Tuesday 29 June 2010
8:00 Registration
9:00 Eus Van Someren: welcome and overview

I. Slow oscillations in detail and in perspective
9:30 Cellular and network mechanisms of recurrent cortical network activity
David McCormick

10:15 Mechanisms of slow oscillations generation during sleep: neurons, glia and networks
Florin Amzica

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Involvement of cytokines in slow wave sleep
James Krueger

12:15 Lunch - Poster session 1

II. Sleep and resting state EEG-profile as heritable endophenotype and during development

13:30 Genetic determination of sleep EEG profiles in mice
Paul Franken

14:15 Genetic determination of sleep EEG profiles in man
Hans-Peter Landolt

15:00 Developmental aspects of slow oscillations during sleep
Reto Huber

15:30 Tea break

III. Genetic, cellular and small scale network mechanisms of local use-dependent slow oscillations

16:15 Modulation of cortical neuronal activity by vigilance state, behavior and preceding sleep-wake history: cellular correlates of sleep homeostasis in freely behaving rats.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

17:00 Involvement of adenosine in slow wave sleep
Philip Haydon

18:00 RECEPTION AND BUFFET at WEST-INDISCH HUIS

Wednesday 30 June 2010

IV. Phasic events during slow oscillations

9:00 Impact of brainstem network activity on cortical dynamics during slow oscillations
Juan Mena-Segovia

9:45 Grouping of spindle activity during slow oscillations in sleep
Matthias Mölle

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Spontaneous neural activity during human slow wave sleep
Pierre Maquet

11:45 Lunch - Poster session 2

V. Thalamocortical network interactions during slow sleep oscillations

13:15 Neuronal plasticity in thalamocortical networks during sleep and waking oscillations
Igor Timofeev

14:00 Thalamocortical mechanisms of slow oscillations
Stuart Hughes

14:45 Tea break

VI. Cortico-hippocampal network interactions and replay during slow oscillations

15:15 The dynamics of memory reactivation and cortico-hippocampal interactions
Bruce McNaughton

16:00 Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep
Matt Wilson

16:45 Communication between neocortex and hippocampus during sleep in rodents
Anton Sirota

Thursday 1 July 2010

VII. Cortical synchronization and travelling of slow oscillations

9:00 Microvascular compliance changes across sleep and wake: mechanisms for
local sleep regulation
David Rector

9:45 Long range synchronization of up and down states
Maxim Volgushev

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Bistability, slow waves and information integration in thalamocortical circuits
Marcello Massimini

11:45 Sources of slow oscillation travelling waves; overlap with the default mode network?
Brady Riedner

12:30 Lunch - Poster session 3

VIII. Functional benefits of slow oscillations during sleep

14:15 Mechanisms of sleep-dependent consolidation of cortical plasticity
Marcos Frank

15:00 Sleep slow oscillations for memory consolidation
Jan Born

15:45 Tea break

16:15 Sleep benefits subsequent hippocampal functioning
Ysbrand Van Der Werf

18:00 DINNER

Friday 2 July 2010

IX. What comes to mind

9:00 Resting state networks as seen via FMRI: Characteristics and interpretations
Stephen Smith

9:45 Resting state default network oscillations interfacing vigilance and sleep
Linda Larson-Prior

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Low frequency BOLD fluctuations during resting wakefulness and light sleep
Jeff Duyn

11:45 Lunch - Poster session 4

X. Slow oscillations in the competition between vigilant performance and resting state

13:15 Daydreaming your way out of coma? fMRI restings state studies in disorders of consciousness
Steven Laureys

14:00 Very slow EEG fluctuations predict the dynamics of stimulus detection
Matias Palva

14:45 Tea break

15:15 Infraslow oscillations in drowsy performance and EEG
Scott Makeig

16:00 Introduction to the C.U. Ariëns Kappers lecture
Pieter Roelfsema

16:15 C.U. Ariëns Kappers lecture
Two Views of Brain Function
Marcus Raichle

16:00 CLOSING AND DRINKS

Program

The program covers 10 themes

I. Slow oscillations in detail and in perspective

II. Sleep and resting state EEG-profile as heritable endophenotype and during development

III. Genetic, cellular and small scale network mechanisms of local use-dependent slow oscillations

IV. Phasic events during slow oscillations

V. Thalamocortical network interactions during slow sleep oscillations

VI. Cortico-hippocampal network interactions and replay during slow oscillations

VII. Cortical synchronization and travelling of slow oscillations

VIII. Functional benefits of slow oscillations during sleep

IX. What comes to mind

X. Slow oscillations in the competition between vigilant performance and resting state

Poster presentation
All participants are encouraged to get actively involved in the Summer School by means of a poster presentation of their work.