Spring Semester
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2016-2016
For Fall and Spring Semesters 2015-2016, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.
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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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23 August 201631 January 2017: Organizational Meeting
30 August 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir
- Tavares, R., Mendelsohn, A., Grossman, Y., Williams, C., Shapiro, M., Trope, Y., and Schiller, D. (2015). A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87:231-43.
7 February 2017: No meeting.
14 February 20176 September 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir
G. Alexander, S. Farris, J. Pirone, C. Zheng, L. Colgin & S. Dudek (2015). Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038.
13 September 2016: Marissa Rice and Alex Ophir
F. Hitti & S. Siegelbaum. (2014). The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508:88-94.
- A. Smith, S. Williams Avram, A. Cymerblit-Sabba, J. Song and W. Young (2016). Targeted activation of the hippocampal CA2 area strongly enhances social memory. Molecular Psychiatry 21:1137-1144.
Additional (optional) reading:
L. Zynyuk, J. Huxter R. Muller and S. Fox. (2012). The Presence of a Second Rat Has Only Subtle Effects on the Location-Specific Firing of Hippocampal Place Cells. Hippocampus 22:1405–1416.
20 September 2016: No meeting this week
- No readings
27 September 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Retrosplenial Cortex as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)
- Immordino-Yang M, McColl A, Damasio H, Damasio A. (2009). Neural correlates of admiration and compassion. PNAS 106(19):8021-6.
Additional background for those interested (we'll discuss these in class).
- Vedder, L. C., Miller, A. M. P., Harrison, M. B., and Smith, D. M. (2016). Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Navigational Cues, Trajectories and Reward Locations During Goal Directed Navigation. Cerebral Cortex, DOI 10.1093/cercor/bwh192.
- Phelps SM & Ophir AG (2009). Monogamous brains and alternative tactics: Neuronal V1aR, space use and sexual infidelity among male prairie voles. In Cognitive ecology: The evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making. 2nd Ed. (eds: Dukas R. & Ratcliffe J.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (A primer on the dorsal and ventral hippocampus)
B. Poucet, C. Thinus-Blanc, and R. Muller (1994). Place cells in the ventral hippocampus of rats. Neuroreport 5, 2045-2048.
- M. Fanselow and H. Dong (2010). Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures? Neuron 65:7-19.
- B. Strange, M. Witter, E. Lein and E. Moser (2014). Functional organization of the hippocampal longitudinal axis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15:655-669.
11 October 2016: Fall Break - no journal club
18 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)
- A. Felix-Ortiz and K. Tye (2014). Amygdala Inputs to the Ventral Hippocampus Bidirectionally Modulate Social Behavior. J. Neuroscience 34(2):586 –595.
Additional review as background for those interested.
- S. Allsop, C. VanderWeele, R. Wichmann and K.Tye (2014). Optogenetic insights on the relationship between anxiety-related behaviors and social deficits. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol 8, Article 241.
25 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding, continued)
T. Okuyama, T. Kitamura, D. Roy, S. Itohara and S. Tonegawa (2016). Ventral CA1 neurons store social memory. Science 353(6307):1536-41.
1 November 2016: Jesse Werth
- Jesse will discuss the ideas in of his recently submitted NSF fellowship proposal.
Suggested background reading:
- S. Shea, L. Katz and R. Mooney (2008). Noradrenergic Induction of Odor-Specific Neural Habituation and Olfactory Memories. Journal of Neuroscience 28(42):10711–10719.
8 November 2016: Adam Miller
- Adam will discuss his recently completed work on the retrosplenial cortex, spatial memory and the simulation of future goals.
15 November 2016: SFN Meeting - no journal club
22 November 2016: Cancelled - no meeting this week.
29 November 2016: Article potluck
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21 February 2017: Feb Break (no meeting)
28 February 2017: Adam Miller
TBA
7 March 2017: Norma hernandez
TBA
14 March 2017: Thom Cleland
TBA
21 March 2017: Marissa Rice
TBA
28 March 2017: Wen-Yi Wu
TBA
4 April 2017: Spring Break (no meeting)
11 April 2017:
18 April 2017:
25 April 2017:
2 May 2017:
9 May 2017: