LEARNING AND MEMORY PROJECT
JOURNAL CLUB
Time: Fridays 9:30-10:30
Place: Gonda 2303
 

FUTURE SCHEDULE 

16 January 2004
    Greg Villareal will present a paper from Dan Storm's lab, " Removal of G(ialpha1) Constraints on Adenylyl Cyclase in the Hippocampus Enhances LTP and Impairs Memory Formation."

        Pineda et al., Neuron, 2004

9 January 2004
    Anna Matynia will present a paper from Eric Kandel's lab, "A Neuronal Isoform of CPEB Regulates Local Protein Synthesis and Stabilizes Synapse-Specific Long-Term Facilitation in Aplysia."
        Si et al., Cell, 2003


12 December 2003

        Klara Olofsdotter will present a paper from Paul Worley's lab, "Homer binds TRPC family channels and is required for gating of TRPC1 by IP3 receptors."
        Yuan et al., Cell, 2003


5 December 2003
        Tad Blair will present data from his own lab on "UNILATERAL STORAGE OF FEAR MEMORIES IN THE AMYGDALA"

31 October 2003--Happy Halloween
    Tom O'Dell will present two papers (oldies but goodies) on stress modulation of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.
    Xu et al., Nature, 1997;  Kim et al., J. Neuroscience, 2001

 
24 October 2003
    Kelsey Martin will present a paper on structural changes in Aplysia with facilitation from Craig Bailey, and, if time, a paper on profilin and dendritic spine morphology from the Matus lab.
    Kim et al., Neuron, 2003;  Ackerman and Matus, Nature Neuroscience, 2003

10 October 2003   
    Dean will present: Place representation of hippocampal neurons is modified by LTP.  
    Buzsaki Lab, Neuron, 2003

26 September 2003   
    Mark Barad will present a paper from Stephen Maren's lab, "Context-dependent neuronal activity in lateral amygdala represents fear memories after extinction."--and another from Gean's lab comparing pathways to the consolidation of fear and the consolidation of extinction.  
    Hobin et al., J. Neurosci. 2003,  Lin et al., J. Neurosci. 2003

19 September 2003
    David Glanzman will present a paper from the Barrinuevo lab on mossy-fiber LTP maintenance depending on protein and RNA synthesis.
    Calixto et al., J. Neurosci. 2003

5 September 2003
    Yijun Cui will present a paper from Mu Ming Poo's lab on the modification of GABAergic synapses by coincident pre- and post-synaptic activation.
    Woodin et al., Neuron, 2003

29 August 2003
    Felix Schweizer will present a paper from Mark Bear's lab, "Molecular mechanism for loss of visual cortical responsiveness following brief monocular deprivation "

    Heynan et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2003


22 August 2003
    Carrie Marder will present on Endocannabinoids and LTD of IPSPs
    Chevaleyre and Castillo, Neuron 2003


15 August 2003
    Matt Sanders will present a paper and supplemental material on, "Amygdalar and hippocampal theta rhythm synchronization during fear memory retrieval"
    Seidenbecher et al., Science, 2003; Seidenbecher supplement, 2003


8 August 2003   
    Chris Cain will present two papers on the role of synaptic competition at the neuromuscular junction.
        Kashthuri and Lichtman, Nature, 2003;  Buffelli et al., Nature, 2003

1 August 2003
    Anna Matynia will present, "Does cAMP Response Element Binding Protein have a pivotal role in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampus Dependent Memory."
    Balschun et al., J. Neurosci. 2003

18 July 2003
   
Spencer Smith will present on looking for cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying
receptive field changes that are observed in vivo, and discuss:    
        Jorntell and Ekerot, Neuron, 2002

11 July 2003
    Kelsey Martin will present: "Control of synaptic strength, a novel function of AKT"
        Wang et al., Neuron, 2003

4 July 2003---no meeting

25 June 2003
    Mark Barad will present, "Dopamine gates LTP induction in lateral amygdala by suppressing feedforward inhibition"
        Bissiere et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2003

18 June 2003
    Geoff Murphy will present on Improved Memory in Na-Ca exchanger KO mice.
          Jeon et al., Neuron, 2003
 

6 June 2003
    Tom O'Dell will present on "Mediation of hippocampal mossy fiber LTP by presynaptic Ih channels"
        Mellor et al., Science, 2002
 

Special Guest Seminar
4 June 2003 (Wednesday)---Gonda 1st floor conference room, 12-1
    Elizabeth Gould
 

30 May 2003
      Tanya Sippy:Calcium Buffers and Paired Pulse Facilitation
          Blatow, et al., Neuron, 2003

23 May 2003
     Tracy Xie will be presenting on "APP processing and synaptic plasticity"
         Kamenetz, et al., Neuron, 2003

16 May 2003
         Ravikumar Ponnusamy: BDNF proprotein polymorphism and human learning
         Egan et al., Cell, 2003

9 May 2003
         Chris Cain: Calcineurin in Extinction
         Lin et al.,  J. Neuroscience, 2003

2 May 2003
         Marc Klein: Conservation of total synaptic weight by balanced synaptic depression and potentiation
            Royer and Pare, Nature, 2003

25 April 2003
        Anna Matynia: CamKII reactivation in memory consolidation
        Wang et al., PNAS, 2003

18 April 2003    Review of CSHL L & M

10 April 2003 No meeting--CSHL L & M

4   April 2003
        Frank Krasne: Operant reward learning in Aplysia
         Brembs et al., 2002

28 March 2003
        Bernard Balleine: Coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons
         Fiorello et al., 2003

21 March 2003
        Steve Kushner:  GluR1 Phosphorylation and AMPA channels in synaptic plasticity
        Lee et al., 2003; Takahashi et al., 2003

14 March 2003
        Kelsey Martin: Continuation

7 March 2003
        Kelsey Martin: Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway and Synaptic Plasticity
        Hegde and DiAntonio, 2002; Ehlers, 2003

28 February, 2003
        Tad Blair: "Prefrontal Cortex and Extinction"
        Milad and Quirk, 2003

21 February, 2003
        Felix Schweizer:  "Excitatory actions of GABA"
       Gulledge and Stuart, 2003

14 February, 2003
        Robert E. Clark: "The hippocampal contribution to temporally-graded retrograde amnesia for non-spatial and spatial information"
        Clark et al., 2002

7 February, 2003
         Mark Barad: "Involvement of a calcineurin cascade in amygdala depotentiation and quenching of fear memory"
         Lin et al., 2003

31 January, 2003
         Tom O'Dell: "Extinction-induced upregulation in AMPA receptors reduces cocaine-seeking behaviour"
         Sutton et al., 2003

24 January, 2003
         Michael Fanselow: "Cellular and systems reconsolidation in the hippocampus"
         Debiec et al., 2002

17 January, 2003
         Dean Buonomano: "Different plasticity rules at different stages of development"
         Burrone et al., 2003

10 January, 2003

David Glanzman: Dendritic Spine Changes
 Trachtenberg et al. 2002,Grutzendler et al., 2002


3 January, 2003

NO JOURNAL CLUB

PAPERS AND TOPICS OF PREVIOUS YEARS

2002 Second Semester
2002 First Semester
2001 Second Semester
2001 First Semester
2000