BCS Journal Club

For Fall semester 2009-2010, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 2:00 pm in Uris Hall 202. 

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

1 September 2009:  Organizational Meeting

• No readings.

8 September 2009: Mark Albert

• Mechanisms Underlying Development of Visual Maps and Receptive Fields. (2008) Andrew D. Huberman, Marla B. Feller and Barbara Chapman.

15 September 2009: Sasha DeVore

• R. Metzger et al (2006). Effects of Reward and Behavioral Context on Neural Activity in the Primate Inferior Colliculus. J Neurosci 26(28).
• L. M. Kay and G. Laurent (1999). Odor- and context-dependent modulation of mitral cell activity in behaving rats. Nature Neurosci 2(11).

22 September 2009: David Smith

• S. E. Morrison1 and C. D. Salzman (2009). The Convergence of Information about Rewarding and Aversive Stimuli in Single Neurons. J Neurosci 29(37):11471-11483.

29 September 2009: Article Pot Luck

• Bring your favorite (or the most interesting) recent paper you've run across and share it with the group.

6 October 2009:  Mike Wojnowicz

• Ganguli,S., Bisley,J., Roitman,J., Shadlen, M., Goldberg, M. and Miller, K. (2008). One-Dimensional Dynamics of Attention and Decision Making in LIP. Neuron 58, 15-25.

13 October 2009: Fall Break - No meeting.

• No readings.

20 October 2009: Society for Neuroscience Conference - No meeting.

• No readings.

27 October 2009: Ted Cornforth

• Balu, R. Pressler, R. T. and Strowbridge, B. (2007). Multiple Modes of Synaptic Excitation of Olfactory Bulb Granule Cells, Journal of Neuroscience 27(21):5621-5632.
• Gao, Y. & Strowbridge, B. (2009). Long-term plasticity of excitatory inputs to granule cells in the rat olfactory bulb. Nature Neuroscience..

3 November 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Brea, Kay, Kopel (submitted). Subthreshold oscillations and gamma rhythms in the olfactory bulb: a modeling study.Submitted to PNAS.  Preprint used by permission. 

10 November 2009: Matt Law

• Mamiya et al (2009). Brain Region-Specific Gene Expression Activation Required for Reconsolidation and Extinction of Contextual Fear Memory. J Neurosci 29(2):402- 413.
• Wang, S., de Oliveira Alvares, L. & Nader, K. (2009). Cellular and systems mechanisms of memory strength as a constraint on auditory fear reconsolidation. Nature Neuroscience (12)7.

During the discussion, Patrick Gill brought up an additional related paper:

Today several people asked me to send out a 2005 paper (Fusi, Drew, Abbott 2005, Cascade models of synaptically stored memories_)_ showing why a variety of memory maintenance mechanisms with different timescales are better than having just one or two simple memory maintenance mechanisms.  Here it is._  There's also a followup paper showing why it didn't matter that they used synapses with binary weighting in the 2005 paper:_  Stefano Fusi & L F Abbott  "Limits on the memory storage capacity of bounded synapses"  Nat Neuro 10 (4) April 2007 p 485.

17 November 2009: SiWei Luo

•  Chapuis, J. et al (2009). The Way an Odor Is Experienced during Aversive Conditioning Determines the Extent of the Network Recruited during Retrieval: A Multisite Electrophysiological Study in Rats. J Neurosci 29(33):10287-10298.

24 November 2009: Laura Manella

• Reading TBA. 

1 December 2009: Greg Peters

• Reading TBA.