CNE Schedule Spring 2008

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• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club CANCELED
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES): Yina presents:
    DeCoteau, et al, “Learning-related coordination of striatal and hippocampal theta rhythms during acquisition of a procedural maze task”
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007, Mar 27;104(13):5644-9
  • 12:00 NIH Video Broadcast: (216 EES)
    Multiple Pathways to Synaptic Vesicle Endo- and Exocytosis; Robert Edwards, M.D., Professor of Neurology & Physiology, UCSF School of Medicine
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (218 EES): (moved this week to Wed 10am)
• Tuesday
  • 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
    Nuno Dias presents his recent paper: Dias, et al, omparison of EEG pattern classification methods for brain-computer interfaces http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18002512?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum IEEE EMBS conf proc 2007.
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES) [none this week]: Cellular Group - Chunfeng presents:
    Zhou, et al, “Intracellular long-wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes for studying the dynamics of action potentials in axons and thin dendrites” JNeurosci Methods 2007
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik): Marina Piccioto (Yale University)
    Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and signaling pathways involved in addiction and learning
• Thursday
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES): Giorgio presents:
    McNaughton et al., “Restoring theta-like rhythmicity in rats restores initial learning in the Morris water maze”
    Hippocampus 2006;16(12):1102-10
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (None this week)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (218 EES)
• Tuesday
  • 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES)
    Meet Jeffrey Loeb, and come ready to discuss his recent paper:
    Activity-dependent gene expression correlates with interictal spiking in human neocortical epilepsy. Rakhade, et al, Epilepsia 2007
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : Jeffrey Loeb (Wayne State University) Redefining epilpesy through the eyes of the human epileptic transcriptome
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES) : Sridhar will lecture on Power Analysis. Please prepare:
    Lachin Introduction to Sample Size Determination and Power Analysis for Clinical Trials Controlled Clinical Trials 1981
    Also download the G*Power analysis software and read its manual at G*Power3.
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
    Molecular mechanism of gating in cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels; William N. Zagotta, Ph.D., Professor, University of Washington.
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES)
• Tuesday
  • 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES) [none this week]
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : Pierre Mormede (Institut des Neurosciences de Bordeaux, France) Genetic variability in HPA axis activity: molecular mechanisms related to obesity
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES) :
    Nick presents \\van Drongelen propagation of seizure-like activity in a model of neocortex J Clin Neurophysiol. 2007
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
    What is stimulated during an intracortical electrical stimulation?
    Nikos K. Logothetis, Ph.D., Professor, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics;
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES) None today - join Systems meeting
• Tuesday
  • 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES) none this week
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES) [none this week]
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : Patricia Grigson (Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey)
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES) : Balaji presents
    Cantrell, et al, Incorporation of the electrode–electrolyte interface into finite-element models of metal microelectrodes
    Journal of neural engineering 2008
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
    Nature and Nurture of Pain; Jeffrey S. Mogil, Ph.D., McGill University
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES) : Ruchi presents:
    LEE HRACHOVY SMITH FROST SWANN Tetanus toxin-induced seizures in infant rats and their effects on hippocampal excitability in adulthood. Brain Res 1995.
• Tuesday
  • 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES) (none this week)
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (none this week) :
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES) :
    Giorgio presents:
    Mikkonen JE, Huttunen J, Penttonen M. Contribution of a single CA3 neuron to network synchrony. NeuroImage 31 (2006) 1222 – 1227.
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES)
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
    Nuno Dias presents his recent research results
    
