BCS Journal Club

The Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club meets on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in Uris Hall 205. 

Please contact David Smith or Thomas Cleland with any questions.  BCS meeting archive.

21 January 2009:  Organizational Meeting

28 January 2009: David Smith

• Memory, Interference and Brain Mechanisms of Retrieval. No readings this week.

4 February 2009: Greg Peters

• M. E. Hasselmo (2008). Grid Cell Mechanisms and Function: Contributions of Entorhinal Persistent Spiking and Phase Resetting, Hippocampus 18:1213-1229.

11 February 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Hasselmo and Eichenbaum (2005). Hippocampal mechanisms for the context-dependent retrieval of episodes.  Neural Networks 18: 1172-1190

18 February 2009: Mike Wojnowitcz - POSTPONED DUE TO PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING.

• Reading TBA. 

25 February 2009:   SUPERSEDED BY PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING

• No meeting; no reading.

4 March 2009: Thom Cleland

• Inoue and Strowbridge (2008). Transient activity induces a long-lasting increase in the excitability of olfactory bulb interneurons.  J. Neurophysiology 99:187-199.  (Some background information available in Pressler et al (2007)). 

11 March 2009: David Smith

• Pastalkova, Itskov, Amarasingham and Buzsáki (2008). Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus

18 March 2009: TBA

• Reading PDF. 

25 March 2009: Christine Charvet (visiting postdoc)

• Precocial and altricial birds evolved different developmental strategies to expand their telencephalon. No readings.

1 April 2009: TBA, There will be a room change for this meeting.

• Reading PDF. 

8 April 2009: Christina Sill

• Buzsaki, G. (2005). Theta Rhythm of Navigation: Link Between Path Integration and Landmark Navigation, Episodic and Semantic Memory. 

15 April 2009: Helene Porte

• Reading PDF. 

22 April 2009: TBA

• Reading PDF. 

29 April 2009: Mike Wojnowicz

• Reading PDF.