Spring Semester 2009-2010
For Spring semester 2009-2010, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 pm in Uris Hall 205.
The overarching theme this semester is Oscillations. Adhering to this theme is not required, but recommended. Please interpret it broadly. Theories of gamma, beta, and theta oscillations in the nervous system are the centroid of intent, but alpha, sleep, circadian, etc. rhythms are also spot-on as are reasonably accessible dynamical systems topics from math and engineering.
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Please contact Thomas Cleland with any questions (David Smith is on walkabout this semester). BCS meeting archive.
26 January 2010: Organizational Meeting
- No readings.
2 February 2010: Thomas Cleland
- Fries, Nikolic, and Singer (2007). The gamma cycle. Trends in Neurosciences.
- Optional/supplementary: Dan and Poo (2004). Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity of Neural Circuits. Review in Neuron.
In discussion, Patrick brought up Li et al 2004, a paper from Mu-ming Poo's lab showing that those presynaptic neurons that spike early, and that consequently (via STDP) have their synaptic weights upon a postsynaptic neuron strengthened, are also themselves rendered more excitable. The net effect of this can be to durably group a set of early-firing neurons together into a fully synchronous ensemble evoking activity in that postsynaptic cell.
9 February 2010: Christina Sill
- TBD.
16 February 2010: Patrick Gill
- Fusi, Drews, and Abbott (2005). Cascade models of synaptically stored memories. Neuron.
23 February 2010: Helene Porte
- TBD.
2 March 2010: Sasha Devore
- TBD.
9 March 2010: TBD
16 March 2010: TBD
23 March 2010: SPRING BREAK
- No meeting.
30 March 2010: SiWei Luo
- TBD.
6 April 2010: Guoshi Li
- TBD.
13 April 2010: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
- TBD.