Institute Seminars

Neurobiology Journal Club meetings are held on Monday afternoons at 12:00 noon in the
317 Huestis Hall (except where otherwise noted)

Spring 2008
Date	Presenter	Topic	Journal
April 7	Devdeep Aikath	Histamine-Induced Excitatory Responses in Mouse Ventromedial Hypothalamic Neurons: Ionic Mechanisms and Estrogenic Regulation	Jrnl Neurophysiol, 98: 3143–3152
April 14	Bill Roberts	1) Cooperation between GDNF/Ret and ephrinA/EphA4 Signals for Motor-Axon Pathway Selection in the Limb 2)Bidirectional Eph–ephrin signaling during axon guidance	1) Neuron 50, 35–47 2) TRENDS in Cell Biology, 17 (5)
April 21	Sandy Saavedra	Bilateral Activity-Dependent Interactions in the Developing Corticospinal System	Jrnl Neuroscience, 27 (41): 11083–11090
April 28	Liz Whitchurch	Neuronal correlates of subjective sensory experience	Nature Neuroscience, 8 (12): 1698-1703
May 5	Laura Hale	Differential Outgrowth of Axons and their Branches Is Regulated by Localized Calcium Transients	Jrnl Neuroscience, 28 (1): 143-53
May 12	Teresa Hawkes	Lapses in a Prefrontal–Extrastriate Preparatory Attention Network Predict Mistakes	Jrnl Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 (9): 1477-87
May 19	Thad Lindsay	Lateral presynaptic inhibition mediates gain control in an olfactory circuit.	Nature, 2008 Apr 24;452(7190):956-60. Epub 2008 Mar 16
May 26	Memorial Day Holiday
June 2	Todd Thiele	Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons	Nature Neuroscience, 11 (3): 327-33, Supplemental figures

Winter 2008
Date	Presenter	Topic	Journal
Jan. 14	Thad Lindsay	Please focus on Houweling et al article (# 2) Sparse optical microstimulation in barrel cortex drives learned behaviour in freely moving mice. Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex. Sparse coding of sensory inputs.	Nature 3;451(7174):61-4 Nature 3;451(7174):65-8 Curr Opin Neurobiol ;14(4):481-7
Jan. 21		Dr. Martin Luther King Day
Jan. 28	Eddie Ester	Nonhuman primate event-related potentials indexing covert shifts of attention	PNAS, 104 (38): 15111-116
Feb. 4	Mark Rutherford	Time Course and Extent of Mechanotransducer Adaptation in Mouse Utricular Hair Cells: Comparison With Frog Saccular Hair Cells	Jrnl Neurophysiol 90: 2676-2689, 2003
Feb. 11	Andrew McCollough	Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory	Nature Neuroscience, 11 (1), 103-107
Feb. 18	David Rowland	Locally dynamic synaptic learning rules in pyramidal neuron dendrites	Nature, Vol 450 \| 20/27: 1195-1200+
Feb. 25	Sandra Saavedra	Cerebellar Contributions to Locomotor Adaptations during Splitbelt Treadmill Walking	Jrnl Neuroscience, 26(36):9107–9116
Mar. 3	Jennifer Hoy	1. The Classical Complement Cascade Mediates CNS Synapse Elimination 2. Synapse Remodeling, Compliments of the Complement System	Cell, 131, (6): 1164-1178 Cell, 131, (6) :1034-1036
Mar. 10	Teresa Hawkes	Dynamics of the Central Bottleneck: Dual-Task and Task Uncertainty	PLoS Biology, Vol 4 (7); 1227-1238

Spring 2008