Teaching

Neuroscience IDP 1st year seminar course

Tuesday 2-3:30pm in Gonda, 2nd floor conference room.

Instructor: Felix E. Schweizer, felixs@ucla.edu, CHS 63-323, 310-794-5733

Papers relating to the UCLA Joint Seminars in Neuroscience will be discussed.

Talking points for a good talk (click here)

Reading material:

Date	Seminar Speaker and UCLA host (click for email)	Paper(s) to be discussed	Presenters
October 11	Karel Svoboda Carlos Portera-Cailliau	Imaging Plasticity Trachtenberg et al. Nature 2002 (PDF)	Evan Lutkenhoff Patty St.Clair
October 18	Anne C. Hart David Krantz	Notch Signaling in C. elegans Chao et al. BMC 2005 (PDF) 2 reviews on Notch signaling: Yoon, Costa	Justine Overman Ashley Scott
October 25	Julie A. Kauer Felix Schweizer	Synaptic Plasticity McMahon&Kauer Neuron 1997 (PDF)	Ray Luo Andy Vosko
November 1	Rolf Karlstrom Ellen Carpenter	Hedgehog signaling in development Tyurina DevBiol 2005 (PDF) Review on Hedgehog (PDF) Axon Guidance in Zebrafish primer	Kate Wassum Lisa Wu
November 8	Richard Mooney Stephanie White	Song selective neurons Mooney&Prather JNeurosci 2005 Prather&Mooney Review 2004 (Bird song: Steroids, Hormones, Plasticity)	Marina Ollervides Audrey Carstensen Austin Hilliard
November 15	No Seminar SfN meeting
November 22	Elizabeth A. Phelps Tad Blair	Amygdala, Fear and Extinction Phelps Review Neuron 2005 Phelps et al. Neuron 2004 Sharot et al. NatNeurosci 2004	April Kihara Angela Rizk-Jackson Alex Korb Hiroko Nobuta
November 29	Donald L. Price Felix Schweizer	Neurodegenerative Diseases: Cai et al. NatNeurosci 2001 3 background papers: MotorNeuronDisease, Alzheimer, DiseaseModels	Jose Cordero Chris Culbertson Erin Gray
December 6	Yishi Jin Kelsey Martin	Synaptogenesis background: the wormbook chapter by Jin on synaptogenesis E3 ligases Nakata et al, Cell 2005 Axon Identity Hallam et al, NatNeurosci 2002 Liprins Zhen&Jin, Nature 1999	Nanthia Suthana Jeremy Miller Jose Cordero Ben Huang