Neuroscience

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: 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: 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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Recommended Readings: Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Ph.D., September 21

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:22+00:00August 25th, 2015|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science, Transport proteins|Tags: ATP, ATP production, energy consumption, metabolism, mitochondria, mitochondrial dynamics, neurons, nutrient availability, O-GlcNAc transferase|

Special Lecture Monday, September 21, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital Metabolic Regulation of Mitochondrial Function in the Nervous System Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Pekkurnaz, G., Trinidad, J. C., Wang, X., Kong, D., & Schwarz, T. L. (2014). Glucose regulates [...]

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Recommended Readings: Pietro De Camilli, M.D., February 13

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:42+00:00January 20th, 2015|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Friday Lectures, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Pathways, Recommended Readings|Tags: endoplasmic reticulum, lipid transfer, membrane dynamics, phosphoinositides, PI4P, plasma membrane, synaptotagmins|

Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 13, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Pietro De Camilli, M.D. John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair, Yale University School of Medicine Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lipid Signaling in the Control of Membrane Dynamics and Interactions Recommended Readings Empirical Articles [...]

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