January 8 (9:00 to 10:30) Laila's research review
January 15 (9:00 to 10:30) Laila on E. Ahissar & A. Arieli (2001) Figuring space by time, Neuron 32 : 185-201 (October 25 issue)
January 22 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif
January 29 (9:00 to 10:30) Laila continues with E. Ahissar et al (1997) Decoding temporally encoded sensory input by cortical oscillations and thalamic phase comparators. PNAS 94:11633-11638 ; E. Ahissar et al. (2000) Transformation from temporal to rate coding in a somatosensory cortical pathway. Nature 406: 302-305 ; Review E. Ahissar (1998) Temporal-code to rate-code conversion by neuronal phase-locked loops. Neural Computation 10:597-650
January 30 (9:00 to 10:00) Laila continues with E. Ahissar .... And will finish!!!
Feb 5 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled--Stryker away
Feb 12 (9:00 to 10:30) Patrick
Feb 19 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled--Stryker away
Feb 26 (9:00 to 10:30) Cancelled--Stryker away
Mar 5 -- CANCELLED
Mar 12 (10:00 to 11:00) Yoshio Hata will discuss a new experiment and some of his recent results from Osaka
VISIT (1) Yoshio Hata and Katsuro Kameyama, March 11-15
Mar 15 (11:00 to 12:00) Beata Gierdalska-Jablonska will discuss (1) her doctoral studies on "Effects of NMDA receptor blockade on plastic changes in the adult barrel field of mice" and (2) her current work at the NIH on "The effect of layer 4 disruption on GABAergic system in ferret"
Mar 19 -- CANCELLED -- sorry
Mar 26 -- Moved to March 28
Mar 28 THURSDAY (9:00 to 10:30) Open
Apr 2 -- CANCELLED
Naoum Issa visit , April 13-20
Apr 9 (9:00 to 10:30) Open
Apr 16 (9:00 to 10:30) Sharif on new CamKinase results
Apr 23-- CANCELLED
Apr 24 WEDNESDAY (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED
Apr 30 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED
May 7 (9:00 to 10:30) Valery's new extps
May 14 (9:00 to 10:30) Open
May 21 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED
June 11 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED because of Sleep Meeting
June 18 (9:00 to 10:30) Plans for sleep studies
June 25 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED & papers moved to July 9-- expts went too late
July
2 (9:00
to 10:30) Two
papers on oreintation plasticity (Shoshana
will copy):
Godde, B., Leonhardt, R., Cords, S.M., and Dinse, H.R. (2002) Plasticity
of orientation preference maps in the visual cortex of adult cats. Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A 99: 6352-7
Sengpiel, F., Stawinski, P., and Bonhoeffer, T. (1999) Influence of experience
on orientation maps in cat visual cortex. Nat Neurosci 2: 727-32
July 9 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED -- Stryker will be away
July 16 (9:00 to 10:30) Patrick goes a chipping ...
July 23 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED -- Because of conflicting experiments.
July 30 (9:00 to 10:30) The first of two papers on V4 receptive fields (Shoshana has copied them for you): Pasupathy, A., and Connor, C.E. (1999) Responses to contour features in macaque area v4. J Neurophysiol 82: 2490-502
August 6 (9:00 to 10:30) The EH&S people will give us our yearly update on saftety and regulatory issues. ALL LAB MEMBERS MUST ATTEND! Barbara Chapman and one of her students will also join us.
August 13 (9:00 to 10:30) The second of two papers on V4 receptive fields (Shoshana has copied them for you): Pasupathy, A., and Connor, C.E. (2001) Shape representation in area v4: Position-specific tuning for boundary conformation. J Neurophysiol 86: 2505-19
August 20 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED -- Stryker will be away
No more lab meetings until September 17
Sep 17 (9:00 to 10:30) We will all discuss progress on current studies (1/2 hour each), so as to acquaint Siegrid with current lab activities
September 19 THURSDAY 12:00 to 1:00 Seminar by Bettina Seri of the Rockefeller, "Radial astrocytes as primary progenitors in the adult dentate gyrus"
October 4 (HSE-810, 9:00 to 10:30) We will ask Siegrid to present some of her recent work
October 11 (Tea room, 9:00 to 10:30) Papers
October 18 (Tea
room, 9:00 to 10:30) laila will present two
papers:
PS Hyde and
EI Knudsen. (Jan 3, 2002) The Optic Tectum Controls Visually Guided Adaptive Plasticity
in the Owl's Auditory Space Map. Nature. 415:73-76
Y Gutfreund, W Zheng,
EI Knudsen. (Aug 30, 2002) Gated Visual Input to the Central Auditory System.
Science. 297: 1556-1558.
