PAST LAB MEETINGS (1999-2001)
November 6 (9:00 to 10:30) Prospective Highlights of Society for Neuroscience Meeting
November 13 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED Society for Neuroscience Meeting
November 20 (9:00 to 10:30) Jessica's research review
November 27 CANCELLED Stryker away
December 4 (9:00 to 10:30) Laila's research review
December 11 (9:00 to 10:30) Marcos's research review or paper
December 18 CANCELLED Christmas Holiday
December 25 CANCELLED Christmas Holiday
January 1 CANCELLED New Years Holiday
October 30 (9:00 to 10:30) Review of our lab's Society for Neuroscience Posters (Patrick and Allison also welcome to present posters for review)
October 23 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif on Chapman paper and STryker on new Weliky paper
October 16 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED
October 9 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif: two papers on possible roles played by activity in segregation of retinogeniculate afferents: Cook PM, Prusky G, Ramoa AS. (1999) The role of spontaneous retinal activity before eye opening in the maturation of form and function in the retinogeniculate pathway of the ferret. Vis Neurosci. 16:491-501, AND Chapman, B (2000) Necessity for afferent activity to maintain eye-specific segregation in ferret lateral geniculate nucleus. Science. 2000 Mar 31;287(5462):2479-82.
October 2 (9:00 to 10:30) Jessica will present Carlos Rozas, Hosea Frank, Arnold J. Heynen, Bernardo Morales, Mark F. Bear, and Alfredo Kirkwood (2001) Developmental Inhibitory Gate Controls the Relay of Activity to the Superficial Layers of the Visual Cortex. J Neurosci. 21(17):6791-6801 http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/21/17/6791 .
September 25 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED for Asilomar Meeting.
September 18 (9:00 to 10:30) Val.
September 14 (10:00 to 11:30) Matteo Carandini (now from Zurich, late of Ferster and Movshon and Heeger labs) will visit and give us an informal talk entitled SUPPRESSION WITHOUT INHIBITION IN PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX, with discussion. Note unusual time but same place!
September 11 (9:00 to 10:30) Meeting moved to September 14 from 10-11:30 AM in HSE-810
September 4 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED.
August 28 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED.
August 21 (9:00 to 10:30) Marcos will present Fitzpatrick lab paper on ferret orientation development. Nature 411:1049-1052, 2001. pdf
August 14 (9:00 to 10:30) Antonella will present a new paper from the Svboda Lab: Edward A. Stern, Miguel Maravall, and Karel Svoboda (2001) Rapid Development and Plasticity of Layer 2/3 Maps in Rat Barrel Cortex In Vivo. Neuron 31: 305-315. pdf
August 7 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED.
July 31 (9:00 to 10:30) Patrick will present Ramoa, AS; Mower, AF; Liao, D; Jafri, SI. (2001) Suppression of cortical NMDA receptor function prevents development of orientation selectivity in the primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience Jun 15, 21(12):4299-309. pdf. Patrick also pointed out some other interesting papers that we should discuss at some future date.
July 24 (9:00 to 10:30) Naoum. New work on ambloypia and spatial frequency.
July 17 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED.
July 10 (9:00 to 10:30) Ginny will present: Two distinct modes of sensory processing observed in monkey primary visual cortex (V1) by Supe, Spekreijse, and Lamme. Nature Neuroscience 4:304-310, 2001
July 3 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED
June 26 (9:00 to 10:30) Alison presented recent experimental results.
June 19 (9:00 to 10:30) Jessica presented:
Casto Rivadulla,
Jitendra Sharma, and Mriganka Sur:
Specific
Roles of NMDA and AMPA Receptors in Direction-Selective and Spatial Phase-Selective
Responses in Visual Cortex. J. Neurosci., March 1, 2001, 21(5):1710-1719
June 12 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif presented:
Rules of connectivity
between geniculate cells and simple
cells in cat primary
visual cortex. by Alonso, Usrey and Reid. J
Neurosci 21:4002-4015.
