Neuroinformatics in Model Organisms

16th - 20th September 2002

Draft Programme Monday Session 1 0845 Registration and coffee. 0915 Workshop Overview and Welcome remarks. 0925  The emerging challenges in neuroinformatics; sharing raw data in neuroscience. 0945 Jan Bjaalie: Understanding complex brain topography: what can databases do? 1030 Coffee 1100 Kei Ito: Web pages and scientific figures that are understandable to both color-blind and non-color-blind users 1120 Gwen Jacobs: The NeuroSys Project: Semi-structured Databases for Studying the Functional Organization of Neural Systems." 1150 Volker Hartenstein: 3D Digital Models of the Developing Drosophila Brain 1235 Lunch 1445 J Douglas Armstrong: The Flytrap Gene Expression Database 1500 Kei Ito: Image database of GAL4 expression patters in the larval and adult Drosophila brains 1530 David Shepherd: Clonal analysis of the ventral nerve cord in Drosophila 1600 Kevin Moffat: Identification of neurons involved in larval motor behaviour in Drosophila, and implications for mitochondrial function 1620 Richard Baines: Synaptic activity is essential for the electrical development of central neurons. 1705 Close Evening reception from 1800 at NeSC Tuesday 0915 Rachel Drysdale: FlyBase: The database of the Drosophila genome. 1000 Rolf Kötter: Neuroinformatics for reconstructing the brain's large-scale wiring diagram 1045 Coffee 1100 Robert Brandt: The virtual Drosophila brain - A platform for quantitative neuroanatomy 1130 Arnim Jennett: Detailed 3D-recontsruction and standardisation of the Drosophila brain by insertion of multiple Gal4-expressionpatterns in the standardbrain atlas with Amira 1210 Ron Davis: Mapping the adult brain of Drosophila with combined two-photon imaging and computational approaches. 1245 Lunch 1445 Erik de Schutter: Grass-roots databasing in neuroscience: why and how. 1520 Richard Baldock: The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas and Gene-Expression Database 1600 Ian Meinertzhagen: Databases of reconstructed cells in two simple nervous systems: the fly's optic lamina and the central nervous system of the ascidian larva 1630 Discussion and Close Wednesday 0915 Iain Robertson: Use of Differential Gel Electrophoresis to analyse complexes necessary for the fusion of synaptic vesicles 0945 Charalambos Kyriacou: Using structural predictions to define the nature of TIMELESS 1010 Mike Gilchrist: Looking for Destruction Boxes 1030 Coffee 1100 Nigel Goddard: NeuroML 1145 Daniel Gardner: BrainML: neuroinformatics for real data from model organisms 1230 Lunch 1430 Paul Watson: Databases and the GRID 1500 Peter Buneman: title tba 1530 Fred Howell: title tba 1600 Albert Burger: XPAN 1630 Discussion and Close Workshop Dinner. Thursday Details on these events will follow: Practical Workshop on NeuroML/distributed database technology (open to all) Breakout discussion groups on Neuroinformatics funding (open to all) Other breakout groups to be organised. Friday 0915 Reports from Practical Workshop 1030 Coffee 1100 Reports from Breakout Discussion Groups 1200 Workshop Overview and Conclusions 1230 Lunch Space and facilities will be available for follow-up group discussion but scheduled events are completed.

Applications We have a limited number of places left for attending this workshop. If you are interested, please contact Douglas Armstrong urgently.

Accomodation We have booked accommodation at Pollock Halls, a recently refurbished student residence and conference centre that will allow us to cover expenses. We have provisionally booked rooms from the Sunday night to the Friday night inclusive and can arrange further nights or a shorter stay by request. Transport: Air: From Edinburgh Airport (EDI) Transfer bus to Edinburgh City Centre then by taxi (4-6min) to Pollock Halls, alternatively by taxis from Edinburgh Airport (20min). Train: From Edinburgh Waverly Station, by taxis to Pollock Halls (4-6min)

Venue The workshop will take place at the National E-Science Centre in Edinburgh. We have arranged a conference room, and several breakout discussion rooms. There will also be a suite of workstations for demonstrations and for the practical workshop on the Thursday.

Links Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation National E-Science Centre University of Edinburgh Edinburgh and Lothian Tourist Board Travel and Transport to and in Edinburgh General links for Scotland and England

Contact Douglas Armstrong, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation Division of Informatics University of Edinburgh 5 Forrest Hill Edinburgh EH1 2QL, Scotland, UK email: jda[at]dai.ed.ac.uk phone: (+44) 7971 604 838 fax: (+44) 131 650 6899

Programme Committee Douglas Armstrong Robert Cannon Nigel Goddard David Shepherd David Willshaw