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

FUTURE SCHEDULE 

1 - 15 July 2005      **Summer Break**
    We are taking a short summer break from journal club.

24 June 2005
    Jacqueline Rose, from Catherine Rankin's lab, will present "Behavioural Analysis of Memory in Caenorhabditis elegans".

17 June 2005
    Ann will discuss the role of calcium-activated currents in aging.

 
Tombaugh et al., J Neuroscience, 2005.  Blank et al., Nat Neuroscience, 2005.

10 June 2005
    Tracy will discuss calcium mediated signalling and differential requirements of CaMKs in ERK regulation during LTP.
 
Schmitt et al., J Neuroscience, 2005.

6 June 2005
    Pato will discuss his own prelimanry data regarding "Extrasynaptic NMDA receptor complexes that turn off LTP".

27 May 2005      **Cancelled**
    Journal club is cancelled this week due to unforseeable circumstances.

20 May 2005
    Bill will discuss safety and danger signal generation in the amygdala and striatum.
 
Rogan et al., Neuron, 2005.

13 May 2005
    Yijun will discuss the differential roles of dopamine receptors D1 and D2 in regulation of prefrontal cortical inhibition.
 
Trantham-Davidson et al., J Neuroscience, 2004.

6 May 2005   
     Marc will discuss data from his lab, "Imaging Calcium Influx and Presynaptic Facilitation at Aplysia Sensorimotor Synapses".

29 April 2005
    Hongwei will discuss the relationship between calcuim flux via uncorrelated activity and synaptic plasticity.
 
Slutsky et al., Neuron, 2004.

22 April 2005   
     Samuel Wang, visiting from the Princeton University, will discuss "Dissecting Synaptic Learning Rules at Central Synapses".

15 April 2005
    Helen will discuss the relationship between intrinsic excitability and long-term potentiation.
 
Xu et al., J Neuroscience, 2005.

8 April 2005   
     Leonid Moroz, visiting from the University of Florida, will discuss "Genomic Approaches to Neuronal Diversity and Plasticity:  Insights from Aplysia Neurogenomics".

1 April 2005
    Jary will discuss the role of dendritic location in cortical spike-timing dependent plasticity.
 
Froemke et al., Nature, 2005.

25 March 2005      **Cancelled**
    Journal club is cancelled this week for Cesar Chavez day.

18 Mach 2005
    Josh will discuss the role of AMPA receptor insertion in encoding of amygdala-dependent memory.
 
Rumpel et al., Science, 2005.  Rumpel et al., Supplemental, 2005.

11 March 2005
    Felix will discuss the role of neuroligins in the formation of inhibitory synapses.
 
Chih et al., Science, 2005.

4 March 2005
    Tom will discuss weird things seen in spike timing-dependent plasticity.
 
Wang et al., Nat Neuroscience, 2005.

25 February 2005
    Dean will discuss mechanisms of visual cortex plasticity:  depression, potentiation, and cell specific excitatory/inhibitory plasticity.
 
Maffei et al., Nat Neuroscience, 2004.  Frenkel et al., Neuron, 2004.  SUMMARY

18 February 2005
    Rafal will discuss the regulation of actin in spines as it pertains to bidirectional plasticity.
 
Okamoto et al., Nat Neuroscience, 2004.

11 February 2005
    Greg will discuss the relationship between calcium entry, superoxide radicals and signalling pathways involved in neuronal plasticity.
Hongpaisan et al., J Neuroscience, 2004.   SUMMARY

4 February 2005
    Kelsey will discuss data from the Bonhoeffer lab on synaptic competition under limited protein synthesis capabilities.
Fonseca et al., Neuron, 2004.

28 January 2005
    Frank will discuss some of his own data on "Facilitated Indution of Habituation:  Higher Centers Help Reprogram Low-level Circuitry".  Background information can be found in Krasne and Teshiba.
Krasne and Teshiba, PNAS, 1995.

21 January 2005      **Cancelled**
    Journal club is cancelled this week for the Basic and Translational Science Symposium hosted by the Centre for Neurovisceral Science & Women's Health.  The symposium will be held in the Northwest Campus Auditorium.

14 January 2005
    Bob will discuss spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex.
Fyhn et al., Science, 2004.

7 January 2005      **12:00pm Room 2320 Life Sciences Building**
    Hemai Parthasarathy will be our guest speaker.  Her presentation is entitled:"Opening access to science:  What every scientist should know when deciding where to publish".
 


PAPERS AND TOPICS OF PREVIOUS YEARS

 

2004 Last Semester
2004 First Semester

2003 Entire Year

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