CNE Schedule Spring 2010

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• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • * 10:00 am Systems Journal Club (216 EES) Luis presents:
    Dias-Ferreira et al., Chronic stress causes frontostriatal reorganization and affects decision-making Science 325 (2009) 621-25
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Joshua Kaplan, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology Massachusetts General Hospital, presents Genetic Dissection of a Dynamic C. elegans synapse
    For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
  • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Organizational Meeting (110C Chandlee)
    For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
  • 10:00 am Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Marc Freeman, U Mass Medical School, presents Neuron-glia Signaling After Brain Injury in Drosophila More information about Marc Freeman...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES), CANCELED
    Kamrun Nahar presents:
    Yoon et al., “Adaptive classification for Brain Computer Interface systems using Sequential Monte Carlo sampling”, Neural Networks 22 (2009) 1286-1294
• Friday

• Monday

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Systems Research meetings canceled

• Tuesday
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar Series (108 Wartik Laboratory; CG623 Hershey) Yingwei Mao presents Disrupted In Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), a critical player in neural progenitor proliferation, Wnt signaling and emotional behavior More information on Yingwei Mao...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES)
    Andrew Geronimo presents:
    Fraser et al., “Control of a brain–computer interface without spike sorting”, J. Neural Eng. 6 (2009) 055004 (8pp)
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Journal Club (216 EES) Balaji presents:
    Kim et al., “Conducting polymers on hydrogel-coated neural electrode provide sensitive neural recordings in auditory cortex”, Acta Biomaterialia 6 (2010) 57-62
    • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) Suzanne Shontz presents.
      For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Michael Greenberg, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, presents Signaling networks that regulate synapse development and cognitive function For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES) Yina Wei and Madineh Sedigh Sarvestani present.
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania, presents Axonal Transport: Coordination of Microtubule Motors and Long-Distance Signaling More information on Erika Holzbaur...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES)
    Kamrun Nahar presents:
    Yoon et al., “Adaptive classification for Brain Computer Interface systems using Sequential Monte Carlo sampling”, Neural Networks 22 (2009) 1286-1294
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Group Journal club (216 EES) Madineh presents:
    
  • Edery, I. Circadian Cycle in a Nutshell.Physiol Genomics 3: 59–74, 2000. Avaialbe at: http://physiolgenomics.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/3/2/59
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Trevor Robbins, PhD,Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, presents From impulsivity to compulsivity: Neural and neurochemical basis. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES). Will not meet.
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES)
    Mario Sanders presents:
    Vidaurre et al., “Time Domain Parameters as a feature for EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces”, Neural Networks 2009;22(9):1313-9. Epub 2009 Jul 22
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Journal Club (216 EES) canceled
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Olaf Sporns, Ph.D.,
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Indiana University, presents Network neuroscience - connectivity and dynamics of the human brain. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES) Insoo Kim presents.
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES)
    Eric Liauw presents:
    Audrey S. Royer and Bin He, “Goal selection versus process control in a brain–computer interface based on sensorimotor rhythms”, J. Neural Eng. 6 (2009).
• Friday
• Saturday
  • 8 am - 4 pm ESM Today (EES Building)

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Journal Club (216 EES) Giorgio presents:
    Shin et al., “Phospholipase C beta 4 in the medial septum controls cholinergic theta oscillations and anxiety behaviors”, J Neurosci 29: 15375-85; 2009
  • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) Katie Gates presents.
    For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES) Video presenter: João Cerqueira, University of Minho, Portugal More about João Cerqueira....
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES)
    Andrew Geronimo presents:
    S. Lu, C. Guan, and H. Zhang, “Unsupervised Brain Computer Interface Based on Intersubject Information and Online Adaptation”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING, VOL. 17, NO. 2, APRIL 2009.
• Friday

• Monday
  • The CNE welcomes Dr. Weinstein, director of pediatric epilepsy at Weill Cornell Medical College.
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Journal Club (216 EES) Nick presents: The effect of spatially inhomogeneous extracellular electric fields on neurons (2010, Anastassiou et. al.)
    
  • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) Sheri Berenbaum presents.
    For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) David Goldstein, Ph.D., Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Duke University/Center for Human Genome Variation presents Neuropsychiatric genetics: From mendel to GWAS and back again. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES) Mario Sanders and Stephen Van Wert present.
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Geng-Lin Li, Oregon Health & Science University, presents Multivesicular Release at a Hair Cell Ribbon Synapse More information on Geng-Lin Li...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am, Brain Computer Interface Journal Club (207 EES Building)
    Kamrun Nahar presents:
    R. Tomioka, K-R Müller, “A regularized discriminative framework for EEG analysis with application to brain–computer interface”, NeuroImage 49 (2010) 415–432.

• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Insoo presents:
    
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19666340
  • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) Nancy Dennis presents.
    For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Stuart Cull-Candy, Ph.D., Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology University College London, United Kingdom, presents Calcium permeable AMPARs, TARPs and plasticity. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES) Justin Ingram and Eric Liauw present.
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Linton Traub, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, presents.
    More information on Linton Traub...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am, Brain Computer Interface Journal Club (302B EES Building)
    Kamrun Nahar presents (Contd.):
    R. Tomioka, K-R Müller, “A regularized discriminative framework for EEG analysis with application to brain–computer interface”, NeuroImage 49 (2010) 415–432.
• Friday

University-wide Spring Break

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) David Julius, Ph.D., Department of Physiology University of California, San Francisco, presents From peppers to peppermints: Natural products as probes of the pain pathway. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
• Thursday
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Guerau presents:
    Diaz et al., “Amplitude modulation patterns of local field potentials reveal asynchronous neuronal populations”, J Neurosci 27: 9238-9245; 2007

• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Erika Holzbaur, Ph.D., Department of Physiology University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, presents Microtubule motors and axonal transport: Function and dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Duncan Clark, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, presents.
    More information on Duncan Clark...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am, Brain Computer Interface Journal Club (302B EES Building)
    Mario Sanders presents (Contd.):
    L. Tonin et al. “Evaluation of a Robot as Embodied Interface for Brain Computer Interface Systems”, International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism,Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.97-104, 2009.
• Friday

• Monday
• The CNE welcomes Dr. Weinstein, director of pediatric epilepsy at Weill Cornell Medical College.
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Yina presents:
    O'Neil et al., “Play it again: reactivation of waking experience and memory ”, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20207025
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Frank Gertler, Ph.D., Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents Control of the cytoskeleton during neurite initiation and axon guidance. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • 2:00 - 3:30 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (117 EES) Video Presenter: Michel J.A.M. van Putten, MD MSc PhD, Head of Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Medisch Spectrum Twente, The Netherlands, “Mirror Neurons: Basics and Clinical Applications.”
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Franck Polleux, University of North Carolina, presents. More information on Franck Polleux...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (207 EES)
    Eric Liauw presents:
    Miller et al., “Cortical activity during motor execution, motor imagery, and imagery-based online feedback”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Mar 2;107(9):4430-5. Epub 2010 Feb 16.
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday
  • 11 am - 2:30 pm Graduation Exhibition (Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center)

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Balaji S presents:
    Negi et al., “Neural electrode degradation from continuous electrical stimulation: comparison of sputtered and activated iridium oxide”, J Neuroscience Methods 186 (2010) 8-17
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Wolf Almers, Ph.D., Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University presents Imaging protein interactions during single endocytic and exocytic events. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • CANCELED (noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES) )
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Stephanie Jones, Harvard University, presents. More information on Stephanie Jones...
• Thursday
  • 8 am - 5 pm College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS 2010) (Nittany Lion Inn)
  • 9:00 am BCI Journal Club (207 EESB)
    Eric Liauw presents:
    Miller et al., “Cortical activity during motor execution, motor imagery, and imagery-based online feedback”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Mar 2;107(9):4430-5. Epub 2010 Feb 16.

• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Dana presents: Dynamic Regulation of Acid-Sensing Ion Channels by Extracellular and Intracellular Modulators by Tian-Le Xu and Zhi-Gang Xiong, Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2007
    
  • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) State of SLEIC.
    For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Sabine Kastner, M.D., Ph.D.,Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University presents Representation of object information in human and monkey visual cortex. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website

• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (302 EES)
    Andrew Geronimo presents:
    S.M.M. Martens and J.M. Leiva, “A generative model approach for decoding in the visual event-related potential-based brain–computer interface speller”, J. Neural Eng. 7 (2010) 026003, doi:10.1088/1741-2560/7/2/026003.
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Justin presents: “It’s green outside: tracking cell surface

proteins with pH-sensitive GFP”, Michael C. Ashby, Kyoko Ibaraki and Jeremy M. Henley http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0V-4C2R2Y6-1&_user=209810&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1288318464&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000014439&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=209810&md5=1287fbbf52d80f06f96109b5b534783f