June 5 (9:00 to 10:30) Val presented results of recent experiments and analytical procedures.
May 22 (9:00 to 10:30) Antonella presented:
Dragol, Rivadulla and Sur 2001 Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex Nature 411, 80
May 29 (9:00 to 10:30) Marcos presented:
PAUL
W. FRANKLAND, CARA O'BRIEN, MASUO OHNO, ALFREDO
KIRKWOOD
& ALCINO J. SILVA. a-CaMKII-dependent plasticity in the cortex is required
for permanent memory. Nature 411, 309-313 (2001)
News and Views on this article
May 15 (9:00 to 10:30) Patrick presented results of recent experiments.
May 8 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled
May 1 (9 AM) Membrane
Potential and Conductance Changes Underlying Length Tuning of Cells in Cat Primary
Visual Cortex. by Jeffrey S. Anderson, Ilan Lampl, Deda C. Gillespie, and David
Ferster. Click on the title to go to the PDF file, or go to: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/21/6/2104.pdf
April 24 (9:00 to 10:30) New results from Ginny.
April 17 or April 24 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled.
April 10 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif, Jessica will present their recent mouse findings.
April 3 (9:00 to 10:30) Valery will present his new way of analyzing orientation and direction maps.
March 27 (9:00 to 10:30) Shatz lab paper on MHC knockouts (Huh et al 2000 Science 290:2155-2159), with possible short review of their earlier report (Corriveau et al 1998 Neuron 21:505). Patrick will present.
March 20 (9:00 to 9:30) Stellwagen & Shatz (submitted) on retinogeniculate competition, and Sretavan & Shatz (J Neurosci 6:990-1003) on lamination of LGN after monocular enucleation at P23
March 13 Will reschedule: Stryker away that day
March 6 Cancelled--Stryker away
February 27 SPECIAL EARLIER TIME (8:30 to 9:30) Patrick McQuillen will discuss new findings
February 20 (9:00 to 10:30) Paper for discussion to be selected soon
February 13 (9:00 to 10:30) (1) Ginny on new slice results. (2) Alison on new experiment.
February 6 (9:00 to 10:30) Antonella and Michael will present and discuss new findings on the corpus callosum. Bring your suggestions for future topics.
January 30 SPECIAL TIME (1:30 to 2:30) Discussion with Professor Tsumoto following his seminar
January 23 (9:00 to 10:30) End of Progress Reports
January 16 (9:00 to 10:30) Open (possibly Yoshio Hata will be able to present some of his new work)
January 9 (9:00 to 10:30) Finish Up on Progress Reports & Plans for Next Steps (everyone except Jessica and Marcos)
January 2 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled for Christmas Holiday
December 26 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled for Christmas Holiday
December 19 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled for Christmas Holiday
December 12 (9:00 to 10:30) Progress Reports & Plans for Next Steps From Everyone
December 5 (9:00 to 10:30) Final Run-through for Stryker Lab Keck Dinner
November 28 (9:00 to 10:30) Planning for Dec 5 Stryker Lab Keck Dinner and More Neuroscience Meeting Highlights
November 21 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Stryker away)
November 14 (9:00 to 10:30) Neuroscience Meeting Highlights: each person prepare to present his favorite few talks or posters
November 7 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Neuroscience meeting)
October 31 (9:00 to 10:30) Final run-through of Marcos and Sharif presentations
October 24 (9:00 to 10:30) Neuroscience talk/poster review
October 17 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Stryker away)
October 10
(9:00 to 10:30) Ray-Beau Lotto
(of the Dale Purves Lab at Duke)
will talk on "An empirical explanation for illusory perceptions of color"
October 3 (9:00 to 10:30) Rob Williams paper on QTL mapping in recombinant inbred strains: \\mps-pc23\distribution\QTLShortCourse98.html.
September 26 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Stryker away).
September 19 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Neuroscience Asilomar).
September 12 (9:00 to 10:30) Frank Werblin (UC Berkeley) will give an informal talk on the 10 parallel visual maps in the inner plexiform layer of the bunny rabbit, and we will discuss possible central representations of these maps, and the duality of activity patterns versus receptive fields.
September 5 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Stryker away)
August 29 (9:00 to 10:30) Naomi will discuss her new work.
August 22 (9:00 to 10:30) Marcos progress.
August 15 Cancelled Stryker on holiday.
August 8 (9:00 to 10:30) Antonella will present a paper. Feldman, D.E. Timing-Based LTP and LTD at Vertical Inputs to Layer II/III Pyramidal Cells in Rat Barrel Cortex. Neuron, Vol. 27,45-56, July, 2000.
August 1 (9:00 to 10:30) Naoum will present some new manuscripts.
July 25 (9:00 to 10:30) Patrick:
Allison:
July 18 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif will specify papers on dendritic protein synthesis.
July 11 (9:00 to 10:30) Naoum Issa will discuss the spatial freqeuncy analyses.
July 4 (9:00 to 10:30) Holiday!
June 27 (9:00 to 10:30) Josh Trachtenberg will discuss the analyses for his new experiment.
June 20 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Stryker away).
June 13 Meeting Moved to Thursday, June 15, in HSW-701 (9:00 to 10:30) Alison Barth will present her current work receptor development.
June 6 (9:00 to 10:30) We will all read Sohail F. Tavazoie and R. Clay Reid (2000) Diverse receptive fields in the lateral geniculate nucleus during thalamocortical development Nature Neuroscience Volume 3 Number 6 Page 608 - 616 (file \\mps-pc23\distribution\reidlgn.pdf available for printing).
May 30 (9:00 to 10:00) Stryker will talk about new findings described at McKnight meeting (short meeting).
May 23 (9:00 to 10:30) Naoum Issa will present optical imaging analysis of the possible Fourier decomposition of images in visual cortex.
May 16 (9:00
to 10:30) Antonella will present
Barbara Chapman's new papers (Science
287:2479)
May 9 (9:00 to 10:30) Naomi
will present the new Sur lab behavior paper (Nature
404:871) and some information on W-cells. and (J
Neurosci 20:1922)
May 2 (9:00 to 10:30) Sur
Lab papers on visual input to auditory cortex (Nature
404:841)
April 25 (9:00 to 10:30) Lab
Meeting Cancelled because of absences and experiments.
April 18 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif
will present papers from John Flanagan's (Nature
Neuroscience 3:358) and Dennis O'Leary's (Science
288:344) labs on the regulation of area identity in the cortex by Emx2,
Pax6 and related molecules.
April 11 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled (Stryker away)
April 4 (9:00 to 10:30)
March 28 (9:00 to 10:30) Patrick McQuillen will report on his research.
Patrick will finish, and the Naomi will lead discussion of Sawatari and Callaway (2000) Diversity and cell type specificity of local excitatory connections to neurons in layer 3B of monkey primary visual cortex. Neuron 25:459-471 PDF(also on \\mps-pc23\distribution)
March 21 (9:00 to 10:30)We will discuss two papers on imaging: Kim et al pages 164-169 of Nature Neuroscience Vol 3, Number 2, February, 2000; and Grinvald et al pages 105-107 of same issue.
March 14 Cancelled (Stryker away)
Exceptional Wednesday meeting: March 8
in room S-764 (9:00 to 10:30)Antonella
will present some new anatomical experiments.
Feb 22 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif will present new experimental results.
Feb 15 (9:00 to 10:30) Josh will present a paper from Jeff Lichtman's lab
entitled: Rapid and reversible effects of activity on acetylcholine receptor
density at the neuromuscular junction in vivo.
Click here
to view the PDF file.
Feb 8 (9:00 to 10:30) Marcos will present new experimental results. We will
all read recent McGaugh
review on consolidationClick here
to view the text file.
Feb 1 (9:00 to 10:00 AM only) Antonella will present a paper from Karel Svoboda's
lab entitled:
Spread of dendritic excitation in layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in rat barrel
cortex in vivo.
click here
to view the text file.
PDF
If we have time, we may also talk about the new Yuste lab paper on spine
motility , but people do not have to read it first. Dunaevsky, A; Tashiro,
A; Majewska, A; Mason, C; Yuste, R. (1999) Developmental regulation of spine
motility in the mammalian central nervous system. PNAS 96:13438-43.
Dec 28, 1999 Cancelled for Holiday
Dec 21, 1999 Cancelled for Holiday
Dec 14, 1999 Open
Dec 7, 1999 Moved to 10 AM Dec 8, for Josh Trachtenberg to present
results of strabismus experiments
Nov 30, 1999 a new paper to be named
Nov 23, 1999 Cancelled for Thanksgiving
Nov 16, 1999 Naoum Issa will discuss recent
paper(s) from Freeman lab on clustering of receptive field properties: Gregory
C. DeAngelis, Geoffrey M. Ghose, Izumi Ohzawa, and Ralph D. Freeman. Functional
Micro-Organization of Primary Visual Cortex: Receptive Field Analysis of Nearby
Neurons. J. Neurosci. 1999 19: 4046-4064
Nov 2, 1999 Review of highlights of the
Neuroscience meeting
Oct 26, 1999 Cancelled because of Neuroscience
Meeting
Oct 19, 1999 Review of posters and talks
for the Neuroscience Meeting
Oct 12, 1999Review of posters and talks
for the Neuroscience Meeting
Oct 5, 1999 Cancelled because Stryker
is away
Sep 28, 1999 Cancelled because of Asilomar
Sep 21, 1999 MOVED
TO 9 AM Monday, Sep 20, so that Holly Cline can join us
Sep 14, 1999 Marcos Frank will discuss
recent paper by Michael Weliky and Lawrence C. Katz, Correlational Structure
of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity in the Developing Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
in Vivo, Science 1999 July 23; 285: 599-604
Tuesday July 6
1999: CANCELLED
Tuesday June 29 1999: 8:45-10amAntonella will present two papers.
Tuesday June 22 1999: 8:45-10amMichaelSilver will present a paper
C.D. Rittenhouse, H.Z.
Shouval, M.A. Paradiso, & M.F. Bear
Monocular deprivation
induces homosynaptic long term depression in the visual cortex.
Nature, 28 January 1998. 397:347. Click here
for a PDF version of the article.
Wednesday June 16 1999: 4pm to 5pm
Josh will present his data.
Tuesday June 8, 1999: 8:45-10am Naoum &
Chris will continue their discussion on Fourier transformations.
Tuesday June 1, 1999: 9:00-10am Naoum &
Christopher will present their data on something called "Fourier transforms"
and will provide the rest of us with much needed coffee and Nodoze
Tuesday May 25, 1999: CANCELLED
Wednesday May 19, 1999: 8:30-10am Jessica
will present her data.
Tuesday May 11, 1999: CANCELLED (Marcos was
supposed to present his data).
May 4, 1999: CANCELLED
Monday, April 26, 1999: C343B 8:30-10am Sharif
will present his data.
Thursday, April 22, 1999: 4-5:30pm Naomi
will present a paper
Brain-derived neurotrophic
factor prevents low-frequency inputs from inducing
long-term depression in the developing visual cortex.
The Journal of Neuroscience,
March 15,1999. 19(6):2122-2130.
April 13, 1999: Marcos will present a paper.
Hirsch, JA, et al.
Synaptic integration in striate cortical simple cells
J Neurosci 1998 18 (22):9517-28
April 6, 1999: Antonella will present a paper.
Victor A.F. Lamme &
Henk Spekreijse
Neuronal synchrony does not represent texture segregation
Nature 26 November 1998 Volume 396 pp 362-366
March 30, 1999: Sharif will present a paper.
Elizabeth B. Roberts,
M. Alex Meredith, and Ary S. Ramoa
Suppression of NMDA Receptor Function Using Antisense DNA Blocks Ocular Dominance
Plasticity While Preserving Visual Responses
J Neurophysiol 1998 80: 1021-1032