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2002-2003 Academic Year Schedule

Organizer: Joseph E.LeDoux

10:30 am - 12:30 noon.
(*every other Friday from January 2003)

Meyer Hall, Room 1130


 

Date

 

Topic/Readings

 

Organizer /Speaker
August 2, 2002 (9AM-1:00PM 815 Meyer) Research Conference for Summer Undergraduate Research Program:
1. Classifying Axonal Properties and Trajectory Patterns in the Rat Lateral Amygdala (11:30-11: 45)
2.Akanksha Thakur Determining essential brain structures for temporal discrimination in fear conditioned rats (12:15 - 12:30)

1. Hannah Alphs

2. Akanksha Thakur

September 6, 2002
( 10:00am - 12:00pm)
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D
September 13, 2002 " Stress, Gender and Fear Conditioning "
Dr. Margaret Altemus
(Cornell)
September 20, 2002 CNS Retreat - Mohonk House, Upstate NY  
September 27, 2002 Synaptic Self Conference - NYAS - Mt Sinai School Medicine  
October 4, 2002 Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Jacek Debiec
October 11, 2002 "stress, memory and the amygdala" Jeremiah Martino
October 18, 2002 "cracking the nut - some more"

Luke Johnson
October 25, 2002 Preparation for Neuroscience meeting (No journal club).  
November 1, 2002 No journal club(Departures for Neuroscience Meeting - Orlando Florida)

 
November 8, 2002 Neuroscience Meeting - Orlando Florida  
November 15, 2002 Neuroscience Debrief: Part One (10 min for each speaker) Liz Bauer, Nesha Burghardt, June-Seek Choi, Jacek Debiec , Morten Kristensen, Jeff Erlich , Raphael Lamprecht
November 22, 2002 (Tuesday) Part One: SFN Poster presentations Liz Bauer, Nesha Burghardt, June-Seek Choi, Jacek Debiec , Morten Kristensen, Jeff Erlich , Raphael Lamprecht
November 26, 2002 (Tuesday) Part Two: SFN Poster presentations Luke Johnson , Svetlana Rosis, Glenn Schafe, Torfi Sigurdson, Ann Wilensky, Sarina Rodrigues
November 29, 2002 Thanksgiving  
December 6, 2002 Practice Thesis Talk

Sevil Duvarci

December 13, 2002 Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Kenneth Harris, PhD
Center for
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University
December 20, 2002 Start Holidays (2003 Journal Club Schedule will be Announced in Jan. 2003)  
January 17, 2003 An overview and tutorial of the new Colbourne Boxes June-seek
January 31, 2003 The effects of footshock on cocaine motivated behavior: possible role
for corticotropin-releasing factor in the modulation of motivation by
stress."
David Bush
Feburary 14, 2003 "Modulation of anxiety through blockage of Anandamide hydrolysis
< Journal article>
Jeremiah Martino
Feburary 21, 2003 Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction
<Journal article>
Greg Quirk
Ponce School of Medicine
Feburary 28, 2003 Involvement of a calcineurin cascade in amygdala depotentiation and quenching of fear memory
<Journal article>
Torfi Sigurdson
March 7, 2003
( Rm 815, 4-5pm )
Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club  
March 14, 2003 Activity-Dependent Presynaptic Facilitation and Hebbian LTP Are Both Required and Interact during Classical Conditioning in Aplysia.<Journal article>
Svetlana Rosis
March 21, 2003 Effects of Chronic Stress on Hippocampal LTP.<Journal article> Elizabeth Bauer
March 28, 2003 Chronic Stress Induces Contrasting Patterns of Dendritic Remodeling in
Hippocampal and Amygdaloid Neurons
<Journal article>

Nesha Burghardt
April 4, 2003 Hippocampal damage associated with prolonged glucocorticoid exposure in
primates. J Neurosci. 1990 Sep;10(9):2897-902. < photocopies will be available the lab>
Sarina M. Rodrigues
April 18, 2003 Identification of Calcineurin as a Key Signal in the Extinction of Fear Memory
<Journal article>

Sevil Duvarci
May 23, 2003 The amygdala-thalamo thing <Journal articles: 1, 2, 3> Jeff Erlich
May 28, 2003 L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels Are Required for Extinction, But
Not for Acquisition or Expression, of Conditional Fear in Mice <Journal article>
Francisco Sotres-Bayon
June 13, 2003 --AMPA receptor phosphorylation, synaptic plasticity, and memory formation
--General review of the role of AMPA receptors in synaptic plasticity
<Journal article>
Glenn Schafe
June 10, 2003 Genes and Mechanisms in the Amygdala Involved in the Formation of Fear Memory. [The Amygdala in Brain Function: Basic and Clinical Approaches: Part 2. Inhibitory and Excitatory Circuitries in Amygdala Nuclei].
<Journal article>
Michael S Kinson
July 18, 2003 Protein Synthesis Subserves Reconsolidation or Extinction Depending on Reminder
Duration
<Journal article>
Annemieke Schoute
July 25, 2003 Long-term in vivo imaging of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in adult cortex
<Journal article>
Rafi Lamprecht
August 12, 2003
(Tuesday, 4 PM)
"Neural systems for memory and emotion" Fred Helmstetter
(University of Wisconsin)
August 15, 2003 CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF NEURAL PLASTICITY IN THE AMYGDALA AND HIPPOCAMPUS
Sharath
(Chattarji Lab - National Center for Biological Sciences – India)

 

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