October 25 (HSE-810, 9:00 to 10:30) Sunil Ghandi (Salk, UCSD) informal seminar "Kinetics and permeation of single vesicle fusion pores in hippocampal synapses" and visit
November 1 (?, 9:00 to 10:30) We will all bring suggested highlights from the Neuroscience abstracts. one paper BA Linkenhoker and EI Knudsen. (Sept 19, 2002) Incremental Training Increases the Plasticity of the Auditory Space Map in Adult Barn Owls. Nature. 419: 293-296
November 8 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED (Neuroscience Meeting)
November 15 (?, 9:00 to 10:30) Masaaki Sato (Kyoto University) informal seminar "Signaling mechanisms for activity-dependent regulation of Homer 1 immediate early gene"
November 22 (?, 9:00 to 10:30) Jianhua Cang (UCSD) informal seminar "Sensory modification of leech swimming" and "In vivo whole-cell recording of odor-evoked synaptic transmission in rat olfactory bulb"
November 29 (9:00 to 10:30) CANCELLED (Thanksgiving)
December 6 (9:00 to 10:30) Josh Trachtenberg's new manuscript, copy in \\mps-pc23\distribution\inVivoSynapses.pdf
December 10 (9:00 to 10:30 IN HSE-810 Keck Conference room, in place of Dec 13 meeting) Valery will present "Synaptic integration by V1 Neurons depends on location within the orientation map" by Summers, Marino, & Sur (2002) Neuron 36:969-978
Steve Zucker will be visiting from Yale December 17-19, and will give and INFORMAL SEMINAR "Modeling Long-Range Horizontal Interactions in V1" 4:00 PM on Tuesday, December 17, in the Keck Conference room (HSE-810)
December 20 and 27 CANCELLED (Christmas Holiday)
December 17 (TUESDAY, 4 PM, HSE-810) Informal seminar by Steve Zucker
December 20 and 27 CANCELLED (Christmas Holiday)
Jianhua Cang will be arriving in to join the lab on January 15
Dr Megumi Kaneko will visit on Friday, January 17
January 7 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Valery will present Das & Gilbert (1999) Topography of contextual modulations mediated by short-range interactions in primary visual cortex. Nature 399 : 658-661 and Stettler, Das, Bennett & Gilbert (2002) Lateral Connectivity and Contextual Interactions in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex. Neuron 36 : 739-750
January 17 (FRIDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Informal Seminar by Dr. Megumi Kaneko on Eph/Ephrin Signaling in Axon Sorting in Insect Development
January 24 (FRIDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) We will finish Das & Gilbert (1999) Topography of contextual modulations mediated by short-range interactions in primary visual cortex. Nature 399 : 658-661 and also do Stettler, Das, Bennett & Gilbert (2002) Lateral Connectivity and Contextual Interactions in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex. Neuron 36 : 739-750
January 28 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) We will finish Stettler, Das, Bennett & Gilbert (2002) Lateral Connectivity and Contextual Interactions in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex. Neuron 36 : 739-750
February 4 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) A new paper on sleep Ribeiro, Mello, Velho, Gardner, Jarvis, and Pavlides (2002) Induction of Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation during Waking Leads to Increased Extrahippocampal zif-268 Expression during Ensuing Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 2002, 22(24):10914-10923
February 11 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) Canceled
February 18 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) Will probably be canceled
February 25 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) Mouse experiment plans. Stryker will present for all to discuss and select.
March 4 (TUESDAY, 11:00 AM, HSE-810) Patrick will present Ma et al. (2002) Neurotrophin-3 Is Required for Appropriate Establishment of Thalamocortical Connections. Neuron 36:623 (click here to download)
March 11 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) Open.
March 18 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-1454) Jaime F. Olavarria University of Washington, Seattle will give an informal seminar RETINAL INFLUENCES ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF CORTICO-CORTICAL MAPS in S-1454
March 25 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, S-779) CANCELLED. Stryker will be away.
April 15 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM) CANCELLED -- Stryker away.
April 22 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Someone will present Features of Neuronal Synchrony in Mouse Visual Cortex Gabriele Nase, Wolf Singer, Hannah Monyer and Andreas K. Engel and
April 29 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM) CANCELLED -- Stryker away.
May 6 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) We will discuss ocular dominance computations in the mouse and cat.
May 13 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Bosiljka Tasic (Maniatis lab, Harvard) visit and talk on Expression Mechanisms of Clustered Protocadherin Genes.
May 20 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Chapman paper.
May 27 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Paper presentation.
June 10 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Two new methods papers: (1) Figure–ground activity in primary visual cortex (V1) of the monkey matches the speed of behavioral response. Hans Super, Henk Spekreijse, Victor A.F. Lamme, (2003) Neurosci Lett 344:75-78 and (2) Simultaneous mapping of binocular and monocular receptive fields in awake monkeys for calibrating eye alignment in a dichoptical setup. Alexander Gail , Hans Joerg Brinksmeyer, Reinhard Eckhorn (2003) J Neurosci Meth 126:41-56
June 17 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) CANCELLED. Stryker will be speaking at the Stanford Photonics Symposium that day. Lab members are welcome to come and ride down with me, although I will not be driving back until after a dinner with the other speakers.
June 24 (TUESDAY, 9:00 AM, HSW-701) Lab meeting moved to WEDNESDAY, June 25, 9:00-10:30 in HSW-701. Sunil will lead discussion of the new paper from Mark Bear's lab Sawtell et al (2003) NMDA Receptor-Dependent Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Adult Visual Cortex, in Neuron, Vol. 38, 977–985, June 19, 2003 .
July 1 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Each person in the lab will please give a 10-minute summary of progress and plans. Our new lab member, Megumi Kaneko, has arrived and will be there.
July 8(TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Open
July 15 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701) Edward S. Ruthazer, Colin J. Akerman, Hollis T. Cline (2003) Control of Axon Branch Dynamics by Correlated Activity in Vivo Science 301:66-70
July 22 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Open
July 29 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Role of Subplate Neurons in Functional Maturation of Visual Cortical Columns Patrick O. Kanold, Prakash Kara, R. Clay Reid, Carla J. Shatz Science 301:521-525
August 5 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701).Heynen et al. (2003) Molecular mechanism of loss of visual cortical responsiveness following brief monocular deprivation. Nature Neurosci 6 : 857-862
August 12 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Cancelled -- Stryker away
August 19 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Hilde A. E. Lechner, Edward S. Lein, and Edward M. Callaway (2002) A Genetic Method for Selective and Quickly Reversible Silencing of Mammalian Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience,22 : 5287–5290
August 26 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Cancelled -- Stryker away
September 2 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701) Cancelled -- Stryker away
September 9 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701). Basole A, White LE, Fitzpatrick D. (2003) Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature 423, 986 - 990
September 16 Cancelled -- Neuroscience Asilomar meeting
September 23 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701). A discussion with Jaime Olavarria of the new experiments he is working on with our lab.
September 30 Cancelled -- Stryker away
October 7 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:00 AM, HSW-701). Two papers: Val will present Liu GB, Zhang Y, Pettigrew JD, Xu WF, Li CY. (2003) Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus. Brain Res.985:13-20. and Sunil will present Villeneuve MY, Casanova C (2003) On the use of isoflurane versus halothane in the study of visual response properties of single cells in the primary visual cortex. J Neurosci Methods. 29:19-31.
