LEARNING AND MEMORY PROJECT
JOURNAL CLUB

Time: Fridays 9:30-10:30
Place: Gonda 2303


FUTURE SCHEDULE                                                                                                              


 
4 July to 29August, 2008           
    We will take our usual summer break from journal club.  Journal club will resume on September 5, 2008.


27 June 2008           
    Tim will present data from the Kuroda lab, "Requirement of an allosteric kinetics of NMDA Receptors for Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity".
Urakubo et al., J Neuroscience, 2008,



20 June 2008           
    Yijun will present data from the Frank lab, "New experiences enhance coordinated neural activity in the hippocampus".
Cheng et al.,  Neuron, 2008,

13 June 2008
Marwan will present his own data from the Pulst/Schweizer labs, "Behavioral and electrophysiological characterization of SCA2 knockout mice".

6 June 2008           
    There will be no journal club this week.


30 May 2008           
    Yong-Seok will present data from the Mansuy lab, "Control of the establishment of aversive memory by calcineurin and Zif268".
Baumgartel et al., Nature Neurosciene, 2008,

23 May 2008                       
***Gonda First Floor Conference Room***
    Bartlett Mel, a guest from USC, will present data from his own lab, "Capacity enhancing synaptic plasticity rules:  some new perspectives on learning in the medial temporal lobe".


16 May 2008           
    Frank will present data from the Thompson lab, "Extinction of a classically conditioned response:  red nucleus and interpositus".
Robleto and Thompson, J Neurosciene, 2008,

 
9 May 2008           
    Felix will present data from the Hedge lab, "Proteasome inhibition enhances the induction and impairs the maintenance of late-phase long-term potentiation".
Dong, Learning and Memory, 2008, with some additional information from Lee, Science, 2008.

 2 May 2008           
    Carrie will present data from the Kandel lab,  "Transgenic mice lacking NMDAR-dependent LTD exhibit deficits in behavioral flexibility". 
Nicholls, Neuron, 2008.

25 April 2008           
    Peter Nguyen, a guest of Tom O'Dell, will present data from his own lab, "Beta-adrenergic Receptor Gating of Long-term Synaptic Plasticity".


18 April 2008           
    There will be no journal club this week due to the CNLM meeting at UC Irvine.


11 April 2008           
    There will be no journal club this week.


4 April 2008           
    David will present data from the Tully lab,  "Specific requirement of NMDA receptors for long-term memory consolidation in Drosophila ellipsoid body". 
Wu, Nature Neuroscience, 2007.

28 March 2008           
    There will be no journal club this week due to the Cesar Chavez University holiday.


21 March 2008           
    Rafal will present data from the Mayford lab,  "Spine-type specific recruitment of newly synthesized AMPA receptors with learning". 
Matsuo, Science, 2008.

14 March 2008           
    Dean will present data from the Fox lab, "Presynaptic efficacy directs normalization of synaptic strength in layer 2/3 rat neocortex after paired activity".
Hardingham, J Neurophysiology, 2007. 

7 March 2008           
    Tom will present data from the Huganir and Nicoll labs on the "subunit rules" model of AMPA receptor trafficking.
Kim, Nature Neuroscience, 2005, and Panicker, PNAS, 2008.

29 February 2008           
    Ann will present her own data in a practice job talk, "Short Trains of Theta-Frequency Stimulation and Plasticity of Hippocampal Excitability".

22 February 2008           
    Bill will present his own data for a practice job talk, "Defensive Reactions to Bright Light:  Topography and Neural Systems".


15 February 2008            ***Special Location - Gonda 1357***
    Mauro Costa-Mattioli will present a follow-up seminar to his job talk in Life Sciences, "Translational control mechanisms in synaptic plasticity and memory storage".  For background please read,
Costa-Mattioli, Cell, 2007. 

8 February 2008           
    Tiago will present his own data, "The role of excitatory and inhibitory plasticity in controlling the behavior of a neuron".


1 February 2008           
    Bob will present his own data in a practice job talk, "Methamphetamine-sensitized rats make poor decisions"


25 January 2008           
    There will be no journal club this week due to the "Plasticity of GABA-Mediated Inhibition" Symposium.

18 January 2008           
    Stephanie will present data from the Brainard lab, "Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of 'crystalized' adult birdsong".
Tumer, Nature, 2007. 

11
January 2008           
    Gina will present data from the Laurent lab, "Hebbian STDP in mushroom bodies facilitates the synchronous flow of olfactory information in locusts".
Cassenaer, Nature, 2007.

4 January 2008           
    Hope will present her own data in a practice job talk, "Plasticity of cortical network dynamics".
Johnson, J Neuroscience, 2007. 

21 December 2007 to 1 January 2008           
    There will be no journal club over the winter break.  We will resume on January 4, 2008.  See you then!


14 December 2007            
    Tom will discuss data from the Mercer lab, "Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees".
Vergoz, Science, 2007.

7 December 2007            
    Kelsey will discuss data from the Dickson lab, "Function of the Drosophila CPEB protein Orb2 in long-term courtship memory".
Keleman, Nature Neuroscience, 2007.

30 November 2007            
    Anubhuthi Goel, a guest of Dean's, will discuss her data from the Lee lab, "Molecular mechanisms of experience-induced homeostatic synaptic plasticity".
Goel, Nature Neuroscience, 2006.

16 November 2007            
    Hope will discuss data from the Kirkwood lab, "Neuromodulators control the polarity of spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity".
Seol, Neuron, 2007.

9 November 2007   
    Journal club is cancelled this week.


2 November 2007                  
***SPECIAL TIME:  SEMINAR IS AT 10:30***
    Our special guest, Julietta Frey, will discuss data from her lab "Compartmentalization of functional plasticity, synaptic tagging and cross tagging:  the basis for memory formation".  There is no specific paper, but for those interested, here is a recent review
Reymann, Neuropharmacology, 2007.

26 October 2007   
    David will discuss data from the Arnsten lab "Alpha2A-Adrenoceptors strengthen working memory networks by inhibiting cAMP-HCN channel signaling in prefrontal cortex". 
  Wang, Cell, 2007.

19 October 2007   
    Erin will discuss data from the Song lab "A critical period for enhanced synaptic plasticity in newly generated neurons of thte adult brain". 
  Ge, Neuron, 2007.

12 October 2007   
    Jason will discuss data from the McNally lab "Temporal-difference prediction errors and pavlovian fear conditioning:  role of NMDA and Opiod receptors". 
  Cole, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2007.

5 October 2007   
    Mike will discuss data from the Dudai lab "Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM
zeta".   Shema, Science, 2007.

28 September 2007   
    Ann will discuss data from the Volterra lab "Glutamate exocytosis from astrocytes controls synaptic strength". 
  Jourdain, Nature Neurosci, 2007.

21 September 2007   
    Dean will discuss "Recent developments in homeostatic synaptic plasticity:  from mechanisms to cortical plasticity".  The main paper discussed from the Hubener lab will be
  Mrsic-Flogel, Neuron, 2007.



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