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 Nicole Horst, Matt Krause, or Amanda Casale.

Upcoming

May 9, 2008

Nicotinic control of axon excitability regulates thalamocortical transmission.

Kawai H., Lazar R. and Metherate R.

Nature Neurosci 2007; 10:1168-1175. Supplement

Presented by Marina Picciotto

May 23, 2008

Paper: To be decided.

Presenter to be decided.

June 6, 2008

Paper: To be decided.

Presented by Larry Cohen

Past Meetings

April 25, 2008

Neuronal selectivity and local map structure in visual cortex.

Nauhaus I, Benucci A, Carandini M, Ringach DL.

Neuron. 2008 Mar 13;57(5):673-9. Supplement

Presented by Michael Crair

April 11, 2008

Identifying natural images from human brain activity.

Kay, K. N., Naselaris, T., Prenger, R. J. & Gallant, J. L.

Nature 452(7185):352-5 (2008) Supplement

Presented by Jon Touryan (Mazer Lab)

March 21, 2008

Neural correlates of perceptual learning in a sensory-motor, but not a sensory, cortical area.

Law CT, Gold JI.

Nat Neurosci. 2008 Mar 9; [Epub ahead of print] Supplement

Presented by Christian Luhmann (Wang Lab)

March 14, 2008

Glucose sensing by POMC neurons regulates glucose homeostasis and is impaired in obesity.

Parton LE, Ye CP, Coppari R, Enriori PJ, Choi B, Zhang CY, Xu C, Vianna CR, Balthasar N, Lee CE, Elmquist JK, Cowley MA, Lowell BB.

Nature. 2007 Sep 13;449(7159):228-32. Epub 2007 Aug 29. Supplement

Presented by Ivan de Araujo

February 22, 2008

Specialized Inhibitory Synaptic Actions Between Nearby Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons.

Ren M, Yoshimura Y, Takada N, Horibe S, Komatsu Y.

Science 4 May 2007: Vol. 316. no. 5825, pp. 758 - 761. Supplement

Presented by Markus Wolfel (Miesenbock Lab)

February 1, 2008

Two hierarchically organized neural systems for object information in human visual cortex.

Konen CS, Kastner S.

Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jan 13. [Epub ahead of print] Supplement

Presented by Matthew R. Johnson (Johnson Lab)

January 18, 2008

Temporal precision in the neural code and the timescales of natural vision.

Butts DA, Weng C, Jin J, Yeh CI, Lesica NA, Alonso JM, Stanley GB.

Nature. 2007 Sep 6;449(7158):92-5. PMID: 17805296 Supplement

Presented by Matthew Krause (Mazer Lab)

December 14, 2007

A dual-Ca2+-sensor model for neurotransmitter release in a central synapse.

Sun J, Pang ZP, Qin D, Fahim AT, Adachi R, Sudhof TC.

Nature. 2007 Nov 29;450(7170):676-82. Supplement

Presented by David McCormick

November 30, 2007

A microcircuit model of the frontal eye fields.

Heinzle J, Hepp K, Martin KA.

J Neurosci. 2007 Aug 29;27(35):9341-53. Supplement

Presented by Xiao-Jing Wang

October 19, 2007

The Neural Signature of Social Norm Compliance.

Spitzer M, Fischbacher U, Herrnberger B, Gron G, Fehr E.

Neuron. 2007 Oct 4;56(1):185-196. Supplement

Presented by Daeyeol Lee

October 5, 2007

An argument for an olfactory thalamus.

Kay LM, Sherman SM.

Trends Neurosci. 2007 Feb;30(2):47-53.

Presented by Gordon Shepherd

September 21, 2007

Selective delay activity in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat: contribution of sensorimotor information and contingency.

Cowen SL, McNaughton BL.

J Neurophysiol. 2007 Jul;98(1):303-16. Epub 2007 May 16. Supplement

Presented by Nicole Horst (Laubach Lab)

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