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES)
    Meet Apostolos Georgopoulos and discuss his paper
    Georgopoulos, et al, J Neural Eng. 2007.
    Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders.
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : Apostolos Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota)
    Brain mechanisms of motor and cognitive functions
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Balaji will lecture on
    electrochemical reaction rate models, Butler-Volmer equation, and their relation to electrode impedance. See pages especially ~97-110 from Bard and Faulkner
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
  • 1:30 Steve Schiff (404 Old Main)
    A paradigm for sustainable health engineering.
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES)
    Chunfeng presents:
    Millard AC, Jin L, Wei MD, Wuskell JP, Lewis A, Loew LM., Sensitivity of second harmonic generation from styryl dyes to transmembrane potential” (Biophysical Journal, 86, 1169(2004)).
• Tuesday
  • 1:00 pm BCI/EEG Group Meeting
    Nuno Dias finishes discussing his recent results
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES):
    meet Wytse Wadman discuss his paper:
    Van Welie I, Van Hooft JA, Wadman WJ., “Homeostatic scaling of neuronal excitability by synaptic modulation of somatic hyperpolarization-activated Ih channels”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 6;101(14):5123-8.
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : Wytse Wadman (University of Amsterdam)
    “Deep Brain Stimulation for epilepsy: some results and a potential mechanism”
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Jonathan will lecture on
    “Non-parametric early seizure detection in an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy”
    by Talathi et al J. Neural Engineering 2008
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar:
    The ins and outs of glutamate receptor synaptic trafficking
    Roger Nicoll, M.D., University of California
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES): Ruchi presents:
    Complement activation in experimental and human temporal lobe epilepsy
    Aronica, et al, Neurobiol Dis. 2007
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES)
    Two-dimensional movement control using electrocorticographic signals in humans
    Schalk et al, J. Neural Eng. 5 75-84, 2008
    
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES) (none this week)
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : (none this week)
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

!!!:-DSpring Break:-D!!!

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES): (none this week)
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: None this week (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES): (none this week)
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES)
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES) (none this week)
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : (none this week)
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Nick Presents
    “Review of signal distortion through metal microelectrode recording circuits and filters.” Nelson et al, J Neurosci Methods. 2008 Mar 30;169(1):141-57.
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
    The Genetics of Bipolar Disorder;
    Pamela Sklar, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES):
• Tuesday
  • 11:00 Dynamical Neuroscience Group - 302 EES :
    Chimera States: The Natural Link Between Coherence and Incoherence
    Omel'chenko, Maistrenko, Tass PRL 100, 004105 (2008).
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface - EEG Group (302 EES)
    Kamrun presents:
    “Emulation of computer mouse control with a noninvasive brain– computer interface” McFarland et al, J. Neural Eng. 5 (2008) 101–110
    
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Controls Group Seminar Series - EES 117
    (n.b. This is the first of a new seminar series for the remainder of the semester)
    Steven Schiff presents:
    Schiff, Sauer “Kalman Filter Control of Spatiotemporal Cortical Dynamics” J Neural Eng. 2008 Mar;5(1):1-8.
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) :
    Ofer Tchernichovski (The City University of New York)
    How age affects developmental song learning in the zebra finch
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Beth Lapour visits, presents her work. Please prepare by reading
    Kramer MA, Lopour BA, Kirsch HE, Szeri AJ Bifurcation control of a seizing human cortex PRE 2006 Apr;73(4 Pt 1):041928
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: None this week (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES): Justin presents: In vitro functional imaging in brain slices using fast voltage-sensitive dye imaging combined with whole-cell patch recording http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v3/n2/full/nprot.2007.539.html
• Tuesday
  • 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group - 302 EES
    Abrams and Strogatz, “Chimera States for Coupled Oscillators” PRL 93, 174102, 2004
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES):
    Kamrun presents:
    “Learning to Control a Brain–Machine Interface for Reaching and Grasping by Primates”, Carmena JM, Lebedev MA, Crist RE, O'Doherty JE, Santucci DM, et al. PLoS Biology Vol. 1, No. 2, 193-208.
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Controls Group Seminar Series - EES 216
    Langelaan (AERSP) presents:
    “Using vision for obstacle avoidance & navigation and flight of small robotic aircraft in gusty conditions”
    broadcast here
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) :
    John Martin (Columbia University)
    Competing for control of spinal motor circuits by developing corticospinal tract neurons
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

Andrew Trevelyan will be visiting the lab early this week.

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Andrew Trevelyan visits, please prepare
    Trevelyan AJ, Sussillo D, Watson BO, Yuste R. Modular propagation of epileptiform activity: evidence for an inhibitory veto in neocortex. J Neurosci. 2006 Nov 29;26(48):12447-55.
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: None this week (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES):
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES):
    Sridhar presents:
    “Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs): Detection instead of classification” G. Schalk, P. Brunner, L.A. Gerhardt, H. Bischof, J.R. Wolpaw. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 167 (2008) 51–62.
    
