SPF - Student Postdoc Forum - Spring 2007
Mondays at 6:00pm in room 815. Dinner.
Jan 22 - Organizational Meeting -
Jan 29 - Max Schiff - Neural Prosthetics I - Cochlear Implants
Restoration of
auditory nerve
synapses in cats by cochlear implants. Ryugo et al.(2005)
Science
310(5753):1490-2.
Speech recognition with
primarily temporal cues. Shannon et al.(1995) Science
270(5234):303-4.
Feb 5 Stephanie Lazzaro - Neural Prosthetics II - Brain Machine Interfacess
Brain-machine interfaces:
past, present
and future. Lebedev and Nicolelis.(2006) Trends Neurosci.;29(9):536-46.
Feb 12 - Romesh Kumbhani - Neural Prosthetics III- Retinal Implants
A silicon retina that
reproduces signals in the optic nerve. Zaghloul and Boahen(2006) J
Neural Eng. 2006 3(4):257-67.
Feb 19 - James Hedges - Valentine's Day Talk - Sex
and the evolution
of human nature
Feb 26 - Student's meeting on proposed curriculum changes with Dan Sanes and Gord Fishell
Mar 5 - Postdoc organizational meeting -
Mar 12 - New Faculty Panel Disscussion -
Mar 19 - Abe Schneider - Neuroethology I - Squishees
Optical
imaging of neuronal populations during
decision-making.
Briggman et al.(2005) Science 2005
307(5711):896-901.
Mar 26 - Patrick Williams - Neuroethology II - Insect Calculus
Insect navigation:
measuring travel distance across ground and through air.
Collett et al.(2006) Curr Biol. 2006 16(20):R887-90.
Apr 2 -cancelled -
Apr 9 - Sach Sokol -
The Emergence of Contrast-Invariant Orientation Tuning in Simple Cells
of Cat Visual Cortex.
Finn et al. (2006) Neuron 54(1):137-52.
Apr 16 - Panel discussion: how to get a postdoc.
Apr 23 - Anne-Marie Oswald
Neuroethology III -Crayfish Dominance: Who's your crawdaddy?
The effect of social experience on serotonergic modulation of the
escape circuit of crayfish
Yeh et al. (1996) Science
271:366-369
Ritualized submission
and the reduction of aggression in an invertebrate.
Issa and Edwards et al. (2006) Curr Biol. 16(22):2217-21.
Apr 30 - TBA -
May 7 - TBA -
May 14 - TBA -
Food: Menus/Take-out links
Mail To : max at cns dot nyu dot edu