SPF - Student Postdoc Forum - Spring 2007

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


Fall 2006 meetings


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

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