October 14 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701). A paper from Jeff Lichtman. I suggest that Megumi present it: Kasthuri, N., and Lichtman, J.W. (2003) The role of neuronal identity in synaptic competition. Nature 424: 426-30
October 21 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701).The second paper of the pair begun on October 14, to be presented by Matt Caywood: Buffelli, M., Burgess, R.W., Feng, G., Lobe, C.G., Lichtman, J.W., and Sanes, J.R. (2003) Genetic evidence that relative synaptic efficacy biases the outcome of synaptic competition. Nature 424: 430-4
October 28 Cancelled -- Stryker away
November 4 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701). Another new paper about turnover of synapses, to be presented by Sunil: Gan, W.B., Kwon, E., Feng, G., Sanes, J.R., and Lichtman, J.W. (2003) Synaptic dynamism measured over minutes to months: Age-dependent decline in an autonomic ganglion. Nat Neurosci 6: 956-960
Novemer 11 Cancelled -- Neuroscience Meeting
November 18 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701). Bring your summary of the most interesting neuroscience presenations.
November 25 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701). More Neuroscience meeting highlights: Laila, Valery, perhaps others
December 2 (TUESDAY, 9:00-10:30 AM, HSW-701). A new Grinvald lab paper on spontaneous cortical states, finally with an analysis that does not depend on spike triggered averaging. I will suggest Yuri present it. Tal Kenet, Dmitri Bibitchkov, Misha Tsodyks, Amiram Grinvald & Amos Arieli (2003) Spontaneously emerging cortical representations of visual attributes. NATURE 425: 954-956 Also see Supplementary material
December 9 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Continuing on the papers above, analyzing whether the Kohonen procedure gets the most information from the VSD datasets, and what the implications of these maps are for cortical circuitry and inputs.
December 16 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Talk by Andrew Huberman from Barbara Chapman's lab: "Activity and axon guidance cue regulation of eye-specific segregation"
December 23 Cancelled -- Holiday
December 30 Cancelled -- Holiday
January 6 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Jianhua will present two Neuron papers on AChR function: (1) Todd McLaughlin, Christine L. Torborg, Marla B. Feller and Dennis D.M. O'Leary (2003) Retinotopic Map Refinement Requires Spontaneous Retinal Waves during a Brief Critical Period of Development , Neuron 40:1147 , (2) Matthew S. Grubb, Francesco M. Rossi, Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Ian D. Thompson (2003) Abnormal Functional Organization in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of Mice Lacking the ?2 Subunit of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Neuron 40:1161
January 13 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Cancelled -- Stryker away
January 20 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Open, possibly to be held early or late so that we can attend Ben Cravatt Seminar
January 27 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). A new paper on temporal lobe visual cortex: Tsao et al (2003) Faces and objects in macaque cerebral cortex Nature Neurosci 6:989-995
February 3 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). New O'Leary paper
February 10 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). A paper from the Ramoa lab using visual cortical plasticity to examine pathology of fetal alcohol syndrome: J Neurosci. 2003 Nov 5; 23(31): 10002-12. Neonatal alcohol exposure induces long-lasting impairment of visual cortical plasticity in ferrets. Medina AE, Krahe TE, Coppola DM, Ramoa AS http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14602814&dopt=Abstract
February 17 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Cancelled -- Stryker away until afternoon
May 4 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Jianhua Cang will tell us the highlights of the mouse vision pre-meeting at ARVO and of any ARVO highlights.
May 11 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810).Cris Niell from Steve Smith's lab at Stanford will be visiting the lab on Tuesday and will give an informal talk at lab meeting on "Imaging structural and functional development of the zebrafish visual system"
May 18 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810).
May 25 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). A new paper from the Sakmann lab, for Sunil to present: Petersen CC, Brecht M, Hahn TT, Sakmann B. (2004) Synaptic changes in layer 2/3 underlying map plasticity of developing barrel cortex. Science. 304:739-42 and, if he has time, a second really neat finding: Brecht M, Schneider M, Sakmann B, Margrie TW. (2004) Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single pyramidal cells in rat motor cortex. Nature 427:704-10. Papers names are links for downloading.
June 1 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Megumi will lead us on discussion of two papers about the barrel circuit and plasticity Shepherd GM, Pologruto TA, Svoboda K. (2003) Circuit analysis of experience-dependent plasticity in the developing rat barrel cortex. Neuron. 38:277-89. and Wallace H, Fox K. (1999) Local cortical interactions determine the form of cortical plasticity. J Neurobiol. 41:58-63
June 8 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Jianhua will lead us on discussion of a recent paper from the Axel lab. Yu et al (2004) Spontaneous Neural Activity Is Required for the Establishment and Maintenance of the Olfactory Sensory Map. Neuron 42: 553-566
June 15 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810).Laila will lead us on discussion of a recent paper from the Ramoa lab Liao DS, Krahe TE, Prusky GT, Medina AE, Ramoa AS. Recovery of Cortical Binocularity and Orientation Selectivity after the Critical Period for Ocular Dominance Plasticity. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Apr 21 [Epub ahead of print], which draws heavily on a background paper Liao DS, Mower AF, Neve RL, Sato-Bigbee C, Ramoa AS. Different mechanisms for loss and recovery of binocularity in the visual cortex. J Neurosci. 2002 Oct 15;22(20):9015-23..
June 22 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Let us read the following new paper. I will ask someone to present it. . Masanori Matsuzaki, Naoki Honkura, Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies & Haruo Kasai (2004) Structural basis of long-term potentiation in single dendritic spines Nature 429:761-766 (June 17 issue) Supplementary information
July 6 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Let us read the following new paper on barrels. who would like to present? Please let the rest of the lab know. Ingrid Bureau, Gordon M.G. Shepherd, and Karel Svoboda* (2004) Open Precise Development of Functional and Anatomical Columns in the Neocortex. Neuron. 42:789–801 (June 10 issue)
July 13 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Let us read and discuss the following paper from Yang Dan's lab . Haishan Yao, Yaosong Shen and Yang Dan (2004) Intracortical mechanism of stimulus-timing-dependent plasticity in visual cortical orientation tuning. PNAS 101:5081-5086 Any volunteers to present it?
