LEARNING AND MEMORY PROJECT
JOURNAL CLUB
Time: Fridays 9:30-10:30
Place: Gonda 2303
FUTURE
SCHEDULE
23-30 December 2005
We are taking a
short winter break from journal club. We will resume on January 6, 2006.
16 December 2005
Weidong will discuss data from the Sawa lab on the
role of DISC1 in neurite outgrowth and cortical development.
Kimiya
et al., Nat Cell Biol, 2005.
9 December 2005
Tracy will discuss data from the Malinow lab on
the
interaction between NMDA receptor subunits, Calcium Calmodulin Kinase
and synaptic plasticity.
Barria
and Malinow, Neuron, 2005.
2 December 2005
Rafal will discuss data from the Liao lab
regarding the role of the GTPase Rac1 in spinogenesis and regulating
spine
morphology.
Wiens
et al., J Neuroscience, 2005.
25 November 2005
Journal club is
cancelled for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
18 November 2005
We will meet to
discuss exciting findings from the SFN meeting.
11 November 2005
Journal club is
cancelled for the SFN meeting and Veteran's Day.
4 November 2005
Bo will discuss data from the Hisatsune lab
regarding the role of GABAergic excitation in adult neurogenesis.
Tozuka
et al., Neuron, 2005.
28 October 2005
Mark will discuss data from the Sweatt lab,
"The Role of Histone Acetylation during Memory Formation in the
Hippocampus".
Levenson
et al., J Biol Chem, 2004.
21 October 2005
Tom will discuss data from his own lab
regarding "A novel role for cGMP signaling in hippocampal synaptic
plasticity"
14 October 2005
Jary will present
his own work on "Long-term
depression and other Demons".
7 October 2005
Tad will discuss data from the Moser lab,
"Enter the grid cell: Dawn of a new era in memory research".
Hafting
et al., Nature, 2005.
30 September 2005
Journal club is
cancelled this week for
the Pavlovian Society meeting.
23 September 2005
Helen will discuss the role of the NMDA NR2B
subunit in prefrontal plasticity and contextual fear memory.
Zhao
et al., Neuron, 2005.
16 September 2005
Kelsey will
present a cautionary tale about slice and
culture systems; non-physiological artifacts to consider
when interpreting in vitro plasticity experiments.
Taubenfeld
et al., J Neurochemistry, 2002. Micheva
and Smith, J Neuroscience, 2005.
Ho
et al., J Neurochemistry, 2004.
9 September 2005
Tom will discuss the role of PI3 Kinasae in
memory retrieval and extinction.
Chen
et al., Nat Neuroscience, 2005.
2 September 2005
Jeansok Kim, our
guest from the University of
Washington,
will present "The Stressed Hippocampal Memory System".
26 August 2005
Yijun will discuss "The Path from
Dopamine to Behaviour".
Park
et al., Cell, 2005. Beaulieu
et al., Cell, 2005.
19 August 2005
Journal club is
cancelled this week.
12 August 2005
Matt will discuss the dynamics of the
lateral and basolateral amygdala in context versus elemental Pavlovian
fear conditioning.
Calandreau
et al., Learning and Memory, 2005.
5 August 2005
Felix
will discuss "Homeostatic
Plasticity in Neural Networks?".
Prinz
et al., Nat Neuroscience, 2004.
29 July 2005
Mark
will discuss the effects of
rolipram on extinction.
Monti
et al., Neuropsychopharmacology, 2005.
22 July 2005
Dean
will discuss "Short-term
plasticity. What is it good for?"
Koester
and Johnston, Science, 2005.
PAPERS AND TOPICS OF PREVIOUS YEARS
2005 First
Semester
2004
Last
Semester
2004 First
Semester
2003 Entire Year
2002 Second
Semester
2002 First
Semester
2001 Second
Semester
2001 First
Semester
2000