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Controls Group Seminar Series - EES 117
    Brennan (MNE) presents:
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) :
    Beatriz Luna (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
    Changes in brain processes underlying the maturation of cognitive control through adolescence
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Giorgio presents:
    Sauvage MM, Fortin NJ, Owens CB, Yonelinas AP, Eichenbaum H. Recognition memory: opposite effects of hippocampal damage on recollection and familiarity. Nat Neurosci 11:16-8 (2008).
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: None this week (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES)
    Ruchi presents:
    Oberheim et al, Loss of Astrocytic Domain Organization in the Epileptic Brain, J Neurosci 28(13):3264 –3276
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES):
    Eric presents:
    W. Besio and K. Koka: Improvement of spatial selectivity and decrease of mutual information of tri-polar concentric ring electrodes Journal of Neuroscience Methods 165 (2007) 216–222.
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) :
    Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University)
    The neurobiology of recollection
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES): Yina presents:
    Houweling AR, Brecht M.,”Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex”
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/abs/nature06447.html
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: None this week (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES):
    Joyce presents:
    Takagaki et al, Crossmodal propagation of sensory-evoked and spontaneous activity in the rat neocortex.
    Neuroscience Letters 431 (3):191–196
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES)
    Nuno presents:
    A high performance sensorimotor beta rhythm-based brain­computer interface associated with human natural motor behavior Bai et al J. Neural Eng. 5 (2008) 24­35
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Controls Group Seminar Series - EES 117
    Alberto Bressan (MATH) presents:
    Control of mechanical systems, and swim-like motion in fluids
    This talk is Web Broadcast at https://breeze.psu.edu/controlsgroup040908/
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) :
    George Richerson (Yale University)
    Nonvesicular GABAergic neurotransmission: Who needs vesicles anyway?
• Thursday
  • Seminar, 4pm 201 Thomas Building
    “Magnetoencephalography and the Hunt for HFO's”
    William F. Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University
    HFO's are High Frequency Oscillations observed as precursors to *seizures*
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Balaji presents:
    Winter JO, Cogan SF, Rizzo JF 3rd.,”Neurotrophin-eluting hydrogel coatings for neural stimulating electrodes”
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17041927?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
    The Human Amygdala's Role in Face Processing; Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D., Professor, California Institute of Technology
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES):
  • 3:30-4:30 SPECIAL LECTURE IN BIODYNAMICS, 127 Noll Laboratory
    SOME PARADOXES FROM NONLINEAR STABILITY ANALYSES OF HUMAN WALKING
    Jonathan Dingwell, UT Austin
• Tuesday
  • 11:00 am Dynamical Neuroscience Group - 302 EES
    Clustered Chimera States in Delay-Coupled Oscillator Systems Sethia et al, PRL 100, 144102 (2008)
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / None this week EEG Group (302 EES)
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Controls Group Seminar Series - EES 117
    Dagmar Sternad, Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State
    Stability and variability in motor control and learning.
    webcast available at: https://breeze.psu.edu/controlsgroup042308/
  • 3:35 pm Engineering Science and Mechanics Seminar, 114 EES
    Dr. Mark Newkirk
    Discovery-Based Innovation
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : CANCELED
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Sridhar Presents
    Sun Morrell Wharen Responsive Cortical Stimulation for the Treatment of Epilepsy Neurothereputics 2008
    also see
    neurothereputics v5 issue on DBS
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: (216 EES)
    Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Genentech
    Common Mechanisms of Axon Guidance, Axon Regeneration, and Vascular Patterning
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES): Projects review
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES)
    Kamrun and Nuno present ongoing work
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Controls Group Seminar Series - EES 117
    Molenaar (HDF) presents:
    Struggling with the black box: Ergodicity, stochastic bifurcations and nonlinear filtering & control.
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) : (none).
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Integrated Systems Group Journal Club (216 EES):
    Nick Presents
    
  • 12:00 NIH Video Seminar: None this week (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (217 EES): Ghanim presents:
    Kapfer et al, Supralinear increase of recurrent inhibition during sparse activity in the somatosensory cortex
    Nature Neuroscience 2007 10:743–753
• Tuesday
  • 1:00-2:00 Brain Machine Interface / EEG Group (302 EES)
    
    
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am CNE Center Meeting (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik) :
    Leonard Kaczmarek (Yale School of Medicine)
    Title to be announced
• Friday
  • Food Fight Canceled