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Fall Semester

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The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, meets For Spring Semester 2011-2012, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 40 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205(ish) in 156 Goldwin Smith Hall 

Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

The overarching theme this semester is likely to be "Active Sensation", perhaps to be modified at our first meeting.  Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy of Fall 2011.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

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 attend regularly, and don't decide whether to attend in a given week based on what is being presented.  

Presenting That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  in whatever manner you like.

To add yourself to the BCS-L 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 subject line of the message saying simply join.  The subject line doesn't matter.  Sending the message simply join, and the body of the message blank/empty.  Sending the message with a subject line of leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list.   See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details. 

You can enroll in the BCS CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit  credit (1 -2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:   PSYCH 6271-101  (class number 8699).   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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27 August 2024:  Organizational Meeting

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31 January 2012:  No meeting

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  • A week off, so that you can get that thing done that you wanted to get done but couldn't because you didn't have the time.  Until now.  

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7 February 2012:  Thom Cleland

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  • Three Ways to Break Your Olfactory Bulb's Memory Circuitry.  Recent work on learning and memory within olfactory bulb -- in particular, the effects of muscarinic cholinergic antagonists, alpha-1 noradrenergic antagonists, isoflurane anesthesia, and potentially the fast glutamate reuptake transporter.  

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14 February 2012:  Sasha Devore

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21 February 2012:  Matt Law

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28 February 2012:  TBD

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  • Thom out of town

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6 March 2012:  TBD

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  • Thom out of town

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13 March 2012:  Licurgo de Almeida

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  • TBD

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20 March 2012:  SPRING BREAK - NO BCS MEETING

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  • n/a

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27 March 2012:  Dave Bulkin

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  • Thom out of town

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3 April 2012:  SiWei Luo

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  • TBD

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10 April 2012:  Greg Peters

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  • TBD

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17 April 2012:  Guoshi Li

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3 September 2024:   David Zheng

10 September 2024:  TBD

17 September 2024:  Klora Wang

24 September 2024:  Cynthia Wu

1 October 2024 (Thom absent):  Xin Zhao

8 October 2024:   NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

15 October 2024:  NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

22 October 2024:  Julia Jun

29 October 2024:  Wendy Yang

5 November 2024Hamid Türker

12 November 2024:  Manmeet Kaur Lamba

19 November 2024:  Danqing Xie

26 November 2024:  Shiping Li

3 December 2024:  Zhiyi Wang


 

  • TBD

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24 April 2012:  Adam Miller

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  • TBD

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1 May 2012:  Eyal Nitzany

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