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MONDAY, September 8:
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0830 - 0930 Registration
0930 - 0945 Welcome, Patrick Aebischer, President of the EPFL
0945 - 1005 Information, Christof Teuscher, EPFL
Introduction, Daniel Mange, EPFL
1005 - 1035 Invited Talk
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing
1035 - 1100 Coffee
1100 - 1200 NEURAL MODELS AND SYSTEMS I:
DaeEun Kim
A Spiking Neuron Model for Synchronous Flashing of
Fireflies
Jianfeng Feng
Neuronal Models With Masked Signal Inputs
Kazuhisa Fujita, Yoshiki Kashimori, Meihong Zheng,
Takeshi Kambara
A role of burst firings in encoding of spatiotemporal-
varying stimulus
1200 - 1400 Lunch
1400 - 1500 MODELLING I:
D. C. Walker, J. Southgate, G. Hill, M. Holcombe,
D. R. Hose, S. M. Wood, S. Mac Neil, R. H. Smallwood
The Epitheliome: Agent Based Modelling of the Social
Behavior of Cells
Duncan Jackson, Mike Holcombe, Francis Ratnieks
Coupled computational simulation and empirical research
into the foraging system of Monomorium pharaonis
C. Ruggiero, S. Benvenuti, S. Borchi, M. Giacomini
Mathematical model of retinal mosaic formation
1500 - 1530 Coffee
1530 - 1630 NEURAL MODELS AND STSYEMS II:
Nobuyuki Suzuki, Nobuhiro Hashimoto, Yoshiki Kashimori,
MeiHong Zheng, Takeshi Kambara
A neural model of predictive recognition in form pathway
of visual cortex
Margarita Kuzmina, Eduard Manykin, Irina Surina
Oscillatory Network with Self-Organized Dynamical
Connections for Synchronization-Based Image Segmentation
Eigo Kamata, Satoru Inoue, MeiHong Zheng,
Yoshiki Kashimori, Takeshi Kambara
A neural machanism for detecting the distance of a
selected target by modulating the FM sweep rate of
biosonar in echolocation of bat
1645 Inaugural reception
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TUESDAY, September 9
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0945 - 1030 Invited Talk
Dario Floreano, EPFL
Co-evolution of active vision and feature selection in
natural and artificial behavioral systems
1030 - 1100 Coffee
1100 - 1200 MODELLING II:
Richard Gregory, Ray Paton, Jon Saunders, Q. Henry Wu
Parallising a model of bacterial interaction and
evolution
A. Takamatsu, T. Yamamotob, T. Fujii
Construction of a living mathematical model:
Spontaneous Switching of Resonant States in an
Oscillator of the Plasmodial Slime Mold by Periodic
Stimulus
Deborah K Dunn-Walters, Hanna Edelman, Ramit Mehr
Immune System Learning and Memory Quantified by
Graphical Analysis of B-Lymphocyte Phylogenetic Trees
1200 - 1400 Lunch
1400 - 1500 HARDWARE:
Yann Thoma, Gianluca Tempesti, Eduardo Sanchez,
Juan-Manuel Moreno Arostegui
POEtic: An electronic Tissue for Bio-Inspired Cellular
Applications
Oriol Torres, Jan Eriksson, Juan Manuel Moreno,
Alessandro Villa
Hardware Optimization and Serial Implementation of
a Novel Spiking Neuron Model for the POEtic Tissue
A. Eisinberg, P. Valdastri, I. Izzo, A. Menciassi,
P. Dario
Design of a microsensor for the measurement of
mechanical tension from resistance blood vessels
1500 - 1530 Coffee
1530 - 1630 NEURAL MODELS AND SYSTEMS III:
Folgheraiter Michele, Gini Giuseppina
Human-Like Reflex Control for an Artificial Hand
Brigitte Galliot, Dominique Gauchat, Marijana
Miljkovic-Licina
Expression of evolutionarily-conserved regulatory
genes in a first-evolved nervous system, the hydra
nervous system
1930 Dinner
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WEDNESDAY, September 10:
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0945 - 1030 Invited Talk
Henry Markram, EPFL
Neural chips
1030 - 1100 Coffee
1100 - 1200 ARTIFICIAL CELLS:
Daniel Mange, Andre Stauffer, Enrico Petraglio,
Gianluca Tempesti
Artificial Cell Division
I. Ardelean, M. Gheorghe, C. Martin-Vide, V. Mitrana
A Computational Model for Cell Differentiation
Mathieu S. Capcarrere
An evolving ontogenetic cellular system for better
adaptiveness
1200 - 1400 Lunch
1400 - 1500 GENETIC MODELS AND PROGRAMMING:
Assaf Zaritsky, Moshe Sipper
Coevolving Solutions to the Shortest Common
Superstring Problem
Roger Eriksson, Bjorn Olsson
Adapting Genetic Regulatory Models by Genetic
Programming
Michael A. Lones, Andy M. Tyrrell
Modelling biological evolvability: implicit context
and variation filtering in enzyme genetic programming
1500 - 1530 Coffee
1530 - 1630 GENES AND GENETIC MODELS:
James Watson, Nicholas Geard, Janet Wiles
Towards more biological mutation operators in gene
regulation studies
Elebeoba E. May, Mladen A. Vouk, Donald L. Bitzer,
David I. Rosnick
Coding Theory Based Models for Protein Translation
Initiation in Prokaryotic Organisms
Wolfram Liebermeister, Edda Klipp, Stefan Schuster,
Reinhart Heinrich
A theory of optimal differential gene expression
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THURSDAY, September 11:
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0945 - 1030 Invited Talk
Marcello Barbieri, University of Ferrara, Italy
The definitions of information and meaning: Two
possible bounderies between physics and biology
1030 - 1100 Coffee
1100 - 1200 COMPUTATION AND INFORMATION:
Gerard Battail
An engineer's view on genetic information and
biological evolution
Peter J. Bentley
Evolving Beyond Perfection: An Investigation of the
Effects of Long-Term Evolution on Fractal Gene
Regulatory Networks
M. Sakthi Balan, Kamala Krithivasan
Parallel Computation of Simple Arithmetic using
Peptide-Antibody Interactions
1200 - 1215 Concluding remarks
1200 - 1400 Lunch
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