Neurobiology

Recommended Readings: Lindsay Schwarz, Ph.D., March 7

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:02+00:00February 9th, 2016|Categories: Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: anxiety, brain architecture, brain circuitry, depression, locus coeruleus, neurotransmitters, noradrenaline, norepinephrine, Viral-genetic tracing|

Special Seminar Monday, March 7 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Lindsay Schwarz, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Stanford University New Approaches for Uncovering Norepinephrine Circuit Organization and Function Recommended Readings Schwarz, L. A., & Luo, L. (2015). Organization of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system. Current Biology, 25(21), R1051-R1056. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.039. Schwarz, L. A., Miyamichi, K., [...]

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Recommended Readings: David Schneider, Ph.D., March 14

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:02+00:00February 9th, 2016|Categories: Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: audition, auditory system, circuit tracing, corticocortical circuits, electrophysiology, hearing, M2 axons, optogenetics, retrograde viral tracing, sensorimotor circuits, Vocal Learning|

Special Seminar Friday, March 14 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) David Schneider, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Sensory and Motor Circuits for Listening and Learning Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Nelson, A., Schneider, D. M., Takatoh, J., Sakurai, K., Wang, F., & Mooney, R. (2013). A circuit for motor cortical modulation of [...]

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Recommended Readings: Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., February 26

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:02+00:00February 2nd, 2016|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Friday Lectures, Neurobiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: anatomic tracing, animal behavior, dopamine, Drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster, glomerular connections, Kenyon cells, learning, mushroom body, neuromodulation, Olfaction|

Friday Lecture Series The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture, Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture Friday, February 26 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D. Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University Neural Circuits for Adaptive Behaviors Recommended Readings Caron, S. J., Ruta, V., Abbott, L. F., & [...]

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Recommended Readings: Talia Lerner, Ph.D., March 10

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:11+00:00January 13th, 2016|Categories: Microbiology, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science, Special Seminar Series|Tags: CLARITY, COLM, dopamine, dorsolateral striatum, dorsomedial striatum, fiber photometry, optogenetics, striatum, substantia nigra pars compacta, viral tracing|

Special Lecture Series Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Talia Lerner, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Distinct Information Encoding in Circuit-Defined Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neuron Subpopulations Recommended Reading Adhikari, A., Lerner, T. N., Finkelstein, J., Pak, S., Jennings, J. H., Davidson, T. J., ... & Kim, S. Y. (2015). [...]

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Recommended Readings: Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D., January 25

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:11+00:00January 6th, 2016|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: AC-CA, anterior cingulate, CA3, hippocampus, memory representations, neuroanatomy, optogenetics, virtual reality|

Special Lecture Monday, January 25, 2016 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Targeted Top-down Control of Memory Retrieval Recommended Reading Fiumara, F., Rajasethupathy, P., Antonov, I., Kosmidis, S., Sossin, W. S., & Kandel, E. R. (2015). MicroRNA-22 gates long-term heterosynaptic [...]

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Recommended Readings: Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., December 4th

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:12+00:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: Friday Lectures, Neurobiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: forelimb movement, neurocircuitry, recombinant rabies virus, sensory circuits, sensory feedback, Skilled Reaching, somatosensory signals|

Friday Lecture Series Friday, December 4, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Thomas Jessell, Ph.D. Claire Tow Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Strategies and Circuits for Skilled Movement Recommended Reading Empirical Articles Azim, E., Jiang, J., Alstermark, B., & Jessell, T. M. [...]

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Recommended Readings: Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D., October 30th

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:21+00:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Friday Lectures, Neurobiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: Face Patch, Face Processing, facial motion, Macaque face patch system, Social Cognition|

Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 30, 2015 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University Face to Face: New Vistas on the Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Fisher, C., & Freiwald, W. A. (2015). Contrasting specializations for facial motion within the [...]

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Recommended Readings: Graeme Davis, Ph.D., October 2nd

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:21+00:00September 15th, 2015|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Friday Lectures, Neurobiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: excitability, homeostatic control, homeostatic plasticity, Homeostatic signaling, neuromuscular junction, neurotransmitter release, receptor expression, Synaptic Vesicles|

Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 2nd, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Graeme Davis, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco The Stable Brain: Homeostatic Control of Neural Function Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Ford, K. J., & Davis, G. W. (2014). Archaerhodopsin voltage imaging: synaptic calcium and BK [...]

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Recommended Readings: Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., September 28th

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:21+00:00September 3rd, 2015|Categories: Genomics, Monday Lectures, Neurobiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: avian genome, avian phylogenomics project, comparative genomics, singing genome, song-learning birds, Spoken Language, vocal communication, Vocal Learning, Whole-genome analysis|

Special Lecture Monday, September 28th, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Vocal Learning and Spoken Language Recommended Readings Jarvis, E. D., Mirarab, S., Aberer, A. J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., [...]

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Recommended Readings: Jonas Frisén, M.D., Ph.D., October 16th

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:21+00:00August 25th, 2015|Categories: Friday Lectures, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: adult neurogenesis, astrocytes, central nervous system, CNS, genomic integrity, neurogenesis, striate nucleus, striatum|

Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 16, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jonas Frisén, M.D., Ph.D. Tobias Foundation Professor of Stem Cell Research, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Cellular Plasticity in the Intact and Injured Central Nervous System Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Ernst, A., Alkass, K., Bernard, S., Salehpour, M., Perl, [...]

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