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     
    K
elsey 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