Location

The 4^th International Neural Coding Workshop is organized in Plymouth, Devon, a place with a long standing tradition with neural science.

Figuring out what was happening electrically inside a single nerve cell of a mammal was impossible in the late 1940's. The squid Loligo contains some enormous nerve cells, including an axon up to 1 mm in diameter and 10 cm long. Not only was the cell large, but it was remarkably tough. British scientists Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley at the University of Cambridge investigated how the electrical impulses are transmitted rapidly along the axon. They could use a rubber roller to squeeze out the cell's insides, like a tube of toothpaste, and refill the cell with a solution of their own choosing. Most of the experiments on giant nerve fibres had to be done at a Marine Station, and since 1947 they spent several months each year at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth.

The lecture hall and posters of the 4^th International Neural Coding Workshop are by the Sherwell Conference Center of the University of Plymouth.

Organizers

Local (University of Plymouth, UK)

Guido BUGMANN (Chair)
Roman BORISYUK
Michael DENHAM

External

Petr LANSKY (Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ)
Barry RICHMOND (NIMH, Washington, USA)
John RINZEL (New York University, USA)
Jean-Pierre ROSPARS (INRA, Versailles, FR)
Shunsuke SATO (Osaka University, JP)

Sponsors

• The Wellcome Trust
  

• The British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, GR/R53456/01)

• The Faculty of Technology University of Plymouth

Publication

• Editorial Preface of BioSystems vol. 67

• BioSystems vol.67 (1-3)