July 20 Cancelled--Stryker away
July 27 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Let us go around and have brief progress reports from everybody.
August 3 Cancelled--Stryker away
August 10 Cancelled--Stryker away
August 17 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Misha Tsodyks, a theorist from the Weizmann Institute in Israel will be visiting the Miller lab and will give a talk on "Spontaneous population activity in primary visual cortex" . On Wednesday noon, will give a second, very informal chalk talk on some other topics he's working on, e.g. associative memory models and perceptual learning
August 24 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Kevin Fox from Cardiff, Wales, will visit and give an informal seminar on his work on the barrel cortex.
August 31 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Lalia will present the following new paper on sleep . Reto Huber, M. Felice Ghilardi, Marcello Massimini & Giulio Tononi (2004) Local sleep and learning NATURE 430: 78-81 along with News and Views Nature 430: 27 - 28 Neurobiology: Sleep on it by Ilana S. Hairston and Robert T Knight
September 7 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Laila will review her research progress.
September 14 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Michael Silver (Heeger lab, Stanford, and D'Esposito lab, Berkeley) will give an informal talk on his human studies on spatial attention: "Human visual spatial attention: topographic maps, top-down processing, and cholinergic modulation"
September 21 -- Cancelled because of Neuroscience Asilomar meeting
September 28 (TUESDAY, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, HSE-810). Xiaorong Liu from the Copenhagen lab will discuss with us their new work on TrkB signaling in the retina
October 19 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:00) We will have a brief Lab Meeting to discuss a lab helper for the mice, to discuss forthcoming highlights of the Neuroscience meeting, to answer a few quations about our own abstracts, and to hear about a few highlights from the Jackson Lab mouse vision workshop.
November 2 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Bring your highlights of the neuroscience Meeitng to present
November 9 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Cancelled--Stryker Away
November
16 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Sunil and JC will present Lu W, Constantine-Paton
M. (2004) Eye opening rapidly induces synaptic potentiation and refinement. Neuron
43:237-49.
http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627304004209
Maffei A,
Nelson S, Turrigiano G. (2004) Selective reconfiguration of layer 4 visual cortical
circuitry by visual deprivation. Nat Neurosci.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn1351.html
November 23 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) We will discuss a new paper about binocular vision from the O'Leary and Pfaff labs. Sorry for the late notice. Winnie Pak, Robert Hindges, Yoo-Shick Lim, Samuel L. Pfaff and Dennis D. M. O'Leary (2004) Magnitude of Binocular Vision Controlled by Islet-2 Repression of a Genetic Program that Specifies Laterality of Retinal Axon Pathfinding. Cell 119 : 567-578, Issue 4 , 12 November 2004
November 30 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:00) JC will present work on the analysis of segregated retrograde projections.
December 7 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Todd Anthony from the nat Heinz lab at the Rockefeller will visit and give an informal seminar on his Ph.D. work on "Radial Glial Cells: Roles as Neural Progenitors and Pathways Regulating their Function"
December
14 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Megumi will lead a discussion about some new papers
on CREB from Tony Pham:
SEIGO SUZUKI,SALWA AL-NOORI, SHEHZAD A. BUTT, AND TONY A. PHAM (2004) Regulation
of the CREB Signaling Cascade in the Visual Cortex by Visual Experience and Neuronal
Activity. J Comp Neur 479:70-83.
December
21 (Tuesday, 12:30 to 1:30) NOTE-- MEETING 1/2 hour later
than usual. Megumi will lead a discussion about some new papers on
CREB from Tony Pham:
Tony A. Pham,
Sarah J. Graham, Seigo Suzuki, Angel Barco,Eric R. Kandel, Barbara Gordon, and
Marvin E. Lickey (2004) A semi-persistent adult ocular dominance plasticity in
visual cortex is stabilized by activated CREB. Learning and Memory http://www.learnmem.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/lm.75304
December 28 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Cancelled -- Christmas Holiday
January 4 (Tuesday, 2:00 to 3:00) Schedule next few meetings
January 13 (Thursday, 1:00 to 3:00) Matt Caywood on a new paper from Alex Pouget on orientation tuning Series P, Latham PE, Pouget A (2004) Tuning curve sharpening for orientation selectivity: coding efficiency and the impact of correlations. Nat Neurosci 7:1129-1135. (For background also see earlier papers: Deneve S, Latham PE, Pouget A (1999) Reading population codes: a neural implementation of ideal observers. Nat Neurosci 2:740-745. and Deneve S, Latham PE, Pouget A (2001) Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes. Nat Neurosci 4:826-831.)
January 20 (Thursday, 1:00 to 3:00) Patrick McQuillen on new technology an memory consolidation, a paper from Joe Tsien's lab: Cui Z, Wang H, Tan Y, Zaia KA, Zhang S, Tsien JZ (2004) Inducible and reversible NR1 knockout reveals crucial role of the NMDA receptor in preserving remote memories in the brain. Neuron 41:781-793. (some background in Wang H, Shimizu E, Tang YP, Cho M, Kyin M, Zuo W, Robinson DA, Alaimo PJ, Zhang C, Morimoto H, Zhuo M, Feng R, Shokat KM, Tsien JZ (2003) Inducible protein knockout reveals temporal requirement of CaMKII reactivation for memory consolidation in the brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:4287-4292.)
January 25 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Ling on the refinement of inhibitory connections, from karl Kandler's lab: Kandler K (2004) Activity-dependent organization of inhibitory circuits: lessons from the auditory system. Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:96-104.and Kim G, Kandler K (2003) Elimination and strengthening of glycinergic/GABAergic connections during tonotopic map formation. Nat Neurosci 6:282-290.
February 1 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Sunil on analysis of cortical circuitry by multi-site optical recording in vitro and electrical recordings in vivo, papers from Rafa Yuste's lab: Cossart R, Aronov D, Yuste R (2003) Attractor dynamics of network UP states in the neocortex. Nature 423:283-288. and Ikegaya Y, Aaron G, Cossart R, Aronov D, Lampl I, Ferster D, Yuste R (2004) Synfire chains and cortical songs: temporal modules of cortical activity. Science 304:559-564.
February 8 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Jianhua progress report
February 15 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Cancelled -- Stryker away
February 22 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Cancelled -- Stryker away
March 1 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Glen Prusky will give an informal seminar on "Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Cortical Motion Vision" and will visit with the lab.
March 8 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Tatyana Sharpee progress report.
March 15 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) Masaaki Sato will present a paper on synapse formation: Ethan R. Graf, XueZhao Zhang, Shan-Xue Jin, Michael W. Linhoff, and Ann Marie Craig (2004) Neurexins Induce Differentiation of GABA and Glutamate Postsynaptic Specializations via Neuroligins. Cell 119:1013-1026
March 22 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) We will all discuss a new paper on corticla networks: Yumiko Yoshimura, Jami L. M. Dantzker & Edward M. Callaway (2005) Excitatory cortical neurons form fine-scale functional networks. Nature 433: 868-875 (local copy here)
RESCHEDULED TO 2:00-3:30 in HSW-701 March 29 (Tuesday, 12:00 to 1:30) We will all discuss another new paper on cortical networks: Kenichi Ohki, Sooyoung Chung, Yeang H. Ch’ng, Prakash Kara & R. Clay Reid (2005) Functional imaging with cellular resolution reveals precise microarchitecture in visual cortex. Nature 433: 597-603 (local copy here)
Exceptional Day April 6 (Wednesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Tatyana will lead discussion of Luis M Martinez, Qingbo Wang, R Clay Reid, Cinthi Pillai, José-Mañuel Alonso, Friedrich T Sommer & Judith A Hirsch (2005) Receptive field structure varies with layer in the primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 8: 372 - 379 (local copy here , News & Views here)
April 12 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) A new STDP slice paper: Robert C. Froemke, Mu-ming Poo & Yang Dan (2005) Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature 434: 221-225
April 19 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) This and the next week are two papers on the interpretation of imaging findings from cat visual cortex: Tanya I. Baker and Naoum P. Issa (2005) Cortical maps of separable tuning properties predict population responses to complex visual stimuli. J Neurophysiol epub doi:10.1152/jn.01093.2004
April 26 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Valerio Mante and Matteo Carandini (2005) Mapping of stimulus energy in primary visual cortex. J Neurophysiol epub doi:10.1152/jn.01094.2004
May 3 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Cancelled--Stryker away
May 10 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) JC will present a very clever new mapping finding and a model: Reber M, Burrola P, Lemke G. (2004) A relative signalling model for the formation of a topographic neural map. Nature. 431:847-53 with supplement
May 17 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Tatyana suggested a new paper on the development of a higher cortical area Bin Zhang, Jianghe Zheng, Ichiro Watanabe, Ichiro Maruko, Hua Bi, Earl L. Smith III, and Yuzo Chino (2005) Delayed maturation of receptive field centersurround mechanisms in V2 PNAS 102: 5862–5867
May 24 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Masaaki will lead discussion of Yupeng Yang, Quentin S Fischer, Ying Zhang, Karsten Baumgärtel, Isabelle M Mansuy & Nigel W Daw (2005) Reversible blockade of experience-dependent plasticity by calcineurin in mouse visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience Published online: 8 May 2005; | doi:10.1038/nn1464 and Supplement
May 31 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Sunil will lead discussion of transplantation project proposal
June 7 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Cris will lead discussion of Hua JY, Smear MC, Baier H, Smith SJ. (2005) Regulation of axon growth in vivo by activity-based competition. Nature. 434:1022-1026.
June 14 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Matt Caywood will give a progress report.
June 21 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) First half-hour (10:00-10:30): Thomas Lee from Stanford will visit and give an informal talk about imaging technologies. Next hour (10:30 - 11:30 or so): Andrei Kurgansky will give a progress report.
June 28 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Ling will present a new intracellular analysis of simple cell receptive fields: Nicholas J. Priebe and David Ferster (2005) Direction Selectivity of Excitation and Inhibition in Simple Cells of the Cat Primary Visual Cortex. Neuron, 45: 133–145
July 5 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSW-701) Matt Caywood will lead discussion of new results on cross-orientation inhibition (unpublished and still confidential, on lab-specific page): Nicholas J Priebe & David Ferster (2005) Mechanisms underlying cross-orientation suppression in cat visual cortex. Supplementary Data
July 12 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Tatyana will present Rust NC, Schwartz O, Movshon JA, Simoncelli EP Spatiotemporal elements of macaque v1 receptive fields. Neuron. 2005 Jun 16;46(6):945-56. Supplement
July 19 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810)
Cris will present the set of papers on the cortical representation of figure and
ground: Overview by Ken
Nakayama (2005) Resolving Border Disputes in Midlevel Vision. Neuron.47::5-8
Qiu FT, von der Heydt R. (2005) Figure and ground in the visual cortex: v2 combines
stereoscopic cues with gestalt rules. Neuron. 47(1):155-66.
Li Zhaoping (2005) Border Ownership from Intracortical Interactions in Visual
Area V2 Neuron 47(1):143-153. Supplement
July 26 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled
August 2 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Brendan will present Olshausen BA, Field DJ. How close are we to understanding V1? Neural Comput. 2005 Aug;17(8):1665-99.
August 9 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda will present Yi Zuo, Guang Yang, Elaine Kwon & Wen-Biao Gan (2005) Long-term sensory deprivation prevents dendritic spine loss in primary somatosensory cortex Nature 436:261-265.
August 16 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled--vacation
August 23 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled--vacation
August 30 Cancelled--too many people still away
September 6 Cancelled--Stryker away
September 13 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Jianhua will present Song S, Sjostrom PJ, Reigl M, Nelson S, Chklovskii DB. Highly nonrandom features of synaptic connectivity in local cortical circuits. PLoS Biol. 2005 Mar;3(3):e68. Epub 2005 Mar 1.
September 20 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Ling will discuss Sengpiel F, Vorobyov V. Intracortical origins of interocular suppression in the visual cortex. J Neurosci. 2005 Jul 6;25(27):6394-400 as well as her Woods Hole project. Laila will show the results of some of her analyses. Goodbye lunch for Cheila immediately afterward.
September 27 Cancelled--Neuroscience Asilomar
October 4 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda will present Aaron W. McGee, Yupeng Yang, Quentin S. Fischer, Nigel W. Daw, and Stephen M. Strittmatter (2005) Experience-Driven Plasticity of Visual Cortex Limited by Myelin and Nogo Receptor. Science 309: 2222-2226. (30 September 2005) [PDF] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/309/5744/2222 [Supporting Online Material] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5744/2219/DC1
October 11 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Could someone please volunteer to present Yoshiaki Tagawa, Patrick O Kanold, Marta Majdan & Carla J Shatz (2005) Multiple periods of functional ocular dominance plasticity in mouse visual cortex NATURE NEUROSCIENCE 8:380-388 ?
October 18 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Plans and progress from Cris
October 25 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Progress report from Patrick
November 1 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled because of IACUC Meeting
November 8 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Neuroscience Meeting Preview. Please bring a list of events you would like to make sure are covered by someone in the lab.
November 15 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled because of Neuroscience meeting in Washington
November 22 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Neuroscience Post Meet'um Post Mortem
November 29 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Matt Caywood will present Kerr, JND, Greenberg, D, Helmchen F (2005) Imaging input and output of neocortical networks in vivo. ; 11:00-11:30 for Emergency Response Awareness and Hazard Communication Training Session (all lab members are required to attend this).
December 6 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) More on plasticity strategies and traces. Everyone should try to look at these--some intersting commonalities.:
December 13 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Bring your proposed circuits to account for critical period and adult plasticity. We will look at the alternatives and discuss how to test them.
December 20, 27, and January 3 Cancelled, Christmas Holiday and Travel
January 10 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Second Round: Bring your proposed circuits to account for critical period and adult plasticity IN WRITTEN FORM, and summarize the plasticity rules for each kind of connection and the critical points that might be tested. See Matt's email about the Wiki for summaries of data.
January 17 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Two neat new papers on visual cortex. If no one volunteers, we can just go over them together in lab meeting.
January 24 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) A new paper on neuronal identity: Sugino K, Hempel CM, Miller MN, Hattox AM, Shapiro P, Wu C, Huang ZJ, Nelson SB. Molecular taxonomy of major neuronal classes in the adult mouse forebrain. Nat Neurosci. 2006 Jan;9(1):99-107 article supplement news&views by E. Diazz
January 31 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Another new paper on neuronal identity:. Butt SJ, Fuccillo M, Nery S, Noctor S, Kriegstein A, Corbin JG, Fishell G. The temporal and spatial origins of cortical interneurons predict their physiological subtype. Neuron. 2005 Nov 23;48(4):591-604. article supplement preview by R Yuste
February 7 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Canceled--Stryker away
February 14 Canceled--Site Visit
February 21(Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Canceled--Winter Holiday
February 28(Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Patrick will present Dupont E, Hanganu IL, Kilb W, Hirsch S, Luhmann HJ. Rapid developmental switch in the mechanisms driving early cortical columnar networks. Nature. 2006 Jan 5;439(7072):79-83. Epub 2005 Dec 4
March 14 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) JC will present new paper for Ghosh lab, and Cris will review highlights of this week's CSHL meeting: Gulayse Ince-Dunn, Benjamin J. Hall, Shu-Ching Hu, Beth Ripley, Richard L. Huganir, James M. Olson, Stephen J. Tapscott and Anirvan Ghosh (2006) Regulation of Thalamocortical Patterning and Synaptic Maturation by NeuroD2 . Neuron, Vol 49, 683-695, 02 March 2006
March 21 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Megumi will present her progress report.
March 28 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Canceled--Stryker away
April 4 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda will present 2 of the following papers 4 new papers the Yuste lab and
April 11 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) We will decide later. Volunteers?
April 18 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Canceled--Stryker away
May 2 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda will present a paper on plasticity in adult rats after 10 days in the dark: He et al., Visual deprivation reactivates rapid ocular dominance plasticity in adult visual cortex, J Neurosci. 2006 26:2951-5. (http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/26/11/2951)
May 9 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) A brief meeting of mouse users to talk about hosuing and some technology issues
May 16 (Tuesday, 9:00 - 10:30, in HSE-810)
A recent paper on gene expression in developjg visual cortex: NOTE
EARLIER TIME FOR THIS ONE MEETING
Majdan
M, Shatz CJ. Effects of visual experience on activity-dependent gene regulation
in cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2006 May;9(5):650-9.
May 23 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled--Stryker away
May 30 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) SMasaaki will present Tropea D, Kreiman G, Lyckman A, Mukherjee S, Yu H, Horng S, Sur M. Gene expression changes and molecular pathways mediating activity-dependent plasticity in visual cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2006 May;9(5):660-8.
June 6 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cris will present Isabelle Ferezou, Sonia Bolea and Carl C.H. Petersen Visualizing the Cortical Representation of Whisker Touch: Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging in Freely Moving Mice Neuron 50: 617–629 (May 18 issue)
June 13 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Tatyana will present Elad Schneidman, Michael J. Berry, Ronen Segev, William Bialek (2006) Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population. Nature 440, 1007-1012 (20 Apr 2006)
June 20 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Matt Caywood will present Shuler MG, Bear MF (2006) Reward timing in the primary visual cortex. Science. 2006 Mar 17;311(5767):1606-9. supplement
June 27 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Louis Ptacek will visit and discuss "Does audiogenic epilepsy in the Frings mouse result from a developmental disorder?" Three References: Neuron, Vol. 31, 537–544, 2001 A Novel Gene Causing a Mendelian Audiogenic Mouse Epilepsy Genomics 85 (2005) 582 – 590 The Mass1frings mutation underlies early onset hearing impairment in BUB/BnJ mice, a model for the auditory pathology of Usher syndrome IIC Epilepsy Research 62 (2004) 13–25 c-Fos immunohistochemical mapping of the audiogenic seizure network and tonotopic neuronal hyperexcitability in the inferior colliculus of the Frings mouse
July 4 and July 11-- cancelled
July 18 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cris will present a new Sakmann lab paper on thalmocortical connectivity: Bruno, R.M & Sakmann, B. (2006) Cortex Is Driven by Weak but Synchronously Active Thalamocortical Synapses SCIENCE 312: 1622-1628.
July 25 Cancelled--Stryker away
August 1 Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Sharif Taha will present his new work using chronic recording from rats.
August 8 Cancelled--Stryker away
August 15 Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda will present Mikhail Y. Frenkel, Nathaniel B. Sawtell, Antonia Cinira M. Diogo, Bongjune Yoon, Rachael L. Neve, and Mark F. Bear (2006) Instructive Effect of Visual Experience in Mouse Visual Cortex Neuron 51: 339-349
August 22 Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:00, in HSE-810) short meeting. Please volunteer to present Albert K. Lee, Ian D. Manns, Bert Sakmann, and Michael Brecht (2006)Whole-Cell Recordings in Freely Moving Rats Neuron 51:399-407 On Web in current issue August 17, 2006
August 29 Cancelled
September 5 Cancelled for Holiday Absences
September 12 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810)
September 19 Cancelled for Asilomar
September 26 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled
October 3 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Masaaki will present new findings. Discussion on differences between adult and critical period plasticity
October 10 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Megumi will present her new work on TNF-alpha and synaptic scaling.
October 17 Cancelled for Neuroscience meeting
October 24 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cris and Sunil on derivation of receptive fields from different sorts of data.
October 30 (Monday 12:00 noon - 1:00 PM, in HSE 810) Nadine Gogolla, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Basel, Switzerland, will visit the lab starting at 10:30 and will give a noon seminar on "Experience-dependent anatomical rearrangements of synaptic connectivity in the adult CNS"
October 31 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Tatyana on predictive power of linear and linear-nonlinear models.
November 7 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda on her new work
November 14 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled--Stryker away
November 21 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Cancelled.
November
28 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Stryker will present wo new papers from
the Shatz lab:
Patrick O. Kanold1 and Carla J. Shatz (2006) Subplate Neurons Regulate Maturation
of Cortical Inhibition and Outcome of Ocular Dominance Plasticity Neuron, Vol
51, 627-638.
Josh Syken, Tadzia GrandPre, Patrick O. Kanold, Carla J. Shatz (2006) PirB Restricts
Ocular-Dominance Plasticity in Visual Cortex. Science 313: 1795 - 1800
Some other interesting new papers on rodent cortex:
Pizzorusso T, Medini P, Landi S, Baldini S, Berardi N, Maffei L. (2006) Structural and functional recovery from early monocular deprivation in adult rats. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 30;103(22):8517-22. Epub 2006 May 18.
Naundorf B, Wolf F, Volgushev M. (2006) Unique features of action potential initiation in cortical neurons. Nature. 2006 Apr 20;440(7087):1060-3.(also see commentary: Nature. Apr 20;440(7087):999-1000.) ----
Olavarria JF, Safaeian P (2006) Development of callosal topography in visual cortex of normal and enucleated rats. . J Comp Neurol. Jun 1;496(4):495-512.
December 5 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Melinda will present the Arc paper from the Tonegawa and Sur labs: Wang, K. H., Majewska, A., Schummers, J., Farley, B., Hu, C., Sur, M. and Tonegawa, S. (2006) In vivo two-photon imaging reveals a role of arc in enhancing orientation specificity in visual cortex. Cell 126: 389-402. Supplement
December 12 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Continuation of Melinda's presentation of the Arc paper (above, Dec 5)
December 19 Cancelled for Christmas Holiday
December 26 Cancelled for Christmas Holiday
January 2 Cancelled for New Year Holiday
January 9 (Tuesday) Cancelled, too many people are away
January 16 (Tuesday) Cancelled
January 23 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:00, in HSE-810) Kurt Ahrens of the Allen Brain Institute in Seattle will be visiting the lab, and he will make a presentation about some of the work and plans there.
January 30 (Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30, in HSE-810) Open
February 14 (Wednesday, 10:00-11:30 in HSW-701) Group discussion of Smith SL, Trachtenberg JT. Experience-dependent binocular competition in the visual cortex begins at eye opening. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Feb 11; [Epub ahead of print]
February 21 (Wednesday, 10:00 - 11:00, in HSW-701) Lily Jan will talk with us about Regulation of KV1 potassium channels by neural activity
February 27 (Tuesday) Canceled--Stryker away
March 6 (Tuesday, 10:30-11:30 in HSE-810) Heimel JA, Hartman RJ, Hermans JM, Levelt CN. (2007) Screening mouse vision with intrinsic signal optical imaging. Eur J Neurosci. 25:795-804. (Note late Start for this meeting!)
March 20 (Tuesday, 10:00-11:30 in HSE-810) Masaaki wil present some of his recent work.
March 27 (Tuesday, 10:00-11:30 in HSE-810) Cris will present Ringach DL (2007) On the Origin of the Functional Architecture of the Cortex. PLoS ONE 2(2): e251. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000251 You will need also to read some of the essential background for this paper in Ringach, DL (2004) Haphazard wiring of simple receptive fields and orientation columns in visual cortex. J Neurophysiol. 92: 468-76.
April 26 (Thursday, 5:15-6:15 in HSE-810) Lab will meet with Seminar Speaker Dmitri Chklovskii (after his seminar)
May 4 (Friday, 10:00-11:30 in HSW-701) Open.
May 18 (Friday, 10:00-11:30 in HSW-701) Cris will present two new papers on circuit tracing: Wickersham IR, Lyon DC, Barnard RJ, Mori T, Finke S, Conzelmann KK, Young JA, Callaway EM. Monosynaptic restriction of transsynaptic tracing from single, genetically targeted neurons. Neuron. 2007 Mar 1;53(5):639-47. AND Petreanu L, Huber D, Sobczyk A, Svoboda K. Channelrhodopsin-2-assisted circuit mapping of long-range callosal projections. Nat Neurosci. 2007 May;10(5):663-8. .
