SpikeClub is a student organized journal club reviewing recent papers in systems neuroscience. We meet every other Friday at noon in the Yale Medical School Dome Room (SHM C-500). Meetings are generously supported by the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program and the Swartz Initiative in Theoretical Neurobiology at Yale. For more information, email Matthew Krause, Chris Donahue, or Nate Smith.

Upcoming

We are currently looking for presenters for our Fall meetings. If you are interested in presenting an article, please contact us.

June 12, 2009

Paper TBA

Presented by Andrew Engell (McCarthy Lab)

July 10, 2009

Paper TBA

Presented by Ralph DiLeone

July 24, 2009

Paper TBA

Presented by Salva Ardid (Wang Lab)

August 7, 2009

Paper TBA

Presented by Mark Laubach

September 4, 2009

Paper TBA

Presented by Xun Wan (Taylor Lab)

Past Meetings

May 29, 2009

Sparse temporal coding of elementary tactile features during active whisker sensation

Jadhav, SP, Wolfe J, and Feldman DE.

Nature Neuroscience 10 May 2009

Presented by Jamie Mazer

May 1, 2009

Spike timing-dependent plasticity: a learning rule for dendritic integration in rat CA1 pyramidal neurons

Campanac E, Debanne D.

J Physiol. 2008 Feb 1;586(3):779-93. Epub 2007 Nov 29.

Presented by Tom Morse

April 17, 2009

A neural mechanism for microsaccade generation in the primate superior colliculus

Hafed ZM, Goffart L, Krauzlis RJ.

Science, 2009, 323(5916):940-3.

Presented by Hyojung Seo

April 3, 2009

Balanced amplification: a new mechanism of selective amplification of neural activity patterns

Murphy, BK and Miller, KD.

26 February 2009. Neuron 61(4):635-648.

Presented by John Murray

March 20, 2009

The globus pallidus sends reward-related signals to the lateral habenula

Hong S and Hikosaka O

Neuron, 26 Nov 2008; 60(4):720-9. Supplement

Presented by Daeyeol Lee

March 6, 2009

Precision and diversity in an odor map on the olfactory bulb.

Soucy, ER, Albeanu, DF, Fantana, AL, Murthy, VN, and Meister, M.

Nature Neuroscience 12 Feb 2009; 12(2):210-20.

Presented by David Willhite

February 27, 2009

Modeling "psychosis in vitro by inducing disordered neuronal network activity in cortical brain slices.

Aghajanian, GK

Psychopharmacology, in press.

Presented by George Aghajanian

January 30, 2009

Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex

Houweling, AR and Brecht, M.

Nature 451, 65-68 (2008).

Presented by Matt Krause

January 9, 2009

Reverberation of recent visual experience in spontaneous cortical waves.

Han, F, Caporale, N, and Dan, Y.

Neuron 60(2), 321 - 327 (2008).

Presented by Michael Crair

December 12, 2008

Context-dependent changes in functional circuitry in visual area MT

Cohen MR, Newsome WT.

Neuron. 2008 Oct 9;60(1):162-73.

Presented by Nate Smith

September 26, 2008

Unsupervised Natural Experience Rapidly Alters Invariant Object Representation in Visual Cortex.

Li, N and DiCarlo, James JJ.

Science. 2008 Sep 12; 321(5895): 1502-7.

Presented by Kristy Sundberg (McCormick Lab)

Archives

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