Mondays at 6:00pm in room 815. Dinner.

2005 Spring SPF meetings

Sep 12 - Organizational Meeting at Barrow Street Ale House -

15 Barrow Street; New York, NY

Sep 19 - Jeff Erlich - A human-specific gene in microglia Hayakawa et al. (2005) Science 309:1693
Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans Evans et al. (2005) Science 309:1717-20
Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens Mekel-Bobrov et al. (2005) Science 309:1720-2

Sep 26 - Dajun Xing - A sesory source for motor variation Osborne et al. (2005) Nature 437:412-6

Oct 3 - Max Schiff - Dynamics of excitation and inhibition underlying stimulus selectivity in rat somatosensory cortex
Wilent and Contreras (2005) Nature Neuroscience 8:1364-70

Oct 10 - Neel Dhruv - Adpatation without parameter change: dynamic gain control in motion detection
Borst et al. (2005) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:6172-6

Oct 17 - Sho Fujisawa - GABAergic basket cells expressing cholecystokinin contain vesicular glutamate transporter type 3 (VGLUT3) in their synaptic terminals in hippocampus and isocortex of the rat
Somogyi et al. (2004) European Journal of Neuroscience 19:552-69

Oct 24 - No SPF

Oct 31 - Anita Disney - Short- and long- term effects of cholinergic modulation on gamma oscillations and response synchronization in the visual cortex
Rodriguez et al. (2004) Journal of Neuroscience 24:10369-78

Nov 7 - Mehrdad Jazayeri - Spontaneously emerging cortical representations of visual attributes Kenet et al. (2003) Nature 425:954-6
Linking spontaneous activity of single cortical neurons and the underlying functional architecture Tsodyks et al. (1999) Science 286:1943-6
Dynamics of ongoing activity: explanation of the large variability in evoked cortical responses Arieli et al. (1996) Science 273:1868:71
Patterns of ongoing activity and the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex Goldberg et al. (2004) Neuron 42:489-500

Nov 14 - No SPF see you at SFN -

Nov 21 - No SPF -

Nov 28 - Lynne Kiorpes - Meeting with students: state of the program

Dec 5 - Ed Vessel - Prior experience of rotation is not required for recognizing objects seen from different angles
Wang et al. (2005) Nature Neuroscience 8:1568-75

Dec 12 - Anne Takesian - Nicotine reinforcement and cognition restored by targeted expression of nicotinic receptors
Maskos et al. (2005) Nature 8:1568-75

Dec 19 - No SPF -

Dec 26 - No SPF -

Food: Menus/Take-out links

Baluchis

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