May 23 (Wednesday, 4:00-5:30 in HSE-810) We will meet to discuss concrete plans for some new experiments.
June 1 (Friday) Canceled--Stryker Jury duty .
June 8 (Friday, 10:00-11:30 in HSW-701) Matt Caywood will present findings of his area 21a experiments. Then at 11:00, plan new lab jobs with Sheri.
June 11 (Monday, 10:00-1:30 in HSE-810) Mouse users meet with marie to plot out husbandry for next 6 weeks.
June 19 (TUESDAY 9:00-10:30) . Discussion of ideas for plasticity experiments--Stryker will lead.
June 26 (TUESDAY 9:00-10:30) Sunil and Cris discuss new data on band-limited white noise measurements of responses in various modalities.
July 3 (TUESDAY 10:00-11:30) Canceled--Sorry unexpected conflict, and lots of people are away in any case.
July 10 (TUESDAY 9:00-10:30) Canceled--Stryker away.
July 17 (TUESDAY 9:00-10:30) Report from Cris and Masaaki on the Gordon Conference, plus brief discussion by Sunil of Mrsic-Flogel TD, Hofer SB, Ohki K, Reid RC, Bonhoeffer T, Hubener M. (2007) Homeostatic Regulation of Eye-Specific Responses in Visual Cortex during Ocular Dominance Plasticity. Neuron. 54:961-72.
July 24 (TUESDAY 9:00-10:30) .We will discuss M Ren, Y Yoshimura, N Takada, S Horibe, and Y Komatsu (2007) Specialized Inhibitory Synaptic Actions Between Nearby Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons. Science 316: 758
July 31 (TUESDAY 9:00-10:30) Canceled--Stryker away.
August 7 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30) Cris will present Micheva KD, Smith SJ. (2007) Array tomography: a new tool for imaging the molecular architecture and ultrastructure of neural circuits. Neuron 55:25.
August 14 (Tuesday 9:00-10:00) Stryker will discuss grant aims and Conte work. Finish by 10:00.
****August 16 (Tuesday 9:00-10:00 in HSW-701)**** Stryker will discuss grant aims. Finish by 10:00.
August 21 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30) Canceled--Stryker away.
August 28 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30) Patrick McQuillen and Sam Faillor will present experiments on hypoxia-ischemia
November 20 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810) SFN Reprise (if not held earlier) or Sunil will present his recent findings (if most draft figures are ready)
December 11 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810) Sunil will present recent findings (if not presented above). Review of final analyses for Cris's receptive field manuscript.
January 8 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810) Brendan Murphy practice talk about his thesis
January 9(Wednesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810) Special meeting with our Santa Cruz friends
January 15 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810) Canceled--Stryker away
January 22 (Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810) Special meeting with the core group to discuss lab jobs only and look at a few new illustrations
January 29 ***(Tuesday 9:30-10:30, HSE-810)***Late Start*** Laminar-specific expression of various markers. Erik Ullian will come talk about some of his candidates, and Stryker will bring a Cliff Ragsdale poster
***Feb 6 WEDNESDAY 9:00-10:30, HSW-701 Abbreviated meeting about grant aims
***Feb 13 WEDNESDAY 9:00-10:30, HSW-701 Patrick will present the Macklis lab paper on cortical cells: Tina Lai,Denis Jabaudon, Bradley J. Molyneaux, Eiman Azim,Paola Arlotta, Joao R.L. Menezes, and Jeffrey D. Macklis (2008) SOX5 Controls the Sequential Generation of Distinct Corticofugal Neuron Subtypes Neuron 57: 232-247 http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627308000263
***Feb 18 MONDAY 9:00-10:30, HSW-701
Cris will present two new papers on Satb2 and cortical development:
Alcamo et al (2008) Satb2 Regulates Callosal Projection Neuron Identity in the Developing Cerebral Cortex. Neuron, Vol 57, 364-377, 07 February 2008 http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627307010173
Britanova,et al (2008) Satb2 Is a Postmitotic Determinant for Upper-Layer Neuron Specification in the Neocortex. Neuron, Vol 57, 378-392, 07 February 2008 http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627308000330
***Feb 27 WEDNESDAY 9:00-10:30, HSW-701 Sunil practice talk.
***March 10 MONDAY 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Cris will talk about his ideas for new experiments
March 18 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Michael will talk about things he learned at the Salk.
March 25 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Canceled--Stryker away
April 1 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Sebastian Espinosa from Liqun Luo's lab at Stanford will give us an informal seminar about his work on MADM based analysis of cell lineage and gene function in the mouse nervous system. Lab lunch afterward.
April 8 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Canceled--Stryker on vacation
April 15 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Canceled--Stryker on vacation
April 22 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Copenhagen will discuss possible experiments on the melanopsin retinal ganglion cells.
April 29 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810We will discuss two recent papers:
Maya Vetencourt, J.F. et al. and Maffei, L. (2008) The antidepressant fluoxetine restores plasticity in the adult visual cortex. Science 320:385-388. doi:10.1126/science.1150516
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/320/5874/385.pdf
May 20 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Review our SfN abstracts. Megumi willl lead discussion of papers on homeostasis, including other papers on dark-rearing: Arianna Maffei and Gina G. Turrigiano (2008) Multiple Modes of Network Homeostasis in Visual Cortical Layer 2/3. The Journal of Neuroscience 28:4377-4384. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5298-07.2008 http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/28/17/4377
May 27 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 A compact fast-scan 2-photon microscope: Dejan Vučinić and Terrence J. Sejnowski (2007) A Compact Multiphoton 3D Imaging System for Recording Fast Neuronal Activity. PLoS ONE. 2007; 2(8): e699.. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000699. PMCID: PMC1933593
June 3, 10 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Canceled
June 17 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Melinda progress report
June 24 Tuesday 9:00-10:30, HSE-810 Canceled--Stryker away