• Tuesday
• 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Karel Svoboda, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, presents Neural circuits underlying somatosensation. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
• noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
• Thursday
• 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (302 EES)
  Mario Sanders presents:
  B Z Allison, C Brunner, V Kaiser, G R M¨ uller-Putz, C Neuper, and G Pfurtscheller “Toward a hybrid brain–computer interface based on imagined movement and visual attention”, J. Neural Eng. 7 (2010) 026007, J. Neural Eng. 7 (2010) 026007, doi:10.1088/1741-2560 7/2/026007.
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Luis presents: Adhikari et al., “Synchronized activity between the Ventral Hippocampus and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Anxiety” Neuron 65: 257-69; 2010
  • 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) Yaman Aksu presents.
    For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Jeffrey R. Gruen, MD, Departments of Pediatrics, Genetics and Investigative Medicine, Yale Child Health Research Center, Yale University, School of Medicine, presents Lexinome, Proteome, Ima*Genome? New Views of Dyslexia. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 4:00 pm The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Neuroscience Seminar (108 Wartik Laboratory, CG623 Hershey) Gregory Ashby, University of California, Santa Barbara, presents. More information on Gregory Ashby...
• Thursday
  • 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (302 EES)
    Eric Liauw presents:
    J. Williamson, R.Murray-Smith, B.Blankertz, M.Krauledat, K.-R.Mu¨ ller “Designing for uncertain, asymmetric control: Interaction design for brain–computer interfaces”, Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 67 (2009) 827–841.
• Friday

• Monday

• 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
• 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) Guerau presents: Adhikari et al., “Partial seizures are associated with early increases in signal complexity” Clin Neurophysiol 121: 7-13; 2010
• 12:00 pm Social, Life & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC) Weekly reading and discussion group (110C Chandlee) Becky Brooker presents.
  For more information including each week's topic and relevant readings visit the SLEIC seminar website
• Tuesday
• 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Jonathan Horton,MD, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, presents Binocular function in strabismus. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
• noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
• Thursday
• 9:00 am Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Journal Club (302 EES)
  Andrew Geronimo presents:
  S.M.M. Martens and J.M. Leiva, “A generative model approach for decoding in the visual event-related potential-based brain–computer interface speller”, J. Neural Eng. 7 (2010) 026003, doi:10.1088/1741-2560/7/2/026003.
• Friday

Final exam week.

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
  • 10:00 am Systems Research Journal Club (216 EES) ? presents:
    
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Elizabeth Gould, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, presents Structural plasticity in the adult mammalian brain. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • noon - 2:00 pm Center for Neural Engineering Group Meeting (216 EES)
• Thursday
• Friday

• Monday
  • 9:00 am Systems Research Group Meeting (216 EES)
• Tuesday
  • 12:00 pm NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar (216 EES) Peter Gillespie, Ph.D., Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University presents The hair bundle's protein constellation. For more information on the NIH Neuroscience Video Seminar series visit NIH Seminar website
• Wednesday
  • Erika Faneslow is visiting
  • 10am CNE Journal Club meeting (216 EES) - Discuss
    Selective, state-dependent activation of somatostatin-expressing inhibitory interneurons in mouse neocortex.
    Fanselow EE, Richardson KA, Connors BW. J Neurophysiol. 2008 PMID 18799598.
  • 2 pm CNE Seminar: Erika Faneslow, presenting “Putting inhibition in its place: temporal dynamics of neural circuit function”

The neocortex is composed, broadly, of two types of neurons: excitatory and inhibitory. Neocortical inhibition is often treated as a uni-dimensional force that, in a graded fashion, limits the firing of excitatory cells. However, inhibition is more complex in at least two ways. First, there are multiple distinct subtypes of inhibitory neurons which, based on their morphological and physiological properties, are likely to play very different roles in neocortical function. Second, levels of inhibition can fluctuate rapidly, on the order of tens of milliseconds, and can regulate the firing of excitatory cells on this time scale. These two complexities of inhibitory function will be discussed in the contexts of sensory processing and seizure control.

• Thursday
• Friday