Fall Semester 2021-2022
The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.
Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.
Shortlink to this page: https://cornellneuro.science/cnsjournalclub
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Presentations in the CNS JC are intended to "show us what you are interested in"; i.e., present work within your subfield that illustrates why it is interesting and broadly applicable. It is less important to choose papers that you think will be close to every attendees' heart than it is to choose papers that are blisteringly important or interesting or controversial in your own subfield, and explain/share this with the group. It's good for all of us. The corollary is that journal club members don't decide whether to attend in a given week based on what is being presented.
Presenting your own work is always welcome, in whatever manner you like.
To add yourself to the mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu (BCS is the historical name of the journal club) with the body of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.
You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall. You are welcome to attend without enrolling, of course, but we do appreciate you enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.
Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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31 August 2021: Organizational Meeting
7 September 2021: Julia Jun
Scott GA, Liu MC, Tahir NB, Zabder NK, Song Y, Greba Q, Howland JG (2020). Roles of the medial prefrontal cortex, mediodorsal thalamus, and their combined circuit for performance of the odor span task in rats: analysis of memory capacity and foraging behavior. Learning & Memory 27(2):67-77.
14 September 2021: Jesse Werth
Schoonover CE, Ohashi SN, Axel R, Fink AJP (2021). Representational drift in primary olfactory cortex. Nature 594: 541-546.
- Followup papers of interest:
- Raman D, O'Leary T (2021). Optimal plasticity for memory maintenance during ongoing synaptic change. eLife 10:e62912. (Online only; PDF not yet available).
21 September 2021: Margaret Cruz
Meinhardt J, et al. (2021). Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19. Nature Neuroscience 24: 168-175.
- The role of brain microglia in synaptic plasticity (as well as the immune response) arose during discussion. Here are a couple of starting-point reviews of the topic for those interested.
- Morris GP et al. (2013). Microglia: a new frontier for synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, and neurodegenerative disease research.
- Augusto-Oliveira M et al. (2021). Lifestyle-dependent microglial plasticity: training the brain guardians.
- The role of brain microglia in synaptic plasticity (as well as the immune response) arose during discussion. Here are a couple of starting-point reviews of the topic for those interested.
28 September 2021: Celia McLean
Vahaba DM, Hecsh A, Remage-Healey L (2020). Neuroestrogen synthesis modifies neural representations of learned song without altering vocal imitation in developing songbirds. Scientific Reports 10:3602.
5 October 2021: Michael Mariscal
Kato HK, Chu MW, Isaacson JS, Komiyama T (2012). Dynamic sensory representations in the olfactory bulb: modulation by wakefulness and experience. Neuron 76: 962-975.
12 October 2021: FALL BREAK / Indigenous Peoples' Day
No meeting
19 October 2021: Lia Chen
Cornblath EJ, Li HL, ..., Henderson MX (2021). Computational modeling of tau pathology spread reveals patterns of regional vulnerability and the impact of a genetic risk factor. Science Advances 7: eabg6677.
- Followups from discussion:
- Seminal & review papers about graph theoretic analysis of brain networks: Bassett & Bullmore 2006, Bullmore & Sporns 2009, Bullmore & Sporns 2012, Bassett & Bullmore 2017
- Dementia papers utilizing brain network analyses: Rittman et al 2016, Rittman et al 2019
- Followups from discussion:
26 October 2021: Wendy Yang
Rangel MJ, Baldo MVC, Canteras NS (2018). Influence of the anteromedial thalamus on social defeat-associated contextual fear memory. Behavioural Brain Research 339: 269-277.
2 November 2021: Nicole Pranic
TBD
9 November 2021: Santi Forero
TBD
16 November 2021: Society for Neuroscience Conference
No meeting
23 November 2021: Nora Prior
TBD
30 November 2021: Kefira Wu
TBD
7 December 2021: Patryk Ziobro
- TBD