<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">International Conference on System Level approaches to Neural Engineering<br class=""><br class="">Dates: September 21st – 23rd , 2015<br class=""><br class="">Venue: <a href="http://www.prbb.org/" class="">Barcelona Biomedical Research Park</a>, Barcelona, Spain<br class=""><br class="">Website: <a href="http://www.neural-engineering.eu/BarcelonaConference2015/index.html" class="">http://www.neural-engineering.eu/BarcelonaConference2015/index.html</a><br class=""><br class="">The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together theoretical and experimental neuroscientists and roboticists to discuss the state of the art in the field of Neural Engineering. This three day long event is part of a series of training events organized by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network NETT (Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies). It will also give young researchers an opportunity to present their work. Theme panels are:<br class=""><br class="">* Neural Dynamics - mathematical description of neuronal activity<br class="">* Brain-on-Chip - engineering of neuronal circuits in-vitro with emphasis on microfluidics<br class="">* Neural Learning and Control - motion planning, controlling and learning neuro-inspired techniques for robotics<br class="">* Neural Coding - investigation of neuronal strategies for encoding information<br class="">* Optical Neurotechnology - imaging and engineering techniques that allow recording of neuronal activity<br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------- CONFIRMED SPEAKERS---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Andre Bastos - The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, Boston, MA, USA<br class="">Romain Brette - Institut de la Vision, Paris, France<br class="">Sophie Deneve - Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, LNC, Paris, France<br class="">Dario Farina - Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany<br class="">Albert Folch - Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA<br class="">Amanda Foust - Imperial College London, London, UK<br class="">Sami Haddadin - Institute of Automatic Control, Hannover, Germany<br class="">Kenneth Harris - Institute of Neurology and the Department of Physiology,<br class="">Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, UCL, London, UK<br class="">Fritjof Helmchen - Brain Research Institute, Zürich, Switzerland<br class="">Thibault Honegger - Laboratoire des Technologies de la Microelectronique, CNRS-CEA, Grenoble, France<br class="">Eugene Izhikevich - Brain Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA<br class="">Viktor Jirsa - Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France<br class="">David Liley - Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia<br class="">Benjamin Lindner - Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany<br class="">Nikos Logothetis - Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany<br class="">Yoonkey Nam - Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea<br class="">Adam Packer - University College London, London, UK<br class="">Stefano Panzeri - Neural Computation Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy<br class="">Eftychios Pnevmatikakis - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA<br class="">Alexandre Pouget - CMU, Geneva, Switzerland<br class="">Jan Schnupp - Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford, UK<br class="">Gregor Schöner - Institut für Neuroinformatik Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany<br class="">Reza Shadmehr - John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA<br class="">Patrick van der Smagt - BRML labs, TUM, Germany<br class="">John Terry - College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK<br class=""><br class="">The International Conference on System Level Approaches to Neural Engineering conference is organised by the Fellows of the Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies (<a href="http://www.neural-engineering.eu/" class="">NETT</a>) consortium. On their behalf we cordially invite you to participate in this meeting that will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on September 21st – 23rd, 2015.<br class=""><br class="">The NETT consortium is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network involving neuroscience research laboratories from the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal and industrial partners. The network is coordinated by Professor Stephen Coombes from the University of Nottingham, UK.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">--------------------------------------- REGISTRATION --------------------------------------- </span></div><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration can be done on our</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-conference-on-system-level-approaches-to-neural-engineering-tickets-15270341001" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">registration form</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration opens: 1st March 2015</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration deadline: 30th May 2015</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Conference fee will be 200 euros plus 50 euros for an optional conference dinner. Details about the payment will be posted on the conference website.</span></div><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">--- Call for posters ---</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Posters will be selected from half-page abstracts, which should be submitted by email to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="mailto:nett.barcelona.2015@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">nett.barcelona.2015@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> Please specify in the object to which theme panel you are submitting your abstract.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Abstract Submission opens: 1st of March 2015</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Abstract Submission closes: 30th May 2015</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Abstract Acceptance Notification: 30th June 2015</span></div><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Best regards,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">On behalf of the NETT Fellows,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-family: arial;" class="">Alessandro Barardi, PhD student.</div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-family: arial;" class=""><a href="http://www.neural-engineering.eu/" target="_blank" class="">Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies</a><br class="">Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,</div><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-family: arial;" class="">Universitat Pompeu Fabra.</div><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""></span></p><div style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-family: arial;" class="">Barcelona, Spain.</div></div><PRE>
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