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
8 September 2009: Mark Albert
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
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
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
24 November 2009: Laura Manella
- Reading TBA.
1 December 2009: Greg Peters
- Reading TBA.