution neurophysiological approaches Hayder Amin
15:45– 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 –18:00 Thought-to-Action by Direct Electronic Interfaces to the Brain Arto Nurmikko
DAY 2 Tuesday 16 February, 2016
9:00– 10:45 Mixed opto-electronic approaches for neuronal networks investigation Michele Giugliano
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Emulating neural processes using neuromorphic circuits Giacomo Indiveri
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:45CMOS Chips for In-Vitro and In-Vivo Recording and Stimulation of Neural Tissue with High Spatiotemporal Resolution – Engineering and Fabrication Issues Roland Thewes
15:45– 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 –17:15 Diamond-based microarrays for real-time detection of quantal secretory events and action potential firing Valentina Carabelli
17:30 –18:30 Physics of the cell-semiconductor interface Ralf Zeitler
19.45 Social dinner
DAY 3 Wednesday 17 February, 2016
9:00– 10:45 Simultaneous stimulation and electrical imaging of neuronal activity using CMOS-based Micro-electrode Arrays Guenther Zeck
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 High-level vision in rats: invariant object recognition and its neuronal substrates Davide Zoccolan
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 ––18:30 Poster session
DAY 4 Thursday 18 February, 2016
9:00– 9:45 Methods and protocols: In vivo recordings Claudia Cecchetto
10:00 – 10:45 Methods and protocols: neuron cultures Marta Maschietto
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Methods and protocols: signal analysis Mufti Mahmud Arno Onken
12:15 – 13:00 Methods and protocols: calcium imaging Marta Giacomello
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:45 Measuring and manipulating organelle Ca2+ in living cells Tullio Pozzan
15:45– 16:15 Coffee break
16:15–18:00 Holographic two-photon imaging Jonathan Mapelli
DAY 5 Friday 19 February, 2016
9:00– 10:45 An introduction to human EEG Nicola Cellini
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Consciousness and complexity: a TMS/EEG approach Simone Sarasso
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:45 Neurophysiological investigation of logical reasoning in non-human primates Stefano Ferraina
15:45– 16:45 Ending speech, final questionnaire and delivery of certificates of attendance