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.
PAPERS AND TOPICS OF PREVIOUS YEARS
2007 First Semester
2006 Second Semester
2006 First Semester
2005 Second Semester
2005 First Semester
2004 Last Semester
2004 First Semester
2002 Second Semester
2002 First
Semester
2001 Second
Semester
2001 First
Semester
2000