FENS Biocomputing

NEU-ChiP hosted a satellite event at FENS 2024, welcoming attendees to discuss “Cortical neurons for biological computing.” This event was well attended and received excellent feedback.

Please click on the links within the timetable below for copies of available talk slide sets.

DATE: Monday 24June 2024 from 09:00 to 18:00

LOCATION: ARCOTEL Wimberger Hotel, Vienna, Austria www.wimberger.arcotel.com 

Description:  The human brain is able to process information and conduct computation at a fraction of the power requirements of silicon-based machines. With computers projected to utilise 8-21% of global electricity supply by 2030 there is a need to develop alternative computing paradigms. With the development of human induced pluripotent stem cell technology over the past 15 years has emerged the potential to use living human biological neurons for computation. Such a goal requires the multidisciplinary input across a range of specialties. This FENS satellite meeting brings together stem cell biologists, neuroscientists, bioengineers, electronic engineers, statistical physicists and mathematicians with the aim of combining different approaches in a concerted effort towards biological computing with human cortical neurons. Groups include those form the EU funded NEU-ChiP FET consortium (https://neuchip.eu/)), the USA, Japan and from Australia.   

The meeting included a poster exhibition, see below for list.

Programme

8.30-9am. Arrival and badge pick up

9.00. Thomas Hartung  (Johns Hopkins University, USA):  “Organoid Intelligence, the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish” Slide set

9.30. Dani Tornero (University of Barcelona, Spain), “Human cells and tools for cortical computing” Slide set

10.00. Eric Hill (Loughborough University, UK): “Engineering approaches for fabricating neural circuitry” Slide Set

10.30-10.50 Coffee and posters.

10.50. Alessandro Maccione. 3Brain “Probing and analyzing the activity of spinal organoids with advanced high density microchip technology” Slide Set

11.10. Hideaki Yamamoto (Tohoku University, Japan):  “Biological reservoir computing: multicellular computing within biological neuronal networks”

11.40. Jordi Soriano (University of Barcelona, Spain):  “Electrical stimulation and the functional organization of human neuronal networks” Slide set

12:10. ESR talk 1: Wardiya Afshar Saber “iPSC models of developmental disorders” Slide set

12.30-1.30 Lunch and Posters.

13.30. ESR talk 2- Andrey Formozov “Computing in neuronal networks with plasticity by all optical interfacing” – Graphical Abstract

13.50. Fred Jordan, FinalSpark “Neuroplatform for research in wetware computing”

14.10. Remi Monasson (CNRS, Paris, France): “Supervised task learning via stimulation-induced plasticity in rate-based neural networks” Slide Set

14.40. Ramez Daniel (Technion, Israel): “Synthetic neuromorphic computing in living cells” Slide Set

15.00-15.30 Coffee and posters.

15.30. David Saad (Aston University, UK): “Inferring emerging structures and the embedding of content from neuronal firing data” Slide set

16.00. Shahar Kvatinsky (Technion, Israel): “Memristors meet neurons – biologically inspired neuromorphic devices” Slide set

16.30. Brett Kagan (Cortical labs, Australia): “Implications from new methods of assessing in vitro neural networks embodied in a virtual environment”

17.00. Panel Discussion.
17:30. Close

POSTER EXHIBITION

Presenter	University	Title
Anna-Christina Haeb	Universitat de Barcelona, Spain	Exploring stimulation and plasticity in tailored neuronal cultures monitored on high-density multielectrode array
Dr David Jenkins	Aston University, UK	Plasticity in iPSC Derived 2D Cortical Neuronal Networks
Dr Takuma Sumi	Tohoku University, Japan	Reservoir computing with cultured neuronal network
Dr Nobuaki Monma	Tohoku University, Japan	Dynamical complexity enriched by directional connections
Andrey Formozov	University of Heidelberg, Germany	Computing in neuronal networks with plasticity by all-optical interfacing
Dr Dominic Moses	Aston University, UK	Digital light processing of 3D structures for improved connectivity of hIPSC derived neurons
Dr Wardiya Afshar Saber	Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School	iPSCs models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Fred Jordan	FinalSpark	Neuroplatorm for research in wetware computing
Akke Houben	Universitat de Barcelona, Spain	Computation with spontaneous input-responses in neuronal cultures: capabilities and limitations
Eliza Monz	3BRAIN	Probing and analyzing the activity of spinal organoids with advanced high density microchip technology
Dr Eric Hill/Willow Hall	Loughborough University	Engineering Approaches to Control Biological – ‘Engineering Neural Circuitry’
Hakuba Murota	Tohoku University, Japan	Neuronal Ensembles in Engineered Neuronal Networks

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