JDC Schedule

Meetings are at 12:30 pm in Fairchild Room 177.

 

 

 


Date


Type

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Presenter


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January 23 Advice "Talking well about science"
Jeff Lichtman
January 30 Data "Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity and Visual Receptive Field Modification in Xenopus laevis"
Rebecca Vislay, Engert Lab
February 6 Jrnl Club A brain-specific microRNA regulates dendritic spine development
Schratt, Tuebing, Nigh, Kane, Sabatini, Kiebler, & Greenberg
Nature. 2006 Jan 19;439(7074):283-9.
Emma Voinescu, Sanes Lab
February 13 Jrnl Club

Rapid and reversible chemical inactivation of synaptic transmission in genetically targeted neurons.
Karpova, Tervo, Gray, & Svoboda.
Neuron. 2005 Dec 8;48(5):727-35

Juan Carlos Tapia, Lichtman Lab
February 20 Data "In Vivo Functional Imaging of Glomeruli in the Olfactory Bulb of Rodents"
Florin Albeanu, Murthy Lab
February 27 Jrnl Club Glial membranes at the node of Ranvier prevent neurite outgrowth.
Huang, Phillips, Roth, Pedraza, Shan, Belkaid, Mi, Fex-Svenningsen, Florens, Yates, Colman
Science 2005 310:1813-7
Hyuno Kang, Lichtman Lab
March 6 Jrnl Club

cancelled

March 13 Jrnl Club cancelled
Ryan Draft, Lichtman Lab
March 20 Jrnl Club

Activity-Dependent Regulation of MEF2 Transcription Factors Suppresses Excitatory Synapse Number
Flavell, Cowan, Kim, Greer, Lin, Paradis, Griffith, Hu, Chen, & Greenberg
Science 17 February 2006: 1008-1012


A Calcium-Regulated MEF2 Sumoylation Switch Controls Postsynaptic Differentiation
Shalizi, Gaudillière, Yuan, Stegmüller, Shirogane, Ge, Tan, Schulman, Harper, & Bonni
Science 17 February 2006: 1012-1017

Kate Hong, Sanes Lab
March 27 Jrnl Club cancelled
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April 3 Jrnl Club Cell Type-Specific Structural Plasticity of Axonal Branches and Boutons in
the Adult Neocortex

De Paola, Holtmaat, Knott, Song, Wilbrecht, Caroni, & Svoboda
Neuron, Vol 49, 861-875, 16 March 2006

Axons and Synaptic Boutons Are Highly Dynamic in Adult Visual Cortex
Stettler, Yamahachi, Li, Denk, &Gilbert
Neuron, Vol 49, 877-887, 16 March 2006
Miguel Vaz Afonso, Lichtman Lab
April 10 Jrnl Club

Regulation of thalamocortical patterning & synaptic maturation by NeuroD2
Ince-Dunn, Hall, Hu, Ripley, Huganir, Olson, Tapscott, Ghosh.
Neuron 49, 639-651, March 2 2006

Jacinthe Gingras, Sanes Lab
April 17 Jrnl Club Constitutive sharing of recycling synaptic vesicles between presynaptic boutons.
Darcy, Staras, Collinson, & Goda. Nature Nsci, 2006. Mar;9(3):315-21.
Thomas Misgeld, Lichtman Lab
April 24   Evidence from in vivo imaging that synaptogenesis guides the growth & branching of axonal arbors by two distinct mechanisms.
Meyer & Smith . J Nsci, Mar 29, 2006; 26(13):3604-3614.
Greg Valdez. Sanes Lab
May 1   The development of direction selectivity in ferret visual cortex requires early visual experience
Li, Fitzpatrick, & White
Nature Neuroscience 9, 676 - 681 (2006)
Julie Lefebvre
May 8    
Brendan Lilley
May 15    
Kristian Gundersen
May 22    
could be you
May 29 ---- Break for Memorial Day
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June 5 Jrnl Club TBA
Masa Yamagata, Sanes Lab
June 12 Jrnl Club TBA
Andrey Rudenko, Lichtman Lab

 

 

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